[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 44, Number 39 (Monday, October 6, 2008)]
[Pages 1272-1273]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13474--Amendments to Executive Order 12962

September 26, 2008

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, and in order to conserve, 
restore, and enhance aquatic systems to provide for increased 
recreational fishing opportunities nationwide, it is hereby ordered as 
follows:

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    Section 1. Executive Order 12962 of June 7, 1995, is hereby amended: 
(a) in the preamble, by striking ``and the Magnuson Fishery Conservation 
and Management Act (16 U.S.C 1801-1882)'' and inserting before ``, and 
other pertinent statutes,'' the following:
    ``the National Marine Sanctuaries Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1431 et 
seq.), the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 
(16 U.S.C. 668dd-ee), the National Park Service Organic Act (16 U.S.C. 1 
et seq.), the National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470 et 
seq.), Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), the Magnuson-Stevens 
Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), the 
Coastal Zone Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq.), the Outer 
Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.)''; and
    (b) by redesignating subsections (d) through (i) in section 1 as 
subsections (e) through (j), respectively, and inserting after 
subsection (c) the following new subsection:
    ``(d) ensuring that recreational fishing shall be managed as a 
sustainable activity in national wildlife refuges, national parks, 
national monuments, national marine sanctuaries, marine protected areas, 
or any other relevant conservation or management areas or activities 
under any Federal authority, consistent with applicable law;''.
    Sec. 2. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any 
right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in 
equity, by any party against the United States, its agencies, 
instrumentalities, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or 
any other person.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 September 26, 2008.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., September 
30, 2008]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
October 1. This item was not received in time for publication in the 
appropriate issue.