[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 24 (Monday, June 14, 2004)]
[Pages 1035-1036]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13343--Providing for the Closing of Government 
Departments and Agencies on
June 11, 2004

June 6, 2004

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. All executive departments, independent establishments, 
and other governmental agencies shall be closed on June 11, 2004, as a 
mark of respect for Ronald Reagan, the fortieth President of the United 
States. That day shall be considered as falling within the scope of 
Executive Order 11582 of February 11, 1971, 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.
    Sec. 2. The first sentence of section 1 of this order shall not 
apply to those offices and installations, or parts thereof, in the 
Department of State, the Department of Defense, the Department of 
Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, or other departments,

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independent establishments, and governmental agencies that the heads 
thereof determine should remain open for reasons of national security or 
defense or other essential public business.
                                                George W. Bush
The White House,
June 6, 2004.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:02 p.m., June 7, 
2004]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on June 
8.