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EO 12895

North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Designated the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission for statutory privileges and immunities in the United States; the commission still coordinates salmon conservation.

EO 12894

North Pacific Marine Science Organization

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Designated the North Pacific Marine Science Organization, known as PICES, for statutory privileges and immunities in the United States; the organization remains active.

EO 12893

Principles for Federal Infrastructure Investments

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Required benefit-cost, life-cycle, maintenance, demand-management and performance analysis for federal infrastructure spending; later program law controls individual investments.

EO 12892

Leadership and Coordination of Fair Housing in Federal Programs: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Directed housing-related federal programs to affirmatively further fair housing, coordinated by HUD, and created enforcement and reporting machinery that remains officially codified.

EO 12891

Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Created an independent advisory review of federally sponsored human radiation experiments and public remedies; the committee reported in 1995 and the order was revoked after completion.

EO 12890

Amendment to Executive Order No. 12864 of September 15, 1993

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Raised the National Information Infrastructure advisory council’s membership cap from 25 to 30; EO 13062 later revoked the amended council framework.

EO 12889

Implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Implemented NAFTA secretariat, panels, safeguards, regulatory notice and procurement treatment; the USMCA later replaced NAFTA and displaced the order’s agreement-specific framework.

EO 12888

1993 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, 1984

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Revised military-justice procedure, evidence and offense explanations in the 1984 Manual for Courts-Martial; later editions and executive orders superseded the operative text.

EO 12887

Amending Executive Order No. 12878

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Expanded the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement Reform from 30 to 32 members and increased presidential appointments; EO 12974 later revoked the amended framework.

EO 12886

Adjustments of Rates of Pay and Allowances for the Uniformed Services

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Set uniformed-service basic pay and subsistence and quarters allowances for 1994; later statutes and annual schedules replaced those rates.

EO 12885

Amendment to Executive Order No. 12829

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Extended the deadline for issuing the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual to June 30, 1994; the deadline passed and the program later moved to a codified rule.

EO 12884

Delegation of Functions Under the FREEDOM Support Act and Related Provisions of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs Appropriations Act

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Allocated FREEDOM Support Act determinations, reports and assistance functions among State, the statutory coordinator and program agencies; EO 13118 later reorganized part of the delegation.

EO 12883

Delegating a Federal Pay Administration Authority

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Delegated to the President’s Pay Agent the authority to extend locality pay to eligible non-General Schedule positions; OPM still describes the amended order as governing.

EO 12882

President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Created a non-federal presidential science advisory committee to support the President and NSTC; EO 13226 later revoked it.

EO 12881

Establishment of the National Science and Technology Council

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Established the cabinet-level National Science and Technology Council to coordinate policy and federal research budgets; the council remains active.

EO 12880

National Drug Control Program

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Directed ONDCP coordination, budget review, international policy and performance measurement; ONDCP still identifies the order among its governing authorities.

EO 12879

Order of Succession of Officers To Act as Secretary of the Navy

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Set the order for specified Navy officials to act temporarily as Secretary; current U.S. Code notes continue to list EO 12879.

EO 12878

Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement Reform

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Created a temporary bipartisan commission to examine long-term entitlement financing; the body completed its work and EO 12974 revoked the order as amended.

EO 12877

Amendment to Executive Order No. 12569

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Moved the lead for relations with the freely associated states to State and revised interagency support under EO 12569; later compact legislation changed the wider framework.

EO 12876

Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Created an HBCU advisory board and government-wide planning and reporting duties; EO 13256 revoked it and established a successor initiative.

EO 12875

Enhancing the Intergovernmental Partnership

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Required consultation on unfunded mandates and faster consideration of eligible waiver requests; EO 13132 later replaced the federalism framework and revoked it.

EO 12874

Establishing an Emergency Board to Investigate a Dispute Between The Long Island Rail Road and Certain of Its Employees Represented by the United Transportation Union

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Created the first statutory emergency board for a Long Island Rail Road labor dispute; the board reported and ended, and EO 12899 later created a second board.

EO 12873

Federal Acquisition, Recycling, and Waste Prevention

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Directed federal waste prevention, recycling and procurement of recovered-material products; EO 13101 replaced the program and expressly revoked the order.

EO 12872

Blocking Property of Persons Obstructing Democratization in Haiti

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Blocked property of persons identified with obstruction or violence in Haiti and prohibited evasion; EO 12932 revoked the order when the elected government returned.

