Title 45

SECTION 1157.4

1157.4 Public access to effective guidance documents.

§ 1157.4 Public access to effective guidance documents.

The Arts Endowment shall:

(a) Ensure all effective guidance documents, identified by a unique identifier which includes, at a minimum, the document's title and date of issuance or revision and its RIN, if applicable, are on its website in a single, searchable, indexed database, and available to the public in accordance with § 1157.7;

(b) Note on its website that guidance documents lack the force and effect of law, except as authorized by law or as incorporated into a contract;

(c) Advertise on its website where the public can comment electronically on any guidance documents that are subject to the notice-and-comment procedures described in § 1157.6 and to submit requests electronically for issuance, reconsideration, modification, or rescission of guidance documents. Guidance documents that do not appear on the Agency's single, searchable, indexed database are rescinded; and

(d) Designate an office to receive and address complaints from the public that the Arts Endowment 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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