[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 1 (Monday, January 11, 1993)]
[Page 14]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12828--Delegation of Certain Personnel Management 
Authorities

 January 5, 1993

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 
3 of the United States Code and sections 3502(e), 4505a(e), and 
5377(i)(2) of title 5 of the United States Code, it is hereby ordered as 
follows:
    Section 1. The Office of Personnel Management is designated and 
empowered to exercise, without the approval, ratification, or other 
action of the President, the following:
    (1) The authority of the President under 5 U.S.C. 3502(e), as added 
by section 4433 of Public Law 102-484, to shorten the period of advance 
notice otherwise required by law with respect to reductions in force.
    (2) The authority of the President under 5 U.S.C. 4505a(e), as added 
by section 2(19) of Public Law 102-378, to permit performance-based cash 
awards to be paid to categories of employees who would not otherwise be 
eligible.
    Sec. 2. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget is 
designated and empowered to exercise, without the approval, 
ratification, or other action of the President, the authority of the 
President under 5 U.S.C. 5377(i)(2), as added by section 2(34) of Public 
Law 102-378, to designate one or more categories of positions within an 
agency to be treated as critical positions within the meaning of 5 
U.S.C. 5377(a)(2).
    Sec. 3. This order shall be effective immediately.
                                                   George Bush
The White House,
January 5, 1993.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 4:42 p.m., January 5, 
1993]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
January 7.