For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
July 23, 2004

Executive Order: Amending the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology to Serve as the National Nanotechnology Advisory Panel

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act (Public Law 108-153), and in order to designate the National Nanotechnology Advisory Panel pursuant to section 4(a) of that Act, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Executive Order 13226 of September 30, 2001, as amended, is further amended by adding a new section 2(c), to read as follows:

"(c) PCAST shall serve as the National Nanotechnology Advisory Panel

under section 4 of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and

Development Act (Public Law 108-153) (Act). Nothing in this Order

shall be construed to require the National Nanotechnology Advisory

Panel to comply with any requirement from which it is exempted by

section 4(f) of the Act."

GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,

July 23, 2004.

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