Reporting Relationships and Supervision of Officials, Offices and Bureaus, Delegation of Certain Authority, and Order of Succession in the Department of the Treasury

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 221 (Tuesday, November 17, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63962-63963]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-29720]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

[Treasury Order Number 101-05]


Reporting Relationships and Supervision of Officials, Offices and 
Bureaus, Delegation of Certain Authority, and Order of Succession in 
the Department of the Treasury

    Dated: October 29, 1998.

    By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Treasury, 
including the authority vested by 31 U.S.C. 321(b), and Executive Order 
(E.O.) 11822, dated December 10, 1974, it is ordered that:
    1. The Deputy Secretary shall report directly to the Secretary.
    2. The Chief of Staff shall report directly to the Secretary and 
shall exercise supervision over the Director, Secretary's Scheduling 
Office, and the Executive Secretary.
    3. The Executive Secretary shall report directly to the Chief of 
Staff and shall exercise supervision over the functions of the 
Executive Secretariat Correspondence Unit; the Office of Public 
Correspondence; and, for purposes of administrative and managerial 
control, over the Special Assistant to the Secretary (National 
Security). The Special Assistant to the Secretary (National Security) 
shall report to the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary.
    4. The following officials shall report through the Deputy 
Secretary to the Secretary and shall exercise supervision over those 
officers and organizational entities set forth on the attached 
organizational chart:

Under Secretary (International Affairs)
Under Secretary (Domestic Finance)
Under Secretary (Enforcement)
General Counsel
Assistant Secretary (Legislative Affairs and Public Liaison)
Assistant Secretary (Public Affairs)
Assistant Secretary (Economic Policy)
Assistant Secretary (Tax Policy)
Inspector General
Assistant Secretary (Management) and Chief Financial Officer
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Comptroller of the Currency
Director, Office of Thrift Supervision

    5. The Assistant Secretary (Management) serves as the Department's 
Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Chapter 9 of Title 1, U.S.C., and 
serves as the Department's Chief Operating Officer for purposes of the 
Presidential Memorandum, ``Implementing Management Reform in the 
Executive Branch,'' dated October 1, 1993.
    6. The Deputy Assistant Secretary (Information Systems) reporting 
to the Assistant Secretary (Management) and Chief Financial Officer is 
designated as the Department's Chief Information Officer pursuant to 
Division E of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996, and E.O. 13011, dated July 
16, 1996, and shall have direct access to the Secretary to the extent 
required by that Act and related statutes.
    7. The Deputy Secretary is authorized, in that official's own 
capacity and that official's own title, to perform any functions the 
Secretary is authorized to perform and shall be responsible for 
referring to the Secretary any matter on which action would 
appropriately be taken by the Secretary. Any action heretofore taken by 
the Deputy Secretary in that official's own title is hereby affirmed 
and ratified as the action of the Secretary.
    8. The Under Secretaries, the General Counsel, and the Assistant 
Secretaries are authorized to perform any functions the Secretary is 
authorized to perform. Each of these officials will ordinarily perform 
under this authority only functions which arise out of, relate to, or 
concern the activities or functions of, or the laws administered by or 
relating to, the bureaus, offices, or other organizational units over 
which the incumbent has supervision. Each of these officials shall 
perform under this authority in the official's own capacity and the 
official's own title and shall be responsible for referring to the 
Secretary any matter on which action would appropriately be taken by 
the Secretary. Any action heretofore taken by [the Deputy Secretary or] 
any of these officials in that official's own title is hereby affirmed 
and ratified as the action of the Secretary.
    9. The following officials shall, in the order of succession 
indicated, act as Secretary of the Treasury in case of the death, 
resignation, absence or sickness of the Secretary and other officers 
succeeding the incumbent, until a successor is appointed, or until the 
absence or sickness shall cease:
    a. Deputy Secretary;
    b. The following individuals, in the order of the date on which 
they were first appointed to a position within the Department requiring 
appointment by the President by and with the advice and consent of the 
Senate:
    •  Under Secretary (International Affairs);
    •  Under Secretary (Domestic Finance); and
    •  Under Secretary (Enforcement);
    c. General Counsel; and
    d. Assistant Secretaries, appointed by the President with Senate 
confirmation, in the order designated by the Secretary.
    10. Cancellation. Treasury Order 101-05, ``Reporting Relationships 
and Supervision of Officials, Offices and Bureaus, Delegation of 
Certain Authority, and Order of Succession in the Department of the 
Treasury,'' dated May 4, 1995, is superseded as of this date.
Robert E. Rubin,
Secretary of the Treasury.

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