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Executive Order 12596

Noncompetitive conversion to career status of certain employees in professional and administrative career positions

Signed by Ronald Wilson Reagan on May 7, 1987.

Later revoked or superseded
Signed recordMay 7, 1987

The date attached to the presidential action.

Publication record52 FR 17537

The Federal Register edition of the order.

Later dispositionLater revoked or superseded

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Later record

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Revoked by EO 13162, July 6, 2000

National Archives disposition tables cover January 8, 1937 to January 19, 2017.