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 EO 13176 right, benefit, or trust responsibility, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law by a party against the United States, its agencies, or any person.

WILLIAM J. CLINTON THE WHITE HOUSE, November 6, 2000.





By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including 5 U.S.C. 7301, to further the purposes of the Presidential Transition Act of 1963, as amended, and to assist the transition from this Administration to that of the President-elect, it is hereby ordered as follows:

. Presidential Transition Coordination. (a) To assist and support the transition efforts of the President-elect, there is established a Presidential Transition Coordinating Council (Council).

(b) The Council shall be composed of the following officials or their designees: Chief of Staff to the President; Counsel to the President; Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary; Assistant to the President for Management and Administration; Assistant to the President and Director of Presidential Personnel; Director of the Office of Management and Budget; <LI>Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;</LI> <LI>Director of the Office of Personnel Management;</LI> <LI>Administrator of General Services;</LI> <LI>Archivist of the United States;</LI> <LI>Commissioner of Internal Revenue;</LI> <LI>Director of the Office of Government Ethics; and</LI> <LI>Such others as the President may select.</LI></ol>

(c) The Council shall be chaired by the Chief of Staff to the President or his designee.

(d) The Council shall coordinate assistance to the President-elect in fulfilling his responsibilities and make every reasonable effort to facilitate the transition between administrations. This assistance may include, among other things, providing publicly available information relevant to facilitating the personnel aspects of a presidential transition and such other information that, in the Council's judgement, is useful and appropriate as long as providing such information is not otherwise prohibited by law.