[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 60 (Tuesday, March 30, 1999)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 15283-15284]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-7999]
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Part VII
The President
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Executive Order 13115--Interagency Task Force on the Roles and Missions
of the United States Coast Guard
                        Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 64, No. 60 / Tuesday, March 30, 1999 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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                Executive Order 13115 of March 25, 1999
Interagency Task Force on the Roles and Missions
                of the United States Coast Guard
                By the authority vested in me as President by the
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of
                America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
                Section 1. (a) The Interagency Task Force on the Roles
                and Missions of the United States Coast Guard is
                established.
                    (b) The Task Force shall be composed of one
                representative from the:
                    (1) Department of State;
                    (2) Department of Defense;
                    (3) Department of Justice;
                    (4) Department of Commerce;
                    (5) Department of Labor;
                    (6) Department of Transportation;
                    (7) Environmental Protection Agency;
                    (8) Office of Management and Budget;
                    (9) National Security Council;
                    (10) Council on Environmental Quality;
                    (11) Office of Cabinet Affairs;
                    (12) National Economic Council;
                    (13) Domestic Policy Council; and
                    (14) United States Coast Guard.
                The Secretary of Transportation shall select from among
                the Task Force members a Chair and Vice Chair for the
                Task Force.
                    (c) The members of the Task Force shall be
                officials or employees of the Federal Government.
                Sec. 2. Functions. (a) The Task Force shall report to
                the President through the Secretary of Transportation,
                and shall provide advice and recommendations regarding
                the appropriate roles and missions for the United
                States Coast Guard through the Year 2020. While the
                Task Force will comprehensively review all Coast Guard
                roles and missions, it will give special attention to
                the deepwater missions, which are those that generally
                occur beyond 50 nautical miles from U.S. shores.
                    (b) The Chair shall consult with the Secretary of
                Transportation, Commandant of the Coast Guard, and, as
                appropriate, other heads of departments and agencies.
                The Chair may invite experts to submit information to
                the Task Force and hold field briefings or visits.
                    (c) The Chair may acquire services or form teams to
                carry out the functions of the Task Force. The Task
                Force and/or the Task Force staff may travel as
                necessary to carry out the Task Force's functions.
                Sec. 3. Methodology. (a) The Task Force will seek to
                identify and distinguish which Coast Guard roles,
                missions, and functions might be added or enhanced;
                might be maintained at current levels of performance;
                or might be reduced, eliminated, or moved to other
                private organizations or Government agencies. The Task
                Force also will consider whether current Coast
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                Guard roles, missions, and functions might be better
                performed by private organizations (by contract or
                otherwise), public authorities, local or State
                governments, or other Federal agencies. The Task Force
                will provide explicit reasons for its recommendations.
                    (b) The Task Force will establish explicit criteria
                for screening roles, missions, and functions to
                determine how and by whom they would be best performed.
                    (c) For those roles, missions, and functions that
                the Task Force recommends be performed by the Coast
                Guard, the Task Force will advise as to how they might
                be performed most effectively and efficiently.
                    (d) The Task Force will consider the impact on
                Coast Guard roles, missions, and functions of future
                prospects in various areas, including technology,
                demographics, the law of the sea, marine pollution, and
                national security.
                    (e) The Task Force shall review each of the Coast
                Guard's law enforcement and national security missions
                and functions according to the methodology described in
                this section. However, in conducting that review, the
                Task Force shall assume that the Coast Guard will
                remain a law enforcement agency and an armed force of
                the United States.
                Sec. 4. Administration. (a) The heads of executive
                departments and agencies shall, to the extent permitted
                by law, provide the Task Force such information with
                respect to the roles and missions of the Coast Guard as
                it may require to carry out its functions.
                    (b) The Coast Guard shall support the Task Force
                administratively and financially.
                    (c) The Secretary of Transportation shall appoint a
                Staff Director for the Task Force.
                    (d) Assigned staff shall possess a balanced and
                broad base of experience to include persons of
                experience in national security, military operations,
                foreign and domestic policy, international affairs,
                economic policy, environmental protection, and law
                enforcement. Staff members may include military members
                on active duty, Reserve members of any component, and
                Federal civilian employees.
                Sec. 5. General. (a) The Task Force shall exist for a
                period of 6 months from its first meeting unless
                extended by the Secretary of Transportation and, at the
                conclusion, submit a written report as discussed in
                section 2 of this order.
                    (b) The recommendations of the Task Force will be
                considered in determining the appropriate level of
                investment in the Coast Guard's Deepwater Capability
                Replacement Project, a system of cutters and aircraft
                with an integrated command, control, communications,
                and sensor infrastructure. The Task Force may provide
                an interim report for use in preparation of the Federal
                budget for Fiscal Year 2001.
                    (Presidential Sig.)
                THE WHITE HOUSE,
                    March 25, 1999.
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