[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 13 (Thursday, January 22, 2009)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 4101-4102]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-1541]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 13 / Thursday, January 22, 2009 / 
Presidential Documents

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                Memorandum of January 16, 2009

                
Designation of Officers to Act as President of 
                the Overseas Private Investment Corporation

                Memorandum for the President of the Overseas Private 
                Investment Corporation

                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. Subject to the 
                provisions of section 2 of this memorandum, the 
                following officials of the Overseas Private Investment 
                Corporation, in the order listed, shall act as and 
                perform the functions and duties of the office of the 
                President of the Overseas Private Investment 
                Corporation (POPIC), during any period in which the 
                POPIC has died, resigned, or otherwise become unable to 
                perform the functions and duties of the office of 
                POPIC, until such time as the POPIC is able to perform 
                the functions and duties of that office:

                (a) Executive Vice President;

                (b) Vice President and General Counsel;

                (c) Vice President and Chief Financial Officer;

                (d) Deputy General Counsel; and

                (e) Director of Operations.

                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 POPIC pursuant to this 
                memorandum.

                (b) No individual listed in section 1 shall act as 
                POPIC 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 POPIC.

                Sec. 3. 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, it 
                agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers, 
                employees, or agents, or any other person.

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                Sec. 4. You are authorized and directed to publish this 
                memorandum in the Federal Register.
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                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, January 16, 2009

[FR Doc. E9-1541
Filed 1-21-09; 11:15 am]
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