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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 7 (Monday, January 13, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 2579-2580]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00603]



                        Presidential Documents 



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

[[Page 2579]]

                Executive Order 14135 of January 3, 2025

                
Providing an Order of Succession Within the 
                Department of Homeland Security

                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 Department of Homeland Security, in 
                the order listed, shall act as and perform the 
                functions and duties of the office of Secretary of 
                Homeland Security (Secretary) during any period in 
                which the Secretary, the Deputy Secretary of Homeland 
                Security, the Under Secretary for Management, and any 
                officers designated by the Secretary pursuant to 6 
                U.S.C. 113 to act as Secretary have died, resigned, or 
                otherwise become unable to perform the functions and 
                duties of the office of Secretary, until such time as 
                at least one of the officers mentioned above is able to 
                perform the functions and duties of that office:

                    (a) Administrator of the Transportation Security 
                Administration;
                    (b) Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis;
                    (c) Director of the Federal Law Enforcement 
                Training Centers; and
                    (d) Region 3 Administrator, Federal Emergency 
                Management Agency.

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

                    (b) No individual who is serving in an office 
                listed in section 1(a)-(d) of this order shall act as 
                Secretary pursuant to this order unless that individual 
                is otherwise eligible to so serve under the Act.
                    (c) If any individual who is serving in an office 
                listed in section 1(a)-(d) of this order is designated 
                by the Secretary pursuant to 6 U.S.C. 113 to act as 
                Secretary, they shall act as Secretary in accordance 
                with their placement in the order established by the 
                Secretary and not in accordance with their placement on 
                the list in section 1 of this order.
                    (d) 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 Secretary.

                Sec. 3. Revocation. (a) Executive Order 13753 of 
                December 9, 2016 (Amending the Order of Succession in 
                the Department of Homeland Security), is hereby 
                revoked.

                    (b) Section 88 of Executive Order 13286 of February 
                28, 2003 (Amendment of Executive Orders, and Other 
                Actions, in Connection With the Transfer of Certain 
                Functions to the Secretary of Homeland Security), is 
                hereby struck in its entirety and the subsequent 
                sections are renumbered accordingly.

                Sec. 4. 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.

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                    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
                applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.
                    (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. 2025-00603
Filed 1-10-25; 8:45 am]
Billing code 3395-F4-P
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