[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 44, Number 40 (Monday, October 13, 2008)]
[Pages 1306-1307]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Waiver of Restriction on Providing Funds to the 
Palestinian Authority

October 6, 2008

 Presidential Determination No. 2009-02

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Waiver of Restriction on Providing Funds to the Palestinian 
Authority

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including section 650(b) of 
the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs 
Appropriations Act, 2008 (Division J, Public Law 110-161) (the ``Act''), 
as carried forward under section 1417 of the Supplemental Appropriations 
Act, 2008 (Public Law 110-252) (the ``Supplemental''), I hereby certify 
that it is important to the national security interests of the United 
States to waive the provisions of section 650(a) of the Act, as carried 
forward under the Supplemental, in order to provide funds appropriated 
for fiscal year 2009 under the heading Economic Support Funds to the 
Palestinian Authority.

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    You are directed to transmit this determination to the Congress, 
with a report pursuant to section 650(d) of the Act, as carried forward 
under the Supplemental, and to publish the determination in the Federal 
Register.
                                                George W. Bush

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., October 14, 
2008]

Note: This memorandum will be published in the Federal Register on 
October 15.