Guidance Documents Managed by the Office of General Counsel (OGC)
This page displays a list of documents managed by the Office of the General Counsel (OGC) and designated as guidance documentsAgency statements of general applicability, intended to have future effect on the behavior of regulated parties, that set forth a policy on a statutory, regulatory, or technical issue, or an interpretation of a statute or regulation, subject to certain exceptions.. EPA's guidance documents generally lack the force and effect of law.
This page contains guidance documents issued by OGC, excluding legal opinions or similar memoranda as they constitute “internal executive branch legal advice or legal opinions addressed to executive branch officials.” However, in the past many such documents have voluntarily been made public through publication in volumes of General Counsel Opinions and inclusion in online databases.
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