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Recommendation 2019-3 – Public Availability of Agency Guidance Documents offers best practices for promoting widespread availability of guidance documents on agency websites.

Recommendation 2021-7, Public Availability of Inoperative Agency Guidance Documents – provides best practices for maintaining public access to agency guidance documents that are no longer in effect—that is, inoperative.

Recommendation 2022-6, Public Availability of Settlement Agreements in Agency Enforcement Proceedings  – identifies best practices for providing public access to settlement agreements reached during administrative enforcement proceedings without disclosing legally protected materials, consistent with the transparency objectives and privacy considerations of the Freedom of Information Act, Privacy Act, and other r

Recommendation 2018-7 – Public Engagement in Rulemaking offers strategies for agencies to enhance public engagement prior to and during informal rulemaking. It encourages agencies to invest resources in a way that maximizes the probability that rule-writers obtain high quality public information as early in the process as possible.

Recommendation 2019-8 – Public Identification of Agency Officials promotes the public availability of real-time information about high-level officials leading federal agencies. It encourages agencies to publish on their websites basic information about high-level agency leaders and identify vacant leadership positions and acting officials.

Recommendation 2018-8 – Public-Private Partnerships offers agencies guidance on legal and practical considerations for participating in public-private partnerships.

Recommendation 2021-10, Quality Assurance Systems in Agency Adjudication – identifies best practices for promoting fairness, accuracy, timeliness, and consistency in agency adjudications through the use of quality assurance systems. It provides guidance to agencies on the selection, role, and institutional placement of quality-assurance personnel.

Recommendation 2019-9 – Recruiting and Hiring Agency Attorneys urges agencies to avail themselves of the flexibilities available to them when hiring attorneys and offers best practices for structuring their hiring processes. First, it suggests that the Office of Personnel Management offer training for agencies on the alternative processes and flexibilities available to them when they hire attorneys.

Recommendation 2018-4 – Recusal Rules for Administrative Adjudicators urges agencies to issue procedural rules governing the recusal of adjudicators to ensure both impartiality and the appearance of impartiality in agency adjudications.