# Promoting the Rule of Law Through Improved Agency Guidance Documents
> **US Department of Commerce** · Interim final rule; request for comments. · Published 2020-09-28 · Effective 2020-10-28 · 85 FR 60694
## Document
- **Document number:** 2020-18604
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Commerce
- **Federal Register citation:** 85 FR 60694
- **CFR reference:** 15 CFR 29
- **Publication date:** 2020-09-28
- **Effective date:** 2020-10-28
- **Commerce docket:** Docket No. 200819-0223
## Abstract

The Department of Commerce (Department) issues regulations to implement the requirements of an Executive order entitled "Promoting the Rule of Law Through Improved Agency Guidance Documents" signed October 9, 2019. Consistent with the Executive order, these regulations require that the Department clearly state that guidance documents issued by the Department do not bind the public, except as authorized by law or as incorporated into a contract; establish procedures for the public to petition for withdrawal or modification of guidance documents; and provide, with certain exceptions, that for significant guidance documents, the Department will submit those documents for review by the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB's) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) and provide for a period of public notice and comment of at least 30 days.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/09/28/2020-18604/promoting-the-rule-of-law-through-improved-agency-guidance-documents)
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