[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 42 (Monday, October 20, 1997)]
[Pages 1567-1568]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13064--Further Amendment to Executive Order 13010, as 
Amended, Critical Infrastructure Protection

October 11, 1997

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, and in order to provide for 
the review of the report by the President's Commission on Critical 
Infrastructure Protection, it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 
13010, as amended, is further amended as follows:
    Section 1. Section 5(a), as amended, shall be further amended by 
deleting ``15'' and inserting ``20'' in lieu thereof and by deleting 
``sector'' and inserting ``and public sectors'' in lieu thereof. Section 
5(b) shall be amended by inserting ``or Co-Chairs'' after ``Chair''.
    Sec. 2. Section 6(f), as amended, shall be further amended by 
deleting ``, the Principals Committee, the Steering Committee, and the 
Advisory Committee'' and by inserting a second sentence, which shall 
read: ``The Principals Committee, the Steering Committee, and the 
Advisory Committee shall terminate no later than March 15, 1998, and, 
upon submission of the Commission's report, shall review the report and 
prepare appropriate recommendations to the President.'' Section

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6, as amended, shall be further amended by inserting the following:
    ``(g) The person who served as Chair of the Commission may continue 
to be a member of the Steering Committee after termination of the 
Commission.''
    Sec. 3. A new section 7 shall be inserted, which reads:
    ``Sec. 7. Review of Commission's Report. (a) Upon the termination of 
the Commission as set out in section 6(f) of this order, certain of the 
Commission's staff may be retained no later than March 15, 1998, solely 
to assist the Principals, Steering, and Advisory Committees in reviewing 
the Commission's report and preparing recommendations to the President. 
They shall act under the direction of the Steering Committee or its 
designated agent. The Department of Defense shall continue to provide 
funding and administrative support for the retained Commission staff.
    (b) Pursuant to Executive Order 12958, I hereby designate the 
Executive Secretary of the National Security Council to exercise the 
authority to classify information originally as ``Top Secret'' with 
respect to the work of the Commission staff, the Principals Committee, 
the Steering Committee, the Advisory Committee, and the Infrastructure 
Protection Task Force.''
    Sec. 4. Sections 7 and 8 of Executive Order 13010, as amended, shall 
be renumbered sections 8 and 9, respectively.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
October 11, 1997.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., October 15, 
1997]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on October 14, and it was published in the Federal Register on 
October 16.