[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 12 (Thursday, January 19, 2017)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 7627-7628]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-01500]


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                Memorandum of January 13, 2017

                
Providing an Order of Succession Within 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 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 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 
                is otherwise unable to perform the functions and duties 
                of that office:

                    (a) Managing Director;
                    (b) Chief of Staff;
                    (c) General Counsel;
                    (d) Associate Director for National Environmental 
                Policy Act; and
                    (e) Other Associate Directors in the order in which 
                they have been appointed as such.

                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 
                Chairman pursuant to this memorandum.

                    (b) No individual listed in section 1 of this 
                memorandum shall act as Chairman 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 Chairman.

                Sec. 3. Revocation. The Presidential Memorandum of 
                March 13, 2015 (Providing an Order of Succession Within 
                the Council on Environmental Quality), is hereby 
                revoked.

                Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this 
                memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise 
                affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) 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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                    (c) You are hereby authorized and directed to 
                publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, January 13, 2017

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