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FR Doc. 95-26569 Blocking Assets and Prohibiting Transactions With Significant Narcotics Traffickers
[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 205 (Tuesday, October 24, 1995)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 54579-54580]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-26569]
[[Page 54577]]
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Part III
The President
_______________________________________________________________________
Executive Order 12978--Blocking Assets and Prohibiting Transactions
With Significant Narcotics Traffickers
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 205 / Tuesday, October 24, 1995 /
Presidential Documents
___________________________________________________________________
Title 3--
The President
[[Page 54579]]
Executive Order 12978 of October 21, 1995
Blocking Assets and Prohibiting Transactions With
Significant Narcotics Traffickers
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including the International Emergency Economic
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the
National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and
section 301 of title 3, United States Code,
I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the United States
of America, find that the actions of significant
foreign narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia, and
the unparalleled violence, corruption, and harm that
they cause in the United States and abroad, constitute
an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national
security, foreign policy, and economy of the United
States, and hereby declare a national emergency to deal
with that threat.
Section 1. Except to the extent provided in section
203(b) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)) and in regulations,
orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued
pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any
contract entered into or any license or permit granted
prior to the effective date, I hereby order blocked all
property and interests in property that are or
hereafter come within the United States, or that are or
hereafter come within the possession or control of
United States persons, of:
(a) the foreign persons listed in the Annex to this
order;
(b) foreign persons determined by the Secretary of the
Treasury, in consultation with the Attorney General and
the Secretary of State:
(i) to play a significant role in international
narcotics trafficking centered in Colombia; or
(ii) materially to assist in, or provide financial
or technological support for or goods or services in
support of, the narcotics trafficking activities of
persons designated in or pursuant to this order; and
(c) persons determined by the Secretary of the
Treasury, in consultation with the Attorney General and
the Secretary of State, to be owned or controlled by,
or to act for or on behalf of, persons designated in or
pursuant to this order.
Sec. 2. Further, except to the extent provided in
section 203(b) of IEEPA and in regulations, orders,
directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to
this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered
into or any license or permit granted prior to the
effective date, I hereby prohibit the following:
(a) any transaction or dealing by United States
persons or within the United States in property or
interests in property of the persons designated in or
pursuant to this order;
(b) any transaction by any United States person or
within the United States that evades or avoids, or has
the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to
violate, any of the prohibitions set forth in this
order.
Sec. 3. For the purposes of this order:
(a) the term ``person'' means an individual or entity;
(b) the term ``entity'' means a partnership,
association, corporation, or other organization, group
or subgroup;
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(c) the term ``United States person'' means any United
States citizen or national, permanent resident alien,
entity organized under the laws of the United States
(including foreign branches), or any person in the
United States:
(d) the term ``foreign person'' means any citizen or
national of a foreign state (including any such
individual who is also a citizen or national of the
United States) or any entity not organized solely under
the laws of the United States or existing solely in the
United States, but does not include a foreign state;
and
(e) the term ``narcotics trafficking'' means any
activity undertaken illicitly to cultivate, produce,
manufacture, distribute, sell, finance or transport, or
otherwise assist, abet, conspire, or collude with
others in illicit activities relating to, narcotic
drugs, including, but not limited to, cocaine.
Sec. 4. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation
with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State,
is hereby authorized to take such actions, including
the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to
employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA as
may be necessary to carry out this order. The Secretary
of the Treasury may redelegate any of these functions
to other officers and agencies of the United States
Government. All agencies of the United States
Government are hereby directed to take all appropriate
measures within their authority to carry out this
order.
Sec. 5. Nothing contained in this order shall create
any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable by any party against the United States, its
agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or
employees, or any other person.
Sec. 6. (a) This order is effective at 12:01 a.m.
Eastern Daylight Time on October 22, 1995.
(b) This order shall be transmitted to the Congress
and published in the Federal Register.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
October 21, 1995.
