[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 3, Volume 3, 1998 Compilation and Parts 100 to 102]
[Revised as of January 1, 1999]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 3CFR13109]

[Page 237-239]
 
Executive Order 13109 of December 17, 1998

Half-Day Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal 
Government on Thursday, December 24, 1998

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 
laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. All executive departments and agencies of the Federal 
Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty for the 
last half of the scheduled workday on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1998, 
except as provided in section 2 below.
Sec. 2. The heads of executive departments and agencies may determine 
that certain offices and installations of their organizations, or parts 
thereof, must remain open and that certain employees must remain on duty 
for the full scheduled workday on December 24, 1998, for reasons of 
national security or defense or for other essential public reasons.
Sec. 3. Thursday, December 24, 1998, shall be considered as falling 
within the scope of Executive Order 11582 and of 5 U.S.C. 5546 and 
6103(b) and other similar statutes insofar as they relate to the pay and 
leave of employees of the United States.
Sec. 4. This order shall apply to executive departments and agencies of 
the Federal Government only and is not intended to direct or otherwise 
implicate departments or agencies of State or local governments.
                                                    WILLIAM J. CLINTON  
THE WHITE HOUSE,
    December 17, 1998.

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                      OTHER PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS

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Subchapter A--[Reserved]
Subchapter B--Administrative Orders                                  239
Subchapter C--Reorganization Plans                                [None]
Subchapter D--Designations                                        [None]
Appendix A--List of Messages to Congress Transmitting Budget Rescissions 
and Deferrals                                                        309
Appendix B--List of Presidential Determinations                      309
Appendix C--List of Final Rule Documents                          [None]
                                                                        


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Subchapter B--Administrative Orders


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