[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 24 (Monday, June 21, 1999)]
[Pages 1108-1109]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13127--Amendment to Executive Order 13073, Year 2000 
Conversion

June 14, 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 create the 
Information Coordination Center to assist the Chair of the President's 
Council on Year 2000 Conversion in addressing year 2000 conversion 
problems both domestically and internationally, it is hereby ordered 
that Executive Order 13073 is amended as follows:
    Section 1. A new section 5 is added to the order and shall read 
``Sec. 5. Information Coordination Center. (a) To assist the Chair in 
the Y2K response duties included under section 2(c) of this order, there 
shall be established the Information Coordination Center (ICC) in the 
General Services Administration.
    (b) At the direction of the Chair, the ICC will assist in making 
preparations for information sharing and coordination within the Federal 
Government and key components of the public and private sectors, 
coordinating agency assessments of Y2K emergencies that could have an 
adverse affect on U.S. interests at home and abroad, and, if necessary, 
assisting Federal agencies and the Chair in reconstitution processes 
where appropriate.
    (c) The ICC will:
    (1) consist of officials from executive agencies, designated by 
agency heads under subsection 3(a)(2) of this order, who have expertise 
in important management and technical areas, computer hardware, software 
or security systems, reconstitution and recovery, and of additional 
personnel hired directly or by contract, as required, to carry out the 
duties described under section 5 of this order;
    (2) work with the Council and the Office of Management and Budget to 
assure that Federal efforts to restore critical systems are coordinated 
with efforts managed by Federal

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agencies acting under existing emergency response authorities.''
    (d) The Chair of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion 
shall designate a Director of the ICC.
    Sec. 2. The preexisting section 5 of Executive Order 13073 shall be 
renumbered as section 6.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
June 14, 1999.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 9:02 a.m., June 16, 
1999]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on June 
17.