[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 152 (Monday, August 10, 2009)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 39871-39872]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-19231]


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 The President

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                Memorandum of August 5, 2009

                
 Designation of Officers of the Office of Science 
                and Technology Policy to Act as Director

                Memorandum for the Director of the Office of Science 
                and Technology Policy

                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 Office of Science and 
                Technology Policy (OSTP), in the order listed, shall 
                act as and perform the functions and duties of the 
                office of the Director of OSTP (Director), during any 
                period in which the Director has died, resigned, or 
                otherwise become unable to perform the functions and 
                duties of the office of the Director, until such time 
                as the Director is able to perform the functions and 
                duties of that office:

(a) Associate Director (National Security and International Affairs);

(b) Associate Director (Technology);

(c) Associate Director (Science); and

(d) Associate Director (Environment).

                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 Director pursuant to this 
                memorandum.

                (b) No individual listed in section 1 shall act as 
                Director 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 Director.

                Sec. 3. Revocation. The President's memorandum of 
                December 11, 2002 (Designation of Officers of the 
                Office of Science and Technology Policy to Act as 
                Director), is hereby revoked.

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                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 
                departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, 
                employees, or agents, or any other person.

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

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, August 5, 2009.

[FR Doc. E9-19231
Filed 8-7-09; 8:45 am]
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