Presidential Executive Order 13407

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to honor our Founders and their legacy of
freedom and remember with thankfulness
the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand this twenty-sixth day of June, in the
year of our Lord two thousand six, and of
the Independence of the United States of
America the two hundred and thirtieth.
George W. Bush
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register,
8:45 a.m., June 28, 2006]
NOTE: This proclamation was published in the
Federal Register on June 29.

Executive Order 13407—Public
Alert and Warning System
June 26, 2006
By the authority vested in me as President
by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States of America, including the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, as amended (42 U.S.C.
5121 et seq.), and the Homeland Security Act
of 2002, as amended (6 U.S.C. 101 et seq.),
it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of the
United States to have an effective, reliable,
integrated, flexible, and comprehensive system to alert and warn the American people
in situations of war, terrorist attack, natural
disaster, or other hazards to public safety and
well-being (public alert and warning system),
taking appropriate account of the functions,
capabilities, and needs of the private sector
and of all levels of government in our Federal
system, and to ensure that under all conditions the President can communicate with
the American people.
Sec. 2. Functions of the Secretary of
Homeland Security.
(a) To implement the policy set forth in
section 1 of this order, the Secretary of
Homeland Security shall:
(i) inventory, evaluate, and assess the capabilities and integration with the
public alert and warning system of
Federal, State, territorial, tribal, and
local public alert and warning resources;

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(ii) establish or adopt, as appropriate,
common alerting and warning protocols, standards, terminology, and operating procedures for the public alert
and warning system to enable interoperability and the secure delivery of
coordinated messages to the American people through as many communication pathways as practicable, taking account of Federal Communications Commission rules as provided
by law;
(iii) ensure the capability to adapt the distribution and content of communications on the basis of geographic location, risks, or personal user preferences, as appropriate;
(iv) include in the public alert and warning system the capability to alert and
warn all Americans, including those
with disabilities and those without an
understanding of the English language;
(v) through cooperation with the owners
and operators of communication facilities, maintain, protect, and, if necessary, restore communications facilities and capabilities necessary for the
public alert and warning system;
(vi) ensure the conduct of training, tests,
and exercises for the public alert and
warning system;
(vii) ensure the conduct of public education efforts so that State, territorial,
tribal, and local governments, the private sector, and the American people
understand the functions of the public alert and warning system and how
to access, use, and respond to information from the public alert and
warning system;
(viii) consult, coordinate, and cooperate
with the private sector, including
communications media organizations,
and Federal, State, territorial, tribal,
and local governmental authorities,
including emergency response providers, as appropriate;
(ix) administer the Emergency Alert System (EAS) as a critical component of
the public alert and warning system;
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(x) ensure that under all conditions the
President of the United States can
alert and warn the American people.
(b) In performing the functions set forth
in subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary
of Homeland Security shall coordinate with
the Secretary of Commerce, the heads of
other departments and agencies of the executive branch (agencies), and other officers of
the United States, as appropriate, and the
Federal Communications Commission.
(c) The Secretary of Homeland Security
may issue guidance to implement this order.
Sec. 3. Duties of Heads of Departments
and Agencies.
(a) The heads of agencies shall provide
such assistance and information as the Secretary of Homeland Security may request to
implement this order.
(b) In addition to performing the duties
specified under subsection (a) of this section:
(i) the Secretary of Commerce shall
make available to the Secretary of
Homeland Security, to assist in implementing this order, the capabilities
and expertise of the Department of
Commerce relating to standards,
technology, telecommunications, dissemination systems, and weather;
(ii) the Secretary of Defense shall provide to the Secretary of Homeland
Security requirements for the public
alert and warning system necessary to
ensure proper coordination of the
functions of the Department of Defense with the use of such system;
(iii) the Federal Communications Commission shall, as provided by law,
adopt rules to ensure that communications systems have the capacity to
transmit alerts and warnings to the
public as part of the public alert and
warning system; and
(iv) the heads of agencies with capabilities
for public alert and warning shall
comply with guidance issued by the
Secretary of Homeland Security
under subsection 2(c) of this order,
and shall develop and maintain such
capabilities in a manner consistent
and interoperable with the public
alert and warning system.

