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Obama Signs New Executive Order Expanding Homeland Security Mission In The U.S.
October 27, 2012
Executive Order October 26, 2012 By: Kenneth Schortgen Jr
Barack Obama
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Courtesy of missionenvironment.com
On Oct. 26, President Obama signed a new Executive Order which expands the role and scope of Homeland Security in states
and areas across the country. This order, which establishes a new
Security Partnership Council, will have far reaching effects in the
overall mission of Homeland Security, and for state and local areas that interact with the Federal agency.
Economically, the Establishing the White House Homeland Security Partnership Council Executive Order
will increase funding and resources to state and local governments to
fulfill Homeland Security programs and doctrines, as well as increase
Federal oversight in the implementation of directives tied to the
agencies mission.
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The purpose of this order is to maximize the Federal Government’s
ability to develop local partnerships in the United States to support
homeland security priorities. Partnerships are collaborative working
relationships in which the goals, structure, and roles and
responsibilities of the relationships are mutually determined.
There is established a White House Homeland Security Partnership Council (Council) to foster local partnerships — between the Federal Government
and the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, foundations,
community-based organizations, and State, local, tribal, and territorial
government and law enforcement — to address homeland security challenges.
Sec. 3. Mission and Function of the Council and Steering Committee
(ii) promote homeland security
priorities and opportunities for collaboration between Federal
Government field offices and State, local, tribal, and territorial
stakeholders;
(iii) advise and confer with State,
local, tribal, and territorial stakeholders and agencies interested in
expanding or building local homeland security partnerships; – Whitehouse.gov
The White House Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
October 26, 2012
Executive Order — Establishing the White House Homeland Security Partnership Council
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ESTABLISHING THE WHITE HOUSE
HOMELAND SECURITY PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL
By the authority vested in me as
President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in order to advance the Federal Government’s use of local
partnerships to address homeland security challenges, it is hereby
ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy.
The purpose of this order is to maximize the Federal Government’s
ability to develop local partnerships in the United States to support
homeland security priorities. Partnerships are collaborative working
relationships in which the goals, structure, and roles and
responsibilities of the relationships are mutually determined.
Collaboration enables the Federal Government and its partners to use
resources more efficiently, build on one another’s expertise, drive
innovation, engage in collective action, broaden investments to achieve
shared goals, and improve performance. Partnerships enhance our ability
to address homeland security priorities, from responding to natural disasters to preventing terrorism, by utilizing diverse perspectives, skills, tools, and resources.
The National Security
Strategy emphasizes the importance of partnerships, underscoring that
to keep our Nation safe “we must tap the ingenuity outside government
through strategic partnerships with the private sector, nongovernmental
organizations, foundations, and community-based organizations. Such
partnerships are critical to U.S. success at home and abroad, and we
will support them through enhanced opportunities for engagement,
coordination, transparency, and information sharing.” This approach
recognizes that, given the complexities and range of challenges, we must
institutionalize an all-of-Nation effort to address the evolving
threats to the United States.
Sec. 2. White House Homeland Security Partnership Council and Steering Committee.
(a) White House Homeland Security Partnership Council.
There is established a White House Homeland Security Partnership
Council (Council) to foster local partnerships — between the Federal
Government and the private sector, nongovernmental organizations,
foundations, community-based organizations, and State, local, tribal,
and territorial government and law enforcement
— to address homeland security challenges. The Council shall be chaired
by the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (Chair), or a designee from the National Security Staff.
(b) Council Membership.
(i) Pursuant to the nomination process
established in subsection (b)(ii) of this section, the Council shall be
composed of Federal officials who are from field offices of the
executive departments, agencies, and bureaus (agencies) that are members
of the Steering Committee established in subsection (c) of this
section, and who have demonstrated an ability to develop, sustain, and
institutionalize local partnerships to address policy priorities.
(ii) The nomination process and
selection criteria for members of the Council shall be established by
the Steering Committee. Based on those criteria, agency heads may select
and present to the Steering Committee their nominee or nominees to
represent them on the Council. The Steering Committee shall consider all
of the nominees and decide by consensus which of the nominees shall
participate on the Council. Each member agency on the Steering
Committee, with the exception of the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence, may have at least one representative on the Council.
(c) Steering Committee.
There is also established a Steering Committee, chaired by the Chair of
the Council, to provide guidance to the Council and perform other
functions as set forth in this order. The Steering Committee shall
include a representative at the Deputy agency head level, or that
representative’s designee, from the following agencies:
(i) Department of State;
(ii) Department of the Treasury;
(iii) Department of Defense;
(iv) Department of Justice;
(v) Department of the Interior;
(vii) Department of Commerce;
(viii) Department of Labor;
(ix) Department of Health and Human Services;
(x) Department of Housing and Urban Development;
(xi) Department of Transportation;
(xii) Department of Energy;
(xiii) Department of Education;
(xiv) Department of Veterans Affairs;
(xvi) Office of the Director of National Intelligence;
(xvii) Environmental Protection Agency;
(xviii) Small Business Administration; and
At the invitation of the Chair,
representatives of agencies not listed in subsection (c) of this section
or other executive branch entities may attend and participate in
Steering Committee meetings as appropriate.
(d) Administration.
The Chair or a designee shall convene meetings of the Council and
Steering Committee, determine their agendas, and coordinate their work.
The Council may establish subgroups consisting exclusively of Council
members or their designees, as appropriate.
Sec. 3. Mission and Function of the Council and Steering Committee. (a) The Council shall, consistent with guidance from the Steering Committee:
(i) advise the Chair and Steering
Committee members on priorities, challenges, and opportunities for local
partnerships to support homeland security priorities, as well as
regularly report to the Steering Committee on the Council’s efforts;
(ii) promote homeland security
priorities and opportunities for collaboration between Federal
Government field offices and State, local, tribal, and territorial
stakeholders;
(iii) advise and confer with State,
local, tribal, and territorial stakeholders and agencies interested in
expanding or building local homeland security partnerships;
(iv) raise awareness of local partnership best practices that can support homeland security priorities;
(v) as appropriate, conduct outreach
to representatives of the private sector, nongovernmental organizations,
foundations, community-based organizations, and State, local, tribal,
and territorial government and law enforcement
entities with relevant expertise for local homeland security
partnerships, and collaborate with other Federal Government bodies; and
(vi) convene an annual meeting to exchange key findings, progress, and best practices.
(b) The Steering Committee shall:
(i) determine the scope of issue areas
the Council will address and its operating protocols, in consultation
with the Office of Management and Budget;
(ii) establish the nomination process
and selection criteria for members of the Council as set forth in
section 2(b)(ii) of this order;
(iii) provide guidance to the Council on the activities set forth in subsection (a) of this section; and
(iv) within 1 year of the selection of
the Council members, and annually thereafter, provide a report on the
work of the Council to the President through the Chair.
Sec. 4. General Provisions.
(a) The heads of agencies participating in the Steering Committee shall
assist and provide information to the Council, consistent with
applicable law, as may be necessary to implement this order. Each agency
shall bear its own expense for participating in the Council.
(b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof;
(ii) the functions of the Director of
the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary,
administrative, or legislative proposals; or
(iii) the functions of the Overseas Security Advisory Council.
(c) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and appropriate protections for privacy and civil liberties, and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(d) This order is not intended to, and
does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States,
its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or
agents, or any other person.
BARACK OBAMA
THE WHITE HOUSE,
October 26, 2012.
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