Executive Order 13109

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                            THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release                                  December 17, 1998


                         EXECUTIVE ORDER 13109

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        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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