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Digitized from Box 35 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 13, 1977
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
EXECUTIVE ORDER
DESIGNATION OF CERTAIN OFFICERS TO ACT AS
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section
3347 of Title 5 and Section 301 of Title 3 of the United
States Code, and as President of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. During any period when, by reason of
absence, disability, or vacancy in office, both the
Secretary of Agriculture and the Deputy Secretary of
Agriculture are not available to exercise the powers or
perform the duties of the Office of Secretary, the officers
from the Department of Agriculture whose appointments are
vested in the President, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, shall act as Secretary in such order as the
Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time prescribe.
If no such order of succession is in effect at that time,
then such officers shall act as Secretary in the descending
order of rank, as established by the listing of their
offices in Sections 5314, 5315 or 5316 of Title 5 of the
United States Code and, at each level of the Executive
Schedule, in the order in which they shall have taken
oath as such officers.
Sec. 2. Executive Order No. 11793 of July 10, 1974,
is hereby revoked.
GERALD R. FORD
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 13, 1977
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