By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including section 5317 of title 5 of the United States Code, and in order to place an additional position in and to remove obsolete positions from level IV of the Executive Schedule, section 1-101 of Executive Order No. 12154, as amended, is hereby further amended by removing the positions identified as sections 1-101 "(d)" through "(h)" from the order and relettering the remaining sections 1-101 "(i)" and "(j)", sections 1-101 "(d)" and "(e)", respectively, and adding at the end the following new subsection:
"(f) Comptroller of the Department of Defense."
The placements made by this order shall take effect immediately.
George Bush
The White House,
April 28, 1989.
George Bush, Executive Order 12678—Level IV of the Executive Schedule Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/269107