[Federal Register: April 11, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 70)]
[Presidential Documents]
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Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Executive Order 13208 of April 6, 2001
Amendment to Executive Order 13202, Preservation
of Open Competition and Government Neutrality Towards
Government Contractors' Labor Relations on Federal and
Federally Funded Construction Projects
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including the Federal Property and
Administrative Services Act, 40 U.S.C. 471 et seq., and
in order to (1) promote and ensure open competition on
Federal and federally funded or assisted construction
projects; (2) maintain Government neutrality towards
Government contractors' labor relations on Federal and
federally funded or assisted construction projects; (3)
reduce construction costs to the Federal Government and
to the tax payers; (4) expand job opportunities,
especially for small and disadvantaged businesses; (5)
prevent discrimination against Government contractors
or their employees based upon labor affiliation or lack
thereof; and (6) prevent the inefficiency that may
result from the disruption of a previously established
contractual relationship in particular cases; thereby
promoting the economical, nondiscriminatory, and
efficient administration and completion of Federal and
federally funded or assisted construction projects, it
is hereby ordered that Executive Order 13202 of
February 17, 2001, is amended by adding to section 5 of
that order the following new subsection:
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(c)
The head of an executive agency, upon application of an awarding
authority, a recipient of grants or financial assistance, a party to a
cooperative agreement, or a construction manager acting on behalf of the
foregoing, may exempt a particular project from the requirements of any or
all of the provisions of sections 1 and 3 of this order, if the agency head
finds: (i) that the awarding authority, recipient of grants or financial
assistance, party to a cooperative agreement, or construction manager
acting on behalf of the foregoing had issued or was a party to, as of the
date of this order, bid specifications, project agreements, agreements with
one or more labor organizations, or other controlling documents with
respect to that particular project, which contained any of the requirements
or prohibitions set forth in sections 1(a) or (b) of this order; and (ii)
that one or more construction contracts subject to such requirements or
prohibitions had been awarded as of the date of this order.
(Presidential Sig.)B
THE WHITE HOUSE,
April 6, 2001.
[FR Doc. 01-9086
Filed 4-10-01; 8:45 am]
Billing code 3195-01-P