ADMINISTRATIVE SOURCES

RULES & REGULATIONS

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW QUESTIONS	FEDERAL REGISTER
CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS	GUIDES TO FEDERAL REGULATIONS
DECISIONS OF FEDERAL           ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES	PRESIDENTIAL INFORMATION  PAGE
EXECUTIVE BRANCH AGENCY  DIRECTORIES	STATE REGULATORY INFORMATION
FEDERAL ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS            & REGULATORY AGENCIES	UNIFIED AGENDA

     GUIDES TO FEDERAL REGULATIONS

Federal Regulations - Library Guide Series  -  http://www.clark.net/pub/lschank/web/fedregs.html

Federal Regulations - Mirror Site
http://www.mnsfld.edu/depts/lib/fedregs.html

This guide provides background and explanatory information about government regulations and regulatory information.  Hypertext links to sites to access the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, regulatory agencies or departments, government regulations for specific topics, and state regulatory information sites are imbedded in the text.
 

How the Regulatory Process Works  -  Guide to the Regulatory Process  -   LEGI-SLATE Digital Intelligence on Legislation and Regulations  -  http://legiweb.legislate.com/d/ddregpr1.htm

Guide to the Federal Register  -  http://legiweb.legislate.com/d/ddfr.htm

Guide to the Code of Federal Regulations   -    http://legiweb.legislate.com/d/ddcfr.htm

Glossary of Congressional and Regulatory Terms: A- L  - http://legiweb.legislate.com/z/dzgloss1.htm

Glossary of Congressional and Regulatory Terms: M-Z  -  http://legiweb.legislate.com/z/dzgloss2.htm

Legi-Slate provides introductory guides to the federal regulatory process.  Three guides provides information on how government agencies implement laws passed by Congress and the relationship between the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations.  The two-part "Glossary of Legislative and Regulatory Terms" gives  definitions of terms used on Capitol Hill during the statutory and regulatory processes.

 
Federal Regulations - Cornell Legal Information Institute  - http://www.law.cornell.edu/library/fedregs1.html#toc
This guide provides background information and an explanation of the regulatory system in the United States with links to sites on the Internet.
 

Federal Regulatory Information :Full-Text, Agency and Background Resources Available Via the Internet  - http://www.lib.lfc.edu/federalregs/regshome.html

Full-Text Sources of Federal Regulations on The Internet  - http://www.lib.lfc.edu/federalregs/fulltext.html

Alphabetical List of Agencies - http://www.lib.lfc.edu/federalregs/alphlist.html

Published by Nettie Lagace and John Brandt in 1994, this guide provides a two pages that are helpful for doing regulatory research. "Full-Text Sources of Federal Regulations on the Internet" provides a hypertext table of contents and descriptions of all sites publishing the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations. The "Alphabetical List of Agencies" page alphabetically lists all agencies and departments and gives the hypertext link to the CFR section and title where the rules and regulations are published.
 

The Federal Register System  -  Stanford University - Jonsson Library of Government Documents - Guide to Government Publications Series  -  http://www.stanford.edu/group/Jonsson/pubiv16.html
 

The Federal Register - Office of the Federal Register - National Archives and Records Administration -  http://www.nara.gov/fedreg/nfrsrch.html

http://www.nara.gov/fedreg/index.html#top

Finding Federal Regulations  -  http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/godort/laws/regswtxa.txt
 

Updating Federal Regulations - Cornell University School of Law - http://www.law.cornell.edu/library/fedregs3.html
 

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    FEDERAL REGISTER

Federal Register - GPO Access -  http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html
Database for the 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998 - Federal Register - Vols. 60, 61, 62, and 63  -

Browse Federal Register Table of Contents  -  http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html

Browse Federal Register Table of Contents Back Issues - 1998  -  http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fedreg/frcont98.html

Databases Online via GPO Access  - http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/db2.html

The Federal Register is published by the Office of the Federal Register, U. S. National Archives and Records Administration.  This database is part of the GPO Access site and includes the previous days Federal Register.  The database includes all of the Federal Register since 1995 and volume 60, including the following sections; Contents and Preliminary Pages, Final Rules and Regulations, Proposed Rules, Notices, Presidential Documents, Sunshine Act Meetings, Reader Aids, and Corrections.  Users can select one or more sections to search, or all of the Federal Register can be searched.  Searches can be tailored to designate a time period or specific issue date.  The Federal Register is published Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. The Table of Contents from the current issue is available here on the day of publication. The issue date is always the same as the day of publication. The Table of Contents of the Federal Register is available in  HTML and PDF Formats.
 

