Presidential Documents

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Federal Register 

Vol. 81, No. 30 

Tuesday, February 16, 2016 

Title 3— 

The President 

Executive Order 13719 of February 9, 2016 

Establishment of the Federal Privacy Council 

Republication 

[Editorial Note: Executive Order 13719, originally published on pages 7685– 

7689 in the Federal Register of Friday, February 12, 2016, is being republished due to an inadvertent extra section line in the document.] 

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. Policy. The mission of the United States Government is to serve 

its people. In order to accomplish its mission, the Government lawfully 

collects, maintains, and uses large amounts of information about people 

in a wide range of contexts. Protecting privacy in the collection and handling 

of this information is fundamental to the successful accomplishment of 

the Government’s mission. The proper functioning of Government requires 

the public’s trust, and to maintain that trust the Government must strive 

to uphold the highest standards for collecting, maintaining, and using personal data. Privacy has been at the heart of our democracy from its inception, 

and we need it now more than ever. 

Executive departments and agencies (agencies) already take seriously their 

mission to protect privacy and have been working diligently to advance 

that mission through existing interagency mechanisms. Today’s challenges, 

however, require that we find even more effective and innovative ways 

to improve the Government’s efforts. Our efforts to meet these new challenges 

and preserve our core value of privacy, while delivering better and more 

effective Government services for the American people, demand leadership 

and enhanced coordination and collaboration among a diverse group of 

stakeholders and experts. 

Therefore, it shall be the policy of the United States Government that agencies 

shall establish an interagency support structure that: builds on existing 

interagency efforts to protect privacy and provides expertise and assistance 

to agencies; expands the skill and career development opportunities of agency 

privacy professionals; improves the management of agency privacy programs 

by identifying and sharing lessons learned and best practices; and promotes 

collaboration between and among agency privacy professionals to reduce 

unnecessary duplication of efforts and to ensure the effective, efficient, 

and consistent implementation of privacy policy Government-wide. 

Sec. 2. Policy on Senior Agency Officials for Privacy. Within 120 days 

of the date of this order, the Director of the Office of Management and 

Budget (Director) shall issue a revised policy on the role and designation 

of the Senior Agency Officials for Privacy. The policy shall provide guidance 

on the Senior Agency Official for Privacy’s responsibilities at their agencies, 

required level of expertise, adequate level of resources, and other matters 

as determined by the Director. Agencies shall implement the requirements 

of the policy within a reasonable time frame as prescribed by the Director 

and consistent with applicable law. 

Sec. 3. Responsibilities of Agency Heads. The head of each agency, consistent 

with guidance to be issued by the Director as required in section 2 of 

this order, shall designate or re-designate a Senior Agency Official for Privacy 

with the experience and skills necessary to manage an agency-wide privacy 


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program. In addition, the head of each agency, to the extent permitted 

by law and consistent with ongoing activities, shall work with the Federal 

Privacy Council, established in section 4 of this order. 

Sec. 4. The Federal Privacy Council. 

(a) Establishment. There is hereby established the Federal Privacy Council 

(Privacy Council) as the principal interagency forum to improve the Government privacy practices of agencies and entities acting on their behalf. The 

establishment of the Privacy Council will help Senior Agency Officials for 

Privacy at agencies better coordinate and collaborate, educate the Federal 

workforce, and exchange best practices. The activities of the Privacy Council 

will reinforce the essential work that agency privacy officials undertake 

every day to protect privacy. 

(b) Membership. The Chair of the Privacy Council shall be the Deputy 

Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget. The 

Chair may designate a Vice Chair, establish working groups, and assign 

responsibilities for operations of the Privacy Council as he or she deems 

necessary. In addition to the Chair, the Privacy Council shall be composed 

of the Senior Agency Officials for Privacy at the following agencies: 

(i) Department of State; 

(ii) Department of the Treasury; 

(iii) Department of Defense; 

(iv) Department of Justice; 

(v) Department of the Interior; 

(vi) Department of Agriculture; 

(vii) Department of Commerce; 

(viii) Department of Labor; 

(ix) Department of Health and Human Services; 

(x) Department of Homeland Security; 

(xi) Department of Housing and Urban Development; 

(xii) Department of Transportation; 

(xiii) Department of Energy; 

(xiv) Department of Education; 

(xv) Department of Veterans Affairs; 

(xvi) Environmental Protection Agency; 

(xvii) Office of the Director of National Intelligence; 

(xviii) Small Business Administration; 

(xix) National Aeronautics and Space Administration; 

(xx) Agency for International Development; 

(xxi) General Services Administration; 

(xxii) National Science Foundation; 

(xxiii) Office of Personnel Management; and 

(xxiv) National Archives and Records Administration. 

The Privacy Council may also include other officials from agencies and 

offices, as the Chair may designate, and the Chair may invite the participation 

of officials from such independent agencies as he or she deems appropriate. 

(c) Functions. The Privacy Council shall: 

(i) develop recommendations for the Office of Management and Budget 

on Federal Government privacy policies and requirements; 

(ii) coordinate and share ideas, best practices, and approaches for protecting 

privacy and implementing appropriate privacy safeguards; 


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(iii) assess and recommend how best to address the hiring, training, and 

professional development needs of the Federal Government with respect 

to privacy matters; and 

(iv) perform other privacy-related functions, consistent with law, as designated by the Chair. 

(d) Coordination. 

(i) The Chair and the Privacy Council shall coordinate with the Federal 

Chief Information Officers Council (CIO Council) to promote consistency 

and efficiency across the executive branch when addressing privacy and 

information security issues. In addition, the Chairs of the Privacy Council 

and the CIO Council shall coordinate to ensure that the work of the 

two councils is complementary and not duplicative. 

(ii) The Chair and the Privacy Council should coordinate, as appropriate, 

with such other interagency councils and councils and offices within 

the Executive Office of the President, as appropriate, including the President’s Management Council, the Chief Financial Officers Council, the President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency, the National Science and Technology Council, the National Economic Council, the Domestic Policy Council, the National Security Council staff, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy, the Federal 

Acquisition Regulatory Council, and the Small Agency Council. 

Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed 

to impair or otherwise affect: 

(i) the authority granted by law to a department, agency, or the head 

thereof; or 

(ii) the functions of the Director 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) Independent agencies are encouraged to comply with the requirements 

of this order. 

(d) 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. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

February 9, 2016. 

[FR Doc. R1–2016–03141 

Filed 2–12–16; 1:30 pm] 

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