Presidential Document2025-00672
Designation of Officials of the Office of Personnel Management To Act as Director
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Published
January 13, 2025
Signed
January 3, 2025
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Executive Office of the President
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 7 (Monday, January 13, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 2595-2596]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00672]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 7 / Monday, January 13, 2025 /
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Memorandum of January 3, 2025
Designation of Officials of the Office of
Personnel Management To Act as Director
Memorandum for the Director of the Office of Personnel
Management
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 memorandum, and to the
limitations set forth in the Act, the following
officials of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM),
in the order listed, shall act as and perform the
functions and duties of the office of the Director of
OPM (Director) during any period in which both the
Director and the Deputy Director have died, resigned,
or otherwise become unable to perform the functions and
duties of the office of Director:
(a) Chief of Staff;
(b) General Counsel;
(c) Chief Management Officer;
(d) Associate Director, Workforce Policy and
Innovation;
(e) Chief Financial Officer;
(f) Associate Director, Retirement Services; and
(g) other Associate Directors, in order of
seniority based on date of appointment to such
position.
Sec. 2. Exceptions. (a) No individual who is serving in
an office listed in section 1 of this memorandum in an
acting capacity shall, by virtue of so serving, act as
Director pursuant to this memorandum.
(b) No individual who is serving in an office
listed in section 1 of this memorandum shall act as
Director unless that individual is otherwise eligible
to so serve under the Act.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this
memorandum, the President retains discretion, to the
extent permitted by law, to depart from this memorandum
in designating an acting Director.
Sec. 3. Revocation. The Presidential Memorandum of
December 10, 2020 (Providing an Order of Succession
Within the Office of Personnel Management), is hereby
revoked.
Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this
memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise
affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent
with applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(c) This memorandum 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.
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(d) You are authorized and directed to publish this
memorandum in the Federal Register.
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[FR Doc. 2025-00672
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