Practice
Practice includes any action taken to support or oppose the assertion of a right before the Department or to support or oppose a request that the Department grant a privilege; and the term practice includes any such action whether it relates to the substance of, or to the procedural aspects of handling, a particular matter. The term practice does not include the preparation or filing of an application, the filing without comment of documents prepared by one other than the individual making the filing, obtaining from the Department information that is available to the public generally, or the making of inquiries respecting the status of a matter pending before the Department. Also, the term practice does not include the representation of an employee who is the subject of disciplinary, loyalty, or other personnel administrative proceedings.
Source
43 CFR § 1.2
Scoping language
As used in this part the term: