Appointments During National Emergency

Executive Order 13321 of December 17, 2003

Appointments During National Emergency

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including the National Emergencies Act (50
U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3,
United States Code, and in order to further respond to
the national emergency I declared in Proclamation 7463
of September 14, 2001, I hereby order as follows:

Section 1. Emergency Appointments Authority. The
emergency appointments authority at section 603 of
title 10, United States Code, is invoked and made
available to the Secretary of Defense in accordance
with the terms of that statute and of Executive Order
12396 of December 9, 1982.

Sec. 2. 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 a
party against the United States, its departments,
agencies, entities, officers, employees or agents, or
any person.

Sec. 3. Administration. This order shall be transmitted
to the Congress and published in the Federal Register.

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THE WHITE HOUSE,

December 17, 2003.