[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 95 (Tuesday, May 18, 2010)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 27921-27922]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-12070]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 95 / Tuesday, May 18, 2010 / 
Presidential Documents

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                Executive Order 13542 of May 13, 2010

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

                Section 1. Order of Succession. (a) Subject to the 
                provisions of section 2 of this order, 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 
                (Deputy Secretary) have died, resigned, or are 
                otherwise unable to perform the functions and duties of 
                the office of Secretary, until such time as the 
                Secretary or Deputy Secretary is able to perform the 
                functions and duties of that office:

(1) Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Administration;

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

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

(4) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety;

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

(6) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural 
Services;

(7) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development;

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

(9) General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture;

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

(11) Director, Kansas City Commodity Office, Farm Service Agency;

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

(13) Regional Administrators of the Food and Nutrition Service for the 
Mountain Plains Regional Office (Denver, Colorado), Midwest Regional Office 
(Chicago, Illinois), and Western Regional Office (San Francisco, 
California), in order of seniority fixed by length of unbroken service as 
Regional Administrator of that Regional Office;

(14) Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Agriculture;

(15) Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Civil Rights; and

(16) Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Congressional Relations.

                    (b) If any two or more individuals designated in 
                paragraphs (12) and (13) of subsection (a) 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 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 shall act as Secretary unless that 
                individual is otherwise eligible to so serve under the 
                Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998.
                    (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. Executive Order 13241 of December 18, 2001, as 
                amended, is hereby revoked.

                Sec. 4. 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.
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                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    May 13, 2010.

[FR Doc. 2010-12070
Filed 5-17-10; 11:15 am]
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