Government agencies and employees: Council on Environmental Quality; designation of officers to act as Chairman (Memorandum of September 18, 2008)

Federal Register: September 22, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 184)

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Title 3--

The President

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Memorandum of September 18, 2008

Designation of Officers of the Council on

Environmental Quality to Act as Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality

Memorandum for the Chairman of the Council on

Environmental Quality

By the authority vested in me as President by the

Constitution and 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 Council on Environmental

Quality in the order listed, shall act as and perform the functions and duties of the office of the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality (Chairman), during any period in which the Chairman has died, resigned, or otherwise become unable to perform the functions and duties of the office of Chairman until such time as the Chairman is able to perform the functions and duties of that office:

(a) Chief of Staff;

(b) General Counsel; and

(c) Associate Directors in the order that they shall have been appointed as such.

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 Chairman pursuant to this memorandum.

(b) No individual listed in section 1 shall act as

Chairman 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 order in designating an acting Chairman.

Sec. 3. Judicial Review. 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, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

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Sec. 4. You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

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THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, September 18, 2008

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