Amending Executive Order 13226 To Designate 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.''

                    (Presidential Sig.)B

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    July 23, 2004.