[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 39, Number 20 (Monday, May 19, 2003)]
[Pages 611-612]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13302--Amending Executive Order 13212, Actions To 
Expedite Energy-Related Projects

May 15, 2003

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States, including section 60133 of title 49, 
United States Code, and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it 
is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Amendments to Executive Order 13212. Executive Order 
13212 of May 18, 2001, as amended, is further amended by:
      (a) in section 1, immediately before the period at the end of the 
      section, inserting ``and projects that will strengthen pipeline 
      safety'';
      (b) in section 2, after ``energy-related projects'' inserting 
      ``(including pipeline safety projects)''; and
      (c) revising section 3 to read as follows:
      ``Sec. 3. Interagency Task Force. (a) There is established, within 
      the Department of Energy for administrative purposes, an 
      interagency task force (Task Force) to perform the following 
      functions: (i) monitor and assist the agencies in their efforts to 
      expedite their reviews of permits or similar actions, as 
      necessary, to accelerate the completion of energy-related projects 
      (including pipeline safety projects), increase energy production 
      and conservation, and improve the transmission of energy;
      (ii) monitor and assist agencies in setting up appropriate 
      mechanisms to coordinate Federal, State, tribal, and local 
      permitting in geographic areas where increased permitting activity 
      is expected; and
      (iii) perform the functions of the interagency committee for which 
      section 60133 of title 49, United States Code, provides.
      (b)(i) The Task Force shall consist exclusively of the following 
      members:
      (A) in the performance of all Task Force functions set out in 
      sections 3(a)(i) and (ii) of this order, the Secretaries of State, 
      the Treasury, Defense, Agriculture,

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      Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Transportation, the 
      Interior, Labor, Education, Health and Human Services, Energy, and 
      Veterans Affairs, the Attorney General, the Administrator of the 
      Environmental Protection Agency, the Director of Central 
      Intelligence, the Administrator of General Services, the Director 
      of the Office of Management and Budget, the Chairman of the 
      Council of Economic Advisers, the Assistant to the President for 
      Domestic Policy, the Assistant to the President for Economic 
      Policy, and such other heads of agencies as the Chairman of the 
      Council on Environmental Quality may designate; and
      (B) in the performance of the functions to which section 3(a)(iii) 
      of this order refers, the officers listed in section 
      60133(a)(2)(A)-(H) of title 49, United States Code, and such other 
      representatives of Federal agencies with responsibilities relating 
      to pipeline repair projects as the Chairman of the Council on 
      Environmental Quality may designate.
      (ii) A member of the Task Force may designate, to perform the Task 
      Force functions of the member, a full-time officer or employee of 
      that member's agency or office.
      (c) The Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality shall 
      chair the Task Force.
      (d) Consultation in the implementation of this order with State 
      and local officials and other persons who are not full-time or 
      permanent part-time employees of the Federal Government shall be 
      conducted in a manner that elicits fully the individual views of 
      each official or other person consulted, without deliberations or 
      efforts to achieve consensus on advice or recommendations.
      (e) This order shall be implemented in a manner consistent with 
      the President's constitutional authority to supervise the unitary 
      executive branch.''
    Sec. 2. Judicial Review. This order is intended only to improve the 
internal management of the Federal Government, and is not intended to, 
and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, 
its agencies, instrumentalities or entities, its officers or employees, 
or any other person.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 May 15, 2003.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., May 19, 
2003]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on May 16, and it will be published in the Federal Register on 
May 20.