By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (P.L. 100-418, 102 Stat. 1107) and section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and to give the National Commission on Superconductivity additional time to complete its report, it is hereby ordered that Section 3-401(5) of Executive Order No. 12661, as amended, is further amended by deleting the date "March 31, 1990," and inserting in lieu thereof the date "August 7, 1990," and that the first sentence of Section 3-401(7) of the same Executive order is amended to read "The Commission shall disband no later than August 7, 1990."
George Bush
The White House,
May 24, 1990.
Note: The Executive order was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on May 2.
George Bush, Executive Order 12716—Extending the National Commission on Superconductivity Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/268968