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Executive Order: Amendments to Executive Order 9397 Relating to Federal
Agency Use of Social Security Numbers
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For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary November 18, 2008

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

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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:

Section1.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

(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

THE WHITE HOUSE,

November 18, 2008.

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