    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 37 (Monday, September 17, 2001)]
    [Pages 1310-1311]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Proclamation 7463--Declaration of National Emergency by Reason of
    Certain Terrorist Attacks

     September 14, 2001

     By the President of the United States

     of America

     A Proclamation

        A national emergency exists by reason of the terrorist attacks at
    the World Trade Center, New York, New York, and the Pentagon,

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    and the continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on the United
    States.
        Now, Therefore, I, George W. Bush, President of the United States of
    America, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President by the
    Constitution and the laws of the United States, I hereby declare that
    the national emergency has existed since September 11, 2001, and,
    pursuant to the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), I
    intend to utilize the following statutes: sections 123, 123a, 527,
    2201(c), 12006, and 12302 of title 10, United States Code, and sections
    331, 359, and 367 of title 14, United States Code.
        This proclamation immediately shall be published in the Federal
    Register or disseminated through the Emergency Federal Register, and
    transmitted to the Congress.
        This proclamation 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.
        In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day
    of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand one, and of the
    Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-
    sixth.
                                                    George W. Bush

     [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., September
    17, 2001]

    Note: This proclamation will be published in the Federal Register on
    September 18.