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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 16 / Wednesday, January 27, 2021 / Presidential Documents of Defense Military Construction account pursuant to the emergency authorities in 10 U.S.C. 2808a and 33 U.S.C. 2293a.
b The pause directed in subsection ai of this section shall apply to wall projects funded by redirected funds as well as wall projects funded by direct appropriations. The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security may make an exception to the pause, however, for urgent measures needed to avert immediate physical dangers or where an exception is required to ensure that funds appropriated by the Congress fulfill their intended purpose.
Sec. 2. Plan for Redirecting Funding and Repurposing Contracts. The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the heads of any other appropriate executive departments and agencies, and in consultation with the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, shall develop a plan for the redirection of funds concerning the southern border wall, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law. The process of developing the plan shall include consideration of terminating or repurposing contracts with private contractors engaged in wall construction, while providing for the expenditure of any funds that the Congress expressly appropriated for wall construction, consistent with their appropriated purpose. The plan shall be developed within 60 days from the date of this proclamation. After the plan is developed, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take all appropriate steps to resume, modify, or terminate projects and to otherwise implement the plan.
Sec. 3. Definition. Consistent with Executive Order 13767 of January 25, 2017 Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements, for the purposes of this proclamation, wall means a contiguous, physical wall or other similarly secure, contiguous, and impassable physical barrier.
Sec. 4. General Provisions. a Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
i the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or ii the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
b This proclamation shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

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c This proclamation 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.

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