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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution
and the laws of the United States of America, including sections
3301 and 3302 of title 5, United States Code, it is hereby
ordered as follows:

Section 1. Executive Order 12015 of October 26, 1977, is amended
as follows:

(a) in section 2 by striking "career or career-conditional" both
times it appears and inserting in lieu thereof-"term, career, or
career-conditional";

(b) by redesignating section 4 as section 5; and

(c) by inserting after Section 3 the following new section:

"Sec. 4. Students converted to term appointment under section 2
may subsequently be converted noncompetitively to a career or
career-conditional appointment before the term appointment
expires."

                         /s/William J. Clinton


THE WHITE HOUSE, 
November 7, 1996.