Department of Transportation
Orders where directed actors are tied to Department of Transportation · 42 in Clinton · 244 all terms.
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42 shown · Clinton
Trails for America in the 21st Century
This executive order directs federal agencies to protect, connect, promote, and assist trails throughout the United States in cooperation with tribes, states, local governments, and citizen groups. It formally recognizes the Federal Interagency Council on Trails and mandates coordination on mapping, volunteer programs, National Trails Day participation, and development of an operating handbook for trail administrators.
Federal Interagency Task Force on the District of Columbia
This executive order formally establishes the Federal Interagency Task Force on the District of Columbia, chaired by the OMB Director and composed of 18 cabinet-level and agency heads, to coordinate federal assistance for D.C.'s financial stability, economic growth, and self-governance. It continues and institutionalizes interagency work begun in 1995 to support the nation's capital through improved federal-local coordination.
Air Traffic Performance-Based Organization
This executive order establishes the Air Traffic Organization (ATO) within the FAA as a performance-based organization to improve air traffic services. It creates a Chief Operating Officer position with performance agreements and bonuses, mandates a 5-year strategic plan, and requires a 5-year evaluation report on the ATO's effectiveness.
Interagency Task Force on the Economic Development of the Central San Joaquin Valley
This executive order establishes an interagency task force to coordinate federal economic development efforts for California's Central San Joaquin Valley, requiring annual reports for five years and focusing on sustainable growth in seven designated counties. The task force includes 16 agency heads or their designees with a rotating chair among Agriculture, HUD, and Commerce.
Creation of the White House Task Force on Drug Use in Sports and Authorization for the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy To Serve as the United States Government's Representative on the Board of the World Anti-Doping Agency
This executive order establishes a White House Task Force on Drug Use in Sports to develop recommendations for federal action against doping, particularly among youth, and authorizes the Director of National Drug Control Policy to serve as the U.S. government representative on the World Anti-Doping Agency board.
Marine Protected Areas
This executive order establishes a national system of marine protected areas (MPAs) by directing federal agencies to strengthen existing protections, create new MPAs, and coordinate through a new NOAA Marine Protected Area Center. It requires science-based assessments of ecological needs, pollution threats, and economic effects while mandating that agencies avoid harming MPA resources in their activities.
Establishing the Kosovo Campaign Medal
This executive order establishes the Kosovo Campaign Medal to recognize U.S. Armed Forces members who served in Kosovo or contiguous waters/airspace between March 24, 1999, and a future terminal date set by the Secretary of Defense. It allows eligible service members to exchange the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal or Armed Forces Service Medal for the new medal, but prohibits multiple awards for the same Kosovo service.
Global Disaster Information Network
This executive order establishes the Global Disaster Information Network, a coordinated federal effort led by an Interagency Coordinating Committee (co-chaired by the Vice President's office, NOAA, and State Department) to improve how the U.S. government uses information technology to collect and share disaster-related information for domestic and international preparedness, response, and recovery. A Committee Support Office will develop plans and strategies, with NOAA providing administrative and funding support.
Federal Workforce Transportation
This executive order requires federal agencies to implement tax-free commuting benefits for mass transit and vanpool use by October 1, 2000, with a mandatory transit pass program for National Capital Region agencies and a three-year pilot program for the Departments of Transportation, EPA, and Energy. The order aims to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution from federal employee commuting while expanding transportation alternatives.
President's Council on the Future of Princeville, North Carolina
This executive order establishes an interagency council to develop recommendations for federal actions to help Princeville, North Carolina recover from Hurricane Floyd flooding and plan for its future. The council includes 15 agency heads and presidential assistants, chaired by the OMB Director, and is tasked with considering the town's unique status as the first U.S. city founded by ex-slaves.
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
This executive order extends 16 federal advisory committees until September 30, 2001, revokes several executive orders for completed committees, and makes technical amendments to existing orders including adding the Department of Energy to the President's Export Council, expanding an interagency Coast Guard task force, and updating the structure of committees on arts/humanities and physical fitness.
Interagency Task Force on the Economic Development of the Southwest Border
This executive order establishes an interagency task force co-chaired by Treasury, Agriculture, and Labor to coordinate federal economic development efforts for the Southwest Border region (within 150 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and California). The task force reports to the Vice President and is charged with analyzing programs, developing recommendations, and focusing on pilot communities, with mandatory reports through 2002.
Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Individual Ready Reserve Members of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
This executive order authorizes the Secretaries of Defense and Transportation to activate up to 33,000 Selected Reserve and certain Individual Ready Reserve members for operations related to the Kosovo conflict in the former Yugoslavia. It delegates activation and termination authority to the relevant cabinet secretaries without specifying exact units or individuals.
Interagency Task Force on the Roles and Missions of the United States Coast Guard
This executive order creates a temporary interagency task force to review and recommend the appropriate roles and missions of the U.S. Coast Guard through 2020, with special focus on deepwater operations beyond 50 nautical miles from shore. The task force must evaluate whether Coast Guard functions should be added, maintained, reduced, eliminated, privatized, or transferred to other government entities, and its recommendations will inform investment decisions for the Deepwater Capability Replacement Project.
Invasive Species
This executive order establishes a federal framework to prevent, control, and minimize the impacts of invasive species on the economy, environment, and human health. It creates an interagency Invasive Species Council co-chaired by the Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce secretaries, mandates federal agencies to integrate invasive species prevention into their activities, and requires development of a national management plan with biennial updates.
Using Technology To Improve Training Opportunities for Federal Government Employees
This executive order establishes a presidential task force and advisory committee to promote technology-based training for federal employees. It directs agencies to designate representatives, develop training technology standards, create online training databases, and explore individual training accounts for workers.
American Indian and Alaska Native Education
This executive order establishes an Interagency Task Force on American Indian and Alaska Native Education to coordinate federal efforts across 14+ agencies to improve educational outcomes for Native students. It mandates development of a comprehensive federal Indian education policy, regional partnership forums, school pilot sites, and a research agenda, with multiple reporting deadlines over a 5-year task force lifespan.
Coral Reef Protection
This executive order establishes a federal policy to protect U.S. coral reef ecosystems by requiring agencies to identify actions affecting reefs and avoid degrading them. It creates the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force co-chaired by Interior and Commerce to coordinate mapping, monitoring, research, conservation, and international cooperation efforts.
Increasing Employment of Adults With Disabilities
This executive order establishes a National Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities, chaired by the Secretary of Labor, to develop coordinated federal policy recommendations for increasing employment rates of adults with disabilities. It mandates multiple agency reports and reviews due by November 15, 1998, with subsequent Task Force reports through 2002.
Ordering the Selected Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
President Clinton authorized the Secretary of Defense (and Secretary of Transportation for the Coast Guard) to order Selected Reserve units and individual members to active duty to augment U.S. forces for operations in and around Southwest Asia. The order invoked statutory authorities under sections 121 and 12304 of title 10, U.S. Code.
Federal Support of Community Efforts Along American Heritage Rivers
This executive order establishes the American Heritage Rivers initiative, a voluntary, community-driven program where communities nominate rivers for federal designation and support. It creates an interagency committee to coordinate federal assistance for environmental protection, economic revitalization, and historic preservation along designated rivers, without creating new regulatory authority.
Federal Actions in the Lake Tahoe Region
This executive order creates a Federal Interagency Partnership to coordinate federal agency actions protecting the natural, recreational, and ecological resources of the Lake Tahoe Region. The Partnership includes six federal agencies and is charged with developing a Memorandum of Agreement with California, Nevada, tribal governments, and local entities to align environmental and economic goals.
Increasing Seat Belt Use in the United States
This executive order mandates that federal employees wear seat belts during official travel and requires seat belt use in national parks and on Defense Department installations. It also encourages tribal governments and federal contractors to adopt seat belt policies, directs agencies to conduct education programs, and requires the Secretary of Transportation to submit annual reports on compliance and crash statistics.
Strengthened Protections for Human Subjects of Classified Research
This 1997 presidential memorandum strengthens ethical protections for human subjects in classified government research by implementing recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. It prohibits waiver of informed consent for classified research, requires disclosure of sponsoring agencies and classification status to subjects, mandates special institutional review board procedures including nongovernmental members and appeals processes, requires annual public disclosure of secret research projects, and bars agencies from conducting such research without first adopting modified Common Rule regulations.
White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security
This executive order establishes a 25-member White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security, chaired by the Vice President, to advise the President and develop a strategy for improving aviation safety and security. The Commission is supported by the Department of Transportation and has a 6-month lifespan unless extended by the President.
Additional Transportation Planning To Address Impacts of Transportation on National Parks
This 1996 presidential memorandum directs the Secretaries of Transportation and Interior to develop regulations and plans addressing aircraft overflights and ground transportation congestion in national parks. It mandates specific rulemaking timelines for Grand Canyon, Rocky Mountain, and other parks identified in a 1994 NPS study, while also requiring pilot programs for improved public transportation at Grand Canyon, Zion, and Yosemite.
President's Council on Counter-Narcotics
This executive order establishes the President's Council on Counter-Narcotics, a high-level interagency body chaired by the President and comprising cabinet secretaries, intelligence directors, and senior White House officials. The Council meets quarterly to advise the President on national drug control strategy, coordinate implementation across agencies, and link drug policy to national security priorities, while preserving the Director of National Drug Control Policy as the senior drug policy official.
Drawdown of Commodities and Services from the Departments of Defense, the Treasury, Transportation, and Justice and Drawdown of Defense Articles, Defense Services, and Training from the Department of Defense for Israel
President Clinton authorized an emergency drawdown of up to $12 million in commodities and services from four federal departments and up to $10 million in defense articles, services, and training from DOD to Israel for detecting and disarming explosive devices, responding to four suicide bombings that threatened the Middle East peace process.
