# Procedures for Issuing Guidance Documents
> **US Department of the Interior** · Interim final rule; request for comments. · Published 2020-10-26 · Effective 2020-10-26 · 85 FR 67666
## Document
- **Document number:** 2020-22238
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of the Interior
- **Federal Register citation:** 85 FR 67666
- **CFR reference:** 43 CFR 51
- **Publication date:** 2020-10-26
- **Effective date:** 2020-10-26
- **Interior docket:** Docket No. DOI-2020-0001
## Abstract

We, the Department of the Interior (Department), through this interim final rule (IFR), revise our rulemaking procedures to implement an Executive order (E.O.) entitled "Promoting the Rule of Law Through Improved Agency Guidance Documents." The E.O. requires Federal Agencies to finalize regulations or amend existing regulations to establish processes and procedures for issuing guidance documents and to establish exceptions for categories of guidance documents.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/10/26/2020-22238/procedures-for-issuing-guidance-documents)
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