GPO Access - Federal Depository Library Gateways   -  http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aaces004.html
The Federal Register can be searched through the depository library gateway search pages.

Federal Register  - National Archives and Records Administration  -  http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/#fr
The Federal Register is published by the Office of the Federal Register of the National Archives and Records Administration.  This address links to the GPO Access database. 

Federal Register, 1995 -  present   - University of California GPO Gate - http://www.gpo.ucop.edu/search/fedfld.html

Federal Register, 1994  -   http://www.gpo.ucop.edu:80/search/fed94.html

GPO Gate from the University of California provides an expanded database search of the Federal Register from 1995 to the present.
 

Federal Register  - http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html
This site provides links to databases of the Federal Register.

Federal Register - EPA Electronic Federal Register Project  -  Environmental Documents and the Unified Agenda  -  http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/search.htm  
The EPA Federal Register - Environmental  Documents database can be searched by keywords, specific days of publication, or the GPO database.  The EPA's Electronic Federal Register Project obtains the daily Federal Register to form the Environmental Subset from the GPO database.  Searches  will produce results in all topics of federal information, not just environmentally specific information.

Texas Register  -  http://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/

Current Texas Register Index  -  http://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/sos/index.html

Current Issue  -  http://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/curris.html

Back Issues of the Texas Register  -  http://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/archive/index.html

Back Issues  -  http://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/backis.html

Texas Administrative Code Titles Affected Page  -  http://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/search.html
 

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    UNIFIED AGENDA

The agendas for each issuing agency are published in the table of contents of each Federal Register issue under the Proposed Rule section.  Each agenda begins with a preamble and a table summarizing the regulatory actions, followed by descriptions (abstracts) of each action. Also known as the Semi-Annual Regulatory Agenda, this title summarizes anticipated regulatory actions by Federal agencies. The records are published as ASCII text and Adobe Acrobat portable document format(PDF)files.  The database is updated semi-annually when the Unified Agenda is published in the Federal Register, usually in April and October.  Information from the Unified Agenda can be retrieved using words or phrases from the full text or the title.

Unified Agenda - GPO Access - Connect to Databases Online via GPO Access  - http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aaces002.html
The GPO Access database provides for searching of the Unified Agenda from 1994 to the present.  The Unified Agenda online database via GPO Access is also available through Federal Depository Library Gateways or on-site at a Federal Depository Library. 

Unified Agenda - GPO Gate - University of California Gateway to GPO Access - http://www.gpo.ucop.edu/search/unif.html
GPO Gate provides an enhanced search page for the Unified Agenda from 1994 to the present.

Regulatory Plan and Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations - Regulatory Information Service Center - http://cobar.cs.umass.edu/ciirdemo/ua/

REGINFO.GOV - http://reginfo.gov/

http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/ua/

The Regulatory Information Service Center was created in June 1981. The Center undertakes projects that will facilitate development of and access to information about Federal regulatory and deregulatory activities. It accomplishes this by gathering and publishing information on Federal regulations and their effects on society. The Center provides this information to the President, Congress, agency officials, and the general public to help them better understand and manage the regulatory process. The Center's principal publication is the Unified Agenda, which is normally published each year in April and October. The Regulatory Plan, which is published as part of the October edition of the Agenda, identifies regulatory priorities and contains additional detail about the most important significant regulatory actions that agencies expect to take in the coming year. The Unified Agenda summarizes the rules and proposed rules each agency expects to issue during the following six months. The site provides for searching of the Unified Agenda as a whole, browsing of the table of contents by departments, or searching of the subject index.

