[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 42, Number 44 (Monday, November 6, 2006)]
[Pages 1916-1917]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Notice--Continuation of National Emergency Regarding the Proliferation 
of Weapons of Mass Destruction

October 27, 2006

    On November 14, 1994, by Executive Order 12938, the President 
declared a national emergency with respect to the unusual and 
extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and 
economy of the United States posed by the proliferation of nuclear, 
biological, and chemical weapons (weapons of mass destruction) and the 
means of delivering such weapons. On July 28, 1998, the President issued 
Executive Order 13094 amending Executive Order 12938 to respond more 
effectively to the worldwide threat of weapons of mass destruction 
proliferation activities. On June 28, 2005, I issued Executive Order 
13382 that, inter alia, further amended Executive Order 12938 to improve 
our ability to combat proliferation. Because the proliferation of 
weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them continues 
to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, 
foreign policy, and economy of the United States, the national emergency 
first declared on November 14, 1994, must continue in effect beyond 
November 14, 2006. In accordance with section 202(d) of the National 
Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the 
national emergency declared in Executive Order 12938, as amended.
    This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 October 27, 2006.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:12 p.m., October 30, 
2006]

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Note: This notice was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
October 30, and it was published in the Federal Register on October 31.