[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 48 (Monday, December 1, 1997)]
[Page 1922]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13068--Closing of Government Departments and Agencies on 
Friday, December 26, 1997

November 25, 1997

    By the authority vested in me as President of the United States of 
America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. All executive departments and agencies shall be closed 
and their employees excused from duty on Friday, December 26, 1997, the 
day following Christmas Day, except as provided in section 2 below.
    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 26, 1997, for reasons of national security 
or defense or for other public reasons.
    Sec. 3. Friday, December 26, 1997, shall be considered as falling 
within the scope of Executive Order 11582 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.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
November 25, 1997.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 2:50 p.m., November 25, 
1997]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
November 28.