Continuance or Reestablishment of Certain Federal Advisory Committees and Amendments to Other Executive Orders

The order continues or reestablishes 33 named federal advisory committees through September 30, 2023, delegating the President's administrative functions under the Federal Advisory Committee Act to the head of each designated agency. It supersedes the comparable continuation provisions of Executive Order 13889 from 2019. It also makes several direct amendments to prior orders: expanding the National Medal of Science committee from twelve to fourteen members; substantially restructuring the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee's membership, functions, and reporting chain through the Secretary of Homeland Security; adding term limits for the chair and vice chair of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council; and expanding the mission of the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition to include mental health awareness and COVID-19 pandemic recovery.

The order does not create any new advisory bodies, change any committee's substantive policy mandate beyond the specific amendments noted, or affect the Senate-confirmation process for any position. Committees not listed here are unaffected.

Senior officials at roughly a dozen federal departments and agencies who oversee the listed committees, current and prospective members of those 33 advisory committees, and the stakeholder communities — including industry, environmental, health, education, and veterans groups — represented on those bodies.

The 33 committees provide formal channels through which outside experts advise federal agencies on topics ranging from HIV/AIDS policy to national security telecommunications. Continuation ensures those advisory bodies remain legally operative; lapse would interrupt their work and require a separate reestablishment process.

Under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, advisory committees must be periodically renewed or they lapse. This order performs that renewal in bulk, assigning day-to-day FACA administrative functions to the head of each committee's designated department or agency, following General Services Administration guidelines. The most substantive change — the NSTAC restructuring — takes effect immediately and redirects the committee's reporting through the Secretary of Homeland Security rather than directly to the President.