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Executive Order 13484--Amending the Order of Succession Within the 
Department of Agriculture

January 9, 2009

    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 Executive Order 13241 of December 18, 2001, as amended, is 
further amended as follows:
    Section 1. Section 2 is amended to read as follows:
    ``Sec. 2. Order of Succession.
    ``(a) General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture;
    ``(b) Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Agriculture;
    ``(c) Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Administration;
    ``(d) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign 
Agricultural Services;
    ``(e) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and 
Environment;
    ``(f) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Regulatory 
Programs;
    ``(g) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development;
    ``(h) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food, Nutrition, and 
Consumer Services;
    ``(i) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety;
    ``(j) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and 
Economics;
    ``(k) Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Congressional 
Relations;
    ``(l) Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Civil Rights;
    ``(m) Director, Kansas City Commodity Office, Farm Service Agency 
(consistent with the time of service and rate of pay requirements of 
section 3345(a)(3) of title 5, United States Code); and
    ``(n) State Executive Directors of the Farm Service Agency for the 
States of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska, in order of seniority 
fixed by length of unbroken service as State Executive Director of that 
State (consistent with the time of service and rate of pay requirements 
of section 3345(a)(3) of title 5, United States Code).''.
    Sec. 2. Section 3(a) is amended by striking ``2(a)-(j)'' and 
inserting ``2(a)-(n)'', and a new section 3(c) is added to read as 
follows:
    ``(c) No individual listed in section 2 shall act as the Secretary 
unless that individual is otherwise eligible to so serve under the 
Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998.''
    Sec. 3. This order 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, its agencies, 
instrumentalities, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or 
any other person.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 January 9, 2009.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., January 13, 
2009]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
January 14. This item was not received in time for publication in the 
appropriate issue.