Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 24, 2020

• Published date: 16 December 2020
• Citation: 85 FR 81337
• Record Number: 2020-27807
• Section: Presidential Documents
• Court: Executive Office Of The President

Presidential Documents

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Federal Register

Vol. 85, No. 242

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Title 3—

The President

Executive Order 13965 of December 11, 2020

Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and

Agencies of the Federal Government on December 24, 2020

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 departments and agencies of the Federal Government

shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Thursday, Decem-

ber 24, 2020, the day before Christmas Day.

Sec. 2. The heads of executive 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 24, 2020, for reasons of national security, defense, or other public

need.

Sec. 3. December 24, 2020, 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. The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall take

such actions as may be necessary to implement this order.

Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) This order shall be implemented consistent

with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency,

or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget

relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

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(c) 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 departments, agencies, or entities, its officers,

employees, or agents, or any other person.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

December 11, 2020.

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