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Code · REGISTER · 2004-12-02 · Notices

Notices.

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BILLING CODE 4810-25-P 69 231 Thursday, December 2, 2004 Presidential Documents Part II The President Executive Order 13362—Designation of Additional Officers for the Department of Homeland Security Order of Succession Executive Order 13363—Establishing the Afghanistan and Iraq Campaign Medals Executive Order 13364—Modifying the Protection Granted to the Development Fund for Iraq and Certain Property in Which Iraq Has an Interest and Protecting the Central Bank of Iraq Title 3— The President Executive Order 13362 of November 29, 2004 Designation of Additional Officers for the Department of Homeland Security Order of Succession By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America and pursuant to the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, 5 U.S.C. 3345 *et seq* ., it is hereby ordered that: **Section 1.** During any period when the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary), the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, and the officers designated to perform the functions and duties of the office of Secretary by section 88 of Executive Order 13286 of February 28, 2003 (“Amendment of Executive Orders, and Other Actions, in Connection With the Transfer of Certain Functions to the Secretary of Homeland Security”), have died, resigned, or otherwise become unable to perform the functions and duties of the office of Secretary, the following officers of the Department of Homeland Security, in the order listed, shall perform the functions and duties of the office of Secretary, if they are eligible to act as Secretary under the provisions of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, until such time as at least one of the officers mentioned above is able to perform the functions and duties of the office of Secretary:
Director, Region V, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Director, Region VI, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Director, Region VII, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Director, Region VIII, Federal Emergency Management Agency; and Director, Region X, Federal Emergency Management Agency. **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 Secretary pursuant to this order.
(b)Notwithstanding the provisions of this order, the President retains discretion, to the extent permitted by law, to depart from this order in designating an acting Secretary. B THE WHITE HOUSE, November 29, 2004. [FR Doc. 04-26684 Filed 12-1-04; 9:47 am]
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