Part 5 — Administrative Rulemaking, Guidance, and Enforcement Procedures
Subpart A — General
Subpart B — Rulemaking Procedures
- § 5.3— General.
- § 5.5— Regulatory policies.
- § 5.7— Responsibilities.
- § 5.9— Regulatory Reform Task Force.
- § 5.11— Initiating a rulemaking.
- § 5.13— General rulemaking procedures.
- § 5.15— Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Unified Agenda).
- § 5.17— Special procedures for economically significant and high-impact rulemakings.
- § 5.19— Public contacts in informal rulemaking.
- § 5.21— Policy updates and revisions.
Subpart C — Guidance Procedures
- § 5.25— General.
- § 5.27— Review and clearance by Chief Counsels and the Office of the General Counsel.
- § 5.29— Requirements for clearance.
- § 5.31— Public access to effective guidance documents.
- § 5.33— Good faith cost estimates.
- § 5.35— Approved procedures for guidance documents identified as “significant” or “otherwise of importance to the Department's interests.”
- § 5.37— Definitions of “significant guidance document” and guidance documents that are “otherwise of importance to the Department's interests.”
- § 5.39— Designation procedures.
- § 5.41— Notice-and-comment procedures.
- § 5.43— Petitions for guidance.
- § 5.45— Rescinded guidance.
- § 5.47— Exigent circumstances.
- § 5.49— Reports to Congress and GAO.
Subpart D — Enforcement Procedures
- § 5.53— General.
- § 5.55— Enforcement attorney responsibilities.
- § 5.57— Definitions.
- § 5.59— Enforcement policy generally.
- § 5.61— Investigative functions.
- § 5.63— Clear legal foundation.
- § 5.65— Proper exercise of prosecutorial and enforcement discretion.
- § 5.67— Duty to review for legal sufficiency.
- § 5.69— Fair notice.
- § 5.71— Separation of functions.
- § 5.73— Avoiding bias.
- § 5.75— Representation of regulated parties.
- § 5.77— Formal enforcement adjudications.
- § 5.79— Informal enforcement adjudications.
- § 5.81— The hearing record.
- § 5.83— Contacts with the public.
- § 5.85— Duty to disclose exculpatory evidence.
- § 5.87— Use of guidance documents in administrative enforcement cases.
- § 5.89— Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).
- § 5.91— Duty to adjudicate proceedings promptly.
- § 5.93— Termination of investigation.
- § 5.95— Initiation of additional investigations.
- § 5.97— Agency decisions.
- § 5.99— Settlements.
- § 5.101— OGC approval required for certain settlement terms.
- § 5.103— Basis for civil penalties and disclosures thereof.
- § 5.105— Publication of decisions.
- § 5.107— Coordination with the Office of Inspector General on criminal matters.
- § 5.109— Standard operating procedures.
- § 5.111— Cooperative information sharing.
- § 5.113— Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA).
- § 5.115— Referral of matters for judicial enforcement.
- § 5.117— Publicly available decisional quality and efficiency metrics.
- § 5.119— Enforcement rights.