The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is
providing the information below to increase
the quality and transparency of agency
guidance practices, and to comply with the
Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB)
"Final Bulletin for Agency Good Guidance
Practices" published in the Federal Register
on January 25, 2007 (72 FR 3432–3440).
While FAS has several guidance documents
relating to making application to the
various programs it administers, it has been
determined the Agency does not have any
significant guidance documents, as
defined in the OMB Bulletin referenced
above. The term ‘‘guidance document’’ means
an agency statement of general applicability
and future effect, other than a regulatory
action, that sets forth a policy on a
statutory, regulatory, or technical issue or
an interpretation of a statutory or
regulatory issue. A discussion of this
definition and various types of guidance
documents and other background information
is available at the following sites:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg/2007/
012507_good_guidance.pdf
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/memoranda/fy2007/
m07-13.pdf
Contact Information
Members of the public who wish to request
that the agency issue, reconsider, modify,
or rescind a significant guidance document,
or to complain that the agency is not
following the procedures in OMB's Bulletin,
or is improperly treating a significant
guidance document as a binding requirement,
may do so by sending an email to
Good_Guidance_Comments@fas.usda.gov
Or by mailing a letter to the following
office:
Guidance Officer
Office of Administrative Operations
USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
Mail Stop 1035
Washington, DC 20250-1035
Additionally, you may submit comments
through
www.regulations.gov on new or revised
guidance documents open for comment as
indicated in the chart below.
This agency effort and OMB's Bulletin is
intended to improve the internal management
of the Executive Branch and is not intended
to, and does not, create any right or
benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity, against the
United States, its agencies or other
entities, its officers or employees, or any
other person.