Federal Register: December 23, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 246)

DOCID: FR Doc 05-24417

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 January 9, 2006.

DOCUMENT SUMMARY:

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is extending the comment period regarding its draft Bulletin for Good Guidance Practices from December 23, 2005, to January 9, 2006. 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 January 9, 2006. 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: December 19, 2005.
Donald R. Arbuckle,
Deputy Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. [FR Doc. 0524417 Filed 122205; 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.