[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 42, Number 52 (Monday, January 1, 2007)]
[Page 2211]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13421--Providing for the Closing of Government 
Departments and Agencies on January 2, 2007

December 28, 2006

    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 January 2, 2007, as a 
mark of respect for Gerald R. Ford, the thirty-eighth 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, 
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,
 December 28, 2006.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., January 3, 
2007]

Note: This Executive order will be published in the Federal Register on 
January 4, 2007.