(e) An employee serving under a veterans readjustment appointment may be promoted, reassigned, or transferred. (f) An employee who completes the training or educational program and who has satisfactorily completed two years of substantially continuous service under a veterans readjustment appointment shall be converted to career-conditional or career employment. An employee converted under this paragraph shall automatically acquire a competitive status. (g) In selecting an applicant for appointment under this section, an agency shall not discriminate because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or political affiliation. SEC. 2. (a) A person eligible for appointment under section 1 of this order may be appointed only within one year after his separation from the armed forces, or one year following his release from hospitalization or treatment immediately following his separation from the armed forces, or one year after involuntary separation without cause from (i) a veterans readjustment appointment or (ii) a transitional appointment, or one year after the effective date of this order if he is serving under a transitional appointment. (b) The Civil Service Commission may determine the circumstances under which service under a transitional appointment may be deemed service under a veterans readjustment appointment for the purpose of paragraph (f) of section 1 of this order. SEC. 3. Any law, Executive order, or regulation which would disqualify an applicant for appointment in the competitive service shall also disqualify a person otherwise eligible for appointment under section 1 of this order. SEC. 4. For the purpose of this order: (a) "agency" means a military department as defined in section 102 of title 5, United States Code, an executive agency (other than the General Accounting Office) as defined in section 105 of title 5, United States Code, and those portions of the legislative and judicial branches of the Federal Government and of the government of the District of Columbia having positions in the competitive service; and (b) "Vietnam era" means the period beginning August 5, 1964, and ending on such date thereafter as may be determined by Presidential proclamation or concurrent resolution of the Congress. SEC. 5. The Civil Service Commission shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this order. SEC. 6. Executive Order No. 11397 of February 9, 1968, is revoked. Such revocation shall not affect the right of an employee to be converted to career-conditional or career employment if he meets the requirements of section 1(d) of Executive Order No. 11397 after the effective date of this order. SEC. 7. This order is effective 14 days after its date. (March 26, 1970) EXECUTIVE ORDER 11533-ADMINISTRATION OF THE EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT OF 1969 SOURCE: Executive Order 11533 appears at 35 F.R. 8799, June 6, 1970. By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Export Administration Act of 1969, and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows: SECTION 1. The power, authority, and discretion conferred upon the President by the provisions of the Export Administration Act of 1969 (83 Stat. 841; Public Law 91-184), are hereby delegated to the Secretary of Commerce, with power of successive redelegation. SEC. 2. The Export Control Review Board established by section 2 of Executive Order No. 10945 of May 24, 1961, is hereby reestablished as the Export Administration Review Board (hereinafter referred to as the Board). The Board shall be composed of the Secretary of Commerce, who shall be the Chairman of the Board, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense. No alternate Board members shall be designated, but the acting head of any department may serve in lieu of the head of the department concerned. The Board may invite the heads of Government agencies, other than the departments represented by the Board members, to participate in the activities of the Board when matters of interest to such agencies are under consideration. SEC. 3. The Secretary of Commerce may from time to time refer to the Board such particular export license matters, involving questions of national security or other major policy issues, as he shall select. The Secretary of Commerce shall also refer to the Board any other such export license matter, upon the request of any other member of the Board or of the head of any other Government department or agency having an interest in such matter. The Board shall consider the matters so referred to it, giving due consideration to the foreign policy of the United States, the national security, and the domestic economy, and shall make recommendations thereon to the Secretary of Commerce. SEC. 4. The President may at any time (a) prescribe rules and regulations applicable to the power, authority, and discretion referred to in section 1 of this order, and (b) communicate to the Secretary of Commerce such specific directives applicable thereto as the President shall determine. The Secretary of Commerce shall from time to time report to the President upon the administration of the Export Administration Act of 1969 and, as he may deem necessary, may refer to the President recommendations made by the Board under section 3 of this order. Neither the provisions of this section nor those of section 3 shall be construed as limiting the provisions of section 1 of this order. SEC. 5. All outstanding delegations, rules, regulations, orders, licenses, or other forms of administrative action made, issued, or otherwise taken under, or continued in force by the Export Control Act of 1949, as amended, shall remain in full force and effect under the Export Administration Act of 1969 and under this order, until amended, modified, or terminated by proper authority. SEC. 6. This order shall be effective January 1, 1970. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11539-DELEGATIONS OF AUTHORITY TO NEGOTIATE AGREEMENTS AND ISSUE REGULATIONS LIMITING IMPORTS OF CERTAIN MEATS SOURCE: Executive Order 11539 appears at 35 F.R. 10733, July 2, 1970. By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 204 of the Agricultural Act of 1956, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1854), and section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows: SECTION 1. The Secretary of State, with the concurrence of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations, is authorized to negotiate bilateral agreements with representatives of governments of foreign countries limiting the export from the respective countries and the importation into the United States of fresh, chilled, or frozen cattle meat (item 106.10 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States) and fresh, chilled, or frozen meat of goats and sheep, except lambs (item 106.20 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States) which are the products of such countries. SEC. 2. The Secretary of Agriculture, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State and the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations, is authorized to issue regulations governing the entry or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption in the United States of any such meats to carry out any such agreement. SEC. 3. The Commissioner of Customs shall take such actions and supply such information to the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to entry or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption in the United States of such meats as the Secretary of Agriculture, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State and the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations, may request to carry out any such agreements or regulations. SEC. 4. Heads of departments and heads of agencies are hereby authorized to redelegate within their respective departments or agencies the functions herein assigned to them, except that the function of negotiating agreements delegated to the Secretary of State by section 1 and the function of issuing regulations delegated to the Secretary of Agriculture by section 2 of this order may be redelegated only to officials required to be appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, as provided by 3 U.S.Č. 301. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11544-ESTABLISHING THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL SERVICE CERTIFICATE AND THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL SERVICE BADGE SOURCE: Executive Order 11544 appears at 35 F.R. 11115, July 10, 1970. By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, it is ordered as follows: 1. There is hereby established a Vice Presidential Service Certificate to be awarded in the name of the Vice President of the United States to members of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast |