The Fedora policy covers EPEL as well in https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Updates_Policy/#critpath-updates but the specific policies seem inconsistent with https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/epel-policy/ and https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/epel-policy-updates/
per @kevin Bodhi actually enforces 7 days so the Fedora policy is definitely wrong
fedora_epel.mandatory_days_in_testing = 7
This issue has been migrated to Fedora Forge: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/epel/steering/issues/272
Please continue any further discussion there.