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[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 242 (Wednesday, December 16, 2020)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 81775-81776]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-27893]



                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 85 , No. 242 / Wednesday, December 16, 2020 / 
Presidential Documents

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                Memorandum of December 10, 2020

                
Providing an Order of Succession Within the 
                Office of Personnel Management

                Memorandum for the Director of the Office of Personnel 
                Management

                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, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 3345 et seq. (the ``Act''), 
                it is hereby ordered that:

                Section 1. Order of Succession. Subject to the 
                provisions of section 2 of this memorandum and to the 
                limitations set forth in the Act, the following 
                officials of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), 
                in the order listed, shall act as and perform the 
                functions and duties of the office of Director of OPM 
                (Director) during any period in which both the Director 
                and the Deputy Director of OPM have died, resigned, or 
                otherwise become unable to perform the functions and 
                duties of the office of Director:

                    (a) Chief of Staff;
                    (b) General Counsel;
                    (c) Associate Director, Employee Services;
                    (d) Chief Management Officer;
                    (e) Chief Financial Officer;
                    (f) Associate Director, Retirement Services; and
                    (g) other Associate Directors in the order in which 
                they have been appointed as such.

                Sec. 2. Exceptions. (a) No individual who is serving in 
                an office listed in section 1 of this memorandum in an 
                acting capacity, by virtue of so serving, shall act as 
                Director pursuant to this memorandum.

                    (b) No individual listed in section 1 of this 
                memorandum shall act as Director unless that individual 
                is otherwise eligible to so serve under the Act.
                    (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this 
                memorandum, the President retains discretion, to the 
                extent permitted by law, to depart from this memorandum 
                in designating an acting Director.

                Sec. 3. Revocation. The Presidential Memorandum of 
                August 12, 2016 (Designation of Officers of the Office 
                of Personnel Management to Act as Director of the 
                Office of Personnel Management), is hereby revoked.

                Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) This memorandum 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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                    (b) You are authorized and directed to publish this 
                memorandum in the Federal Register.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, December 10, 2020

[FR Doc. 2020-27893
Filed 12-15-20; 11:15 am]
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