Adjusting Certain Delegations Under the Defense Production Act
Headline: Adjusts delegations under Defense Production Act for agency heads
What it does: Agencies must recognize that the Commerce and Energy secretaries can each exercise Defense Production Act delegations independently and limit recommendations to the President when authority is not delegated.
- Allows Commerce and Energy secretaries to exercise delegated authority independently.
- Agency heads only must recommend to President when authority is vested solely in President.
- Department of Energy bears the costs to publish this order.
Summary
This order changes who can use certain authorities under the Defense Production Act and clarifies when agency leaders must recommend actions to the President. It amends a prior order so the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Energy may each exercise delegated authority independently. It also explains that agency heads need only recommend action to the President when the authority is vested solely in the President and has not been delegated.
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