Amendment to Executive Order 13223, Ordering the Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty and Delegating Certain Authorities to the Secretary of Defense and the
Empowers Secretary of Transportation to Activate Coast Guard Reservists
What it does
Agencies must allow the Secretary of Transportation to use specified Presidential authorities to manage Coast Guard personnel and fund extra active-duty members.
Real-world impact
- Gives the Transportation Secretary authority to manage Coast Guard personnel without presidential approval.
- Permits ordering Coast Guard reservists to active duty under the delegated authorities.
- Allows Defense and Transportation to pay extra active-duty costs as excepted expenses.
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Summary
This order amends a previous executive order to let the Secretary of Transportation use certain Presidential authorities, without the President's approval, to manage Coast Guard personnel and to detail members to assist foreign governments.
It also changes funding rules so the Secretaries of Defense and Transportation can pay for extra active-duty members as an "excepted expense." The order follows the national emergency declared after the terrorist attacks and aims to speed personnel and funding decisions during that emergency.
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