[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 46 (Monday, November 18, 2002)]
[Page 2023]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Notice--Continuation of Emergency Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction

November 6, 2002

    On November 14, 1994, by Executive Order 12938, President Clinton 
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. On July 28, 1998, the President issued 
Executive Order 13094 to amend Executive Order 12938 to more effectively 
respond to the worldwide threat of weapons of mass destruction 
proliferation activities. 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, November 10, 
1999, November 12, 2000, and November 9, 2001, must continue in effect 
beyond November 14, 2002. In accordance with section 202(d) of the 
National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year 
the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12938, as amended.
    This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 November 6, 2002.

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

Note: This notice was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
November 12, and it was published in the Federal Register on November 
12.