Providing for the Closing of Government Departments and Agencies on June 11, 2004
Signed June 6, 2004·George W. Bush·69 FR 32245
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Directs that all executive departments, independent establishments, and other federal government agencies be closed on June 11, 2004, as a mark of respect for former President Ronald Reagan. Specifies that the closure day is to be treated under Executive Order 11582 and related federal pay and leave statutes governing employee compensation for such closures. Allows agency heads at the Department of State, Department of Defense, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and other departments and agencies to keep specific offices or installations open if needed for national security, defense, or other essential public business.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered
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Disposition
See: EO 11582, February 11, 1971
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The order, in full
Executive Order 13343 of June 6, 2004
Providing for the Closing of Government
Departments and Agencies on June 11, 2004
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and laws of the United States of America,
it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. All executive departments, independent
establishments, and other governmental agencies shall
be closed on June 11, 2004, as a mark of respect for
Ronald Reagan, the fortieth President of the United
States. That day shall be considered as falling within
the scope of Executive Order 11582 of February 11,
1971, and of 5 U.S.C. 5546 and 6103(b) and other
similar statutes insofar as they relate to the pay and
leave of employees of the United States.
Sec. 2. The first sentence of section 1 of this order
shall not apply to those offices and installations, or
parts thereof, in the Department of State, the
Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, the
Department of Homeland Security, or other departments,
independent establishments, and governmental agencies
that the heads thereof determine should remain open for
reasons of national security or defense or other
essential public business.
(Presidential Sig.)B
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 6, 2004.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed June 6, 2004. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.