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###### Department of Housing and Urban Development

          - [Docket No. FR-4572-D-13]

# AGENCY:

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations, HUD.

# ACTION:

Notice of order of succession. 

# SUMMARY:

In this notice, the Deputy Secretary for the Department of Housing and Urban Development designates the Order of Succession for the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations. This Order of Succession supersedes the Order of Succession for the Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations, published at 60 FR 22404 (May 5, 1995).

# EFFECTIVE DATE:

October 10, 2000.

# FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Virginia Kelly Ackermen, Senior Attorney, Procurement and Administrative Law, Office of General Counsel, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Room 10180, 451 7th Street, SW, Washington, DC 20410; (202) 708-0622. (This is not a toll-free number). This number may be accessed via TTY by calling the Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339 (toll-free).

# SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Deputy Secretary for the Department of Housing and Urban Development is issuing this Order of Succession of officials authorized to perform the functions and duties of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations when, by reason of absence, disability, or vacancy in office, the Assistant Secretary is not available to exercise the powers or perform the duties of the office. This Order of Succession is subject to the provisions of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, 5 USC 3345-3349d. This publication supersedes the Order of Succession notice on May 5, 1995 at 60 FR 22404.

Accordingly, the Deputy Secretary designates the following Order of Succession:

## Section A. Order of Succession

Subject to the provisions of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, during any period when, by reason of absence, disability, or vacancy in office, the Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations is not available to exercise the powers or perform the duties of the Office of Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations, the following officials within the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations are hereby designated to exercise the powers and perform the duties of the Office:

(1) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Relations;

(2) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategic Planning.

These officials shall perform the functions and duties of the Office in the order specified herein, and no official shall serve unless all the other officials, whose position titles precede his/hers in this order, are unable to act by reason of absence, disability, or vacancy in office.

## Section B. Authority Superseded

This Order of Succession supersedes the Order of Succession for the Assistant Secretary of Administration, published at 60 FR 22404 (May 5, 1995).

Authority:Section 7(d), Department of Housing and Urban Development Act, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 3535(d).

Dated: October 10, 2000.

Saul N. Ramirez, Jr.,

Deputy Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development.

[FR Doc. 00-28312  Filed 11-3-00; 8:45 am]

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