[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 204 (Tuesday, October 21, 2008)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 62845-62846]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-25250]



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Part VI





The President





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Memorandum of October 17, 2008--Designation of Officers of the Social 
Security Administration to Act as the Commissioner of Social Security
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                Memorandum of October 17, 2008

                
Designation of Officers of the Social Security 
                Administration to Act as the Commissioner of Social 
                Security

                Memorandum for the Commissioner of Social Security

                October 17, 2008



                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the 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 Social Security 
                Administration, in the order listed, shall act as and 
                perform the functions and duties of the office of the 
                Commissioner of Social Security (Commissioner), during 
                any period in which both the Commissioner and Deputy 
                Commissioner have died, resigned, or become otherwise 
                unable to perform the functions and duties of the 
                office of the Commissioner, until such time as the 
                Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner are able to perform 
                the duties of that office:

(a) Chief of Staff;

(b) Deputy Commissioner for Operations;

(c) Deputy Commissioner for Budget, Finance and Management;

(d) Deputy Commissioner for Systems;

(e) Deputy Commissioner for Quality Performance;

(f) Regional Commissioner, Atlanta; and

(g) Regional Commissioner, Dallas.

                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 Commissioner 
                pursuant to this memorandum.

                    (b) No individual listed in section 1 shall act as 
                Commissioner 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 the discretion, to 
                the extent permitted by law, to depart from this 
                memorandum in designating an acting Commissioner.

                Sec. 3. This memorandum supersedes the President's 
                Memorandum of April 17, 2006 (Designation of Officers 
                of the Social Security Administration).

                Sec. 4. 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 
                agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers, 
                employees, or agents, or any other person.

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                Sec. 5. You are authorized and directed to publish this 
                memorandum in the Federal Register.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. E8-25250
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