# Regulations Governing Off-the-Record Communications
> **US Department of Energy** · Final Rule. · Published 1999-09-22 · Effective 1999-10-22 · 64 FR 51222
## Document
- **Document number:** 99-24616
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Energy
- **Federal Register citation:** 64 FR 51222
- **CFR reference:** 18 CFR 385
- **Publication date:** 1999-09-22
- **Effective date:** 1999-10-22
- **Energy docket:** Docket No. RM98-1-000
## Abstract

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is revising its rules concerning communications between persons outside the Commission and the Commission and its employees. The revised regulations are designed to clarify ambiguities in the existing ex parte rules and to provide better guidance on what communications to and from the Commission are permissible and what communications are prohibited.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/09/22/99-24616/regulations-governing-off-the-record-communications)
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