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6See Admin. Conf. of the U.S., Recommendation 

2021–7, Public Availability of Inoperative Agency 

Guidance Documents, 87 FR 1718 (Jan. 12, 2022); 

Admin. Conf. of the U.S., Recommendation 2019– 

3, Public Availability of Agency Guidance 

Documents, 84 FR 38,931 (Aug. 8, 2019); Admin. 

Conf. of the U.S., Recommendation 2019–1, Agency 

Guidance Through Interpretive Rules, 84 FR 38,927 

(Aug. 8, 2019); Admin. Conf. of the U.S., 

Recommendation 2017–5, Agency Guidance 

Through Policy Statements, 82 FR 61,734 (Dec. 29, 

2017); Admin. Conf. of the U.S., Recommendation 

2014–3, Guidance in the Rulemaking Process, 79 FR 

35,992 (June 25, 2014). 

agency guidance documents.6 This 

Recommendation builds on those 

recommendations by identifying best 

practices for agencies to consider when they 

develop, use, and manage automated legal 

guidance tools. In identifying these best 

practices, the Conference recognizes that 

automated legal guidance tools may not be 

suitable for all agencies and administrative 

programs and that even when agencies use 

them, agencies will need to provide 

additional guidance by other means, 

including live person-to-person support. 

Recommendation 

Design and Management 

1. Agencies should explore the possible 

benefits of offering automated legal guidance 

tools, including enhancing administrative 

efficiency and helping the public understand 

complex laws using plain language. This is 

especially true for those agencies that have a 

high volume of individual interactions with 

members of the public who may not be 

familiar with legal requirements. 

2. Agencies should also weigh the potential 

downsides of offering automated legal 

guidance tools, including potentially 

oversimplifying the law and creating 

confusion as to whether and when the agency 

intends users to rely on the guidance issued. 

To avoid such confusion, agencies should 

follow the recommendations set forth in 

Paragraphs 18–20. 

3. Agencies using automated legal 

guidance tools should design and manage 

them in ways that promote fairness, 

accuracy, clarity, efficiency, accessibility, 

and transparency. 

4. Agencies should ensure that automated 

legal guidance tools do not displace other 

agency mechanisms for increasing access to 

the underlying law. 

5. Agencies should adopt clear procedures 

for designing, maintaining, and reviewing the 

content embedded in automated legal 

guidance tools and should publish these 

procedures on their websites. These 

procedures should incorporate periodic user 

testing and other forms of evaluation by 

internal and external researchers to ensure 

accessibility and effectiveness. 

6. The General Services Administration 

should regularly evaluate the relative costs 

and benefits of using outside vendors for the 

production of automated legal guidance tools 

and share their evaluations with agencies. 

Accessibility 

7. Agencies should utilize human-centered 

design methodologies, empirical customer 

research, and user testing, as described and 

defined in Executive Order 14,058, 

Transforming Federal Customer Experience 

and Service Delivery to Rebuild Trust in 

Government (86 FR 71,357 (Dec. 13, 2021)), 

in designing and maintaining their 

automated legal guidance tools. 

8. Agencies should, consistent with 

applicable laws and policies, design and 

periodically review and, when necessary, 

reconfigure automated legal guidance tools to 

ensure that they meet the needs of the 

particular populations that are intended to 

utilize the automated legal guidance tools. 

9. Agencies should ensure that information 

provided by automated legal guidance tools 

is stated in plain language understandable by 

the particular populations that are intended 

to use these tools, consistent with the Plain 

Writing Act of 2010 (5 U.S.C. 301 note); 

Recommendation 2017–3, Plain Language in 

Regulatory Drafting (82 FR 61,728 (Dec. 14, 

2017)); and other applicable laws, policies, 

and Conference recommendations. 

10. Agencies should design automated 

legal guidance tools to put users in contact 

with a human customer service 

representative to whom they can address 

questions in the event that a question is not 

answered by an automated legal guidance 

tool or if the users are having difficulty using 

the tools. 

Transparency 

11. When the underlying law is unclear or 

unsettled, or when the application of the law 

is especially fact-dependent, agencies should 

be transparent about the limitations of the 

advice the user is receiving. To the extent 

practicable, agencies should also provide 

access through automated legal guidance 

tools to the legal materials underlying the 

tools, including relevant statutes, rules, and 

judicial or adjudicative decisions. 

