requirement with respect to Senate confirmation does not apply to any member of the Board who was serving, pursuant to appointment by the President, on December 22, 1971, and who continues to serve pursuant to such appointment, after such time. The members of the Board shall serve at the pleasure of the President and one of the members designated by the President shall serve as Chairman." SEC. 3. (a) Subsection (b) of section 8 of Executive Order No. 11640 is amended by inserting in lieu of the first two sentences thereof the following: "The Commission shall be composed of such members as the President has appointed or may, from time to time, appoint and who are serving pursuant to such appointment. Such members shall be appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; except that the foregoing requirement with respect to Senate confirmation does not apply to any member of the Commission who was serving, pursuant to appointment by the President, on December 22, 1971, and who continues to serve pursuant to such appointment, after such time." SEC. 3. (b) The penultimate sentence of section 8(b) of Executive Order No. 11640 is amended by deleting "Executive Director of the Board" and inserting in lieu thereof "Executive Director of the Commission". SEC. 4. All orders, regulations, circulars, or other directives issued and all other actions taken pursuant to Executive Order No. 11615, as amended, Executive Order No. 11627, as amended, and Executive Order No. 11640, and in effect on the date of this Order, are hereby confirmed and ratified, and shall remain in full force and effect, unless and until altered, amended, or revoked by competent authority. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11661 Relating to Facilitating Coordination of Federal Education Programs By virtue of the authority vested in me as the President of the United States, Executive Order No. 11260 of December 11, 1965, which amended Executive Order No. 11185, of October 16, 1964, relating to facilitating coordination of Federal education programs, is hereby revoked, and Executive Order No. 11185 shall, until otherwise provided, be deemed to be in effect as originally issued. Further Providing for the Administration of the Disaster Relief Act of 1970, as Amended By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Disaster Relief Act of 1970, as amended, Section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, Executive Order No. 11575 of December 31, 1970, is amended by substituting "Disaster Relief Act of 1970, as amended" for "Disaster Relief Act of 1970.” Any reference in any other order to the Disaster Relief Act of 1970 shall, after the date of this order, be deemed to refer to the Disaster Relief Act of 1970, as amended. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11663 Creating an Emergency Board To Investigate Disputes Between the Carriers Represented by the National Railway Labor Conference and Certain of Their Employees WHEREAS, disputes exist between the carriers represented by the National Railway Labor Conference designated in lists attached hereto and made a part hereof, and certain of their employees represented by the Sheet Metal Workers' International Association, a labor organization; and WHEREAS, these disputes have not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended; and WHEREAS, these disputes, in the judgment of the National Mediation Board, threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive sections of the country of essential transportation service: NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 160), I hereby create a board, of three members, to be appointed by me, to investigate these disputes. No member of the board shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railroad employees or any carrier. The Board shall report its finding to the President with respect to these disputes within thirty days from the date of this order. As provided by section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, from this date and for thirty days after the board has made its report to the President, no change, except by agreement, shall be made by the carriers represented by the National Railway Labor Conference, or by their employees, in the conditions out of which the disputes arose. SOUTHEASTERN RAILROADS Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad Atlanta and West Point Rail Road-The Western Railway of Alabama Atlanta Joint Terminals Central of Georgia Railway Clinchfield Railroad Georgia Railroad Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Illinois Central Railroad, including Paducah and Illinois Railroad and Chicago and Illinois Western Railroad Jacksonville Terminal Company Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Railroad Louisville and Nashville Railroad New Orleans Public Belt Railroad Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad Norfolk Southern Railway Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Southern Railway Alabama Great Southern Railroad Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway New Orleans Terminal Company St. Johns River Terminal Company WESTERN RAILROADS Alameda Belt Line Alton & Southern Railway Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Belt Railway Company of Chicago Burlington Northern, Inc. Camas Prairie Railroad Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway Chicago and North Western Railway Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Chicago, West Pullman & Southern Railroad Colorado and Southern Railway Chicago and Wyoming Railway Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Fort Worth and Denver Railway Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad Houston Belt & Terminal Railway Illinois Northern Railway Illinois Terminal Railroad Joint Texas Division of CRI&P_FW&D Railways Kansas City Southern Railway Kansas City Terminal Railway Missouri-Illinois Railroad Missouri Pacific Railroad New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal Norfolk and Western Railway (Lines of former Wabash RR.) Northwestern Pacific Railroad Oakland Terminal Railway Peoria and Pekin Union Railway Portland Terminal Railroad Sacramento Northern Railway St. Louis Southwestern Railway San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway Soo Line Railroad Southern Pacific Transportation Company (Pacific Lines and Texas and Louisiana Lines) Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis Texas and Pacific Railway Texas Mexican Railway Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad Union Pacific Railroad Western Pacific Railroad Ann Arbor Railroad EASTERN RAILROADS Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Boston and Maine Corporation Canadian Pacific Railway Central Railroad Company of New Jersey New York and Long Branch Railroad Central Vermont Railway, Inc. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Chicago River and Indiana Railroad Cincinnati Union Terminal Company Cleveland Union Terminals Delaware and Hudson Railway Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad Erie Lackawanna Railway Grand Trunk Western Railroad Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Lehigh and New England Railway Lehigh Valley Railroad Maine Central Railroad Portland Terminal Company Montour Railroad Newburgh and South Shore Railway New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad Norfolk and Western Railway Penn Central Transportation Company Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Lake Erie and Eastern Railroad Reading Company Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Western Maryland Railway |