[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 114 (Friday, June 13, 1997)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 32467-32469]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-15828]
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Part VII
The President
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Executive Order 13048--Improving Administrative Management in the
Executive Branch
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Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 114 / Friday, June 13, 1997 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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                Executive Order 13048 of June 10, 1997
Improving Administrative Management in the
                Executive Branch
                Improvement of Government operations is a continuing
                process that benefits from interagency activities. One
                group dedicated to such activities is the President's
                Council on Management Improvement (PCMI), established
                by Executive Order 12479 in 1984, reestablished by
                Executive Order 12816 in 1992. In the intervening
                years, some activities of the PCMI have been assumed by
                the President's Management Council, the Chief Financial
                Officers Council, and the Chief Information Officers
                Council. These organizations are also focussed on
                improving agencies' use of quality management
                principles. Other functions have been assigned to
                individual agencies. Nonetheless, remaining
                administrative management matters deserve attention
                across agency lines.
                By the authority vested in me as President by the
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of
                America and in order to improve agency administrative
                and management practices throughout the executive
                branch, I hereby direct the following:
                Section 1. Interagency Council on Administrative
                Management.
                    (a) Purpose and Membership. An Interagency Council
                on Administrative Management (``Council'') is
                established as an interagency coordination mechanism.
                The Council shall be composed of the Deputy Director
                for Management of the Office of Management and Budget,
                who shall serve as Chair, and one senior administrative
                management official from each of the following
                agencies:
                    1. Department of State;
                    2. Department of the Treasury;
                    3. Department of Defense;
                    4. Department of Justice;
                    5. Department of the Interior;
                    6. Department of Agriculture;
                    7. Department of Commerce;
                    8. Department of Labor;
                    9. Department of Health and Human Services;
                    10. Department of Housing and Urban Development;
                    11. Department of Transportation;
                    12. Department of Energy;
                    13. Department of Education;
                    14. Department of Veterans Affairs;
                    15. Environmental Protection Agency;
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                    16. Federal Emergency Management Agency;
                    17. Central Intelligence Agency;
                    18. Small Business Administration;
                    19. Department of the Army;
                    20. Department of the Navy;
                    21. Department of the Air Force;
                    22. National Aeronautics and Space Administration;
                    23. Agency for International Development;
                    24. General Services Administration;
                    25. National Science Foundation; and
                    26. Office of Personnel Management.
                Department and agency heads shall advise the Chair of
                their selections for membership on the Council. Council
                membership shall also include representatives of the
                Chief Financial Officers Council, the Chief Information
                Officers Council, the Federal Procurement Council, the
                Interagency Advisory Group of Federal Personnel
                Directors, and the Small Agency Council, as well as at-
                large members appointed by the Chair, as he deems
                appropriate. The Chair shall invite representatives of
                the Social Security Administration to participate in
                the Council's work, as appropriate. The Council shall
                select a Vice Chair from among the Council's
                membership.
                    (b) The Council shall plan, promote, and recommend
                improvements in Government administration and
                operations and provide advice to the Chair on matters
                pertaining to the administrative management of the
                Federal Government. The Council shall:
                (1) explore opportunities for more effective use of
                Government resources;
                (2) support activities and initiatives of the
                President's Management Council, the Chief Financial
                Officers Council, the Chief Information Officers
                Council, the Federal Procurement Council, and the
                Interagency Advisory Group of Federal Personnel
                Directors designed to develop, review, revise, and
                implement Governmentwide administrative management
                policies; and
                (3) identify successful administrative management
                practices, including quality management practices, and
                assist in their Governmentwide dissemination and
                implementation.
                Sec. 2. Responsibilities of the Chair. The Chair or, if
                the Chair chooses, the Vice Chair shall:
                (1) convene meetings of the Council;
                (2) preside at formal council meetings;
                (3) establish committees or working groups of the
                Council, as necessary for efficient conduct of Council
                functions; and
                (4) appoint, to the extent permitted by law and
                consistent with personnel practices, other full-time
                officers or employees of the Federal Government to the
                Council as at-large members for specific terms, not
                exceeding 2 years, to provide expertise to the Council.
                Sec. 3. Responsibilities of Agency Heads. To the extent
                permitted by law, heads of departments or agencies
                represented on the Council shall provide their
                representatives with administrative support needed to
                support Council activities.
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                Sec. 4. Judicial Review. This order is for the internal
                management of the executive branch and does not create
                any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
                enforceable by a party against the United States, its
                agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or
                employees, or any other person.
                Sec. 5. Revocation. Executive Order 12816 (creating the
                President's Council on Management Improvement),
                Executive Order 12552 (establishing the executive
                branch productivity improvement program) and Executive
                Order 12637 (revising the executive branch productivity
                improvement program) are revoked.
                    (Presidential Sig.)
                THE WHITE HOUSE,
                    June 10, 1997.
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