12. Agencies should disclose how they 

store and use the data obtained through 

automated legal guidance tools. 

13. Agencies should update the content of 

automated legal guidance tools to reflect legal 

developments or correct errors in a timely 

manner. Agencies should also maintain an 

electronic, publicly accessible, searchable 

archive that identifies and explains the 

updates. Agencies should provide the date on 

which the tool was last updated. 

14. When automated legal guidance tools 

provide programmed responses to users’ 

questions, agencies should publish the 

questions and responses so as to provide an 

immediate and comprehensive source of 

information regarding the tools. Agencies 

should post this information in an 

appropriate location on their websites and 

make it accessible through the automated 

legal guidance tool to which it pertains. 

15. When automated legal guidance tools 

learn to provide different answers to users’ 

questions over time, agencies should publish 

information related to how the machine 

learning process was developed and how it 

is maintained and updated. Agencies should 

post this information in an appropriate 

location on their websites and make it 

accessible through the automated legal 

guidance tool to which it pertains. 

16. Agencies that use automated legal 

guidance tools should provide users the 

ability to offer feedback or report errors. 

17. When applicable, agencies should 

provide disclaimers that the automated legal 

guidance tool is not human. 

Reliance 

18. Agencies should allow users to obtain 

a written record of their communication with 

automated legal guidance tools and should 

include date and time stamps on the written 

record. 

19. Agencies should consider whether, or 

under what circumstances, a person’s good 

faith reliance on guidance provided by an 

automated legal guidance tool should serve 

as a defense against a penalty or other 

consequences for noncompliance with an 

applicable legal requirement, and they 

should prominently announce that position 

to users. 

20. If an agency takes the position that it 

can depart from an interpretation or 

explanation provided by an automated legal 

guidance tool, including in the application of 

penalties for noncompliance, it should 

prominently announce its position to users, 

including in the written record of the 

communication with the automated legal 

guidance tool. 

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BILLING CODE 6110–01–P 

U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

AGENCY: Commission on the Social 

Status of Black Men and Boys 

(CSSBMB), U.S. Commission on Civil 

Rights. 

ACTION: Notice of CSSBMB public 

briefing. 

DATES: Friday, July 8, 2022. 1:00 p.m.– 

3:30 p.m. EDT. 

ADDRESSES: The Briefing will take place 

virtually via YouTube: https://

www.youtube.com/user/USCCR/videos. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Marvin Williams, 202–339– 

2371,pressbmb@usccr.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with Public Law 116–156, 

1134 Stat. 700 (2020), the Commission 

on the Social Status of Black Men and 

Boys (CSSBMB) will hold a public 

briefing focused on preventative 

strategies to mitigate the social 

disparities of Black men in America. 

This briefing is open to the public via 

livestream on the Commission on Civil 

Rights’ YouTube Page at https://

www.youtube.com/user/USCCR/videos. 

(Streaming information subject to 

change.) Public participation is 

available for the event with view access, 

along with an audio option for listening. 

Computer assisted real-time 

transcription (CART) will be provided. 

The web link to access CART (in 

English) on Friday, July 8, 2022, is 


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https://www.steamtext.net/ 

player?event=USCCR (*subject to 

change). Please note that CART is textonly translation that occurs in real time 

during the meeting and is not an exact 

transcript. 

* Date and meeting details are subject 

to change. For more information on the 

CSSBMB or the upcoming public 

briefing, please visit CSSBMB’s website 

at www.usccr.gov/about/CSSBMB. 

Briefing Agenda 

I. Opening Remarks by CSSBMB Chair, 

Frederica S. Wilson 

II. Call to Order 

III. Approval of Agenda 

IV. Roundtable Discussion With Expert 

Panelists * 

A. The Honorable Frederica Wilson, 

Congresswoman (FL–24) and 

CSSBMB Chair 

B. The Honorable Jamaal Bowman, 

Congressman (NY–16) and CSSBMB 

Commissioner (Roundtable 

Moderator) 

C. Dr. Gregory C. Hutchings Jr.— 

Alexandria City Schools 

D. CSSBMB Commissioner Jack 

Brewer—The Brewer Group 

E. Dr. Robert Simmons—Head of 

Social Impact and STEM Programs 

F. Troy Vincent—Vice President of 

Operations for the NFL 

G. Timothy Belcher Sr.—Special 

Advisor to the City Manager 

V. Adjourn Briefing 

Dated: June 30, 2022. 

