[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 39, Number 38 (Monday, September 22, 2003)]
[Pages 1239-1240]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13316--Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory 
Committees

September 17, 2003

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, and in accordance with the 
provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. 
App.), it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Each advisory committee listed below is continued until 
September 30, 2005.
    (a) Committee for the Preservation of the White House; Executive 
Order 11145, as amended (Department of the Interior).
    (b) National Infrastructure Advisory Council; Section 3 of Executive 
Order 13231, as amended (Department of Homeland Security).
    (c) Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health; 
Executive Order 12196, as amended (Department of Labor).
    (d) President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and 
Universities; Executive Order 13256 (Department of Education).
    (e) President's Board of Advisors on Tribal Colleges and 
Universities; Executive Order 13270 (Department of Education).
    (f) President's Commission on White House Fellowships; Executive 
Order 11183, as amended (Office of Personnel Management).
    (g) President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities; Executive 
Order 12367, as amended (National Endowment for the Arts).
    (h) President's Committee on the International Labor Organization; 
Executive Order 12216, as amended (Department of Labor).
    (i) President's Committee on the National Medal of Science; 
Executive Order 11287, as amended (National Science Foundation).
    (j) President's Council on Bioethics; Executive Order 13237 
(Department of Health and Human Services).
    (k) President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports; Executive 
Order 13265 (Department of Health and Human Services).
    (l) President's Export Council; Executive Order 12131, as amended 
(Department of Commerce).
    (m) President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory 
Committee; Executive Order 12382, as amended (Department of Homeland 
Security).
    (n) Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee; Executive Order 
12905 (Office of the United States Trade Representative).
    Sec. 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Executive Order, 
the functions of the President under the Federal Advisory Committee Act 
that are applicable to the committees listed in section 1 of this order 
shall be performed by the head of the department or agency designated 
after each committee, in accordance with the guidelines and procedures 
established by the Administrator of General Services.
    Sec. 3. The following Executive Orders, or sections thereof, which 
established committees that have terminated or whose work is completed, 
are revoked:
    (a) Sections 5 through 7 of Executive Order 13111, as amended by 
Executive Order 13188 and Section 3(a) of Executive Order 13218, 
pertaining to the establishment of the Advisory Committee on Expanding 
Training Opportunities;
    (b) Executive Order 12975, as amended by Executive Orders 13018, 
13046, and 13137, establishing the National Bioethics Advisory 
Commission;
    (c) Executive Order 13227, as amended by Executive Order 13255, 
establishing the President's Commission on Excellence in Special 
Education;
    (d) Executive Order 13278, establishing the President's Commission 
on the United States Postal Service;

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    (e) Executive Order 13210, establishing the President's Commission 
to Strengthen Social Security;
    (f) Sections 5 through 8 of Executive Order 13177, pertaining to the 
establishment of the President's Council on the Use of Offsets in 
Commercial Trade;
    (g) Executive Order 13263, establishing the President's New Freedom 
Commission on Mental Health;
    (h) Executive Order 13214, establishing the President's Task Force 
to Improve Health Care Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans; and
    (i) Executive Order 13147, as amended by Executive Order 13167, 
establishing the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative 
Medicine Policy.
    Sec. 4. Executive Order 13225 is superseded.
    Sec. 5. Section 1-102(a) of Executive Order 12131, as amended, is 
further amended to read as follows:
    ``(a) The heads of the following executive agencies or their 
representatives:
 (1)         Department of State.
 (2)         Department of the Treasury.
 (3)         Department of Agriculture.
 (4)         Department of Commerce.
 (5)         Department of Labor.
 (6)         Department of Energy.
 (7)         Department of Homeland Security.
 (8)         Office of the United States Trade Representative.
 (9)         Export-Import Bank of the United States.
 (10)        Small Business Administration.''
    Sec. 6. This order shall be effective September 30, 2003.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 September 17, 2003.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:38 a.m., September 
22, 2003]

Note: This Executive order will be published in the Federal Register on 
September 23.