[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 43, Number 49 (Monday, December 10, 2007)]
[Page 1571]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13453--Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of 
the Federal Government on Monday, December 24, 2007

December 6, 2007

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as 
follows:

    Section 1. All executive branch departments and agencies of the 
Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty 
on Monday, December 24, 2007, the day before Christmas Day, except as 
provided in section 2 below.

    Sec. 2. The heads of executive branch departments and agencies may 
determine that certain offices and installations of their organizations, 
or parts thereof, must remain open and that certain employees must 
report for duty on December 24, 2007, for reasons of national security 
or defense or other public need.

    Sec. 3. Monday, December 24, 2007, 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.

                                                George W. Bush

 The White House,
 December 6, 2007.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:52 a.m., December 7, 
2007]

Note: This Executive order will be published in the Federal Register on 
December 11.