Department of Labor  -  Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations  -  http://www.dol.gov/dol/public/regs/agenda.htm

DOL Semi-Annual Regulatory Agenda Preamble  -  http://www.dol.gov/dol/asp/public/regs/unifiedagenda/agenda.htm

DOL Unifed Agenda of Federal Regulations by Agency  -  http://www.dol.gov/dol/public/regs/agenda2.htm
 

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    CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS

Code of Federal Regulations - GPO Access/National Archives and Records Administration - http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr
(Selected titles - current version - official text - via GPO Access)
The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government. The purpose of the CFR online is to provide the public with enhanced access to Government information.  The CFR is divided into 50 titles which represent broad areas subject to Federal regulation. Each title is divided into chapters which usually bear the name of the issuing agency. Each chapter is further subdivided into parts covering specific regulatory areas. Large parts may be subdivided into subparts. All parts are organized in sections, and most citations to the CFR will be provided at the section level.   Each volume of the CFR is revised once each calendar year and issued on a quarterly basis.  CFR volumes are added to the online service concurrent with the release of the paper editions. When revised CFR volumes are added, the prior editions will remain on GPO Access as a historical set.

Search the Books Available Online by Keywords
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/index.html

Retrieve Available CFR Sections by Citation -  (current and/or historical data) - http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-retrieve.html#page1
This page allows users to retrieve a specific CFR section.

Search a Single Cfr Title
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html
Users can limit the search to one or more titles and/or volumes. A table is provided which lists the subject of each title and allows users to choose current or historical versions.
 
Search the entire set of CFR databases by keyword (current data)
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/index.html#page1
This page enables users to search all 50 titles.

Search your choice of CFR titles and/or volumes (current and/or historical data)
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html#page1
This page provides an up-to-date listing of titles and volumes available in current and historical editions.
 

Code of Federal Regulations - University of California GPO Gate  - http://www.gpo.ucop.edu:80/search/cfr.html
 

Cornell University Law School  -  http://www.law.cornell.edu/regs.html
 

FindLaw: Laws: Cases and Codes: US Constitution, Code and CFR  -  http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/code.html

FindLaw  -  http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/code.html

Federal Regulatory Information :Full-Text, Agency and Background Resources Available Via the Internet  - http://www.lib.lfc.edu/federalregs/regshome.html

CFR Title Arrangement  -  http://www.lib.lfc.edu/federalregs/cfrtoc.html
Alphabetical List of Agencies  -  http://www.lib.lfc.edu/federalregs/alphlist.html

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    STATE REGULATORY INFORMATION

ABA Administrative Procedure Database - Administrative Law and Regulatory Reform Bibliographic Database - Florida State University College of Law and the American Bar Association's Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice -  http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/admin/

Administrative Procedure Database Index - http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/admin/index.html

State Resources - http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/admin/state.html
The State Resources page provides hypertext tables to state agencies, administrative procedure acts, and other state information

Administrative Law Resources Arranged By State - http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/admin/admin5.html

State Administrative Procedure Acts  -  http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/admin/admin3.html

Search the Administrative Procedure Database  -  http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/admin/new_search.html

State Web Locator - Villanova University Center for Information Law and Policy-  http://www.vcilp.org/State-Agency/index.html
From the Villanova University Center for Information Law and Policy, the State Web Locator's hypertext state table links to individual state directory pages listing the Internet sites from each branch of government.  The URL's link to sites for administrative law, agency, and state government information.

ALSO - American Law Sources Online - United States  -  http://www.lawsource.com/also/#[United States]
The ALSO state directory pages provide administrative law sources for each state with links to the sites.

FindLaw - State Resources  -  http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/
The FindLaw pages for each state provides links to administrative law and agency sites on the Internet.

Government Information Xchange - U.S. State and Local Government Information General Services Administration  -  http://www.info.gov/Info/html/state_government.shtml
The State and Local Government page provides a hypertext linked graphic map of the United States and a fifty state matrix that links to each one's government web site.

Internet State Legal Resources - Practicing Attorney's Home Page by Internet Legal Resources - http://www.legalethics.com/pa/states/states.htm
The Practicing Attorney's Home Page provides a hypertext state matrix, Internet State Legal Resources, linking to an index page for each state.  The state pages provide direct links to administrative information sites. 

State, Local,  and Territorial Law & Government - Georgetown University Legal Explorer -  http://www.ll.georgetown.edu:80/lr/lg/state.html
The Georgetown University Legal Explorer States and Territorial  page publishes links for each state to executive branch and other state government information including; state home pages; governor's offices; agency, board, and commission listings; and administrative codes.

State Administrative Codes -  http://www.law.cornell.edu/regs.html

Texas Administrative Code - http://www.sos.state.tx.us/tac/

http://www.sos.state.tx.us/tac/index.html

The Texas Administrative Code (TAC) is a 16 volume compilation of all adopted rules that are in effect in the State of Texas. Each volume is called a Title. Each Title contains a group of state agencies that have jurisdiction over similar areas. Within each title, each agency has a designated part number and chapter numbers unique to that Title. The part number and chapter numbers for each agency are designated by the Secretary of State. At the chapter level, each agency has the ability to group rules into subchapters and undesignated head levels. The rule is the lowest level in the rule hierarchy, falling under the subchapter or undesignated head. To cite a specific rule, the TAC citation would be 1 TAC § 91.1. This citation indicates that this rule is in Title 1, Chapter 91 and is the first rule in this chapter.
 

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    DECISIONS OF FEDERAL ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES

Agencies engage in "order making" as well as "rule making."  These agencies adjudicate.  A number of federal agencies exercise quasi-judicial power in determining cases and questions arising under their statutory and regulatory powers.  More than two dozen federal agencies, such as the regulatory commissions, publish official reports of their administrative decisions, reports, letter rulings, orders, and advsory opinions.  Tribunals within the agencies adjudicate disputes resulting from the construction of statutes or regulations.  Boards of review, hearings examiners, or administrative law judges interpret and enforece administrative rulings and decisions.  These rulings and decisions are also subject to review and appeal by the courts.  These orders establish policies and set precedents which commonly have the impact of law.  These agency adjudications are published in official GPO documents.  These government publications are accessible through the depository libraries, such as Agriculture Decisions or the Rulings series of the Social Security Administration.  Some are printed in both the official government editions as well as through looseleaf services and topical law reporters such as; Environment Law Reporter, Standard Federal Tax Reporter, or Labor Relations Reporter.  A large number of agency decisions are available online on the online databases, WESTLAW and LEXIS or Many agencies have also made their administrative opinions or rulings available on the Internet at their sites.

Comptroller General Decisions - United States General Accounting Office - http://www.gao.gov/decisions/decision.htm

Search for Decisions on the GAO World Wide Web server  - http://www.gao.gov/Architext/AT-decisionsquery.html

The General Accounting Office is the investigative arm of Congress charged with examing matters relating to public funds and performing audits or evaluations of governmnet programs.  The head of the General Accounting Office makes decisions in the area of appropriations, bid protests, civilian and military personnel pay, household goods and freight loss, and transportation rates.  The site includes a link to the Comptroller General Decisions and Opinions as well as other GAO reports and policy materials.  Comptroller General decisions are prepared by the GAO's Office of General Counsel. Each Decision is identified by a numbering system beginning with B-(number). Decisions are uniquely identified by B-number and
date.

General Accounting Office (GAO) Comptroller General Decisions Online via GPO Access - http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces170.shtml
 
Social Security Rulings and Acquiescence Rulings - http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/rulings.html

Cumulative Index (1960 - 1997) - http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/rulings-idx.html

Table of Contents - http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/rulings-toc.html

Rulings Superseded, Rescinded, or Modified - http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/rulfind2.html

Rulings are published under the authority of the Commissioner of Social Security and makes available to the public a series of precedential decisions relating to Federal old-age, survivors, disability, supplemental security income, and black lung benefits programs. There are two types of Rulings: Social Security Rulings and Acquiescence Rulings. Social Security Rulings may be based on case decisions made at all administrative levels of adjudication, Federal court decisions, Commissioner's decisions, opinions of the Office of the General Counsel, and other policy interpretations of the law and regulations. Social Security Rulings are first published in the Federal Register. Social Security Rulings are effective upon publication, and the effective date is shown on the first page of each Ruling  Acquiescence Rulings explain how SSA will apply decisions of the United States Courts of Appeals that are at variance with SSA's national policies in adjudicating claims under title II and title XVI of the Social Security Act and Part B of the Black Lung Benefits Act. SSA will apply Courts of Appeals holdings as explained in these Acquiescence Rulings to other cases in the same circuit where the issues involved are basically the same.
 

