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Processes and Procedures for Issuance and Use of Guidance Documents
The Justice Department published this final rule in the Federal Register on January 21, 2025. It took effect on January 17, 2025.
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What the agency says
This rule finalizes without change an interim final rule by which the Department of Justice ("Department") removed amendments to its regulations that were made during 2020 pursuant to the now-revoked Executive Order 13891, which had imposed limitations on the use of Department guidance documents in criminal and civil enforcement actions brought by the Department.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-01409
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule
- Agency
- Justice Department
- Published
- January 21, 2025
- Takes effect
- January 17, 2025
- Dates
- This rule is effective January 17, 2025.
- Docket
- Docket No. OAG 174; AG Order No. 6148-2025
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 1105-AB61
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 28 CFR 50
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure
- Pages
- 3
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