NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, December 29, 2006

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INCIDENTS

No new incident reports received.

OTHER NEWS

By order of President Bush, all executive departments, independent organizations and other agencies of the federal government will be closed on Tuesday, January 2nd, as a mark of respect for Gerald R. Ford, the 38th President of the United States.

OPM Director Linda M. Springer notified cabinet secretaries, agency heads and chief human capital officers throughout the government about the closure shortly after President Bush signed the executive order. Springer provided agency leaders with a copy of the President's proclamation, which designates Tuesday, January 2, 2007, as a National Day of Mourning.

The closure order includes Federal offices, with the exception of those offices and installations, or parts thereof, in the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, or other departments, independent organizations, and governmental agencies whose agency head determines should remain open for reasons of national security or defense, or other essential public business.

The full text follows of the executive order follows. You can also link to the White House web site containing the text by clicking on the URL below.

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Executive Order: Providing for the Closing of Government Departments and Agencies on January 2, 2007

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. All executive departments, independent establishments, and other governmental agencies shall be closed on January 2, 2007, as a mark of respect for Gerald R. Ford, the thirty-eighth President of the United States. That day shall be considered as falling within the scope of Executive Order 11582 of February 11, 1971, 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. 2. The first sentence of section 1 of this order shall not apply to those offices and installations, or parts thereof, in the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, or other departments, independent establishments, and governmental agencies that the heads thereof determine should remain open for reasons of national security or defense or other essential public business.

HYPERLINK "http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/12/20061228-3.html" http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/12/20061228-3.html

To link to InsideNPS, click on HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/" http://inside.nps.gov/

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