Amending the Order of Succession Within the Department of Agriculture

Executive Order 13484 of January 9, 2009

Amending the Order of Succession Within the
Department of Agriculture

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, 5 U.S.C. 3345 et seq., it is hereby ordered that
Executive Order 13241 of December 18, 2001, as amended,
is further amended as follows:

Section 1. Section 2 is amended to read as follows:

``Sec. 2. Order of Succession.

``(a) General Counsel of the Department of
Agriculture;
``(b) Chief Financial Officer of the Department of
Agriculture;
``(c) Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for
Administration;
``(d) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and
Foreign Agricultural Services;
``(e) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural
Resources and Environment;
``(f) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing
and Regulatory Programs;
``(g) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural
Development;
``(h) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food,
Nutrition, and Consumer Services;
``(i) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food
Safety;
``(j) Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research,
Education, and Economics;
``(k) Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for
Congressional Relations;
``(l) Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Civil
Rights;
``(m) Director, Kansas City Commodity Office, Farm
Service Agency (consistent with the time of service and
rate of pay requirements of section 3345(a)(3) of title
5, United States Code); and
``(n) State Executive Directors of the Farm Service
Agency for the States of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and
Nebraska, in order of seniority fixed by length of
unbroken service as State Executive Director of that
State (consistent with the time of service and rate of
pay requirements of section 3345(a)(3) of title 5,
United States Code).''.

Sec. 2. Section 3(a) is amended by striking ``2(a)-
(j)'' and inserting ``2(a)-(n)'', and a new section
3(c) is added to read as follows:

``(c) No individual listed in section 2 shall act
as the Secretary unless that individual is otherwise
eligible to so serve under the Federal Vacancies Reform
Act of 1998.''

Sec. 3. This order is intended to improve the internal
management of the executive branch and 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
agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers,
employees, or agents, or any other person.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

January 9, 2009.