For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
June 20, 2002
Executive Order
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 establish-ment 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.
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.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 20, 2002.
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