[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 13 (Monday, April 4, 2005)]
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[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Assignment of Function To Submit a Report Relating to 
Millennium Challenge Corporation Activities

March 31, 2005

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Assignment of Function to Submit a Report Relating to 
Millennium Challenge Corporation Activities

    Consistent with section 301 of title 3, United States Code, the 
function of the President under section 613 of the Foreign Operations, 
Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2004 
(Division D of Public Law 108-199) is assigned to the Secretary of 
State.
    The Secretary of State shall perform such function in a manner 
consistent with the President's constitutional authority to withhold 
information the disclosure of which could impair foreign relations, 
national security, the deliberative processes of the Executive, or the 
performance of the Executive's constitutional duties. Heads of 
departments and agencies shall, to the extent permitted by law, furnish 
to the Secretary information the Secretary requests to perform such 
function, in the format and on the schedule specified by the Secretary.
    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

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:07 a.m., April 1, 
2005]

Note: This memorandum was published in the Federal Register on April 4.