Providing an Order of Succession Within the Office of Management and Budget
Signed May 21, 2012·Barack Obama·77 FR 31159
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Establishes an order of succession for the Office of Management and Budget, listing thirteen officials, from the Deputy Director for Management down to the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, who will act as Director if both the Director and Deputy Director die, resign, or become unable to serve. It specifies that officials serving in an acting capacity in a listed position cannot become acting Director by virtue of that role, and that anyone acting as Director must otherwise be eligible under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998. The President retains discretion to depart from this order when designating an acting Director. It revokes the prior succession order, Executive Order 13370 of January 13, 2005, and states that it creates no enforceable legal rights for any party.
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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, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 3345 et seq. (the “Act”), it is hereby ordered
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Disposition
Revokes: EO 13370, January 13, 2005 Revoked by: EO 14138 January 3, 2025
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The order, in full
Executive Order 13615 of May 21, 2012
Providing an Order of Succession Within the
Office of Management and Budget
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, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 3345 et seq. (the “Act”),
it is hereby ordered that:
Section 1. Order of Succession. Subject to the
provisions of section 2 of this order, and to the
limitations set forth in the Act, the following
officers of the Office of Management and Budget, in the
order listed, shall act as and perform the functions
and duties of the office of Director during any period
in which both the Director of the Office of Management
and Budget (Director) and the Deputy Director of the
Office of Management and Budget (Deputy Director) have
died, resigned, or otherwise become unable to perform
the functions and duties of the office of Director:
(a) Deputy Director for Management;
(b) Executive Associate Director;
(c) Associate Director (National Security
Programs);
(d) Associate Director (General Government
Programs);
(e) Associate Director (Education, Income
Maintenance, and Labor Programs);
(f) Associate Director (Health Programs);
(g) Associate Director (Natural Resource Programs);
(h) General Counsel;
(i) Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy;
(j) Administrator of the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs;
(k) Controller, Office of Federal Financial
Management;
(l) Administrator of the Office of Electronic
Government; and
(m) Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator.
Sec. 2. Exceptions. (a) No individual who is serving in
an office listed in section 1(a)-(m) of this order in
an acting capacity, by virtue of so serving, shall act
as Director pursuant to this order.
(b) No individual listed in section 1(a)-(m) of
this order shall act as Director unless that individual
is otherwise eligible to so serve under the Act.
(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 Director.
Sec. 3. Revocation. Executive Order 13370 of January
13, 2005 (Providing an Order of Succession in the
Office of Management and Budget), is hereby revoked.
Sec. 4. 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 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,
May 21, 2012.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed May 21, 2012. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.