    PRESIDENTIAL INFORMATION PAGE                                                -

White House - http://www.whitehouse.gov

White House: Search Page  -http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/search/everything.html

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents - http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/nara003.html

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    EXECUTIVE BRANCH AGENCY DIRECTORIES

Yahoo - Government - Executive Branch Departments  and Agencies - http://www.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Executive_Branch/Departments_and_Agencies/

Yahoo - Government - Independent Agencies -  http://www.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Agencies/Independent/

Federal Departments - University of California, San Diego Government Information -  http://govinfo.ucsd.edu/feddepts.html

U. S. Federal Government Agencies Directory - LSU Libraries WWW Virtual Library - http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html

This site provides a list of federal agencies on the Internet organized according to the branches of government.  The executive branch agencies are divided according to executive; independent; boards, commissions, and committees; and quasi-official agencies.

DocLaw WWW - Washburn University School of Law - http://www.washlaw.edu/doclaw/doclawnew.html

Federal Information Official Government Agencies  -  http://www.lib.duke.edu/pdmt/federal/official/index.htm

Federal Web Locator at the Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy - http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Agency/fedwebloc.html

A project of the Villanova University Center for Information Law and Policy, it has been designed to serve as a "Grand Central Station" for federal government Web and gopher sites. This is the most comprehensive Internet index to United States Federal Government Web Sites.  The site is organized to match the structure found in the U. S. Government Manual.  The Locator can be searched by two methods - using a boolean keyword expression or a Perl regular expression. The locator is organized according to the U. S. Government Manual

FindLaw - U. S. Federal Government Resources  -  http://www.findlaw.com/10fedgov/index.html

FindLaw - Executive Branch  -  http://www.findlaw.com/10fedgov/index.html#exec

Georgetown University Legal Explorer - Executive Branch  -  http://www.ll.georgetown.edu:80/lr/lg/exec.html

Government Information Exchange - Executive Branch - http://www.info.gov/Info/html/executive.htm

This page from the Government Information Xchange Federal Directory provides direct links to the White House offices, the departments of the President's cabinet, independent agencies and commissions, and other government offices.

Official Federal Government Web Sites - Executive Branch - Library of Congress  -  http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/executive/fed.html

A Library of Congress Internet Resource Page, this site provides a hypertext alphabetical list of the executive branch departments, agencies, and commissions is maintained by the Library of Congress.  The list of executive departments also identifies and provides links to the specific offices of each department.

Governments on the World Wide Web - United States of America - http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/us.html

Great American Web Site - A Citizen's Guide to the Treasures of the U. S. Government on the World Wide Web  -         http://www.uncle-sam.com/guide.html

The Guide is organized according to the U.S. Government Manual and provides access to the three Branches of Government and the Independent Agencies and Commissions.

World Wide Web Virtual Library - U. S. Government Information  - http://www.nttc.edu/gov_res.html

http://iridium.nttc.edu/gov_res.html
Maintained by the National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC), this index to government information has divided the government sites according to these divisions:  Executive Branches, Executive Departments, Independent Agencies, and Other Government sites.  There is a searchable index to all government departments and agencies.

U. S. Government Manual  -  http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/nara001.html

U. S. Government Manual -  http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/browse-gm.html  (browseable)
Published by the Government Printing Office, this digital publication of the U.S. Government Manual provides a comprehensive directory of information on the agencies and officials of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches.  Each agency and activity is described.  The Manual also includes information on quasi-official agencies; international organizations in which the U. S. participates; and boards, commissions, and committees.  For each agency the Manual provides a list of principal officials, statement of the agency's purpose and role, brief history and legislative/executive authority of the agency, a description of its programs and activities, and a "Sources of Information" section. The "Sources of Information" section provides information on consumer activities, contracts and grants, employment, and publications The Manual is searchable by keyword.  Word roots (truncation) and boolean terms can be used during the search structure.    This resource is available at a number of sites on the Internet, but there is inconsistency in the currency of the publication.

