[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 30 (Wednesday, February 14, 2007)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 7343-7344]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-714]



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Part V





The President





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Memorandum of February 9, 2007--Designation of Officers of the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation


                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 30 / Wednesday, February 14, 2007 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Memorandum of February 9, 2007

                
Designation of Officers of the Federal Bureau of 
                Investigation

                Memorandum for the Director of the Federal Bureau of 
                Investigation

                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, 5 U.S.C. 3345, et seq., it is hereby ordered 
                that:

                Section 1. Order of Succession. During any period when 
                the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
                (Director) has died, resigned, or otherwise become 
                unable to perform the functions and duties of the 
                office of the Director, the following officials of the 
                Federal Bureau of Investigation, in the order listed, 
                shall perform the functions and duties of the office of 
                the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 
                until such time as the Director is able to perform the 
                functions and duties of the office of Director of the 
                Federal Bureau of Investigation:

                (a) Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of 
                Investigation;

                (b) Associate Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of 
                Investigation;

                (c)Executive Assistant Director of the National 
                Security Branch;

                (d) Executive Assistant Director for Criminal, Cyber, 
                Response and Services; and

                (e) The Assistant Directors of the Federal Bureau of 
                Investigation, in the order listed:

(1) Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division;

(2) Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative Division;

(3) Assistant Director, Counterintelligence Division;

(4) Assistant Director, Washington Field Office;

(5) Assistant Director, New York Field Office; and

(6) Assistant Director, Los Angeles Field Office.

                Sec. 2. Exceptions.

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

                (b) No individual shall act as Director unless that 
                individual is otherwise eligible to so serve under the 
                Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998.

                (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 Director.

                Sec. 3. Judicial Review. This memorandum is intended to 
                improve the internal management of the executive branch 
                and 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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                Sec. 4. The Director of the Federal Bureau of 
                Investigation is authorized and directed to publish 
                this memorandum in the Federal Register.
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                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, February 9, 2007.

[FR Doc. 07-714
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