[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 44, Number 46 (Monday, November 24, 2008)]
[Pages 1431-1432]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13478--Amendments to Executive Order 9397 Relating to 
Federal Agency Use of Social Security Numbers

November 18, 2008

    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. Policy It is the policy of the United States that Federal 
agencies should conduct agency activities that involve personal 
identifiers in a manner consistent with protection of such identifiers 
against unlawful use.
    Sec. 2. Amendments to Executive Order 9397 Executive Order 9397 of 
November 22, 1943, is amended:
    (a) in paragraph 1 by:
    (i) striking ``shall'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``may'';
    (ii) striking ``exclusively'';
    (iii) striking ``Title 26, section 402.502'' and inserting in lieu 
      thereof ``title 20, section 422.103''; and
    (iv) striking ``the 1940 Supplement to'';
    (b) by striking ``Bureau of the Budget'' in paragraph 5 and 
inserting in lieu thereof ``Office of Management and Budget'';
    (c) by renumbering paragraph 6 as paragraph 8;
    (d) by inserting immediately following paragraph 5 the following new 
paragraphs:
    ``6. This order shall be implemented in accordance with applicable 
      law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
    ``7. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right 
      or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in 
      equity, by any party against the United States, its departments, 
      agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers, employees, 
      or agents, or any other person.''; and

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    (e) by striking ``Board'' each place it appears and inserting in 
lieu thereof in each such place ``Administration''.

    Sec. 3.  This order is not intended to, and does not, create any 
right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in 
equity, by any party against the United States, its departments, 
agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers, employees, or 
agents, or any other person.

                                                George W. Bush

4 The White House,
 November 18, 2008.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., November 19, 
2008]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
November 20.