    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 13 (Monday, April 5, 1999)]
    [Page 546]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Executive Order 13117--Further Amendment to Executive Order 12981, as
    Amended

    March 31, 1999

        By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
    the laws of the United States of America and in order to further the
    implementation of the reorganization of the Arms Control and Disarmament
    Agency (ACDA) into the Department of State, in this instance by
    eliminating ACDA's vote on dual-use export license decisions in the
    administration of export controls, it is hereby ordered that Executive
    Order 12981, as amended (``Executive Order 12981''), is further amended
    as follows:
        Section 1. The second sentence of section 1 of Executive Order 12981
    is amended by deleting ``, and the Arms Control and Disarmament
    Agency''.
        Sec. 2. The second sentence of section 5(a)(1)(A) of Executive Order
    12981 is amended by adding ``and'' after ``the Secretary of Defense''
    and before ``the Secretary of Energy,'' and deleting ``, and the
    Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.''
        Sec. 3. The first sentence of section 5(a)(2) of Executive Order
    12981 is amended by deleting ``, and the Arms Control and Disarmament
    Agency.''
        Sec. 4. The second sentence of section 5(a)(3)(A) of Executive Order
    12981 is amended by deleting ``, and the Arms Control and Disarmament
    Agency.''
        Sec. 5. The first sentence of section 6 of Executive Order 12981 is
    amended by deleting ``and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency''.
                                                William J. Clinton
    The White House,
    March 31, 1999.

    [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., April 2,
    1999]

    Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on
    April 5.