Providing an Order of Succession Within the Environmental Protection Agency
Headline: Establishes Order of Succession for the Environmental Protection Agency
What it does: The order directs Environmental Protection Agency officials listed, in the specified order, to act as Administrator when both the Administrator and Deputy Administrator cannot perform their duties.
- Clarifies who will lead the environmental agency if top leaders are unavailable.
- Prevents those serving temporarily in listed positions from automatically becoming acting Administrator.
- Revokes the prior environmental agency succession order issued in 2017.
Summary
This order lists which officials at the Environmental Protection Agency will step in as acting Administrator if both the Administrator and Deputy Administrator die, resign, or cannot perform their duties. It names a specific sequence of officials to assume the role and includes exceptions about eligibility.
The order affects the officials named and agency operations by clarifying leadership during vacancies, prevents those merely serving in an acting role from automatically becoming acting Administrator, and revokes the prior 2017 succession order.
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