See theNotes section for a listing of Executive Orders affected by or related to the issuance of this Executive Order.
Signed by PresidentGeorge W. Bush Friday, January 9, 2009
Executive Order 13484 of January 9, 2009
Amending the Order of Succession Within the Department of Agriculture
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including theFederal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, 5 U.S.C. 3345et seq., it is hereby ordered thatExecutive Order 13241 of December 18, 2001, as amended, is further amended as follows:
Section 1.
| ‘‘(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.
| ‘‘(c) | No individual listed in section 2 shall act as the Secretary unless that individual is otherwise eligible to so serve under theFederal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998.’’ |
Sec. 3.
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