[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 17 (Monday, May 3, 1999)]
[Page 754]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13120--Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain 
Individual Ready Reserve Members of the Armed Forces to 
Active Duty

April 27, 1999

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including sections 121 and 
12304 of title 10, United States Code, I hereby determine that it is 
necessary to augment the active armed forces of the United States for 
the effective conduct of operations in and around the former Yugoslavia 
related to the conflict in Kosovo. Further, under the stated authority, 
I hereby authorize the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of 
Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating 
as a service in the Department of the Navy, under their respective 
jurisdictions, to order to active duty any units, and any individual 
members not assigned to a unit organized to serve as a unit, of the 
Selected Reserve, or any member in the Individual Ready Reserve 
mobilization category and designated as essential under regulations 
prescribed by the Secretary concerned, and to terminate the service of 
those units and members ordered to active duty.
    This order is intended only to improve the internal management of 
the executive branch and is not intended to create any right or benefit, 
substantive or procedural, enforceable at law by a party against the 
United States, its agencies, its officers, or any person.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
April 27, 1999.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., April 28, 
1999]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
April 29.