[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 8 (Monday, February 28, 2005)]
[Page 273]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Assignment of Certain Functions Relating to Climate Change 
Reporting Activities

February 18, 2005

Memorandum for the Director of the Office of Management and Budget

Subject: Assignment of Certain Functions Relating to Climate Change 
Reporting Activities

    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 assign to you the function of the President under 
section 576(b) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related 
Programs Appropriations Act, 2005 (Division D of Public Law 108-447). 
Heads of departments and agencies shall furnish promptly to the Director 
of the Office of Management and Budget, to the extent permitted by law, 
information the Director requests to perform such function.
    Any reference in this memorandum to the provision of any Act shall 
be deemed to include references to any hereafter enacted provision of 
law that is the same or substantially the same as such provision.
    You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the 
Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush

Note: An original was not available for verification of the content of 
this memorandum. This item was not received in time for publication in 
the appropriate issue.