Presidential DocumentExecutive Order 141112023-26569
Interagency Security Committee
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December 1, 2023
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November 27, 2023
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 230 (Friday, December 1, 2023)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 83809-83812]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-26569]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 88 , No. 230 / Friday, December 1, 2023 /
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Title 3--
The President
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Executive Order 14111 of November 27, 2023
Interagency Security Committee
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in order to enhance the quality and
effectiveness of security in and protection of
buildings and facilities in the United States occupied
by Federal employees or Federal contractor workers for
nonmilitary activities, and to provide an ongoing
entity to address continuing Government-wide security
for Federal facilities, it is hereby ordered as
follows:
Section 1. Establishment. There is hereby established
the Interagency Security Committee (Committee). The
Committee shall consist of:
(a) the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary);
(b) representatives from the following executive
departments and agencies (agencies), designated by the
heads of such agencies:
(i) the Department of State;
(ii) the Department of the Treasury;
(iii) the Department of Defense;
(iv) the Department of Justice;
(v) the Department of the Interior;
(vi) the Department of Agriculture;
(vii) the Department of Commerce;
(viii) the Department of Labor;
(ix) the Department of Health and Human Services;
(x) the Department of Housing and Urban Development;
(xi) the Department of Transportation;
(xii) the Department of Energy;
(xiii) the Department of Education;
(xiv) the Department of Veterans Affairs;
(xv) the Environmental Protection Agency;
(xvi) the Office of Management and Budget;
(xvii) the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; and
(xviii) the General Services Administration;
(c) the following officials or their designees:
(i) the Director of the United States Marshals Service;
(ii) the Director of the Federal Protective Service;
(iii) the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency;
(iv) the Director of the Office of Personnel Management; and
(v) the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and
(d) such other Federal officials as the President
may from time to time designate.
Sec. 2. Chair. The Committee shall be chaired by the
Secretary or the designee of the Secretary.
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Sec. 3. Working Groups. The Committee is authorized to
establish interagency working groups to perform such
tasks as may be directed by the Committee.
Sec. 4. Consultation. The Committee may consult with
officials in other Federal Government entities,
including the Administrative Office of the United
States Courts and the United States Postal Service, to
perform its responsibilities under this order, and, at
the discretion of the Committee, officials from other
Federal Government entities may participate in the
interagency working groups.
Sec. 5. Duties and Responsibilities. The Committee
shall:
(a) establish policies and standards for security
in and protection of Federal facilities;
(b) evaluate existing security standards for
Federal facilities and develop a strategy to monitor
the implementation of such standards to ensure
compliance by agencies;
(c) take such actions as may be necessary to
enhance the quality and effectiveness of security in
and protection of Federal facilities, including:
(i) encouraging agencies with security responsibilities to share security-
related intelligence in a timely and cooperative manner;
(ii) assessing technology and information systems as means of providing
cost-effective improvements to security in Federal facilities;
(iii) developing long-term construction standards for those locations with
threat levels or missions that require blast-resistant structures or other
specialized security requirements;
(iv) evaluating standards for the location of, and special security related
to, child care centers in Federal facilities;
(v) assisting the Secretary in developing and maintaining a centralized
security database of all Federal facilities; and
(vi) providing best practices for securing a mobile Federal workforce; and
(d) no later than 1 year after the date of this
order and biennially thereafter, prepare and provide to
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and
the Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs a summary report describing the results of
compliance under subsection 6(c) of this order.
Sec. 6. Agency Support and Cooperation. (a) To the
extent permitted by law and subject to the availability
of appropriations, the Secretary shall provide the
Committee such administrative services, funds,
facilities, staff, and other support services as may be
necessary for the performance of its functions under
this order.
(b) Each agency shall cooperate and comply with the
requirements of this order and the policies and
standards of the Committee issued pursuant to this
order, except in situations in which the Director of
National Intelligence, or other United States
Intelligence Community official within the Office of
the Director of National Intelligence designated by the
Director of National Intelligence, determines that
compliance would jeopardize intelligence sources and
methods. To the extent permitted by law and subject to
the availability of appropriations, agencies shall
provide such cooperation and compliance as may be
necessary to enable the Committee to perform its duties
and responsibilities under this order.
(i) Each agency shall designate a senior official who shall be responsible
for agency implementation of, and compliance with, this order.
(ii) The senior official shall ensure that the official's agency supports
Facility Security Committees, as applicable, in the performance of the
official's duties.
(c) The Secretary shall monitor agency compliance
with the policies and standards of the Committee.
Monitoring compliance shall consist, at a minimum, of
the following:
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(i) maintaining compliance benchmarks to measure compliance progress;
(ii) requiring periodic compliance reporting by all relevant agencies; and
(iii) conducting risk-based compliance verification.
(d) In situations in which a Federal facility is
occupied by multiple agencies for both military and
nonmilitary activities, and each such occupancy is
substantial, those occupants shall coordinate on the
security of the facility.
Sec. 7. Administrative Provision. This order supersedes
Executive Order 12977 of October 19, 1995 (Interagency
Security Committee), which is hereby revoked. To the
extent that this order is inconsistent with any
provision of any previous Executive Order or
Presidential Memorandum, this order shall control. All
policies and standards implemented by the Interagency
Security Committee that was established pursuant to
Executive Order 12977 shall remain in effect until
rescinded or replaced by the Committee established
pursuant to this order.
Sec. 8. Definitions. For purposes of this order:
(a) ``Agency'' means an executive agency, as
defined in section 105 of title 5, United States Code.
(b) ``Federal facility'' means a federally owned or
leased building, structure, or the land it resides on,
in whole or in part, that is regularly occupied by
Federal employees or Federal contractor workers for
nonmilitary activities. The term ``Federal facility''
also means any building or structure acquired by a
contractor through ownership or leasehold interest, in
whole or in part, solely for the purpose of executing a
nonmilitary Federal mission or function under the
direction of an agency. The term ``Federal facility''
does not include public domain land, including
improvements thereon; withdrawn lands; or buildings or
facilities outside of the United States.
(c) ``Federal employee'' means an employee, as
defined in section 2105 of title 5, United States Code,
of an agency.
(d) ``Federal contractor worker'' means any
individual who performs work for or on behalf of any
agency under a contract, subcontract, or contract-like
instrument and who, in order to perform the work
specified under the contract, subcontract, or contract-
like instrument, requires access to space, information,
information technology systems, staff, or other assets
of the Federal Government in buildings and facilities
of the United States. Such contracts include the
following:
(i) personal service contracts;
(ii) contracts between any non-Federal entity and any agency; and
(iii) subcontracts between any non-Federal entity and another non-Federal
entity to perform work related to the primary contract with an agency.
(e) ``Facility Security Committee'' means a
committee that is established in accordance with an
Interagency Security Committee standard, and that is
responsible for addressing facility-specific security
issues and approving the implementation of security
measures and practices in multi-tenant facilities.
Sec. 9. 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.
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(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.
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