[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 102 (Friday, May 25, 2012)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 31165-31166]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-12948]


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                Memorandum of May 21, 2012

                
Designation of Officers of the Office of 
                Personnel Management To Act as Director of the Office 
                of Personnel Management

                Memorandum for the Director of the Office of Personnel 
                Management

                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. (the ``Act''), it is hereby 
                ordered that:

                Section 1. Order of Succession. Subject to the 
                provisions of section 2 of this memorandum, and to the 
                limitations set forth in the Act, the following 
                officials of the Office of Personnel Management, in the 
                order listed, shall act as and perform the functions 
                and duties of the office of Director, during any period 
                in which both the Director and the Deputy Director of 
                the Office of Personnel Management, have died, 
                resigned, or are otherwise unable to perform the 
                functions and duties of the office of Director:

                    (a) General Counsel;
                    (b) Chief of Staff;
                    (c) Associate Director, Retirement Services;
                    (d) Associate Director, Employee Services;
                    (e) Director, Office of Congressional and 
                Legislative Affairs;
                    (f) Associate Director, Federal Investigative 
                Services;
                    (g) Chief Financial Officer;
                    (h) Associate Director, Human Resources Solutions;
                    (i) Director, Healthcare and Insurance; and
                    (j) Director, Planning and Policy Analysis.

                Sec. 2. Exceptions. (a) No individual who is serving in 
                an office listed in section 1 of this memorandum in an 
                acting capacity, by virtue of so serving, shall act as 
                Director pursuant to this memorandum.

                    (b) No individual listed in section 1 of this 
                memorandum shall act as Director unless that individual 
                is otherwise eligible to so serve under the Act.
                    (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 Director.

                Sec. 3. Prior Memorandum Superseded. This memorandum 
                supersedes the President's Memorandum of May 5, 2005 
                (Designation of Officers of the Office of Personnel 
                Management to Act as Director of the Office of 
                Personnel Management).

                Sec. 4. Judicial Review. This memorandum 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. 5. Publication. You are authorized and directed to 
                publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    May 21, 2012

[FR Doc. 2012-12948
Filed 5-24-12; 8:45 am]
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