82 FR 7619 - Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of Justice

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Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 12 (January 19, 2017)

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FR Document		2017-01487

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 12 (Thursday, January 19, 2017)

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 12 (Thursday, January 19, 2017)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 7619-7620]
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Federal Register / Vol. 82 , No. 12 / Thursday, January 19, 2017 / 
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                Executive Order 13762 of January 13, 2017

                
Providing an Order of Succession Within the 
                Department of Justice

                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 order, the following 
                officers, in the order listed, shall act as and perform 
                the functions and duties of the office of Attorney 
                General, during any period in which the Attorney 
                General, the Deputy Attorney General, the Associate 
                Attorney General, and any officers designated by the 
                Attorney General pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 508 to act as 
                Attorney General have died, resigned, or otherwise 
                become unable to perform the functions and duties of 
                the office of Attorney General, until such time as at 
                least one of the officers mentioned above is able to 
                perform the functions and duties of that office:

                    (a) United States Attorney for the District of 
                Columbia;
                    (b) United States Attorney for the Northern 
                District of Illinois; and
                    (c) United States Attorney for the Central District 
                of California.

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

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

                Sec. 3. Executive Order 13557 of November 4, 2010, is 
                revoked.

[[Page 7620]]

                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.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    January 13, 2017.

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Category		Regulatory Information
Collection		Federal Register
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Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Presidential Documents
FR Citation		82 FR 7619