[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 39, Number 51 (Monday, December 22, 2003)]
[Pages 1815-1816]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13321--Appointments During National Emergency

December 17, 2003

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including the National 
Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, 
United States Code, and in order to further respond to the national 
emergency I declared in Proclamation 7463 of September 14, 2001, I 
hereby order as follows:
    Section 1. Emergency Appointments Authority. The emergency 
appointments authority at section 603 of title 10, United States Code, 
is invoked and made available to the Secretary of Defense in accordance 
with the terms of that statute and of Executive Order 12396 of December 
9, 1982.
    Sec. 2. Judicial Review. This order is not intended to, and does 
not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable 
at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its 
departments, agencies, entities, officers, employees or agents, or any 
person.

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    Sec. 3. Administration. This order shall be transmitted to the 
Congress and published in the Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush
The White House,
December 17, 2003.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., December 22, 
2003]

Note: This Executive order will be published in the Federal Register on 
December 23.