Executive Order 12998

Amendment to Executive Order No. 11880

Signed by William J. Clinton Issued April 5, 1996 Published April 9, 1996

Executive order

12998

Federal Register citation

61 FR 15873

Document number

96-9033

Issuing office

Executive Office of the President

Changes

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What happened	Order	Date
Revoked by	Executive Order 13242 Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of Commerce	December 18, 2001
Amends	Executive Order 11880 Designation of officers of the Department of Commerce to act as Secretary of Commerce	October 2, 1975

The document

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Executive Order 12998 of April 5, 1996

Amendment to Executive Order No. 11880

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President
by the Constitution and laws of the United States of
America, including section 3347 of title 5, United
States Code, it is hereby ordered that Executive Order
No. 11880 of October 2, 1975, as amended, is further
amended as follows:

A new section 2 of Executive Order No. 11880 shall be
added to read: ``The President may at any time,
pursuant to law but without regard to the foregoing
provisions of this order, direct that an officer, as
defined in 5 U.S.C. 3347, and specified by the
President shall act as Secretary of Commerce.''

The present section 2 of Executive Order No. 11880, as
amended, shall be redesignated as section 3.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

April 5, 1996.

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