[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.