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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 7 (Monday, January 13, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 2587-2588]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00620]



                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 7 / Monday, January 13, 2025 / 
Presidential Documents

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                Executive Order 14139 of January 3, 2025

                
Providing an Order of Succession Within the 
                Office of the National Cyber Director

                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 order, and to the 
                limitations set forth in the Act, the following 
                officials of the Office of the National Cyber Director, 
                in the order listed, shall act as and perform the 
                functions and duties of the office of the National 
                Cyber Director (Director) during any period in which 
                the Director has died, resigned, or otherwise become 
                unable to perform the functions and duties of the 
                office of Director:

                    (a) Deputy National Cyber Director;
                    (b) Chief of Staff;
                    (c) Assistant National Cyber Director for Policy 
                Development;
                    (d) Assistant National Cyber Director for Policy 
                Implementation;
                    (e) Assistant National Cyber Director for Resource 
                Management and Administration; and
                    (f) General Counsel.

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

                    (b) No individual who is serving in an office 
                listed in section 1(a)-(f) of this order shall act as 
                Director unless that individual is otherwise eligible 
                to so serve under the Act.
                    (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 Director.

                Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) 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.

                    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
                applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.

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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.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    January 3, 2025.

[FR Doc. 2025-00620
Filed 1-10-25; 8:45 am]
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