§ 0.445   Publication, availability and use of opinions, orders, policy
statements, interpretations, administrative manuals, and staff instructions.

   (a) Adjudicatory opinions and orders of the Commission, or its staff acting
   on delegated authority, are mailed or delivered by electronic means to the
   parties,  and  as  part of the record, are available for inspection in
   accordance with § § 0.453 and 0.455.

   (b) Texts adopted by the Commission or a member of its staff on delegated
   authority and released through the Office of Media Relations are published
   in the FCC Record. Older materials of this nature are available in the FCC
   Reports. In the event that such older materials are not published in the FCC
   Reports,  reference should be made to the Federal Register or Pike and
   Fischer Communications Regulation.

   (c) All rulemaking documents or summaries thereof are published in the
   Federal  Register  and are available on the Commission's Web site. The
   complete text of the Commission decision also is released by the Commission
   and is available for inspection and copying during normal business hours in
   the Office of Media Relations, the Reference Information Center, via the
   Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS), or as otherwise specified in the
   rulemaking document published in the Federal Register. The complete texts of
   rulemaking  decisions may also be purchased from the Commission's copy
   contractor.

   (d) Formal policy statements and interpretations designed to have general
   applicability are published in the Federal Register, the FCC Record, FCC
   Reports, or Pike and Fischer Communications Regulation. Commission decisions
   and other Commission documents not entitled formal policy statements or
   interpretations may contain substantive interpretations and statements
   regarding policy, and these are published as part of the document in the FCC
   Record, FCC Reports or Pike and Fischer Communications Regulation. General
   statements regarding policy and interpretations furnished to individuals, in
   correspondence or otherwise, are not ordinarily published.

   (e) If the documents described in paragraphs (a) through (d) of this section
   are published in the Federal Register, the FCC Record, FCC Reports, or Pike
   and Fischer Communications Regulation, they are indexed, and they may be
   relied upon, used or cited as precedent by the Commission or private parties
   in any manner. If they are not so published, they may not be relied upon,
   used or cited as precedent, except against persons who have actual notice of
   the document in question or by such persons against the Commission. No
   person  is  expected  to  comply with any requirement or policy of the
   Commission unless he or she has actual notice of that requirement or policy
   or a document stating it has been published as provided in this paragraph.
   Nothing in this paragraph, however, shall be construed as precluding a
   reference to a recent document that is pending publication.

   (f) Subparts A and B of this part describe the functions of the staff and
   list the matters on which authority has been delegated to the staff. All
   general instructions to the staff and limitations upon its authority are set
   forth in those subparts or in decisions of the Commission published in the
   Federal Register. Instructions to the staff in particular matters or cases
   are privileged and/or protected and are not published or made available for
   public inspection.

   (g) To the extent required to prevent a clearly unwarranted invasion of
   personal  privacy, or to prevent disclosure of information required or
   authorized to be withheld by another statute, the Commission may delete
   identifying details or confidential information when it makes available or
   publishes any document described in this section. The justification for any
   such deletion will be fully explained in a preamble to the document.

   [ 74 FR 14078 , Mar. 30, 2009, as amended at  76 FR 24388 , May 2, 2011]

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