[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 43 (Monday, October 25, 2004)]
[Page 2505]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13359--Amendment to Executive Order 13173, Interagency 
Task Force on the Economic Development of the Central San Joaquin Valley

October 20, 2004

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, and in order to improve the 
operation of the Interagency Task Force on the Economic Development of 
the Central San Joaquin Valley, it is hereby ordered that Executive 
Order 13173 of October 25, 2000, is amended as follows:
    Section 1. Section 1(b) is amended to read as follows:
    ``The Task Force shall consist exclusively of the Secretary of 
Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Defense, the 
Attorney General, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of 
Education, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of 
Labor, the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of the Treasury, 
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Director of 
National Drug Control Policy, the Administrator of General Services, the 
Administrator of the Small Business Administration, the Administrator of 
the Environmental Protection Agency, or their designees, and such other 
senior executive branch officials as may be determined by the Task 
Force. The Chair of the Task Force shall be the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development. Each of the Federal departments and agencies, as 
appropriate, shall designate one staff person, for the years 2004 
through 2006, to work on issues of the Task Force and to ensure the 
participation of the staff person's department or agency in the 
operations of the Task Force.''
    Sec. 2. Section 1(c)(1) is amended by inserting ``regulations,'' 
after ``analyze''.
    Sec. 3. Section 5 is amended to read as follows:
    ``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, benefit, or trust responsibility, 
substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party 
against the United States, its agencies, entities, its officers or 
employees, or any other person.''
                                                George W. Bush
The White House,
October 20, 2004.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 9:08 a.m., October 22, 
2004]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on October 21, and it was published in the Federal Register on 
October 25.