The Fish and Wildlife Service publishes in excess of 500 Federal Register documents annually.

The Division of Policy and Directives Management:

• Serves as liaison with the the Interior Department's Office of Regulatory Affairs, the Office of the Federal Register, and the Office of Management and Budget.


• Oversees the Service's regulatory program to ensure compliance with Title 1 of the Code of Federal Regulations and Part 318 of the Departmental Manual.


• Coordinates and reviews rulemaking documents (such as proposed and final rules published in the Federal Register or records of compliance) for adherence to the Administrative Procedure Act, Regulatory Flexibility Act, Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act, Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, and several Executive Orders governing issuance of regulations.


• Provides training and assists program offices with the preparation of Federal Register documents. The Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, has prepared the Document Drafting Handbook.  This document provides guidance for creating and submitting documents to comply with the Office of the Federal Register's publication requirements.  For information on writing Federal Register documents in plain language, review Part 318 of the Departmental Manual and visit the National Partnership for Reinventing Government's plain language website.

For a copy of the "Federal Register Document Review Request" FWS Form 3-2198, click on:
http://www.fws.gov/forms/3-2198.pdf

For current contact and delivery information for Federal Register documents, click on:
http://www.fws.gov/pdm/FRContacts.html

The following forms are available as separate PDF files for use when submitting rules and policy documents.  PDF files can be downloaded and read using Adobe Acrobat Reader.  To complete the form online and then save the file, you must have version 8.0, or later. This free software is available from Adobe Inc. 

• Form for Submission of Federal Rules under the Congressional Review Act - use for all final rules, direct final rules, interim rules, and emergency rules to be published in the Federal Register.
  
  
• Regulatory Information Data (RID) Form & Instructions



• Regulatory Action Alert  (FWS 3-2188)

PDM Contact:  Susan Wilkinson, (703) 358-2506, Susan_Wilkinson@fws.gov