Public
Feedback on DOT Guidance Documents
Public Guidance Dockets.
DOT uses the
Federal
Docket Management System (FDMS) for its public interface for
such things as rulemaking and adjudication. We have created a subcategory
in FDMS for “Guidance.” We use this part of FDMS for public
feedback or comments on any DOT guidance documents in accordance
with the following procedures:
Economically Significant
Guidance.
In accordance with the
OMB Bulletin, we
will seek and respond to public comments on a draft of any
economically significant guidance. We will create a docket in the
“Guidance” section of FDMS for any such draft guidance document. As
with proposed rules, we will provide instructions about filing
comments with the draft guidance document, including the deadlines
for submissions. Our response to any comments received will be
placed in the same docket. Any final guidance document – with any
appropriate changes in response to the public comments – will be
placed in the docket also. Please note that our provision of
notice and an opportunity for public comment does not make any
final document legally binding on the public; a guidance document
does not have the force and effect of law.
Other
Guidance Documents.
Although the OMB Bulletin does not
require us to seek comment on other guidance documents, we may
voluntarily do so. DOT has sought comment on many draft guidance
documents in the past, and we will continue to do so in the future
when we deem it appropriate. We will place a copy of the guidance
document on which we are seeking comments in FDMS and use it for the
filing of any comments when we do so.
Comments or
Requests on Guidance Documents.
DOT welcomes public comments
on any significant guidance document that we have issued that is
currently in effect, even if we have not specifically requested
comment. We also welcome public requests for us to issue,
reconsider, modify, or rescind significant guidance documents.
Links to the
lists of all of
DOT’s significant guidance currently in effect are provided
within this website. The lists contain links to each of the actual
guidance documents. If we have not specifically requested
comments, we will create a docket for a guidance document
if and when comments or requests are received concerning that
document. Please note that we are not required to respond to
public comments on non-economically significant guidance documents,
but if a response is requested, we believe it is warranted (e.g., we
may have already placed in the docket a
response to the same comment from someone else), and we
have the resources to do so, we will respond.
Submission of Comments or
Requests
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Electronic Submissions. To provide comments
or requests electronically, you may go to the particular docket
for which you wish to submit comments at
http://www.regulations.gov
. If you do not find an existing docket for the guidance
document on which you wish to submit a comment or a request, check
the "Lists of Significant
Guidance Documents." If a docket has not been created
yet for the specific guidance document, submit the comment or
request to docket no.
DOT-OST-2007-0003.
This is a special docket for comments or requests on a guidance
document for which a docket has not been created yet. A new
docket number will them be created by DOT staff for the guidance
document for which you are submitting a comment or request.
For more information on how to submit comments or requests, visit
the DOTs website
http://docketsinfo.dot.gov/ .
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Mail or Hand-Delivery.
For those who cannot or do not want to use electronic submission,
mail or deliver your comments or requests to:
U.S. Department of Transportation
Docket Operations, M-30
Room W12-140
1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E.
Washington, D. C. 20590
The Docket Operations office
is open between the hours of 9 am – 5 pm,
Eastern Time, Monday -
Friday (except for government holidays) for
deliveries.
Links to Comments.
To the extent that
it is appropriate and feasible, we will add a link from each
significant guidance document that we have posted on the web and
on which comments have been submitted to the FDMS docket
containing those comments.
Notifications.
FDMS provides
electronic notifications that allow users to sign up to receive an
email notification when a DOT agency places a document in the
docket. To sign up to receive an electronic notification, you must
go into FDMS and search by the number of the particular docket(s)
you are interested in. Once in the docket, follow the
instructions to sign up for the notification.
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