EO 12871

Labor-Management Partnerships

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Created a National Partnership Council and directed covered agencies to form labor-management partnerships; EO 13203 dissolved the council and revoked the order.

EO 12870

Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Established the interagency Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee to coordinate export assistance and produce a government-wide strategy; Commerce continues to operate the committee.

EO 12869

Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Continued ten presidential advisory committees and reestablished a science-and-technology council through September 1995; EO 12974 superseded it.

EO 12868

Measures To Restrict The Participation By United States Persons In Weapons Proliferation Activities

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Authorized Commerce, consulting with State, to regulate U.S.-person participation in weapons-of-mass-destruction proliferation activities; later orders consolidated the broader framework.

EO 12867

Termination of Emergency Authority for Certain Export Controls

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Revoked EO 12730 and rescinded its export-control emergency after Congress extended the Export Administration Act, while preserving existing controls and liabilities.

EO 12866

Regulatory Planning and Review

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Established government-wide regulatory principles, planning and OIRA review for significant agency actions; the framework remains in current official use with later modifications.

EO 12865

Prohibiting Certain Transactions Involving UNITA

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Prohibited specified arms and petroleum transactions involving UNITA and declared a national emergency; EO 13298 terminated the emergency and revoked the order.

EO 12864

United States Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Created a Commerce advisory council on national information infrastructure policy; EO 13062 later identified its work as completed and revoked the order.

EO 12863

President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Established presidential intelligence-advisory and oversight boards with reporting and access functions; EO 13462 later replaced and revoked it.

EO 12862

Setting Customer Service Standards

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Directed public-facing agencies to identify customers, survey service needs, publish standards, benchmark performance and address complaints.

EO 12861

Elimination of One-Half of Executive Branch Internal Regulations

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Directed agencies to eliminate at least half of civilian internal management regulations not required by law within three years; the deadline passed in 1996.

EO 12860

Adding Members to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Added three presidential offices to CFIUS membership under EO 11858; EO 13456 later rewrote that order after statutory reform.

EO 12859

Establishment of the Domestic Policy Council

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Established the Domestic Policy Council to coordinate policy development, presidential advice and implementation across executive agencies; later orders amended its membership.

EO 12858

Deficit Reduction Fund

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Created a Treasury accounting mechanism to track the projected deficit reduction from the 1993 budget law through fiscal 1998; the scheduled period ended.

EO 12857

Budget Control

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Created fiscal 1994–1997 direct-spending targets, annual OMB review and a presidential response process for projected overages; the order later expired.

EO 12856

Federal Compliance With Right-to-Know Laws and Pollution Prevention Requirements

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Applied community right-to-know reporting and pollution-prevention goals to covered federal facilities; EO 13148 later revoked and replaced it.

EO 12855

Amending Executive Order No. 12852

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Moved administrative support for the President’s Council on Sustainable Development to the Interior Department; EO 13138 later revoked the council’s order as completed.

EO 12854

Implementation of the Cuban Democracy Act

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Assigned State, Treasury and Commerce responsibilities for implementing the Cuban Democracy Act; official sanctions materials continue to list the order.

EO 12853

Blocking Government of Haiti Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Haiti

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Expanded blocking and transaction restrictions involving Haiti’s de facto regime under United Nations measures; EO 12932 later terminated the emergency and revoked it.

EO 12852

President's Council on Sustainable Development

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Created a public-private presidential advisory council to develop a national sustainable-development strategy; EO 13138 later revoked the framework as completed.

EO 12851

Administration of Proliferation Sanctions, Middle East Arms Control, and Related Congressional Reporting Responsibilities

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Delegated presidential sanctions, export-control, procurement and reporting functions under several nonproliferation statutes; later orders continued and amended the framework.

EO 12850

Conditions for Renewal of Most-Favored-Nation Status for the People's Republic of China in 1994

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Set human-rights and other conditions for the Secretary of State’s 1994 recommendation on China’s most-favored-nation trade status; that decision period ended.

EO 12849

Implementation of Agreement With the European Community on Government Procurement

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Implemented reciprocal purchasing treatment for procurement covered by a 1993 U.S.–European Community agreement, subject to listed agencies, thresholds and exceptions.

EO 12848

Federal Plan to Break the Cycle of Homelessness

Bill Clinton · 1993–2001

Directed the federal homelessness council and member agencies to prepare one coordinated plan addressing programs and longer-term prevention within nine months.