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		    Office of the Press Secretary
  
  _______________________________________________________________
  
  For Immediate Release                             April 5, 1994
  
  
  
	  TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS OF THE ACTION AGENCY TO THE
	   CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
  
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	  BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  
			   A PROCLAMATION
  
  
       On September 21, 1993, I had the honor of signing into 
  law the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993, which 
  created the Corporation for National and Community Service.  
  The Corporation was designed to involve Americans of all ages 
  and backgrounds in community projects to address many of our 
  Nation's most important needs -- from educating our children to 
  ensuring public safety to protecting our environment.  It was 
  chartered to foster civic responsibility, strengthening the ties 
  that bind us together as a people, while providing educational 
  opportunity for those who make the commitment to serve.
  
       In the few short months since the Corporation's 
  establishment, enormous progress has been made toward the 
  achievement of these invaluable goals.  Final regulations have 
  been published governing the Corporation's new grant programs, 
  grant application packages have been developed, and a national 
  recruitment effort has begun.  As a result of intensive outreach 
  efforts, most states have already established State Commissions 
  on National and Community Service, and many local programs, 
  national nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher 
  education, and Federal agencies are eager to participate.  
  Grant competitions have begun for a summer program that will 
  focus on our Nation's public safety concerns, and all community 
  service grant competitions will be completed by this summer.  
  Finally, the Corporation has established the National Civilian 
  Community Corps, which will take advantage of closed and down-
  sized military bases to launch environmental clean-up and 
  preservation efforts.  
  
       The ACTION Agency, provided for by the Domestic Volunteer 
  Service Act of 1973, has worked closely with the Corporation, 
  sharing its many years of experience in engaging Americans in 
  service to their communities.  Because the Corporation's  
  initiatives and those programs operated by the ACTION Agency 
  involve similar goals, the National and Community Service Trust 
  Act calls for the merger of ACTION with the Corporation no 
  later than March 22, 1995.  To build upon the tremendous 
  accomplishments already achieved by the Corporation, and to 
  facilitate the further development of community service programs 
  across the country, I am pleased to order that the functions of 
  the Director of the ACTION Agency be transferred to the 
  Corporation for National and Community Service.
  
   
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       NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
  United States of America, acting under the authority vested in 
  me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
  America, including but not limited to sections 203(c)(2) and 
  (d)(1)(B) of the National and Community Service Trust Act of 
  1993, proclaim that all functions of the Director of the ACTION 
  Agency are hereby transferred to the Corporation for National 
  and Community Service, effective April 4, 1994.
  
       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
  fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred 
  and ninety-four, and of the Independence of the United States of 
  America the two hundred and eighteenth.
  
  
  
  
  
				     WILLIAM J. CLINTON
  
  
  
  
  
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