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[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 93 (Friday, May 13, 2011)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 27843-27844]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-11970]

                        Presidential Documents 

Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 93 / Friday, May 13, 2011 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Proclamation 8672 of May 9, 2011

                
National Building Safety Month, 2011

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Building safety is a critical component of our homeland 
                security, our personal and public safety, the 
                protection of property, and our economic well-being. 
                While disasters have had devastating and heartbreaking 
                effects in our country and around the world, modern 
                building safety standards and fire prevention codes 
                help us withstand, mitigate, and rapidly recover from 
                hurricanes, winter storms, tornadoes, earthquakes, and 
                floods.

                It is our collective responsibility as a Nation--
                nonprofit organizations and the public and private 
                sectors--to implement effective standards and codes 
                that sustain safe and resilient structures. We need 
                innovation and partnerships at all levels of society to 
                develop transformative breakthroughs in building 
                materials and construction techniques that strengthen 
                the integrity of our homes, workplaces, and commercial 
                facilities.

                Building safety and fire prevention officials, 
                architects, engineers, design professionals, builders, 
                and others in the construction industry work every day 
                to ensure the sound construction of buildings and the 
                safety of our citizens. Their efforts to construct or 
                retrofit buildings that utilize state-of-the-art 
                safety, energy efficiency, and fire prevention 
                standards are important to our national resilience and 
                our ability to compete in the 21st-century economy.

                As a resilient Nation, we must continue to do 
                everything in our power to enhance our ability to 
                withstand and rapidly recover from natural and manmade 
                disasters, disruptions, and emergencies.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the 
                United States, do hereby proclaim May 2011 as National 
                Building Safety Month. I encourage citizens, government 
                agencies, private businesses, nonprofit organizations, 
                and other interested groups to join in activities that 
                will increase awareness of building safety, and I 
                further urge Americans to learn more about how they can 
                contribute to building safety at home and in their 
                communities.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand 
                eleven, and of the Independence of the United States of 
                America the two hundred and thirty-fifth.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 2011-11970
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