[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 25 (Monday, June 24, 2002)]
[Pages 1059-1060]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13267--Establishing a Transition Planning Office for the 
Department of Homeland Security Within the Office of Management and 
Budget

June 20, 2002

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as 
follows:
    Section 1. Establishment. I hereby establish within the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) a Transition Planning Office for the 
Department of Homeland Security (the ``Transition Planning Office''), to 
be headed by the Director of the Transition Planning Office for the 
Department of Homeland Security (the ``Director for Transition 
Planning'').
    Sec. 2. Missions. The missions of the Transition Planning Office 
shall be to:
    (a) coordinate, guide, and conduct transition and related planning 
throughout the executive branch of the United States Government in 
preparation for establishment of the proposed Department of Homeland 
Security; and
    (b) consistent with Presidential guidance, work with the Congress as 
it considers legislation to establish that Department.
    Sec. 3. Administration. (a) The Director of OMB shall ensure that 
the Transition Planning Office receives appropriate personnel (including 
detailees and assignees, as appropriate), funding, and administrative 
support for the Office, subject to the availability of appropriations. 
The Director of OMB is authorized to make expenditures under section 522 
of title 31, United States Code, as may be appropriate to carry out this 
order.
    (b) If an individual who is an Assistant to the President is 
appointed to serve simultaneously as Director for Transition Planning, 
the functioning, personnel, funds, records, and property of the office 
of the Assistant to the President and the office of the Director for 
Transition Planning shall be kept separate in the same manner as if the 
two offices were headed by two different individuals.
    Sec. 4. Other Departments and Agencies. This order does not alter 
the existing authorities of United States Government departments and 
agencies. In carrying out the missions set forth in section 2 of this 
order, all executive departments and agencies are directed to assist the 
Director for Transition Planning and the Transition Planning Office to 
the extent permitted by law.
    Sec. 5. Termination. The Transition Planning Office, and all the 
authorities of this order, shall terminate within 90 days after the date 
on which legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security is 
enacted, or within 1 year of the date of this order, whichever occurs 
first.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 June 20, 2002.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., June 21, 
2002]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on June 
24.

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