Executive Orders

Executive Order 11592--Delegating certain authority of the President to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget

Source: The provisions of Executive Order 11592 of May 6, 1971, appear at 36 FR 8555, 3 CFR, 1971-1975 Comp., p. 559, unless otherwise noted.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget is hereby designated and empowered to exercise, without the approval, ratification, or other action of the President, the function of granting the approvals authorized or required to be granted by the President by any of the provisions of the River and Harbor Act of 1970 and the Flood Control Act of 1970, Public Law 91-611, approved December 31, 1970.