Executive Order 9930—Authorizing and Directing the Publication of the 1949 Edition of the Code of Federal Regulatons

WHEREAS the act of December 10, 1942, 56 Stat. 1045, suspended the provision of section 11(a) of the Federal Register Act as amended by the at of June 19, 1937 (50 Stat. 304; 44 U.S.C. 311(a)), requiring the quinquennial preparation and the filing with the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register of the codification of certain classes of documents "until such time after the termination of the present war as the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register shall determine"; and WHEREAS section 3 of Public Law 239, 80th Congress, 1st session, approved July 25, 1947, provides that in the interpretation of the said act of December 10, 1942, the war shall be deemed to be terminated; and WHEREAS on November 12, 1947, the suspension of the above-mentioned provision of section 11(a) of the Federal Register Act as amended was formally terminated by the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register, effective December 31, 1948; and WHEREAS the required codification of documents in force and effect on December 31, 1948, will, under present procedures, be on file with the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register on that date; and WHEREAS section 11(a) of the Federal Register Act as amended provides that the President may, after report thereon to him by the Administrative Committee, authorize and direct the publication of the codification required by that section in special or supplemental editions of the FEDERAL REGISTER; and WHEREAS the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register has made an appropriate report to me with the recommendation that I authorize and direct the publication of the said codification of documents in force and effect on December 31, 1948; and WHEREAS it is in the public interest and in the interest of efficient government that such codification by published: NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 11(a) of the Federal Register Act, and as President of the United States, and subject to the appropriation by the Congress of funds therefor, the publication of the said codification as it is in force and effect on December 31, 1948, is hereby authorized and directed to be made in a special edition of the FEDERAL REGISTER dated January 1, 1949, and designated "Code of Federal Regulations, 1949 Edition." All Federal agencies coming within the purview of the Federal Register Act are requested to cooperate with the Division of the Federal Register, the National Archives, in carrying out the purposes of this order. This order shall be published in the FEDERAL REGISTER. HARRY S. TRUMAN THE WHITE HOUSE, February 4, 1948