[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 3 (Monday, January 22, 2001)]
[Pages 125-127]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13189--Federal Interagency Task Force on the District of 
Columbia

January 15, 2001

    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 
revitalization of, and to improve prospects for the success of ``home 
rule'' in the District of Columbia, the Nation's Capital, it is hereby 
ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Background and Policy. The District of Columbia is the 
Nation's Capital, and the Federal Government is the largest employer, 
landholder, and purchaser in the region. The Executive Office of the 
President has established and maintained an interest in fostering the 
Federal relationship with the District of Columbia since 1963. This 
Administration has long sought to strengthen the relationship between 
the Federal Government and the District of Columbia by initiating a 
historic restructuring of this relationship. At the request of the 
President, in 1995, the Federal D.C. Interagency Task Force, chaired by 
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and directed by the 
Special Advisor to the President and Executive Director of the Federal 
D.C. Interagency Task Force, was created to revitalize the District of 
Columbia and improve prospects for ``home rule'' to succeed in the 
Nation's Capital. The Federal D.C. Interagency Task Force Office has 
worked with Federal agencies, the Congress, and local officials to 
promote long-term financial stability, economic growth, and opportunity 
for self-government for the District of Columbia. In 1997, the President 
signed into law the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government 
Improvement Act of 1997, under which the Federal Government undertook 
certain responsibilities and governmental functions befitting a State or 
county government. Also in 1997, the President signed into law tax 
incentives designed to spur economic growth in the District of Columbia.
    It is the policy of this Administration, therefore, to build on the 
momentum of the accomplishments over the last 5 years by formally 
establishing the Federal D.C. Interagency Task Force to further assist 
the District of Columbia in achieving financial stability, economic 
growth, and improvement in management and service delivery.
    Sec. 2. Establishment of the Federal Interagency Task Force on the 
District of Columbia.
(a)          There is established the ``Federal Interagency Task Force 
            on the District of Columbia'' (Task Force).
(b)          The Task Force shall be composed of the following members:
 (1)         The Attorney General;
 (2)         The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development;
 (3)         The Secretary of Health and Human Services;
 (4)         The Secretary of Labor;
 (5)         The Secretary of Transportation;
 (6)         The Secretary of the Treasury;
 (7)         The Administrator of General Services;
 (8)         The Secretary of Education;
 (9)         The Secretary of the Interior;

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 (10)        The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency;
 (11)        The Secretary of Commerce;
 (12)        The Secretary of Agriculture;
 (13)        The Director of the Office of Management and Budget;
 (14)        The Administrator of the Small Business Administration;
 (15)        The Commissioner of the Social Security;
 (16)        The Secretary of Energy;
 (17)        The Director of the Office of Personnel Management; and
 (18)        Such other members as the Director of the Office of 
            Management and Budget may provide (including the Director of 
            the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, which 
            office is located in the Department of Justice.)
    (c) The Task Force shall be chaired by the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget (Director). The Director may appoint an Assistant 
Director or other senior official to assist in the management of the 
Task Force.
    (d) The Office of Management and Budget shall provide administrative 
support for the Task Force. To the extent permitted by law, other 
executive departments and agencies may provide such staff, resources, 
and information as may be required in carrying out the provisions of 
this order.
    (e) The Director shall develop, review, modify, and, as appropriate, 
implement program recommendations, in cooperation with the appropriate 
elected Federal and local officials and agencies, to promote long-term 
financial stability, economic growth, and opportunity for self-
government for the District of Columbia.
    (f) To the extent permitted by law, the Task Force staff shall 
communicate with Federal and local elected officials as early in program 
planning cycles as reasonably feasible, to develop and explain specific 
Federal and local plans and program actions.
    Sec. 3. Purpose. The purpose of the Interagency Task Force will be 
to coordinate and better leverage Administration efforts and initiatives 
for the District of Columbia in concert with local and regional 
initiatives to improve the long-term financial stability of the Nation's 
Capital and to improve self-governance. The Director's designee shall 
serve as liaison between the executive branch and the executive, 
legislative, and judicial branches of government of the District of 
Columbia, as well as the private sector.
    Sec. 4. Responsibilities. To the extent permitted by law, the 
Interagency Task Force shall:
    (a) formulate and recommend interagency compacts and cooperative 
agreements between Federal agencies and the District of Columbia;
    (b) develop, on a continuing basis, a comprehensive and coordinated 
plan to establish priorities to promote long-term financial stability, 
economic growth, and opportunity for self-government for the District of 
Columbia;
    (c) provide for an understanding by the public of the needs and 
assets of the District of Columbia;
    (d) support District efforts to encourage economic growth in the 
District of Columbia;
    (e) serve as the focal point and coordinating unit for Federal 
programs, technical assistance, and other support for the District of 
Columbia; and
    (f) provide a forum for consideration of problems within the 
District of Columbia and propose and effectuate solutions.
    Sec. 5. Assistance to Economically Distressed Areas. Members of the 
Task Force, to the extent permitted by law and within existing budgetary 
resources, shall provide targeted assistance to economically distressed 
areas within the District of Columbia and to projects that require 
economic development assistance. To the extent permitted by law, members 
of the Task Force shall also participate in comprehensive neighborhood 
revitalization initiatives requiring Federal assistance, including 
programs organized by the government of the District of Columbia, and 
collaborative efforts organized by private organizations, such as the 
Anacostia Best Practices initiative.
    Sec. 6. Local Accommodation. To the extent permitted by law, the 
Federal Interagency Task Force shall make efforts to accommodate the 
concerns of local elected officials in proposing Federal technical or 
other assistance.

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    Sec. 7. Judicial Review. This order does not create any right or 
benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable by law against the 
United States, its officers, its employees, or any other person.
                                            William J. Clinton
 The White House,
 January 15, 2001.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., January 18, 
2001]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
January 19.