[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 10 (Friday, January 15, 2021)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 3733-3734]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-01094]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 10 / Friday, January 15, 2021 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Executive Order 13973 of January 8, 2021

                
Providing an Order of Succession Within the 
                Environmental Protection Agency

                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 as follows:

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

                    (a) General Counsel;
                    (b) Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste 
                (also known as the Assistant Administrator for the 
                Office of Land and Emergency Management);
                    (c) Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances 
                (also known as the Assistant Administrator for the 
                Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention);
                    (d) Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air 
                and Radiation;
                    (e) Assistant Administrator for the Office of 
                Water;
                    (f) Assistant Administrator for the Office of 
                Enforcement and Compliance Assurance;
                    (g) Chief Financial Officer;
                    (h) Assistant Administrator for the Office of 
                Research and Development;
                    (i) Assistant Administrator for the Office of 
                International and Tribal Affairs;
                    (j) Assistant Administrator for the Office of 
                Mission Support;
                    (k) Associate Deputy Administrator for Programs;
                    (l) Associate Deputy Administrator;
                    (m) Regional Administrator, Region VIII;
                    (n) Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for 
                the Office of Mission Support;
                    (o) Deputy Regional Administrator, Region VIII;
                    (p) Principal Deputy General Counsel; and
                    (q) Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for 
                the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.

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

                    (b) No individual listed in section 1(a)-(q) of 
                this order shall act as Administrator unless that 
                individual is otherwise eligible to so serve under the 
                Act.

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                    (c) 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 Administrator.

                Sec. 3. Revocation. Executive Order 13763 of January 
                13, 2017 (Providing an Order of Succession Within the 
                Environmental Protection Agency), is hereby revoked.

                Sec. 4. General Provision. 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.
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                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    January 8, 2021.

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