[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 29 (Monday, July 26, 1999)]
[Pages 1467-1468]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13131--Further Amendments to Executive Order 12757, 
Implementation of the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative

July 22, 1999

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including the Agriculture 
Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (``ATDA Act''), as amended, 
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA), as amended, the Foreign 
Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 
1996 (Public Law 104-107), and the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 
1998 (Public Law 105-214), it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Amendment of Executive Order 12757. Executive Order 
12757, ``Implementation of the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative,'' 
as amended by Executive Orders 12823 and 13028, is further amended as 
follows:
(a)         The Title is amended by adding at the end thereof ``and the 
            Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998''.

(b)         The Preamble is amended:
            (1) by striking the comma (``,'') after Public Law 101-624, 
            and inserting instead ``and''; and
            (2) by inserting ``and Public Law 105-214'' after ``Public 
            Law 102-549''.

(c)         Section 1 is amended:
            (1) by striking ``and'' after ``sections 703'', and 
            inserting instead a comma (``,'');
            (2) by inserting ``, 805(b), 806(a), 807(a), 808(a)(1)(A), 
            808(a)(2), 812 and 813'' after ``704'';
            (3) by inserting ``and the corresponding determinations 
            required by section 805(b) of the FAA,'' after ``FAA'' the 
            second time it appears; and
            (4) by inserting ``sections 808(a)(1)(B) and (C), and 
            808(a)(4) of the FAA, and by'' after ``The functions vested 
            in the President by'' the second time it appears.

(d)         Section 3(b) is amended:
            (1) by buy striking ``also'' after ``Enterprise for the 
            Americas Board shall''; and
            (2) by inserting at the end of the section ``The Enterprise 
            for the Americas Board, as constituted pursuant to section 
            811 of the FAA, shall also advise the Secretary of State and 
            the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
            International Development on the Secretary's negotiation of 
            Tropical Forest Agreements.''

(e)         Section 3(c) is amended:
            (1) by striking ``section 708(c)'' after ``the ATDA Act 
            and'', and inserting instead ``sections 708(c) and 809(c)'';
            (2) by striking ``and'' after ``environmental framework 
            agreements'' and

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             inserting instead a comma (``,''); and
            (3) by inserting ``and the Tropical Forest Agreements, 
            respectively'' after ``Americas Framework Agreements''.
(f)         Section 4(a) is amended by inserting at the end thereof 
            ``The two additional U.S. Government members of the 
            Enterprise for the Americas Board appointed pursuant to 
            section 811(b)(1)(A) of the FAA shall be a representative of 
            the international Forestry Division of the United States 
            Forest Service and a representative of the Council on 
            Environmental Quality.''
(g)         Section 4(c)(1) is amended by striking ``section 
            708(c)(3)(C)'' and inserting instead ``sections 708(c)(3)(C) 
            and 811(c)(3)''.
(h)         Section 4(c)(2) is amended by striking ``Part IV'' and 
            inserting instead ``Parts IV and V''.
(i)         Section 4(d) is amended to read as follows: ``(d) The five 
            private nongovernmental organization members of the Board 
            appointed pursuant to section 610(b)(1)(B) of the ATDA Act 
            and the two additional members appointed pursuant to section 
            811(b)(1)(B) of the FAA shall be appointed by the 
            President.''
    Section 2. Judicial Review. This order is intended only to improve 
the internal management of the Federal Government, and is not intended 
to create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable 
by a party against the United States, agencies or instrumentalities, its 
officers or employees, or any other person.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
July 22, 1999.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:20 p.m., July 26, 
1999]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on July 23, and it will be published in the Federal Register 
on July 27.