Guidance Search
The Department of Labor provides this guidance search tool as a single, searchable location where users may search for guidance issued by any of the Department’s agencies, including significant guidance documents under Executive Order 12866. Individual guidance documents are maintained on the various agency websites, and if you know what agency you are looking for, you may also find guidance by navigating directly to that agency’s website. The Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register, which are not maintained by the Department, also include some of the Department’s interpretations of law and similar material.
The Department and its agencies issue guidance to provide clarifying information and technical assistance to the public on existing statutory and regulatory rights and obligations, inform the regulated community about best practices, and provide other useful information. The contents of these documents do not have the force and effect of law and are not meant to bind the public in any way, except as authorized by law or incorporated into a contract, cooperative agreement, or grant.
Members of the public may petition the Department to modify or withdraw specific guidance documents. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor.
Petitions to Modify or Withdraw a DOL guidance document may also be submitted by mail at the address below. Petitions should identify the specific guidance document by name and include your reason(s) for requesting withdrawal or modification.
U.S. Department of Labor
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Clarification of paragraphs (c)(5) and (c)(7) of the Permit-Required Confined Spaces standard. - [1910.146]
MSDS requirements. - [1910.1200]
Whether the assets of a trust established by an employer to set aside a portion of its general assets as a potential source of premium payments for health insurance held by an ERISA plan would constitute assets of the plan.
Fumigants used to control insects in food plants. - [1910.119]
Dental workers exposed to disinfectants as part of decontamination. - [1910.1030]
Toenail particles do not qualify as regulated waste. - [1910.1030]
HHC's as it applies to flammable liquid stored at a worksite. - [1910.119]
Retract-A-Matic 6 Lifeline as it applies to personal fall arrest system. - [1910.66 App C]
Whether Prohibited Transaction Exemption 77-4 (PTE 77-4) applies to the proposed purchase and sale of shares of the PNC Serviced Funds by Plans for which PNC serves as fiduciary, without the waiver or credit of fees for Secondary Services paid to PNC Group by the PNC Group Serviced Funds.
The application of Prohibited Transaction Exemption 77-4 (PTE 77-4) regarding the Frank Russell Trust Company and its affiliates. Specifically, whether Frank Russell Investment Management Company’s waiver of the investment advisory fee, otherwise payable by the Plans to Frank Russell Group in connection with the investment of plan assets in the Funds, complies with the requirements of paragraph (c) of section II of PTE 77-4. Whether paragraphs (d), (e) and (f) of section II of PTE 77-4 require written disclosure and approval of fees paid to parties unrelated to Frank Russell Investment Management Company, or any affiliate, with respect to the investment of plan assets in the Funds. Whether PTE 77-4 provides relief for the purchase or sale of shares of the Funds subsequent to the approval by a Plan fiduciary, independent of and unrelated to Frank Russell Trust Company, of a program for the purchase or sale of shares in the Funds, without prior approval of each such purchase or sale by the independent Plan fiduciary.
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