[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 46 (Monday, November 19, 2001)]
[Page 1682]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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 Executive Order 13235--National Emergency Construction Authority

 November 16, 2001

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including the National 
Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, 
United States Code, I declared a national emergency that requires the 
use of the Armed Forces of the United States, by Proclamation 7463 of 
September 14, 2001, because of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade 
Center and the Pentagon, and because of the continuing and immediate 
threat to the national security of the United States of further 
terrorist attacks. To provide additional authority to the Department of 
Defense to respond to that threat, and in accordance with section 301 of 
the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1631), I hereby order that the 
emergency construction authority at 10 U.S.C. 2808 is invoked and made 
available in accordance with its terms to the Secretary of Defense and, 
at the discretion of the Secretary of Defense, to the Secretaries of the 
military departments.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 November 16, 2001.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:37 a.m., November 
19, 2001]

  Note:  This Executive order will be published in the Federal Register 
on November 20.