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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