Executive Order 13529—Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Individual Ready Reserve Members of the Armed Forces to Active Duty

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 121 and 12304 of title 10, United States Code, I hereby determine that it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of operational missions, including those involving humanitarian assistance, related to relief efforts in Haiti necessitated by the earthquake on January 12, 2010. Further, under the stated authority, I hereby authorize the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, under their respective jurisdictions, to order to active duty any units, and any individual members not assigned to a unit organized to serve as a unit, of the Selected Reserve, or any member in the Individual Ready Reserve mobilization category and designated as essential under regulations prescribed by the Secretary concerned, and to terminate the service of those units and members ordered to active duty.

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, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

BARACK OBAMA

The White House,

January 16, 2010.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., January 20, 2010]

NOTE: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on January 17, and it was published in the Federal Register on January 21.

Categories: Executive Orders : Haiti, earthquake relief efforts, activation of U.S. Armed Forces Reserve members to assist in.

Subjects: Armed Forces, U.S. : Reserve members, activation of to assist in Haitian earthquake relief efforts; Haiti : Earthquake, damage and recovery efforts; Haiti : U.S. assistance; Natural disasters : Haiti, earthquake.

DCPD Number: DCPD201000029.