[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 184 (Monday, September 22, 2008)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 54487-54488]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-22245]


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 The President

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                Memorandum of September 18, 2008

                
Designation of Officers of the Council on 
                Environmental Quality to Act as Chairman of the Council 
                on Environmental Quality

                Memorandum for the Chairman of the Council on 
                Environmental Quality

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and laws of the United States of America, 
                including the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, 5 
                U.S.C. 3345 et seq., it is hereby ordered that:

                Section 1. Order of Succession. Subject to the 
                provisions of section 2 of this memorandum, the 
                following officials of the Council on Environmental 
                Quality in the order listed, shall act as and perform 
                the functions and duties of the office of the Chairman 
                of the Council on Environmental Quality (Chairman), 
                during any period in which the Chairman has died, 
                resigned, or otherwise become unable to perform the 
                functions and duties of the office of Chairman until 
                such time as the Chairman is able to perform the 
                functions and duties of that office:

                (a) Chief of Staff;

                (b) General Counsel; and

                (c) Associate Directors in the order that they shall 
                have been appointed as such.

                Sec. 2. Exceptions.

                (a) No individual who is serving in an office listed in 
                section 1 in an acting capacity, by virtue of so 
                serving, shall act as the Chairman pursuant to this 
                memorandum.

                (b) No individual listed in section 1 shall act as 
                Chairman unless that individual is otherwise eligible 
                to so serve under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 
                1998.

                (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this memorandum, 
                the President retains discretion, to the extent 
                permitted by law, to depart from this order in 
                designating an acting Chairman.

                Sec. 3. Judicial Review. This memorandum is intended to 
                improve the internal management of the executive branch 
                and 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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                Sec. 4. You are authorized and directed to publish this 
                memorandum in the Federal Register.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, September 18, 2008

[FR Doc. E8-22245
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