White House Citizens' Guide - Executive Branch - Executive Office of the President - Welcome To The White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Welcome.html

The President's Cabinet  -  http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Cabinet/html/cabinet_links.html
Independent Federal Agencies and Commissions  -  http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Independent_Agencies/html/independent_links.html

White House Offices and Agencies - Executive Office of the President
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/html/EOP_org.html

 The White House Citizen's Guide provides a number of ways to use this service to look for government information.  Federal government departments, independent agencies, or commissions can be identified by selecting a government agency from graphics representing each one on the "The President's Cabinet," "White House Offices and Agencies," and "Independent Federal Agencies and Commissions" pages.  The hypertext linked graphic buttons depict the seal of each office,  department, agency, and commission.  The site also maintains the "Map of Washington D.C. Government Buildings" page which provides a hypertext map of Washington, D.C. divided into six sections.  A list of the government buildings located in each section is also linked to the web sites for each agency or department.

DocLaw WWW - Washburn University School of Law  -  http://www.washlaw.edu/doclaw/doclawnew.html

U. S. Government Organizational Charts - http://www.washlaw.edu/doclaw/orgchart/orgchart2.html
A component of WashLaw, DocLaw is a gateway to Federal Government internet resources and other government related material.  The gateway is organized by subject and by hypertext linked agency organizational charts.  Direct links to primary law sources are identified for administrative law, federal and state case law, statutory law, and to GPO Access databases.  Links are also provided to government research guides, other judicial branch sources, administrative decisions, and quick reference sources.

Gateway - Federal Hotlist  -  http://www.fcw.com/ref/fedgov.htm

 This directory lists the agencies and departments of the government, and provides links to their servers.

Federal Government Web Servers -  Research Resources - Government Information - University of Southern California Government Documents Department  -  http://www.usc.edu/Library/GovDocs/federal.html

The Federal Government Web Servers page provides a list containing links to federal government Web pages. It is organized simply by the name of the agency. The federal sites page lists government sites in alphabetical order by the name of the department or agency.

Federal Information By Agency  - Duke University Public Documents and Maps Department of Perkins Library  - Federal Information Official Government Agencies  - http://www.lib.duke.edu/pdmt/federal/official/index.htm

Federal Information - Major Legislative, Judicial, and Executive Branch Sites
http://www.lib.duke.edu/pdmt/federal/branches/index.htm
The "Federal Information - By Agency" list is alphabetically organized according to the structure of the Federal Government as outlined in the U.S. Government Manual. Access is provided to all the major bodies in the Legislative, Judicial, and Executive branches on one page.

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    FEDERAL ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS AND REGULATORY AGENCIES

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (USDA)  -  http://www.usda.gov/

USDA's Departmental Administration  -  http://www.usda.gov/da/
U. S. Department of Agriculture Agencies  -  http://www.usda.gov/agencies/agencies.htm
U.S.D.A. Government Information Locator Service  -  http://www.usda.gov/gils/usdagils.htm
Agricultural Information Locator Service (AILS)   -  http://www.usda.gov/ails/ails.htm

Department of Commerce (DOC)  - http://www.doc.gov/

Commerce Department Web Sites  -  http://www.doc.gov/bureaus/bureaus.htm
Commerce Information Locator Service  - http://www.fedworld.gov/gils/gils.html   

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD)  - http://www.defenselink.mil/

Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)  - http://www.dtic.mil/
Department of Defense Agencies  - http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/almanac/def_agencies.html
DefenseLINK  -   http://www.defenselink.mil/
DefenseLINK Government Information Locator Service  -  http://www.defenselink.mil/locator/

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (DOE)  -  http://www.ed.gov/

National Library of Education   -  http://www.ed.gov/NLE/

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (DOE)   - http://home.doe.gov/

Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) OpenNet  -  http://www.doe.gov/opennet/
OSTI Government Information Locator Service  -  http://www.doe.gov/osti/gils/gilsintr.html

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (HHS)  -  http://www.os.dhhs.gov/

HHS Agencies (Text)  - http://www.hhs.gov/progorg/
HHS Agencies Organizational Chart (Image Map)  -  http://www.os.dhhs.gov/about/orgchart.html
HHS Government Information Locator Service  -  http://www.os.dhhs.gov/progorg/oirm/newhhsgils.htm

