[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 42, Number 20 (Monday, May 22, 2006)]
[Pages 956-957]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on the Assignment of Functions Relating to Waivers and 
Reports Concerning Africa

May 18, 2006

Memorandum for the Secretary of State and the Attorney General

Subject: Assignment of Functions Relating to Waivers and Reports 
Concerning Africa

    By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the 
United States, including section 301 of title 3, I hereby assign to the 
Secretary of State the functions of the President under section 590 of 
the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-102). The Secretary of State 
shall consult the Attorney General as appropriate in the performance of 
such functions.
    The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to publish this 
memorandum in the Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush

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