David Mussatt, 

Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit. 

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BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

North American Free Trade Agreement 

(NAFTA), Article 1904; Binational Panel 

Review: Notice of Panel Decision 

AGENCY: United States Section, NAFTA 

Secretariat, International Trade 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of panel decision. 

SUMMARY: On June 27, 2022, the 

Binational Panel issued its Decision in 

the matter of Light-Walled Rectangular 

Pipe and Tube from Mexico; Final 

Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review (Secretariat File 

Number: USA–MEX–2019–1904–01). 

The Binational Panel affirmed the 

Department of Commerce’s Final 

Determination. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Vidya Desai, United States Secretary, 

NAFTA Secretariat, Room 2061, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230, (202) 482–5438. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Chapter 

19 of Article 1904 of NAFTA provides 

a dispute settlement mechanism 

involving trade remedy determinations 

issued by the Government of the United 

States, the Government of Canada, and 

the Government of Mexico. Following a 

Request for Panel Review, a Binational 

Panel is composed to provide judicial 

review of the trade remedy 

determination being challenged and 

then issue a binding Panel Decision. 

There are established Rules of 

Procedure for Article 1904 Binational 

Panel Reviews, which were adopted by 

the three governments for panels 

requested pursuant to Article 1904(2) of 

NAFTA. The notice of this Binational 

Panel’s Decision is being published 

pursuant to Rule 70. For the complete 

Rules, please see https://can-mex-usasec.org/secretariat/agreement-accordacuerdo/nafta-alena-tlcan/rules-reglesreglas/article-article-articulo_

1904.aspx?lang=eng. 

Dated: June 28, 2022. 

Vidya Desai, 

U.S. Secretary, NAFTA Secretariat. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–GT–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XC141] 

Marine Mammals; File No. 26591 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; receipt of application. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the BBC Broadcasting House’s Natural 

History Unit, Whiteladies Road, Bristol, 

United Kingdom BS8 2LR (Responsible 

Party: Sheryl Bawden), has applied in 

due form for a permit to conduct 

commercial and educational 

photography on bottlenose dolphins 

(Tursiops truncatus). 

DATES: Written, telefaxed, or email 

comments must be received on or before 

August 4, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: These documents are 

available upon written request via email 

to NMFS.Pr1Comments@noaa.gov. 

Written comments on this application 

should be submitted via email to 

NMFS.Pr1Comments@noaa.gov. Please 

include File No. 26591 in the subject 

line of the email comment. 

Those individuals requesting a public 

hearing should submit a written request 

via email to NMFS.Pr1Comments@

noaa.gov. The request should set forth 

the specific reasons why a hearing on 

this application would be appropriate. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin 

Markin or Carrie Hubard, (301) 427– 

8401. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

subject permit is requested under the 

authority of the Marine Mammal 

Protection Act of 1972, as amended 

(MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) and the 

regulations governing the taking and 

importing of marine mammals (50 CFR 

part 216). 

The applicant proposes to film 

bottlenose dolphins (Charleston 

Estuarine System Stock) in waters 

around Charleston County, South 

Carolina, including Kiawah, Seabrook, 

and Hilton Head Islands, for a wildlife 

documentary series that reveals the 

strand feeding behavior as an example 

of the success that can be achieved 

when animals work together. Up to 

1,680 bottlenose dolphins may be 

filmed from land, vessel, or unmanned 

aircraft systems, annually. Underwater 

video and vocalizations may be 

recorded using an underwater pole 

camera. The permit would expire on 

December 1, 2023. 

In compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 

U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), an initial 

determination has been made that the 

activity proposed is categorically 

excluded from the requirement to 

prepare an environmental assessment or 

environmental impact statement. 

Concurrent with the publication of 

this notice in the Federal Register, 

NMFS is forwarding copies of the 

application to the Marine Mammal 

Commission and its Committee of 

Scientific Advisors. 

Dated: June 28, 2022. 

Julia M. Harrison, 

Chief, Permits and Conservation Division, 

Office of Protected Resources, National 

Marine Fisheries Service. 

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