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On the recordSeptember 9, 1979
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and statutes of the United States of America, and in order to correct references in two prior Executive Orders, it is hereby ordered as follows:
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Executive Order 12156—Federal Emergency Management Agency; Department of Energy

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