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ANNEX
Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela
Miguel Angel Rodriguez Orejuela
Jose Santacruz Londono
Helmer Herrera Buitrago
[FR Doc. 95-26569
Filed 10-23-95; 11:21 am]
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Complete official Federal Register PDF
FR Doc. 95-26497 Interagency Security Committee
[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 205 (Tuesday, October 24, 1995)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 54411-54412]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-26497]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 205 / Tuesday, October 24, 1995 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Executive Order 12977 of October 19, 1995
Interagency Security Committee
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in order to enhance the quality and
effectiveness of security in and protection of
buildings and facilities in the United States occupied
by Federal employees for nonmilitary activities
(``Federal facilities''), and to provide a permanent
body to address continuing government-wide security for
Federal facilities, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Establishment. There is hereby established
within the executive branch the Interagency Security
Committee (``Committee''). The Committee shall consist
of: (a) the Administrator of General Services
(``Administrator'');
(b) representatives from the following agencies,
appointed by the agency heads:
(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;
(16) Central Intelligence Agency; and
(17) Office of Management and Budget;
(c) the following individuals or their designees:
(1) the Director, United States Marshals Service;
(2) the Assistant Commissioner of the Federal
Protective Service of the Public Buildings Service,
General Services Administration (``Assistant
Commissioner'');
(3) the Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs; and
(4) the Director, Security Policy Board; and
(d) such other Federal employees as the President shall
appoint.
Sec. 2. Chair. The Committee shall be chaired by the
Administrator, or the designee of the Administrator.
Sec. 3. Working Groups. The Committee is authorized to
establish interagency working groups to perform such
tasks as may be directed by the Committee.
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Sec. 4. Consultation. The Committee may consult with
other parties, including the Administrative Office of
the United States Courts, to perform its
responsibilities under this order, and, at the
discretion of the Committee, such other parties may
participate in the working groups.
Sec. 5. Duties and Responsibilities. (a) The Committee
shall: (1) establish policies for security in and
protection of Federal facilities;
(2) develop and evaluate security standards for
Federal facilities, develop a strategy for ensuring
compliance with such standards, and oversee the
implementation of appropriate security measures in
Federal facilities; and
(3) take such actions as may be necessary to
enhance the quality and effectiveness of security and
protection of Federal facilities, including but not
limited to:
(A) encouraging agencies with security
responsibilities to share security-related intelligence
in a timely and cooperative manner;
(B) assessing technology and information systems as
a means of providing cost-effective improvements to
security in Federal facilities;
(C) developing long-term construction standards for
those locations with threat levels or missions that
require blast resistant structures or other specialized
security requirements;
(D) evaluating standards for the location of, and
special security related to, day care centers in
Federal facilities; and
(E) assisting the Administrator in developing and
maintaining a centralized security data base of all
Federal facilities.
Sec. 6. Agency Support and Cooperation. (a)
Administrative Support. To the extent permitted by law
and subject to the availability of appropriations, the
Administrator, acting by and through the Assistant
Commissioner, shall provide the Committee such
administrative services, funds, facilities, staff and
other support services as may be necessary for the
performance of its functions under this order.
(b) Cooperation. Each executive agency and department
shall cooperate and comply with the policies and
recommendations of the Committee issued pursuant to
this order, except where the Director of Central
Intelligence determines that compliance would
jeopardize intelligence sources and methods. To the
extent permitted by law and subject to the availability
of appropriations, executive agencies and departments
shall provide such support as may be necessary to
enable the Committee to perform its duties and
responsibilities under this order.
(c) Compliance. The Administrator, acting by and
through the Assistant Commissioner, shall be
responsible for monitoring Federal agency compliance
with the policies and recommendations of the Committee.
Sec. 7. Judicial Review. This order is intended only to
improve the internal management of the Federal
Government, and is not intended, and should not be
construed, to create any right or benefit, substantive
or procedural, enforceable at law by a party against
the United States, its agencies, its officers, or its
employees.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
October 19, 1995.
[FR Doc. 95-26497
Filed 10-20-95; 2:55 pm]
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