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Executive Order 11250—Administration of the Peace Corps in the Department of State

October 10, 1965

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Peace Corps Act (75 Stat. 612) and Section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. Executive Order No. 11041 of August 6, 1962, is hereby amended as follows:

(1) By substituting for the preamble of the Order the following:

"By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Peace Corps Act (75 Stat. 612) and Section 301 of Title 3 of 395 the United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows: ".

(2) By re-lettering subsection (c) of Section 101 as subsection (d) and by inserting immediately before that subsection the following:

"(c) The functions of prescribing regulations and making determinations conferred upon the President by Section 5 (b) of the Act of August 24, 1965 (79 Stat. 551), are hereby delegated to the Secretary of State."

(3) By substituting for Section 302 the following:

"SEC. 302. Determination. Pursuant to Section 10 (d) of the Act, it is hereby determined to be in furtherance of the purposes of the Act that functions authorized thereby may be performed without regard to the applicable laws specified in Sections 1 and 2 and with or without consideration as specified in Section 3 of Executive Order No. 11223 of May 12, 1965 (30 F.R. 6635), but, except as may be inappropriate, subject to limitations set forth in that order."

SEC. 2. The provisions of this Order shall be deemed to have become effective as of August 24, 1965, except that Section 1(3) hereof shall be deemed to have become effective as of May 12, 1965.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

The White House

October 10, 1965

NOTE: Executive Order 11250 was released October 11 at the Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md.

Lyndon B. Johnson, Executive Order 11250—Administration of the Peace Corps in the Department of State Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/305766

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