Providing an Order of Succession Within the Social Security Administration, 63805-63806 [2014-25568]

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[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 206 (Friday, October 24, 2014)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 63805-63806]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-25568]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 206 / Friday, October 24, 2014 / 
Presidential Documents

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                Memorandum of October 17, 2014

                
Providing an Order of Succession Within the 
                Social Security Administration

                Memorandum for the Commissioner of the Social Security 
                Administration

                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. (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 Social Security Administration, in the 
                order listed, shall act as and perform the functions 
                and duties of the office of the Commissioner of Social 
                Security (Commissioner), during any period in which 
                both the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Social 
                Security have died, resigned, or become otherwise 
                unable to perform the functions and duties of the 
                office of Commissioner:

                    (a) Deputy Commissioner for Operations;
                    (b) Deputy Commissioner for Budget, Finance, 
                Quality, and Management;
                    (c) Deputy Commissioner for Systems;
                    (d) Regional Commissioner, Atlanta; and
                    (e) Regional Commissioner, Dallas.

                Sec. 2. Exceptions. (a) No individual who is serving in 
                an office listed in section 1 of this memorandum in an 
                acting capacity, by virtue of so serving, shall act as 
                Commissioner pursuant to this memorandum.

                    (b) No individual listed in section 1 of this 
                memorandum shall act as Commissioner 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 Commissioner.

                Sec. 3. Revocation. The Presidential Memorandum of 
                October 17, 2008 (Designation of Officers of the Social 
                Security Administration to Act as the Commissioner of 
                Social Security), is hereby revoked.

                Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) 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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                    (b) You are authorized and directed to publish this 
                memorandum in the Federal Register.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, October 17, 2014.

[FR Doc. 2014-25568
Filed 10-23-14; 11:15 am]
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