Amendment to Executive Order 13180, Air Traffic Performance-Based Organization
Headline: Amends Air Traffic Order, Clarifies It Creates No Legal Rights
What it does: Agencies must treat the amended air traffic order as internal management guidance and not as creating enforceable rights.
- Deletes the phrase 'an inherently governmental function' from the original order.
- Clarifies the order is internal management and creates no enforceable legal rights.
- Affects executive branch agencies, officers, employees, and any other person.
Summary
This executive order amends a prior order about an Air Traffic Performance-Based Organization by removing a specific phrase from its first sentence and changing Section 6.
The revised Section 6 makes clear the order is meant only to improve internal management of the executive branch and does not create any administrative or judicial rights enforceable against the United States, its agencies, officers, employees, or anyone else.
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