[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 46 (Monday, November 20, 2000)]
[Page 2842]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Notice--Continuation of Emergency Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction

November 9, 2000

    On November 14, 1994, by Executive Order 12938, I declared a 
national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat 
to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United 
States posed by the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical 
weapons (weapons of mass destruction) and the means of delivering such 
weapons. Because the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and 
the means of delivering them continues to pose an unusual and 
extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and 
economy of the United States, the national emergency first declared on 
November 14, 1994, and extended on November 14, 1995, November 12, 1996, 
November 13, 1997, November 12, 1998, and November 10, 1999, must 
continue in effect beyond November 14, 2000. Therefore, in accordance 
with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), 
I am continuing the national emergency declared in Executive Order 
12938.
    This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.
                                            William J. Clinton
 The White House,
 November 9, 2000

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 1:20 p.m., November 9, 
2000]

Note: This notice was published in the Federal Register on November 13. 
This item was not received in time for publication in the appropriate 
issue.