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Sec. 4. Reports on Implementation. Not
later than 90 days after the date of this order,
the Secretary of Homeland Security shall
submit to the President, through the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security
and Counterterrorism, a plan for the implementation of this order, and shall thereafter
submit reports from time to time, and not
less often than once each year, on such implementation, together with any recommendations the Secretary finds appropriate.
Sec. 5. Amendment, Revocation, and
Transition.
(a) Section 3(b)(4) of Executive Order
12472 of April 3, 1984, as amended, is further
amended by striking ‘‘Emergency Broadcast
System’’ and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘Emergency Alert System’’.
(b) Not later than 120 days after the date
of this order, the Secretary of Homeland Security, after consultation with the Assistant
to the President for Homeland Security and
Counterterrorism, shall issue guidance under
section 2(c) of this order that shall address
the subject matter of the presidential memorandum of September 15, 1995, for the Director, Federal Emergency Management
Agency, on Presidential Communications
with the General Public During Periods of
National Emergency, and upon issuance of
such guidance such memorandum is revoked.
(c) The Secretary of Homeland Security
shall ensure an orderly and effective transition, without loss of capability, from alert and
warning systems available as of the date of
this order to the public alert and warning
system for which this order provides.
Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) This order
shall be implemented in a manner consistent
with:
(i) applicable law and presidential guidance, including Executive Order
12472 of April 3, 1984, as amended,
and subject to the availability of appropriations; and
(ii) the authorities of agencies, or heads
of agencies, vested by law.
(b) This order shall not be construed to
impair or otherwise affect the functions of
the Director of the Office of Management

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and Budget relating to budget, administrative, and legislative proposals.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does
not, create any rights or benefits, substantive
or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity
by a party against the United States, its agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers,
employees, or agents, or any other person.
George W. Bush
The White House,
June 26, 2006.
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register,
8:45 a.m., June 27, 2006]
NOTE: This Executive order was published in the
Federal Register on June 28.

Message to the Congress
Transmitting Legislation To
Implement the United States-Oman
Free Trade Agreement
June 26, 2006
To the Congress of the United States:
I am pleased to transmit legislation and
supporting documents to implement the
United States-Oman Free Trade Agreement
(FTA). This FTA enhances our bilateral relationship with a strategic friend and ally in
the Middle East region. The FTA will benefit
the people of the United States and Oman,
illustrating for other developing countries the
advantages of open markets and increased
trade.
In negotiating this FTA, my Administration was guided by the objectives set out in
the Trade Act of 2002. Congressional approval of this FTA will mark another important step towards creating a Middle East
Free Trade Area. Like our FTA with Bahrain
that the Congress approved in December
2005, and our FTA with Morocco that was
approved in July 2004, this FTA offers another important opportunity to encourage
economic reform in a moderate Muslim nation. Oman is leading the pursuit of social
and economic reforms in the region, including by selling state-owned businesses, encouraging foreign investment connected to
broad-based development, and providing
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is strongly in our national interest to embrace
these reforms and do what we can to encourage them.
George W. Bush
The White House,
June 26, 2006.

Remarks to the Manhattan Institute
for Policy Research
June 27, 2006
Thank you very much. Thanks for letting
me come by to say a few words. Larry, thanks
for the introduction. I do want to congratulate the Manhattan Institute for being a think
tank for new ideas and better ways for our
Nation to handle some of the problems we
face. I appreciate your thought; I appreciate
your works. For those of you who support
the Manhattan Institute, I thank you for supporting them. For those of you who serve
on the Board of Trustees, thanks for helping.
And thanks for inviting me here today.
I want to talk about our economy. I want
to talk about ways that we can—the executive
branch can work with the Congress to convince the American people we’re being wise
about how we spend our money. One of the
things I want to assure you is that I believe
that this country ought not to fear the future;
I believe we ought to put good policy in place
to shape the future. And by that I mean we
shouldn’t fear global competition. We
shouldn’t fear a world that is more interacted.
We should resist temptations to protect ourselves from trade policies around the world.
We should resist the temptation to isolate
ourselves. We have too much to offer for the
stability and peace and welfare of the world
than to shirk our duties and to not accept
an international community.
I know some in our country are fearful
about our capacities to compete. I’m not. I
believe that we can put policies in place that
will make sure we remain the most entrepreneurial country in the world, that we’re capable of competing in the world. And one way
to do so is to keep progrowth economic policies in place and be wise about how we spend
the people’s money. And that’s what I want
to talk about.

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