WASHINGTON — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted yesterday to rescind a pair of approximately 40-year-old agency policy documents: the agency interpretive guidelines titled “Affirmative Action Appropriate Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as Amended” (Affirmative Action Guidelines) and the related “Compliance Manual Section 607 on Affirmative Action” (Compliance Manual on Affirmative Action).