[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 44, Number 45 (Monday, November 17, 2008)]
[Page 1406]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Notice--Continuation of National Emergency With Respect to Weapons of 
Mass Destruction

November 10, 2008

    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. 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; therefore, the national 
emergency first declared on November 14, 1994, and extended in each 
subsequent year, must continue. 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,
 November 10, 2008.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:15 a.m., November 
10, 2008]

Note: This notice was published in the Federal Register on November 12.