[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 44, Number 49 (Monday, December 15, 2008)]
[Pages 1509-1510]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Designation of Officers of the Pension Benefit Guaranty 
Corporation to Act as Director

December 9, 2008

Memorandum for the Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Subject: Designation of Officers of the Pension Benefit Guaranty 
Corporation to Act as Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty 
Corporation

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including the Federal 
Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, 5 U.S.C. 3345 et seq., it is hereby 
ordered that:
    Section 1. Order of Succession. Subject to the provisions of section 
2 of this memorandum, the following officials of the Pension Benefit 
Guaranty Corporation, in the order listed, shall act as and perform the 
functions and duties of the office of the Director of the Pension 
Benefit Guaranty Corporation (Director), during any period in which the 
Director has died, resigned, or otherwise become unable to perform the 
functions and duties of the office of Director, until such time as the 
Director is able to perform the functions and duties of that office:
    (a) Deputy Director for Operations;
    (b) Chief Management Officer;
    (c) Chief Operating Officer; and
    (d) General Counsel.
    Sec. 2. Exceptions. (a) No individual who is serving in an office 
listed in section 1 in an acting capacity, by virtue of so serving, 
shall act as the Director pursuant to this memorandum.
    (b) No individual listed in section 1 shall act as Director unless 
that individual is otherwise eligible to so serve under the Federal 
Vacancies Reform Act of 1998.
    (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this memorandum, the President 
retains discretion, to the extent permitted by law, to depart from this 
memorandum in designating an acting Director.
    Sec. 3. This memorandum is intended to improve the internal 
management of the executive branch and is not intended to, and does not, 
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at 
law or in equity, by any party against the United States, it agencies, 
instrumentalities, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or 
any other person.
    Sec. 4. You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum 
in the Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12 p.m., December 10, 
2008]

Note: This memorandum was published in the Federal Register on December 
11.

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