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT(HUD) Homes and Communities Page  -   http://www.hud.gov

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's - http://www.hud.gov/ 
HUD Government Information Locator Service  -  http://www.hud.gov/gils/index.html

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (DoI)  -  http://www.doi.gov/index.html

DOI Government Information Locator Service  -  http://198.183.147.135/servlet/DOIRM

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE(DOJ)   -  http://www.usdoj.gov/

Department of Justice Department Organizations  - http://www.usdoj.gov/dojorg.htm
Department of Justice Organizations (Alphabetic Index)  -  http://www.usdoj.gov/02organizations/02_1.html

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR (DoL)  -  http://www.dol.gov/

Department Agencies  -  http://www.dol.gov/dol/public/agencies/agency.htm
U.S. DOL Government Information Locator Service  -  http://www.dol.gov/dol/public/dolgils/main.htm

DEPARTMENT OF STATE (DOS)  -  http://www.state.gov/

Department of State Foreign Affairs Network (DOSFAN)  -  http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/index.html
gopher://dosfan.lib.uic.edu
DOS Government Information Locator Service Records  -  http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/gils/gils.html

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DOT)  -  http://www.dot.gov/

U. S. DOT Operating Administrations  -  http://www.dot.gov/browse.html
DOT Government Information Locator Service Records  -  http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/gils/gils.html

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY  -  http://www.ustreas.gov/

The Treasury Virtual Library -  http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/index.htm

Department of Veteran Affairs  -  http://www.va.gov/

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    ADMINISTRATIVE LAW QUESTIONS

1. Use the CFR.  What are the regulations concerning canned corn? What ingredients may be added to the corn?   What is the CFR section?  
   
   http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr

2. Find the regulations for rest stops for buses and passenger motor common carriers in the Code of Federal Regulations.  
   
   http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr
   
   

3. Regulations require that all gifts to federal employees be reported.  A recent proposal was made to revise the regulations concerning public disclosure of gifts?  What date was this proposal published in the Federal Register and what is the Federal Register page number?   What regulation will it amend?
   
   http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html  
   
   http://www.gpo.ucop.edu:80/search/fedfld.html
   
   

4. Search the CFR to identify the regulations concerning the qualifications for drivers of commercial motor vehicles.  What is the regulation?  How can drivers be disqualified?
   
   http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr
   

5. Go to the White House homepage - Who is Al Gore's father?  Where did Vice President Gore go to school, college, and graduate school? What is Tipper's real name and when did they get married?
   
   http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Welcome.html
   
   

6. President Clinton released an executive order concerning the problem of the Year 2000 Conversion. When was the EO released?  What is Y2K?  What commission did the order establish? What is the White House Millenium Council?
   
   http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/search/executive-orders.html  
   
   
   
7. Search the White House Electronic Publications database and find remarks made by the President while he visited Robben Island during his visit to Africa.  Who did the President accompany to the Island and who made remarks?  What is Robben Island?
   
   http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/nara003.html
   
   http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/search/everything.html
   
   
   

8. Look at the Agency Organizational Chart that is available at WASHlaw Web/LSU Libraries /DocLaw/ or at the White House Virtual Library or at the Federal Web Locator. What are the URLs for the following agencies.
   
   
   Federal Web Locator at Villanova University Law School http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Agency/fedwebloc.html
   
   U. S. Federal Government Agencies - LSU Libraries http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html
   
   The President's Cabinet http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Cabinet/html/cabinet_links.html
   Independent Federal Agencies and Commissions http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Independent_Agencies/html/independent_links.html
   
   DocLaw WWW Washburn University School of Law   http://www.washlaw.edu/doclaw/doclawnew.html
   http://www.washlaw.edu/doclaw/orgchart/mainog.html
    

    a.     Voice of America
    

    
    

    b.     U.S. Information Agency
    

    
    

    c.     U. S. Department of Transportation - Federal Railroad Administration
   

9. Go to the Library of Congress page for copyrights.  Which circular addresses copyright of motion pictures?  Which parts of the motion picture are protected by copyright?  Which parts are not?
   
   
   http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/ http://www.loc.gov  

   
    

   Which circular addresses reproduction of copyrighted works by educators and librarians?

 

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