U.S. Office of Personnel Management - Ensuring the Federal Government has an effective civilian workforce

Attachment 1 to CPM 2007-14

EXECUTIVE ORDER
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CLOSING OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES OF THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2007

	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 branch departments and agencies of the Federal 

Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Monday, 

December 24, 2007, the day before Christmas Day, except as provided in section 2 

below.


	Sec. 2.	 The heads of executive branch departments and agencies may determine 

that certain offices and installations of their organizations, or parts thereof, must 

remain open and that certain employees must report for duty on December 24, 2007, for reasons 

of national security or defense or other public need.


	Sec. 3.	 Monday, December 24, 2007, shall be considered as falling within the 

scope of Executive Order 11582 of February 11, 1971, 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.



GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,

December 6, 2007.