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EXECUTIVE ORDER 12859 · Establishment of the Domestic Policy Council

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Source: 58 FR 44101 ↗

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Uses the signed date and the disposition notes on file (the Federal Register's and corroborated National Archives notes); no policy effect is inferred.

Amended by: EO 13284, January 23, 2003; EO 13500, February 5, 2009; EO 13569, April 5, 2011

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