1. Executive Order by the Bush administration defined "guidance document" as "an agency statement of general applicability and future effect, other than a regulatory action, that sets forth a policy on a statutory, regulatory, or technical issue or an interpretation of a statutory or regulatory issue;C.F.R,2007
2. Interpretive Rules, Policy Statements, Guidances, Manuals, and the Like?Should Federal Agencies Use Them to Bind the Public?;E G See;41 DUKE L.J. 1311,1992