Federal Register: November 30, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 229)

DOCID: FR Doc E5-6704

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

Management and Budget Office

NOTICE: NOTICES

ACTION: Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:

DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice of proposed guidelines and request for comments.

SUBJECT CATEGORY:

Proposed Bulletin for Good Guidance Practices

DATES: Written comments regarding OMB's Proposed Bulletin for Good Guidance Practices are due by December 23, 2005.

DOCUMENT SUMMARY:

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is proposing policies and procedures for agencies to develop, issue, and use guidance documents. This Bulletin is intended to increase the quality and transparency of agency guidance practices and the guidance documents produced through them.

SUMMARY:

Good guidance practices bulletin; comment request,

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

OMB is seeking comments on its Proposed Bulletin for Good Guidance Practices by December 23, 2005. The draft Bulletin for Good Guidance Practices is posted on OMB's Web site, http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/inforeg/regpol.html. This draft Bulletin provides a definition of guidance; describes the legal effect of guidance documents; establishes practices for developing guidance documents and receiving public input; and establishes ways for making guidance documents available to the public.

Dated: November 23, 2005.
John D. Graham,
Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. [FR Doc. E56704 Filed 112905; 8:45 am]
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

Lisa Jones, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street, NW., New Executive Office Building, Room 10201, Washington, DC 20503. Telephone: (202) 3955897.