Energy, environment and natural resources

Executive Order 13345: Assigning Foreign Affairs Functions and Implementing the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative and the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998

President: George W. Bush

Assigned debt-relief and tropical-forest functions to Treasury and State and specified government members of the Enterprise for the Americas Board.

Status: In effect. Is Executive Order 13345 still in effect? Yes. Executive Order 13345 remains in effect. See Federal Register record.

What does Executive Order 13345 do?

EO 13345 assigned identified statutory functions to Treasury and State, required specified consultation, designated government board representatives and revoked EOs 12757, 12823, 13028 and 13131. The House Office of the Law Revision Counsel reproduces EO 13345 alongside the Enterprise for the Americas Facility statute in its current preliminary U.S. Code text. This verifies the delegation and revocations in the statutory setting; the Code note alone does not establish that a specific debt agreement was signed.

Administration position: The order organized presidential foreign-affairs functions for existing debt and conservation programs.
SignedJuly 8, 2004
Earlier frameworkEarlier presidential delegations under four executive orders covered Enterprise for the Americas and tropical forest programs.
Responsible bodyTreasury, State, USAID and designated board representatives
Later primary evidence2026 U.S. Code text: The House Office of the Law Revision Counsel reproduces EO 13345 alongside the Enterprise for the Americas Facility statute in its current preliminary U.S. Code text. This verifies the delegation and revocations in the statutory setting; the Code note alone does not establish that a specific debt agreement was signed.

Before and after

Before the order

Earlier presidential delegations under four executive orders covered Enterprise for the Americas and tropical forest programs.

After the order

EO 13345 assigned identified statutory functions to Treasury and State, required specified consultation, designated government board representatives and revoked EOs 12757, 12823, 13028 and 13131.

The House Office of the Law Revision Counsel reproduces EO 13345 alongside the Enterprise for the Americas Facility statute in its current preliminary U.S. Code text. This verifies the delegation and revocations in the statutory setting; the Code note alone does not establish that a specific debt agreement was signed.

What did the signed order change?

Earlier presidential delegations under four executive orders covered Enterprise for the Americas and tropical forest programs. EO 13345 assigned identified statutory functions to Treasury and State, required specified consultation, designated government board representatives and revoked EOs 12757, 12823, 13028 and 13131.

What happened later?

U.S. Code, 7 U.S.C. 1738 — executive documents documents this later development: The House Office of the Law Revision Counsel reproduces EO 13345 alongside the Enterprise for the Americas Facility statute in its current preliminary U.S. Code text. This verifies the delegation and revocations in the statutory setting; the Code note alone does not establish that a specific debt agreement was signed.

What does that evidence establish?

EO 13345 delegates particular presidential statutory functions under 3 U.S.C. 301. It revokes four prior delegation orders; it does not repeal the Enterprise for the Americas or Tropical Forest Conservation statutes. Board membership derives from statutes as well as the designation in the order. The later U.S. Code note is documentary evidence of the legal text, not a project outcome. No individual debt swap, forest project or grant is proved by the delegation text. The signed order controls its original terms.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Treasury, State, USAID and designated board representativesAdministered assigned determinations, consultations and board representationUnder the signed order and governing law

What happened next

EO 13345 signed.