Presidential DocumentExecutive Order 1310998-34034
Half-Day Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on Thursday, December 24, 1998
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Published
December 22, 1998
Signed
December 17, 1998
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Executive Office of the President
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[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 245 (Tuesday, December 22, 1998)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 98-34034]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 245 / Tuesday, December 22, 1998 /
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Executive Order 13109 of December 17, 1998
Half-Day Closing of Executive Departments and
Agencies of the Federal Government on Thursday,
December 24, 1998
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. All executive departments and agencies of
the Federal Government shall be closed and their
employees excused from duty for the last half of the
scheduled workday on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1998,
except as provided in section 2 below.
Sec. 2. The heads of executive departments and agencies
may determine that certain offices and installations of
their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open
and that certain employees must remain on duty for the
full scheduled workday on December 24, 1998, for
reasons of national security or defense or for other
essential public reasons.
Sec. 3. Thursday, December 24, 1998, shall be
considered as falling within the scope of Executive
Order 11582 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. 4. This order shall apply to executive departments
and agencies of the Federal Government only and is not
intended to direct or otherwise implicate departments
or agencies of State or local governments.
(Presidential Sig.)<Clinton1><Clinton2>
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 17, 1998.
[FR Doc. 98-34034
Filed 12-21-98; 8:45 am]
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