[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 7 (Monday, February 16, 1998)]
[Page 234]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13074--Amendment to Executive Order 12656

February 9, 1998

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, and in order to reflect the 
appropriate allocation of funding responsibilities for Noncombatant 
Evacuation Operations, it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12656 
is amended by adding a new section 501(16) to read as follows:
      ``Subject to the direction of the President, and pursuant to 
      procedures to be developed jointly by the Secretary of Defense and 
      the Secretary of State, be responsible for the deployment and use 
      of military forces for the protection of United States citizens 
      and nationals and, in connection therewith, designated other 
      persons or categories of persons, in support of their evacuation 
      from threatened areas overseas.''
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
February 9, 1998

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:45 a.m., February 11, 
1998]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
February 12.