Department of Commerce
Orders where directed actors are tied to Department of Commerce · 28 in Clinton · 220 all terms.
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Final Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve
This executive order finalizes the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve by making permanent the Reserve Preservation Areas established in EO 13178, with modifications to fishing caps, discharge rules, and protected area boundaries. It caps commercial fishing at historical levels, allows limited continued fishing around two banks for 5 years, and directs the Secretary of Commerce to initiate National Marine Sanctuary designation.
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve
This executive order establishes the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve, a 3.5 million-acre marine protected area extending approximately 1,200 nautical miles. It caps commercial and recreational fishing at existing levels, prohibits oil and gas exploration, and creates preservation areas with additional restrictions while allowing Native Hawaiian cultural and subsistence uses. The order directs the Secretary of Commerce to develop an operations plan, establish an advisory council, and initiate the process to designate the Reserve as a national marine sanctuary.
Assistance to Small Business Exporters and Dislocated
This executive order creates an interagency task force to help small businesses, particularly those owned by women, minorities, and rural operators, export to China, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Caribbean Basin. It also directs the Department of Labor to expedite and expand outreach for dislocated worker assistance programs, including trade adjustment aid.
Global Disaster Information Network
This executive order establishes the Global Disaster Information Network, a coordinated federal effort led by an Interagency Coordinating Committee (co-chaired by the Vice President's office, NOAA, and State Department) to improve how the U.S. government uses information technology to collect and share disaster-related information for domestic and international preparedness, response, and recovery. A Committee Support Office will develop plans and strategies, with NOAA providing administrative and funding support.
President's Council on the Future of Princeville, North Carolina
This executive order establishes an interagency council to develop recommendations for federal actions to help Princeville, North Carolina recover from Hurricane Floyd flooding and plan for its future. The council includes 15 agency heads and presidential assistants, chaired by the OMB Director, and is tasked with considering the town's unique status as the first U.S. city founded by ex-slaves.
Delegation of Authority Under Section 1401(b) of the
This memorandum delegates presidential authority under Section 1401(b) of the FY2000 National Defense Authorization Act to the Secretary of State, requiring State to obtain concurrence from Defense, Commerce, and the Director of Central Intelligence before submitting a report to Congress. It is a routine interagency procedural delegation with no substantive policy changes.
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
This executive order extends 16 federal advisory committees until September 30, 2001, revokes several executive orders for completed committees, and makes technical amendments to existing orders including adding the Department of Energy to the President's Export Council, expanding an interagency Coast Guard task force, and updating the structure of committees on arts/humanities and physical fitness.
National Infrastructure Assurance Council
This executive order establishes the National Infrastructure Assurance Council (NIAC), a 30-member advisory body of private sector and state/local government experts to coordinate public-private efforts protecting critical infrastructure. The council advises on risk assessments, information sharing centers, and reports to the President through the National Security Advisor for a two-year term.
Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act
This executive order establishes the Department of State as the U.S. National Authority for implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention and its 1998 implementing statute. It assigns interagency coordination, regulatory, inspection, enforcement, and information-disclosure responsibilities across State, Defense, Commerce, Energy, Justice, and other agencies.
Using Technology To Improve Training Opportunities for Federal Government Employees
This executive order establishes a presidential task force and advisory committee to promote technology-based training for federal employees. It directs agencies to designate representatives, develop training technology standards, create online training databases, and explore individual training accounts for workers.
American Indian and Alaska Native Education
This executive order establishes an Interagency Task Force on American Indian and Alaska Native Education to coordinate federal efforts across 14+ agencies to improve educational outcomes for Native students. It mandates development of a comprehensive federal Indian education policy, regional partnership forums, school pilot sites, and a research agenda, with multiple reporting deadlines over a 5-year task force lifespan.
Coral Reef Protection
This executive order establishes a federal policy to protect U.S. coral reef ecosystems by requiring agencies to identify actions affecting reefs and avoid degrading them. It creates the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force co-chaired by Interior and Commerce to coordinate mapping, monitoring, research, conservation, and international cooperation efforts.
Establishment of the Enrichment Oversight Committee
This executive order establishes the Enrichment Oversight Committee (EOC) to monitor and coordinate U.S. government efforts related to the privatized United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC). The EOC oversees implementation of the U.S.-Russia Highly Enriched Uranium Agreement, monitors foreign ownership restrictions, collects intelligence and proprietary business information, and coordinates with multiple agencies including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Delegation of Authority Under Section 1212 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105-85)
President Clinton delegated presidential authority under Section 1212 of the FY1998 National Defense Authorization Act to the Secretary of Commerce, with authorization to redelegate. The memorandum also contains a standard severability clause for future statutory amendments.
Federal Support of Community Efforts Along American Heritage Rivers
This executive order establishes the American Heritage Rivers initiative, a voluntary, community-driven program where communities nominate rivers for federal designation and support. It creates an interagency committee to coordinate federal assistance for environmental protection, economic revitalization, and historic preservation along designated rivers, without creating new regulatory authority.
