Declaratory Orders

Recommendation 2015-3  Declaratory Orders identifies contexts in which agencies should consider the use of declaratory orders in administrative adjudications. It also highlights best practices relating to the use of declaratory orders, including explaining the agency's procedures for issuing declaratory orders, ensuring adequate opportunities for public participation in the proceedings, responding to petitions for declaratory orders in a timely manner, and making declaratory orders and other dispositions of petitions readily available to the public.

Citation: Admin. Conf. of the U.S., Recommendation 2015-3, Declaratory Orders, 80 Fed. Reg. 78161 (Dec. 16, 2015).

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Declaratory Orders

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