[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 66 (Wednesday, April 6, 1994)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 16507-16508]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-8427]
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[Federal Register: April 6, 1994]
Editorial note: For the President's remarks concerning
the National Day of Reconciliation, see his radio
address in No. 14 of the Weekly Compilation of
Presidential Documents.
Presidential Documents
Proclamation 6662 of April 4, 1994
Transfer of Functions of the ACTION Agency to the
Corporation for National and Community
Service
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
On September 21, 1993, I had the honor of signing into
law the National and Community Service Trust Act of
1993, which created the Corporation for National and
Community Service. The Corporation was designed to
involve Americans of all ages and backgrounds in
community projects to address many of our Nation's most
important needs--from educating our children to
ensuring public safety to protecting our environment.
It was chartered to foster civic responsibility,
strengthening the ties that bind us together as a
people, while providing educational opportunity for
those who make the commitment to serve.
In the few short months since the Corporation's
establishment, enormous progress has been made toward
the achievement of these invaluable goals. Final
regulations have been published governing the
Corporation's new grant programs, grant application
packages have been developed, and a national
recruitment effort has begun. As a result of intensive
outreach efforts, most states have already established
State Commissions on National and Community Service,
and many local programs, national nonprofit
organizations, institutions of higher education, and
Federal agencies are eager to participate. Grant
competitions have begun for a summer program that will
focus on our Nation's public safety concerns, and all
community service grant competitions will be completed
by this summer. Finally, the Corporation has
established the National Civilian Community Corps,
which will take advantage of closed and down-sized
military bases to launch environmental clean-up and
preservation efforts.
The ACTION Agency, provided for by the Domestic
Volunteer Service Act of 1973, has worked closely with
the Corporation, sharing its many years of experience
in engaging Americans in service to their communities.
Because the Corporation's initiatives and those
programs operated by the ACTION Agency involve similar
goals, the National and Community Service Trust Act
calls for the merger of ACTION with the Corporation no
later than March 22, 1995. To build upon the tremendous
accomplishments already achieved by the Corporation,
and to facilitate the further development of community
service programs across the country, I am pleased to
order that the functions of the Director of the ACTION
Agency be transferred to the Corporation for National
and Community Service.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the
United States of America, acting under the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States of America, including but not limited to
sections 203(c)(2) and (d)(1)(B) of the National and
Community Service Trust Act of 1993, proclaim that all
functions of the Director of the ACTION Agency are
hereby transferred to the Corporation for National and
Community Service, effective April 4, 1994.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen
hundred and ninety-four, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and
eighteenth.
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[FR Doc. 94-8427
Filed 4-5-94; 11:01 am]
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