---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 C.F.R. § 313.5"
title: "22"
number: "313.5"
heading: "Procedures for guidance documents identified as “significant.”"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/22/313.5"
---

# §313.5. Procedures for guidance documents identified as “significant.”

- (a) Whenever a guidance document is proposed to be issued by the Agency, a copy of the proposed guidance document will be reviewed by the Office of the General Counsel and provided to OMB/OIRA for a “significance” determination pursuant to Executive Order 12866.
- (b) Following review and an affirmative “significance” determination by OMB/OIRA pursuant to Executive Order 12866, the guidance document will be reviewed by the Senior Policy Committee which may recommend that it be approved by the Director for issuance as a “significant” guidance document and the Agency may issue the guidance following approval by the Director.
- (c) If the guidance document is determined by OMB/OIRA not to be “significant” within the meaning of [§ 313.4](/cfr/22/313.4.md), the Agency or office within the Agency may proceed to issue the guidance.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 22 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.

### Source

Source: 85 FR 73419, Nov. 18, 2020, unless otherwise noted.