Providing an Order of Succession Within the Environmental Protection Agency
Headline: Orders New Line of Succession at Environmental Protection Agency
What it does: EPA officials must follow the listed order of succession to act as Administrator if the Administrator and Deputy cannot serve.
- Determines which EPA officials will lead when top leaders are unavailable.
- Prevents those already serving in acting roles from becoming Acting Administrator under this order.
- Replaces the previous EPA succession order with this new list.
Summary
This order establishes who will take over leadership at the Environmental Protection Agency if both the Administrator and Deputy Administrator die, resign, or cannot perform their duties. It lists a specific sequence of EPA officials who will act as Administrator.
The order also says that people serving in those listed jobs in an acting capacity cannot assume the Administrator role under this order, that anyone must be eligible under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, and that the President may choose someone else. It revokes the prior succession order.
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