[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 11]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1700.53]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
    CHAPTER XVII--RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1700--GENERAL INFORMATION--Table of Contents
 
             Subpart C--Loan and Grant Approval Authorities
 
Sec. 1700.53  Persons serving as Acting Administrator.

    The following persons are authorized, in descending order, to act 
for the Administrator when he or she is not on official duty in the 
Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area, is sick, has resigned, or is 
deceased. That is, if the first person on the list is also not on 
official duty in the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area, is sick, has 
resigned, or is deceased, the second person on the list is authorized to 
act for the Administrator and so on down the list. Persons on this list 
may not redelegate the authority to act as the Administrator. The 
Administrator may in his or her discretion in writing, on a case-by-case 
basis, delegate authority to act as Administrator in his or her absence 
outside of this specified order.
    (1) Deputy Administrator, Program Policy and Telecommunications.
    (2) Deputy Administrator, Water and Environmental Programs.
    (3) Assistant Administrator, Electric Program.
    (4) Assistant Administrator, Telecommunications Program.
    (5) Assistant Administrator, Water and Environmental Programs.
    (6) Assistant Administrator, Program Accounting and Regulatory 
Analysis.