[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 44, Number 49 (Monday, December 15, 2008)]
[Pages 1515-1516]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13482--Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of 
the Federal Government on Friday, December 26, 2008

December 12, 2008

    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 Friday, December 26, 2008, the day after Christmas Day, except as 
provided in section 2 of this order.
    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 26, 2008, for reasons of national security 
or defense or other public need.
    Sec. 3. Friday, December 26, 2008, 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. 4. This order 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, its agencies, 
instrumentalities, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or 
any other person.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 December 12, 2008.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:15 a.m., December 
15, 2008]

Note: This Executive order will be published in the Federal Register on 
December 16.

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