Executive Order 13232—Further Amendment to Executive Order 10789, As Amended, To Authorize the Department of Health and Human Services To Exercise Certain Contracting Authority in Connection With National Defense Functions
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including 50
U.S.C. 1431–35, and in order to authorize the Department of Health and Human Services to exercise certain contracting authority in connection with national defense functions, it is hereby ordered that Executive
Order 10789 of November 14, 1958, as amended, is further amended by inserting the words "Department of Health and Human Services" in the list of departments and agencies in section 21 of that order after the words "Department of Commerce."
GEORGE W. BUSH
The White House,
October 20, 2001.
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:17 a.m., October 23, 2001]
Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on October 22, and it was published in the Federal Register on October 24.
George W. Bush, Executive Order 13232—Further Amendment to Executive Order 10789, As Amended, To Authorize the Department of Health and Human Services To Exercise Certain Contracting Authority in Connection With National Defense Functions Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/217655