Title 22

SECTION 212.29

212.29 Public access to effective guidance documents.

§ 212.29 Public access to effective guidance documents.

Each B/IO within USAID responsible for issuing guidance documents shall do the following:

(a) Ensure all effective guidance documents, identified by a unique identifier that includes, at a minimum, the document's title and date of issuance or revision and its RIN, if applicable, are on USAID's guidance portal in a single, searchable, indexed database and are available to the public in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(2);

(b) Note on USAID's guidance portal that guidance documents lack the force and effect of law, except as authorized by law and are not meant to bind the public in anyway;

(c) Maintain and advertise USAID's guidance portal as a means for the public to comment electronically on any guidance documents that are subject to the notice-and-comment procedures described in § 212.34 and to submit requests electronically for the issuance, reconsideration, modification, or rescission of guidance documents in accordance with § 212.26; and

(d) The Bureau for Management is the office designated to receive and address complaints from the public that USAID is not following the requirements of OMB's Good Guidance Bulletin, or is improperly treating a guidance document as a binding requirement.

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