On 1 May 2000 President Clinton issued the following statement:
"I am pleased to announce that the United States will stop the intentional degradation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) signals available to the public beginning at midnight tonight. We call this degradation feature Selective Availability (SA). This will mean that civilian users of GPS will be able to pinpoint locations up to ten times more accurately than they do now."
The full statement is available from The White House website - (see below) under 'The Briefing Room'.
Page issued 2 May 2000