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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 supersededThe Federal Register edition of the order.
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Revoked by
EO 13162, July 6, 2000
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