[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 2 (Monday, January 17, 2005)]
[Pages 52-53]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13370--Providing an Order of Succession in the Office of 
Management and Budget

January 13, 2005

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America and pursuant to the Federal 
Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, 5 U.S.C. 3345 et seq., it is hereby 
ordered that:
    Section 1. During any period when the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget (Director) and the Deputy Director of the Office 
of Management and Budget (Deputy Director) have died, resigned, or 
otherwise become unable to perform the functions and duties of the 
office of Director, the following officers of the Office of Management 
and Budget, in the order listed, shall perform the functions and duties 
of the office of Director, if they are eligible to act as Director under 
the provisions of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, until such 
time as at least one of the officers mentioned above is able to perform 
the functions and duties of the office of Director:
    Deputy Director for Management;
    Executive Associate Director;
    Associate Director (National Security Programs);

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    Associate Director (General Government Programs);
    Associate Director (Human Resource Programs);
    Associate Director (Natural Resource Programs);
    General Counsel;
    Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy;
    Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs;
    Controller, Office of Federal Financial Management; and
    Administrator of the Office of Electronic Government.
    Sec. 2. Exceptions. (a) No individual who is serving in an office 
listed in section 1 in an acting capacity, by virtue of so serving, 
shall act as Director pursuant to this order.
    (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of this order, the President 
retains discretion, to the extent permitted by law, to depart from this 
order in designating an acting Director.
                                                George W. Bush
The White House,
January 13, 2005.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., January 18, 
2005]

Note: This Executive order will be published in the Federal Register on 
January 19.