For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 22, 2001
Executive Order for Dept of Health and Human Services
Further Amendment to Executive Order 10789, as Amended,
to Authorize the Department of Health and Human Services
to Exercise Certain Contracting Authority in Connection
with National Defense Functions
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the
laws of the United States of America, including 50 U.S.C. 1431-35, and in
order to authorize the Department of Health and Human Services to exercise
certain contracting authority in connection with national defense
functions, it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 10789 of November 14,
1958, as amended, is further amended by inserting the words "Department of
Health and Human Services" in the list of departments and agencies in
section 21 of that order after the words "Department of Commerce."
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
October 20, 2001.
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