    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 36 (Monday, September 12, 2005)]
    [Page 1366]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Message to the Congress on Continuation of the National Emergency With
    Respect to Certain Terrorist Attacks

    September 8, 2005

    To the Congress of the United States:

        Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d),
    provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless,
    prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President
    publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a notice
    stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the
    anniversary date. Consistent with this provision, I have sent to the
    Federal Register the enclosed notice, stating that the emergency
    declared with respect to the terrorist attacks on the United States of
    September 11, 2001, is to continue in effect for an additional year.
        The terrorist threat that led to the declaration on September 14,
    2001, of a national emergency continues. For this reason, I have
    determined that it is necessary to continue in effect after September
    14, 2005, the national emergency with respect to the terrorist threat.
                                                    George W. Bush
     The White House,
     September 8, 2005.

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