Declaration of a National Emergency and Invocation of Emergency Authority Relating to the Regulation of the Anchorage and Movement of Vessels
President Clinton declared a national emergency on March 1, 1996, following Cuba's shootdown of two U.S.-registered civilian aircraft, invoking emergency authority to allow the Secretary of Transportation to regulate vessel anchorage and movement in U.S. territorial waters to prevent unsafe voyages into Cuban waters. The proclamation grants inspection, guard placement, and vessel seizure powers to address threats to international relations.
Establishing the Armed Forces Service Medal
This executive order establishes the Armed Forces Service Medal, a new military decoration for U.S. service members who participate in significant military operations where no foreign armed opposition or imminent hostile action is encountered. The medal applies retroactively to operations on or after June 1, 1992, and is placed in precedence immediately before the Humanitarian Service Medal.
Presidential Certification To Suspend Sanctions Imposed on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)
President Clinton certified the suspension of U.S. sanctions on Serbia and Montenegro effective upon transmittal to Congress, implementing UN Security Council Resolutions 1021 and 1022 following the Dayton Peace Agreement. The determination directs the Secretaries of Treasury, Transportation, and State to suspend respective sanctions programs while keeping blocked property frozen until claims are addressed and maintaining the underlying national emergency.
Ordering the Selected Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
This executive order authorizes the Secretaries of Defense and Transportation to activate Selected Reserve military units and individual members for operations in and around former Yugoslavia. It was issued to augment active forces for peacekeeping operations related to the Bosnian War and NATO's IFOR deployment.
Recreational Fisheries
This executive order directs federal agencies to conserve, restore, and enhance aquatic systems to expand recreational fishing opportunities nationwide. It establishes a National Recreational Fisheries Coordination Council, mandates development of a 5-year Conservation Plan, requires a joint ESA policy from wildlife agencies, and expands an advisory council's role to monitor federal activities affecting recreational fisheries.
Regulatory ReformWaiver of Penalties and Reduction of Reports
This April 21, 1995 presidential memorandum directs federal agencies to implement two regulatory reform policies: (1) exercising enforcement discretion to waive penalties for small businesses that correct violations in good faith, and (2) reducing by half the frequency of public reporting requirements, with both policies requiring implementation plans to OMB by June 15, 1995 and policy implementation by July 14, 1995. The memorandum excludes law enforcement, national security, foreign affairs, trade restrictions, tax/revenue matters, and statistical agencies from its scope.
Memorandum for the Secretary of Transportation [and] the United States Trade Representative
President Clinton extended for two years a moratorium on issuing operating certificates or permits to motor carriers from contiguous foreign countries (Canada and Mexico), maintaining a ban originally imposed under the 1982 Bus Regulatory Reform Act through September 19, 1996.
Vessel War Risk Insurance Under Title XII of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936
This memorandum approves the Department of Defense to procure war risk insurance from the Secretary of Transportation for vessels chartered by DoD entering Haitian territorial waters, where commercial insurers had excluded coverage due to war risk trading warranties. The approval is effective for 60 days and requires the Secretary of Transportation to notify all operators immediately.
Ordering the Selected Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
President Clinton ordered Selected Reserve units and individual members to active duty to augment U.S. forces for Operation Uphold Democracy, the military intervention to restore Haiti's civilian government. The order delegated activation authority to the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Transportation (for Coast Guard).
National Defense Industrial Resources Preparedness
This executive order delegates presidential authorities under the Defense Production Act of 1950 to cabinet secretaries and agency heads for national defense industrial resource preparedness. It establishes frameworks for priorities and allocations of materials and services, expansion of productive capacity through loans and guarantees, labor supply management, and defense industrial base information systems, while revoking and consolidating eleven prior executive orders.
Federal Actions To Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations
This executive order requires federal agencies to make environmental justice part of their mission by identifying and addressing disproportionately high adverse health and environmental effects on minority and low-income populations. It creates an interagency working group, mandates agency-specific strategies with specific deadlines, and requires improved data collection, research inclusion, and public participation.
Federal Leadership of Fair Housing
This memorandum directs federal agencies to affirmatively further fair housing, establishes a Cabinet-level President's Fair Housing Council, and revokes Executive Order 12259. It expands protections to disabled persons and families with children, mandates HUD program reviews, and directs action against mortgage lending discrimination.
Leadership and Coordination of Fair Housing in Federal Programs: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
This executive order directs all federal agencies to administer housing and urban development programs in ways that affirmatively further fair housing under the Fair Housing Act. It establishes the President's Fair Housing Council, assigns HUD the lead coordinating role, mandates interagency regulations, and creates enforcement mechanisms including sanctions for noncompliance.
Determination Under the Bus Regulatory Reform Act of 1982
This memorandum modifies a moratorium under the Bus Regulatory Reform Act of 1982 to allow Mexican-owned or -domiciled charter and tour bus companies to apply for operating authority for cross-border service between Mexico and the United States, effective January 1, 1994, as part of phased NAFTA implementation.