[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 240 (Friday, December 12, 2008)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 75535-75536]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-29623]


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 Title 3--
 The President

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                Memorandum of December 9, 2008

                
Designation of Officers of the United States 
                Agency for International Development To Act As 
                Administrator

                Memorandum for the Administrator of the United States 
                Agency for International Development

                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 
                Assistant Administrators for the Bureaus, in the order 
                in which they were appointed as an Assistant 
                Administrator, shall act as and perform the functions 
                and duties of the office of the Administrator 
                (Administrator), during any period in which the 
                Administrator and the Deputy Administrator have died, 
                resigned, or otherwise become unable to perform the 
                functions and duties of the office of Administrator, 
                until such time as the Administrator or Deputy 
                Administrator are able to perform the functions and 
                duties of that office:

                    (a) Bureau for Africa;
                    (b) Bureau for Asia;
                    (c) Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and 
                Humanitarian Assistance;
                    (d) Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and 
                Trade;
                    (e) Bureau for Europe and Eurasia;
                    (f) Bureau for Global Health;
                    (g) Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean;
                     (h) Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs;
                    (i) Bureau for Management; and
                    (j) Bureau for the Middle East.

                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 Administrator 
                pursuant to this memorandum.

                    (b) No individual listed in section 1 shall act as 
                Administrator 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 memorandum 
                in designating an acting Administrator.

                Sec. 3. This memorandum supersedes the President's 
                memorandum of July 10, 2002, (Designation of Officers 
                of the United States Agency for International 
                Development to Act as Administrator).

                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, it 
                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.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, December 9, 2008.

[FR Doc. E8-29623
Filed 12-11-08; 8:45 am]
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