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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release February 11, 1999

EXECUTIVE ORDER

         PRESIDENT'S INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY COMMITTEE,
         FURTHER AMENDMENTS TO EXECUTIVE ORDER 13035, AS AMENDED

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-194), as amended by the Next Generation Internet Research Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-305) ("Research Act"), and in order to extend the life of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee so that it may carry out the additional responsibilities given to it by the Research Act, it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 13035, as amended ("Executive Order 13035"), is hereby further amended as follows:

Section 1. The preamble of Executive Order 13035 is amended by addition after "("Act")," the phrase "as amended by the Next Generation Internet Research Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-305) ("Research Act"),".

Sec. 2. Section 2 of Executive Order 13035 is amended by adding a subsection "(a)" after the heading and before the first sentence and by adding a new subsection "(b)" after the last sentence to read as follows: "(b) The Committee shall carry out its responsibilities under the Research Act in the manner described in the Research Act."

Sec. 3. Section 4(b) of Executive Order 13035 is amended by deleting "two years from the date of this order" and inserting "February 11, 2001," in lieu thereof.

WILLIAM J. CLINTON

                              THE WHITE HOUSE,
                              February 10, 1999.

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