24 June 2002

[Federal Register: June 24, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 121)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Page 42469-42470]
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                        Presidential Documents

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                Executive Order 13267 of June 20, 2002


                Establishing a Transition Planning Office for the
                Department of Homeland Security Within the Office of
                Management and Budget

                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. Establishment. I hereby establish within the
                Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a Transition
                Planning Office for the Department of Homeland Security
                (the ``Transition Planning Office''), to be headed by
                the Director of the Transition Planning Office for the
                Department of Homeland Security (the ``Director for
                Transition Planning'').

                Sec. 2. Missions. The missions of the Transition
                Planning Office shall be to:

                    (a) coordinate, guide, and conduct transition and
                related planning throughout the executive branch of the
                United States Government in preparation for
                establishment of the proposed Department of Homeland
                Security; and
                    (b) consistent with Presidential guidance, work
                with the Congress as it considers legislation to
                establish that Department.

                Sec. 3. Administration. (a) The Director of OMB shall
                ensure that the Transition Planning Office receives
                appropriate personnel (including detailees and
                assignees, as appropriate), funding, and administrative
                support for the Office, subject to the availability of
                appropriations. The Director of OMB is authorized to
                make expenditures under section 522 of title 31, United
                States Code, as may be appropriate to carry out this
                order.

                    (b) If an individual who is an Assistant to the
                President is appointed to serve simultaneously as
                Director for Transition Planning, the functioning,
                personnel, funds, records, and property of the office
                of the Assistant to the President and the office of the
                Director for Transition Planning shall be kept separate
                in the same manner as if the two offices were headed by
                two different individuals.

                Sec. 4. Other Departments and Agencies. This order does
                not alter the existing authorities of United States
                Government departments and agencies. In carrying out
                the missions set forth in section 2 of this order, all
                executive departments and agencies are directed to
                assist the Director for Transition Planning and the
                Transition Planning Office to the extent permitted by
                law.

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                Sec. 5. Termination. The Transition Planning Office,
                and all the authorities of this order, shall terminate
                within 90 days after the date on which legislation
                creating the Department of Homeland Security is
                enacted, or within 1 year of the date of this order,
                whichever occurs first.

                    (Presidential Sig.)B

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                     June 20, 2002.

[FR Doc. 02-16041
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