DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ISSUES RULE: REMOVING UNNECESSARY DEPARTMENT-SPECIFIC REGULATIONS RELATED TO EMPLOYEE RESPONSIBILITIES AND CONDUCT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Department Of Commerce has issued a rule called: Removing Unnecessary Department-Specific Regulations Related to Employee Responsibilities and Conduct.

The rule was published in the Federal Register on Jan. 15 by Paul Dabbar, Deputy Secretary of Commerce.

Summary: By this rule, the Department of Commerce (the "Department") eliminates regulations that relate to the responsibilities and conduct of the Department's employees. None of the regulations at Part 0 is required by statute and, as a whole, Part 0 has been supplanted and rendered obsolete by various Executive branch-wide regulations in Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations and Department Administrative Orders ("DAOs"). The removal of Part 0 is necessary to...