[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 43 (Monday, October 29, 2001)]
[Pages 1536-1537]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13232--Further Amendment to Executive Order 10789, As 
Amended, To Authorize the Department of Health and Human Services To 
Exercise Certain Contracting Authority in Connection With National 
Defense Functions

October 20, 2001

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including 50 U.S.C. 1431-35, 
and in order to authorize the Department of Health and Human Services to 
exercise certain contracting authority in connection with national 
defense functions, it is hereby ordered that Executive

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Order 10789 of November 14, 1958, as amended, is further amended by 
inserting the words ``Department of Health and Human Services'' in the 
list of departments and agencies in section 21 of that order after the 
words ``Department of Commerce.''
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 October 20, 2001.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:17 a.m., October 23, 
2001]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on October 22, and it was published in the Federal Register on 
October 24.