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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release May 16, 1997

EXECUTIVE ORDER

            FURTHER AMENDMENT TO EXECUTIVE ORDER 12975,
      EXTENSION OF THE NATIONAL BIOETHICS ADVISORY COMMISSION

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to extend the term of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, it is hereby ordered that section 7(b) of Executive Order 12975 further is amended to read, "NBAC shall terminate on October 3, 1999, unless extended by the President prior to that date."

WILLIAM J. CLINTON

THE WHITE HOUSE,

May 16, 1997.

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