Executive Order 13411

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health care. Such approaches may include pay-for-performance models of
reimbursement consistent with current law. An agency will satisfy the requirements of this subsection if it makes available to beneficiaries or enrollees consumer-directed health care insurance products.
Sec. 4. Implementation Date. Agencies shall comply with the requirements
of this order by January 1, 2007.
Sec. 5. Administration and Judicial Review.
(a) This order does not assume or rely upon additional Federal resources
or spending to promote quality and efficient health care. Further, the actions directed by this order shall be carried out subject to the availability
of appropriations and to the maximum extent permitted by law.
(b) This order shall be implemented in new contracts or new contract cycles as they may be renewed from time to time. Renegotiation outside of
the normal contract cycle processes should be avoided.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit,
substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity against the
United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees,
or agents, or any other person.
GEORGE W. BUSH
The White House,
August 22, 2006.

Executive Order 13411 of August 29, 2006

Improving Assistance for Disaster Victims
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.)
(the ‘‘Stafford Act’’), and to take further actions to improve the delivery of
Federal disaster assistance, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of the Federal Government to ensure that
individuals who are victims of a terrorist attack, natural disaster, or other
incident that is the subject of an emergency or major disaster declaration
under the Stafford Act, and who are thereby eligible for financial or other
assistance delivered by any department or agency of the executive branch
(Federal disaster assistance), have prompt and efficient access to Federal
disaster assistance, as well as information regarding assistance available
from State and local government and private sector sources.
Sec. 2. Task Force on Disaster Assistance Coordination. (a) Plan to Improve Delivery of Federal Disaster Assistance. To further the policy in section 1 of this order, there is established the interagency ‘‘Task Force on Disaster Assistance Coordination’’ (Task Force). The Task Force shall develop
a plan to streamline and otherwise improve the delivery of Federal disaster
assistance (Plan). The Plan shall:
(i) include an inventory of Federal disaster assistance programs and assess the effectiveness of their respective delivery mechanisms;

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(ii) recommend specific actions to improve the delivery of Federal disaster assistance, which shall include actions to provide a centralized application process for Federal disaster assistance, provide a centralized and
continuously updated clearinghouse from which disaster victims may obtain information regarding Federal disaster assistance and State and local
government and private sector sources of disaster assistance, reduce unnecessarily duplicative application forms and processes for Federal disaster assistance, and strengthen controls designed to prevent improper payments
and other forms of fraud, waste, and abuse; and
(iii) include an implementation schedule for the Plan’s recommendations
that provides for the phased implementation of the Plan by December 31,
2008, including quarterly milestones and metrics to be used to measure and
evaluate implementation.
(b) Membership of the Task Force. (i) The Task Force shall consist exclusively of the following members, or their designees who shall be at the Assistant Secretary level (or its equivalent) or higher:
(A) the Secretary of Homeland Security, who shall serve as Chair;
(B) the Secretary of the Treasury;
(C) the Secretary of Defense;
(D) the Attorney General;
(E) the Secretary of Agriculture;
(F) the Secretary of Commerce;
(G) the Secretary of Labor;
(H) the Secretary of Health and Human Services;
(I) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development;
(J) the Secretary of Education;
(K) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs;
(L) the Director of the Office of Personnel Management;
(M) the Commissioner of Social Security;
(N) the Administrator of the Small Business Administration;
(O) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget; and
(P) such other officers of the United States as the Secretary of Homeland
Security may designate from time to time.
(ii) The Secretary of Homeland Security, or the Secretary’s designee, shall
convene and preside at meetings of the Task Force, determine its agenda,
direct its work, and, as appropriate to address specific subject matters, establish and direct subgroups of the Task Force. A member of the Task
Force may designate, to perform Task Force subgroup functions of the
member, any person who is part of such member’s department or agency
and who is either an officer of the United States appointed by the President
or a member of the Senior Executive Service.
(c) Plan Approval and Implementation. Not later than March 1, 2007, the
Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit the Plan to the President for
approval through the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and

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Counterterrorism and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Upon approval of the Plan by the President, the Secretary of Homeland Security, assisted by the Task Force, shall coordinate the implementation of
the Plan. Until the completion of such implementation, the Secretary of
Homeland Security shall submit a quarterly progress report to the Assistant
to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Sec. 3. Assistance and Support. To the extent permitted by law, the heads
of all executive departments and agencies shall provide such assistance and
information as the Secretary of Homeland Security may request in carrying
out the Secretary’s responsibilities under this order. Consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations, the Department
of Homeland Security shall provide necessary funding and administrative
support for the Task Force.
Sec. 4. Administration. This order shall: (a) be implemented in a manner
consistent with applicable laws, including Federal laws protecting the information privacy rights and other legal rights of Americans, and subject
to the availability of appropriations;
(b) be implemented in a manner consistent with the statutory authority of
the principal officers of executive departments and agencies as heads of
their respective departments or agencies; and
(c) not be construed to impair or otherwise affect the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budget, administrative, regulatory, and legislative responsibilities.
Sec. 5. Judicial Review. This order is intended only to improve the internal
management of the Federal Government and 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 departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
GEORGE W. BUSH
The White House,
August 29, 2006.

Executive Order 13412 of October 13, 2006

Blocking Property of and Prohibiting Transactions With the
Government of Sudan
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States of America, including the International Emergency
Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.)(NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United
States Code, and taking appropriate account of the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act of 2006 (the ‘‘Act’’),
I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that,
due to the continuation of the threat to the national security and foreign
policy of the United States created by certain policies and actions of the

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