[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 2 (Monday, January 14, 2002)]
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[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13252--Exclusions From the Federal Labor-Management 
Relations Program

January 7, 2002

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including section 7103(b)(1) 
of title 5, United States Code, and in order to exempt certain 
subdivisions of the Department of Justice from coverage under the 
Federal Labor-Management Relations Program, it is hereby ordered as 
follows:
    Section 1. Determinations. The subdivisions of the Department of 
Justice set forth in section 2 of this order are hereby determined to 
have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, 
investigative, or national security work. It is further determined that 
chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code, cannot be applied to these 
subdivisions in a manner consistent with national security requirements 
and considerations.
    Sec. 2. Amendment of Executive Order 12171. Executive Order 12171 of 
November 19, 1979, as amended, is further amended by adding to the end 
of section 1-209 the following new subsections:
    ``(c) United States Attorneys' Offices.
    (d) Criminal Division.
    (e) INTERPOL--U.S. National Central Bureau.
    (f) National Drug Intelligence Center.
    (g) Office of Intelligence Policy and Review.''
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 January 7, 2002.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., January 10, 
2002]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
January 11.