[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 5]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR601.4]

[Page 1041]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                             TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 601--ORGANIZATION, FUNCTIONS, AND PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 601.4  Responsibilities of the Administrator.

    The Administrator is responsible for the planning, direction, and 
control of the activities of FTA and has authority to approve urban mass 
transportation grants, loans, and contracts. The Deputy Administrator is 
the ``first assistant'' for purposes of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act 
of 1998 (Pub. L. 105-277) and shall, in the event of the absence or 
disability of the Administrator, serve as the Acting Administrator, 
subject to the limitations in that Act. In the event of the absence or 
disability of both the Administrator and the Deputy Administrator, 
officials designated by the agency's internal order on succession shall 
serve as Acting Deputy Administrator and shall perform the duties of the 
Administrator, except for any non-delegable statutory and/or regulatory 
duties.

[64 FR 61033, Nov. 9, 1999]