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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 7 (Monday, January 13, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 2601-2602]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00675]



                        Presidential Documents 



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

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                Memorandum of January 3, 2025

                
Designation of Officials of the United States 
                Agency for International Development To Act as 
                Administrator

                Memorandum for the Administrator of the United States 
                Agency for International Development

                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 United States Agency for International 
                Development (USAID), in the order listed, shall act as 
                and perform the functions and duties of the office of 
                the Administrator of USAID (Administrator) during any 
                period in which the Administrator has died, resigned, 
                or otherwise become unable to perform the functions and 
                duties of the office of Administrator:

                    (a) Deputy Administrator for Management and 
                Resources;
                    (b) Deputy Administrator for Policy and 
                Programming; and
                    (c) The Assistant Administrators for the Bureaus, 
                in the chronological order in which they were appointed 
                as an Assistant Administrator and, if Assistant 
                Administrators were appointed on the same day, in 
                alphabetical order by last name.

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

                    (b) No individual who is serving in an office 
                listed in section 1 of this memorandum shall act as 
                Administrator 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 Administrator.

                Sec. 3. Revocation. The Presidential Memorandum of 
                December 9, 2008 (Designation of Officers of the United 
                States Agency for International Development to Act as 
                Administrator), is hereby revoked.

                Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this 
                memorandum 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 memorandum shall be implemented consistent 
                with applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.
                    (c) 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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                    (d) You are authorized and directed to publish this 
                memorandum in the Federal Register.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, January 3, 2025

[FR Doc. 2025-00675
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