Strengthened Protections for Human Subjects of Classified Research
This 1997 presidential memorandum strengthens ethical protections for human subjects in classified government research by implementing recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. It prohibits waiver of informed consent for classified research, requires disclosure of sponsoring agencies and classification status to subjects, mandates special institutional review board procedures including nongovernmental members and appeals processes, requires annual public disclosure of secret research projects, and bars agencies from conducting such research without first adopting modified Common Rule regulations.
Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters
This executive order establishes a 15-member advisory committee to recommend public interest obligations for digital television broadcasters, with a report due to the Vice President by June 1, 1998. The committee draws members from broadcasting, technology, academic, and public interest communities, with administrative support from the Department of Commerce.
Administration of Export Controls on Encryption Products
This executive order establishes special export control rules for encryption products being transferred from State Department munitions oversight to Commerce Department dual-use regulations. It exempts encryption controls from normal foreign-availability review requirements, gives multiple agencies including Justice veto authority over encryption export licenses, excludes encryption software from being treated as 'technology,' and mandates that technical assistance exports be controlled as strictly as under arms export laws.
Determinations Under Section 203 of the Trade Act of 1974 and Section 304 of the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act Concerning Broom Corn Brooms
President Clinton directed the U.S. Trade Representative to negotiate agreements within 90 days to address serious injury to the domestic broom corn broom industry from Mexican imports, while declining immediate USITC-recommended tariffs. Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor were directed to develop a domestic industry adjustment program within the same 90-day period. Imports from Canada and Israel were excluded from potential remedies based on USITC findings.
Amendment to Executive Order No. 12580
This executive order amends a 1987 order to delegate certain hazardous substance response authorities under CERCLA (Superfund) to five additional Cabinet secretaries (Interior, Commerce, Agriculture, Defense, Energy) for releases affecting their natural resources or facilities, subject to concurrence from either the Coast Guard (for coastal/Great Lakes/port/harbor areas) or the EPA Administrator (for other areas). The order explicitly prohibits using Superfund money to pay for responses when a responsible party fails to comply with an order.
Federal Information Technology
This executive order establishes a comprehensive framework for improving federal information technology management, creating agency Chief Information Officers (CIOs), and forming three interagency bodies: the CIO Council, Government Information Technology Services Board, and Information Technology Resources Board. It mandates strategic IT investment reviews, performance measurement, and coordinated governmentwide infrastructure development.
Suspension of the Proviso Limiting Implementation of Subsections (a), (b), (c), (e), (g), or (i) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533) Contained in the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996 (H.R. 3019)
President Clinton suspended a congressional proviso that had restricted implementation of key Endangered Species Act listing and designation provisions (subsections a, b, c, e, g, i of section 4) in the 1996 appropriations act. This immediately restored the Fish and Wildlife Service's authority to list species, designate critical habitat, and develop recovery plans without the funding limitation.
Administration of Export Controls
This executive order establishes a structured interagency process for reviewing export license applications under the Export Administration Act and related regulations. It sets specific timelines for license review (90 days maximum), creates a three-tier dispute resolution system (Operating Committee, Advisory Committee on Export Policy, and Export Administration Review Board), and defines procedures for prelicense checks and government-to-government assurances.
Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy
This executive order creates a 15-member private-sector commission to recommend strategies for opening Japan, China, and other Asian-Pacific markets to U.S. business. The commission must submit a report by February 1, 1996, identifying trade barriers and recommending steps to increase U.S. market access while maximizing high-wage domestic jobs. The commission dissolves 30 days after submitting its final report.
Recreational Fisheries
This executive order directs federal agencies to conserve, restore, and enhance aquatic systems to expand recreational fishing opportunities nationwide. It establishes a National Recreational Fisheries Coordination Council, mandates development of a 5-year Conservation Plan, requires a joint ESA policy from wildlife agencies, and expands an advisory council's role to monitor federal activities affecting recreational fisheries.
Continuation of Export Control Regulations
President Clinton declared a national emergency and continued export control regulations under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act after the Export Administration Act of 1979 expired. The order maintains all existing Commerce Department export regulations and Arms Export Control Act administration provisions in full force until Congress reauthorizes the Export Administration Act.
National Defense Industrial Resources Preparedness
This executive order delegates presidential authorities under the Defense Production Act of 1950 to cabinet secretaries and agency heads for national defense industrial resource preparedness. It establishes frameworks for priorities and allocations of materials and services, expansion of productive capacity through loans and guarantees, labor supply management, and defense industrial base information systems, while revoking and consolidating eleven prior executive orders.
Federal Actions To Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations
This executive order requires federal agencies to make environmental justice part of their mission by identifying and addressing disproportionately high adverse health and environmental effects on minority and low-income populations. It creates an interagency working group, mandates agency-specific strategies with specific deadlines, and requires improved data collection, research inclusion, and public participation.