    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush (2002, Book I)]
    [March 19, 2002]
    [Page 755]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Memorandum on Designation of Officers of the Environmental Protection
    Agency
    March 19, 2002

    Memorandum for the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

    Subject: Designation of Officers of the Environmental Protection Agency

        By the authority vested in me as President under the Constitution
    and the laws of the United States of America and pursuant to the Federal
    Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, 5 U.S.C. 3345 et seq., I hereby order
    that:
        Section 1. Order of Succession.
        During any period when the Administrator of the Environmental
    Protection Agency (Administrator), the Deputy Administrator of the
    Environmental Protection Agency, and the officers designated by
    Executive Order of today's date, entitled ``Providing an Order of
    Succession in the Environmental Protection Agency and Amending Certain
    Orders on Succession,'' to perform the functions and duties of the
    office of Administrator have died, resigned, or otherwise become unable
    to perform the functions and duties of the office of Administrator, the
    following officers of the Environmental Protection Agency, in the order
    listed, shall perform the functions and duties of the office of
    Administrator, if they are eligible to act as Administrator under the
    provisions of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, until such time
    as at least one of the officers mentioned above is able to perform the
    functions and duties of the office of Administrator:
        Regional Administrator, Region I; and
        Deputy Regional Administrator, Region VIII.
        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 Administrator
    pursuant to this memorandum.
        (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of this memorandum, the President
    retains discretion, to the extent permitted by the Federal Vacancies
    Reform Act of 1998, 5 U.S.C. 3345 et seq., to depart from this
    memorandum in designating an acting Administrator.

                                                              George W. Bush

    Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary
    on May 9.