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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 7 (Monday, January 13, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 2577-2578]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00595]



                        Presidential Documents 



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

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                Executive Order 14134 of January 3, 2025

                
Providing an Order of Succession Within the 
                Department of Agriculture

                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. (a) 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 Agriculture, in the 
                order listed, shall act as and perform the functions 
                and duties of the office of Secretary of Agriculture 
                (Secretary) during any period in which both the 
                Secretary and the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture have 
                died, resigned, or otherwise become unable to perform 
                the functions and duties of the office of Secretary:

(i) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm Production and Conservation;

(ii) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer 
Services;

(iii) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment;

(iv) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics;

(v) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development;

(vi) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety;

(vii) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Regulatory Programs;

(viii) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural 
Affairs;

(ix) General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture;

(x) Assistant Secretary of Agriculture (Congressional Relations and 
Intergovernmental Affairs);

(xi) Chief Financial Officer, Department of Agriculture;

(xii) Assistant Secretary of Agriculture (Civil Rights);

(xiii) Assistant Secretary of Agriculture (Administration);

(xiv) Chief of Staff, Office of the Secretary;

(xv) State Executive Directors of the Farm Service Agency for the States of 
Kansas, Missouri, and Iowa, in order of seniority fixed by length of 
unbroken service as State Executive Director of that State;

(xvi) Director, Office of Budget and Program Analysis; and

(xvii) Chief, United States Forest Service.

                    (b) If any two or more individuals designated in 
                subsection (a)(xv) of this section were sworn in to, or 
                commenced service in, their respective offices on the 
                same day, precedence shall be determined by the 
                alphabetical order of the State in which the individual 
                serves.

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

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                    (b) No individual who is serving in an office 
                listed in section 1(a)(i)-(xvii) of this order shall 
                act as Secretary 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 Secretary.

                Sec. 3. Revocation. Executive Order 13612 of May 21, 
                2012 (Providing an Order of Succession Within the 
                Department of Agriculture), is hereby revoked.

                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.

                    (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. 2025-00595
Filed 1-10-25; 8:45 am]
Billing code 3395-F4-P
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