*Administration of Barack Obama, 2012 *

**Memorandum on Delegation of Waiver Authority under Section 1022(a)(4) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 **

*February 28, 2012 *

*Memorandum for the Attorney General *

*Subject:* Delegation of Waiver Authority under Section 1022(a)(4) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby delegate to you the authority conferred upon the President by section 1022(a)(4) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, Public Law 112–81, to waive certain requirements of the Act. You shall exercise this authority in consultation with other senior national security officials, including the Secretaries of State, Defense, Homeland Security, Director of National Intelligence, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as any other official I may designate.

You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the *Federal Register*.

BARACK OBAMA

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 2 p.m., February 28, 2012]

NOTE: This memorandum was published in the *Federal Register* on February 29.

*Categories:* Communications to Federal Agencies : National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, memorandum delegating waiver authority*.*

*Subjects:* Defense and national security : National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012.

*DCPD Number:* DCPD201200135.