For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 28, 2004
Executive Order Assignment of Functions Relating to Certain Appointments, Promotions, and Commissions in the Armed Forces
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of
title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Assignment of Functions to the Secretary of Defense.
The Secretary of Defense shall perform, except with respect to the
Coast Guard during any period in which it is not operating as a service
in the Navy, the functions of the President under the following
provisions of title 10, United States Code:
(a) subsection 1521(a);
(b) the first sentence of subsection 12203(a);
(c) the first sentence of subsection 14111(a), except with respect
to reports relating to the grades of brigadier general or above, or
rear admiral (lower half) or above; and
(d) subsection 14310(a), except with respect to removals relating
to
a promotion list for grades of brigadier general or above, or rear
admiral (lower half) or above.
Sec. 2. Assignment of Functions to the Secretary of Homeland
Security. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall perform, with
respect to the Coast Guard during any period in which it is not
operating as a service in the Navy, the functions assigned to the
President by the following provisions of the United States Code:
(a) subsection 1521(a) of title 10;
(b) the first sentence of subsection 12203(a) of title 10;
(c) subsection 729(g) of title 14, except with respect to approval
of, or removal of a name from, a report relating to the grades of
rear admiral (lower half) or above; and
(d) subsection 738(a) of title 14, except with respect to removals
relating to a promotion list for grades of rear admiral (lower
half)
or above.
Sec. 3. Reassignment of Functions Assigned. The Secretary of
Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security may reassign the
functions assigned to them by this order to civilian officers, within
their respective departments, who hold a position for which the
President makes an appointment by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, except that the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of
Homeland Security may not reassign the functions assigned by sections
1(b) and 2(b), respectively. The Secretary of Defense may not reassign
the function assigned by section 1(c) of this order except to such an
officer within the Office of the Secretary of Defense (as defined in
section 131(b) of title 10).
Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) This order shall take effect on
October 1, 2004.
(b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to limit or otherwise
affect the authority of the President as Commander in Chief of the
Armed Forces of the United States, or under the Constitution and
laws
of the United States to nominate or to make or terminate
appointments.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right
or
benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity
by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies,
entities, officers, employees or agents, or any other person.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
September 28, 2004.
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