---
kind: "executive_order"
citation: "E.O. 13344"
number: "13344"
title: "Amending Executive Order 13261 on the Order of Succession in the Environmental Protection Agency"
president: "George W. Bush"
signing_date: "2004-07-07"
publication_date: "2004-07-09"
url: "https://uscodex.org/eo/13344"
---

# Executive Order 13344: Amending Executive Order 13261 on the Order of Succession in the Environmental Protection Agency

*By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, 5 U.S.C. 3345, et seq ., it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 13261 of March 19, 2002, is amended as follows:*

## Sec. 1


In section 2, subsections (a), (b), and (c) are deleted and replaced with the following new subsections (a), (b), and (c):

(a) Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste;

(b) Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances;

(c) Assistant Administrator (Air and Radiation).