[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 30 (Monday, July 26, 2004)]
[Pages 1373-1374]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13349--Amending Executive Order 13226 To Designate the 
President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology To Serve as 
the National Nanotechnology Advisory Panel

July 23, 2004

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including the 21st Century 
Nanotechnology Research and Development Act (Public Law 108-153), and in 
order to designate the National Nanotechnology Advisory Panel pursuant 
to section 4(a) of that Act, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Executive Order 13226 of September 30, 2001, as amended, is further 
amended by adding a new section 2(c), to read as follows:

     ``(c) PCAST shall serve as the National Nanotechnology Advisory 
      Panel under section 4 of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research 
      and Development Act (Public Law 108-153) (Act). Nothing in this 
      Order shall be construed to require the National Nanotechnology

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      Advisory Panel to comply with any requirement from which it is 
      exempted by section 4(f) of the Act.''

                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 July 23, 2004.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., July 26, 
2004]

Note: This Executive order will be published in the Federal Register on 
July 27.