[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 242 (Wednesday, December 16, 2020)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 81337-81338]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-27807]


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 Title 3--
 The President

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                Executive Order 13965 of December 11, 2020

                
Providing for the Closing of Executive 
                Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on 
                December 24, 2020

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

                Section 1. All executive departments and agencies of 
                the Federal Government shall be closed and their 
                employees excused from duty on Thursday, December 24, 
                2020, the day before Christmas Day.

                Sec. 2. The heads of executive departments and agencies 
                may determine that certain offices and installations of 
                their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open 
                and that certain employees must report for duty on 
                December 24, 2020, for reasons of national security, 
                defense, or other public need.

                Sec. 3. December 24, 2020, shall be considered as 
                falling within the scope of Executive Order 11582 of 
                February 11, 1971, and of 5 U.S.C. 5546 and 6103(b) and 
                other similar statutes insofar as they relate to the 
                pay and leave of employees of the United States.

                Sec. 4. The Director of the Office of Personnel 
                Management shall take such actions as may be necessary 
                to implement this order.

                Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) This order shall be 
                implemented consistent with applicable law and subject 
                to the availability of appropriations.

                    (b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to 
                impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or 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.

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                    (c) This order 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.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    December 11, 2020.

[FR Doc. 2020-27807
Filed 12-15-20; 8:45 am]
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