THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release November 7, 1996

EXECUTIVE ORDER

      AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 12015, RELATING TO COMPETITIVE
        APPOINTMENTS OF STUDENTS WHO HAVE COMPLETED APPROVED
                 CAREER-RELATED WORK STUDY PROGRAMS

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 3301 and 3302 of title 5, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Executive Order 12015 of October 26, 1977, is amended as follows:

(a) in section 2 by striking "career or career-conditional" both times it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "term, career, or career-conditional";

(b) by redesignating section 4 as section 5; and

(c) by inserting after section 3 the following new section:

            "Sec. 4.  Students converted to term appointment under 
                                               section 2 may 
  subsequently be converted noncompetitively to
       a career or career-conditional appointment before the term 
       appointment expires."

WILLIAM J. CLINTON

THE WHITE HOUSE,

November 7, 1996.

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