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

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Memorandum on Designation of Officers of the United States Agency for 
International Development to Act as Administrator

December 9, 2008

Memorandum for the Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development

Subject: Designation of Officers of the United States Agency for 
International Development to Act as Administrator

    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 Assistant Administrators for the Bureaus, in 
the order in which they were appointed as an Assistant Administrator, 
shall act as and perform the functions and duties of the office of the 
Administrator (Administrator), during any period in which the 
Administrator and the Deputy Administrator have died, resigned, or 
otherwise become unable to perform the functions and duties of the 
office of Administrator, until such time as the Administrator or Deputy 
Administrator are able to perform the functions and duties of that 
office:
    (a) Bureau for Africa;
    (b) Bureau for Asia;
    (c) Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance;
    (d) Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade;
    (e) Bureau for Europe and Eurasia;
    (f) Bureau for Global Health;
    (g) Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean;
    (h) Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs;
    (i) Bureau for Management; and
    (j) Bureau for the Middle East.
    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 Administrator pursuant to this memorandum.
    (b) No individual listed in section 1 shall act as Administrator 
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 Administrator.
    Sec. 3. This memorandum supersedes the President's memorandum of 
July 10, 2002, (Designation of Officers of the United States Agency for 
International Development to Act as Administrator).
    Sec. 4. 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. 5. You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum 
in the Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., December 11, 
2008]

Note: This memorandum was published in the Federal Register on December 
12.