Republished by the LSU Medical Reseach Law Project

                          The White House

  

                   Office of the Press Secretary

  

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  For Immediate Release                              May 16, 1997

  

  

  

                          Executive Order

  

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            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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