[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 34 (Tuesday, February 20, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 6381]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-3617]



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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Office of General Counsel
[Docket No. FR-4040-D-01]


Order of Succession, Acting General Counsel

AGENCY: Office of General Counsel, HUD.

ACTION: Notice of Order of Succession.

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SUMMARY: In this notice, the General Counsel for the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development designates the Order of Succession for 
the position of General Counsel, and revokes the prior Order of 
Succession for this position.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 7, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John P. Opitz, Assistant General 
Counsel for Training and Administrative Law, Department of Housing and 
urban Development, Room 10246, 451 7th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 
20410, (202) 708-9991. A telecommunications device for hearing-impaired 
persons (TDD) is available at (202) 708-3259. (These are not toll-free 
numbers.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The General Counsel for the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development is issuing this Order of Succession of 
officials authorized to serve as Acting General Counsel when, by reason 
of absence, disability, or vacancy in office, the General Counsel is 
not available to exercise the powers or perform the duties of the 
office. The authorization to act under this Order is subject to the 
120-day rule of the Vacancies Act, 5 U.S.C. 3348, whereby a vacancy 
caused by death or resignation of an appointee, whose appointment is 
vested in the President by and with the advice and consent of the 
Senate, may be filled temporarily for not more than 120 days.
    Accordingly, the General Counsel designates the following Order of 
Succession:

Section A. Order of Succession

    During any period when, by reason of absence, disability, or 
vacancy in office, the General Counsel is not available to exercise the 
powers of perform the duties of the Office of General Counsel, the 
following are hereby designated to serve as the Acting General Counsel:
    (1) Deputy General Counsel (Programs & Regulations);
    (2) Deputy General Counsel (Civil Rights & Litigation);
    (3) Deputy General Counsel (Operations);
    (4) Associate General Counsel for Assisted Housing and Community 
Development;
    (5) Associate General Counsel for Legislation and Regulations;
    (6) Associate General Counsel for Finance and Regulatory 
Enforcement;
    (7) Associate General Counsel for Insured Housing;
    (8) Associate General Counsel for Litigation and Fair Housing 
Enforcement;
    (9) Associate General Counsel for Program Enforcement;
    (10) Associate General Counsel for Human Resources.
    These officials shall serve as Acting General Counsel in the order 
specified herein, and no official shall serve unless all the other 
officials, whose position titles precede his/hers in this order, are 
unable to act by reason of absence, disability, or vacancy in office. 
If all the officials designated in this Order of Succession are unable 
to serve as Acting General Counsel by reason of absence, disability, or 
vacancy in office, officials designated to serve as acting officials 
for these designated officials shall serve in the same order of 
succession as their principals.
    Officials ranking below the Deputy General Counsel (Operations) in 
the above Order of Succession and their designees, while serving as 
Acting General Counsel, may only take actions with the approval of the 
Special Assistant to the General Counsel.
    Authorization to serve as Acting General Counsel shall not exceed 
120 days, pursuant to the Vacancies Act, 5 U.S.C. 3348.

Section B. Authority Revoked

    The Order of Succession of the General Counsel, published in the 
Federal Register on April 24, 1995, at 60 FR 20111, is hereby revoked.

    Authority: Section 7(d), Department of Housing and Urban 
Development Act, 42 U.S.C. 3535(d).

    Dated: February 7, 1996.
Nelson A. Diaz,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 96-3617 Filed 2-16-96; 8:45 am]
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