Appointments During National Emergency
Signed December 17, 2003·George W. Bush·68 FR 74465
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Invoking the National Emergencies Act and continuing the national emergency declared in Proclamation 7463 of September 14, 2001, the order activates the emergency appointments authority found in section 603 of title 10 of the United States Code, making it available to the Secretary of Defense under the terms of that statute and of Executive Order 12396 of December 9, 1982. It states that it creates no enforceable legal rights or benefits for any party against the United States or its agencies, officers, or employees. The order directs that it be transmitted to Congress and published in the Federal Register.
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Claimed authority
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and in order to further respond to the national emergency I declared in Proclamation 7463 of September 14, 2001, I hereby order
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Disposition
See: EO 12396, December 9, 1982
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The order, in full
Executive Order 13321 of December 17, 2003
Appointments During National Emergency
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including the National Emergencies Act (50
U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3,
United States Code, and in order to further respond to
the national emergency I declared in Proclamation 7463
of September 14, 2001, I hereby order as follows:
Section 1. Emergency Appointments Authority. The
emergency appointments authority at section 603 of
title 10, United States Code, is invoked and made
available to the Secretary of Defense in accordance
with the terms of that statute and of Executive Order
12396 of December 9, 1982.
Sec. 2. Judicial Review. This order is not intended to,
and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive
or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a
party against the United States, its departments,
agencies, entities, officers, employees or agents, or
any person.
Sec. 3. Administration. This order shall be transmitted
to the Congress and published in the Federal Register.
(Presidential Sig.)B
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 17, 2003.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed December 17, 2003. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.