[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 9 (Monday, March 1, 2004)]
[Pages 270-271]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Delegation of Certain Authority Under the United States 
Leadership Against
HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003

February 23, 2004

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Delegation of Certain Authority Under the United States 
Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States, including section 301 of title 3, United 
States Code, I hereby delegate to you the functions and authority 
conferred upon the President by sections 202(c), 305, and 313 of the 
United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act 
of 2003 (Public Law 108-25), to provide the specified reports to the 
Congress. In addition, I delegate to you the authority vested in the 
President by section 101 of Public Law 108-25 to establish a 
comprehensive, integrated, 5-year strategy to combat global HIV/AIDS and 
to submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report setting 
forth the strategy.
    You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the 
Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 9:20 a.m., February 26, 
2004]

Note: This memorandum was published in the Federal Register on February 
27.

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