Ensuring Access to United States Government COVID-19 Vaccines, 79777-79778 [2020-27455]

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[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 239 (Friday, December 11, 2020)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 79777-79778]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-27455]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 239 / Friday, December 11, 2020 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Executive Order 13962 of December 8, 2020

                
Ensuring Access to United States Government 
                COVID-19 Vaccines

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

                Section 1. Purpose. Through unprecedented collaboration 
                across the United States Government, industry, and 
                international partners, the United States expects to 
                soon have safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines 
                available for the American people. To ensure the health 
                and safety of our citizens, to strengthen our economy, 
                and to enhance the security of our Nation, we must 
                ensure that Americans have priority access to COVID-19 
                vaccines developed in the United States or procured by 
                the United States Government (``United States 
                Government COVID-19 Vaccines'').

                Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States 
                to ensure Americans have priority access to free, safe, 
                and effective COVID-19 vaccines. After ensuring the 
                ability to meet the vaccination needs of the American 
                people, it is in the interest of the United States to 
                facilitate international access to United States 
                Government COVID-19 Vaccines.

                Sec. 3. American Access to COVID-19 Vaccines. (a) The 
                Secretary of Health and Human Services, through 
                Operation Warp Speed and with the support of the 
                Secretary of Defense, shall ensure safe and effective 
                COVID-19 vaccines are available to the American people, 
                coordinating with public and private entities--
                including State, territorial, and tribal governments, 
                where appropriate--to enable the timely distribution of 
                such vaccines.

                    (b) The Secretary of Health and Human Services, in 
                consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the 
                heads of other executive departments and agencies 
                (agencies), as appropriate, shall ensure that Americans 
                have priority access to United States Government COVID-
                19 Vaccines, and shall ensure that the most vulnerable 
                United States populations have first access to such 
                vaccines.
                    (c) The Secretary of Health and Human Services 
                shall ensure that a sufficient supply of COVID-19 
                vaccine doses is available for all Americans who choose 
                to be vaccinated in order to safeguard America from 
                COVID-19.

                Sec. 4. International Access to United States 
                Government COVID-19 Vaccines. After determining that 
                there exists a sufficient supply of COVID-19 vaccine 
                doses for all Americans who choose to be vaccinated, as 
                required by section 3(b) of this order, the Secretary 
                of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of 
                State, in coordination with the Administrator of the 
                United States Agency for International Development, the 
                Chief Executive Officer of the United States 
                International Development Finance Corporation, the 
                Chairman and President of the Export-Import Bank of the 
                United States, and the heads of other agencies, shall 
                facilitate international access to United States 
                Government COVID-19 Vaccines for allies, partners, and 
                others, as appropriate and consistent with applicable 
                law.

                Sec. 5. Coordination of International Access to United 
                States Government COVID-19 Vaccines. Within 30 days of 
                the date of this order, the Assistant to the President 
                for National Security Affairs shall coordinate 
                development of an interagency strategy for the 
                implementation of section 4 of this order.

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                Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order 
                shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
                applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.
                    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
                the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
                entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
                other person.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    December 8, 2020.

[FR Doc. 2020-27455
Filed 12-10-20; 8:45 am]
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