Administrative Decisions & Other Actions - By Agency
Administrative Decisions & Other Actions - By Subject
This page is not an attempt to link to Federal Register or the Code of Federal Regulations information for each federal agency. It links to other administrative actions which are outside the scope of the CFR or the FR. What is available via the Internet varies from agency to agency. See also Regulations.gov for regulatory materials.
Because Electronic FOIA Reading Rooms often contain administrative information this page links to the primary E-FOIA Reading Room for each agency covered.
Please send additions or corrections to bselby@virginia.edu
- FOIA Electronic Reading Room
USDA Electronic Reading Room by agency. - Agriculture Dept. Directives
This system is the online repository of all USDA Departmental Regulations, Notices, Manuals, and Memoranda. The USDA Directives System consists of a set of current, in-force directives. From the Office of the Chief Information Officer. - Agriculture Decisions
Decisions of the Secretary of Agriculture under the regulatory laws administered in the United States Department of Agriculture.
[Paper version. A 1/58: (1942-)]The Judicial Officer's decisions and rulings are published in Agriculture Decisions and are available on West Publishing Company's computer-assisted legal research service, WESTLAW, under the database USDA.
Administration- Administrative Law Judges Office
Includes judges biographies, listing of statutory proceedings. Does not include opinions. - Office of the Judicial Officer
Summaries of Decisions, 1971/1995, 1996-
Annual reports, 1996- - Board of Contract Appeals
Annual reports, 1996-
- FOIA Electronic Reading Room
This site is pretty generic, but appears to have plans to include final agency opinions, policy statements, and administrative staff manuals.
- FOIA Electronic Reading Room
Includes APHIS manuals, animal care policy manuals, and directives, some as old as 1975.
- Administrative Law Judges Office
- FOIA Reading Room
Includes Administrative Manuals and directives - FSIS Notices and Directives
Primarily from 1999 on, but a few earlier ones.
- FOIA Electronic Reading Room
Links to many of the individual pages listed below. - Publications & Regulations
- Directives
The Forest Service Directive System consists of the Forest Service Manual and Handbooks, which codify the agency's policy, practice, and procedure. (1997-) - Environmental Appeals & Litigation
- Environmental Appeals Decisions
Washington & Regional Office appeals decisions. (1996-2008) - Manuals and Guides
- FOIA Reading Room
Federal Grain Inspection Service - Laws & Regulations
See Related Topics for Directives, Notices, Handbooks.
- NRCS Electronic Directives System
Contains Handbooks in addition to directives.
- FOIA
Includes directives, regulations, administrative notices, rural development handbooks, etc. -
- Regulations & Guidance
Includes administrative notices, procedure notices, forms, letters, instructions, guides, etc.
- Regulations & Guidance
- FOIA
- E-FOIA Reading Room - Includes policy statements, staff manuals, Department Online Libraries.
- Organizational Orders
- Administrative Orders
Bureau of Industry and Security- BIS FOIA Reading Room
Includes antiboycott warning letters and reports, public comments on regulations. Index of Documents links to the actual materials. - Lists to Check - includes the Denied Persons List, Entity List, and others important to exporting.
Import Administration
Includes Administrative Protective Orders, Policy Bulletins, regulations, etc.- Administrative Protective Orders
APOs by product and country. - Policy Bulletins
(1991-) - Remand Determiniations & US Court of International Trade Opinions
(May 16, 1997-) - Market Access & Compliance
- Trade Compliance Center
The Trade and Related Agreements Database (TARA) contains fully searchable texts of more than 300 trade agreements, including most of the trade agreements to which the United States is a party and related documents which are important to business.
- FOIA
- Filings with the FCC
Includes NTIA replies to FCC proposals, in addition to other NITA reports. (1995-)
- E-FOIA - includes final decisions.
- Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
- BIS FOIA Reading Room
- FOIA
- E-FOIA Reading Room
- Opinions & Orders
(1997-) - Exemptive, No-Action & Interpretative Letters
"The CFTC's staff issues written guidance concerning the Commodity Exchange Act and the Commission's regulations, principally in the form of responses to requests for exemptive, no-action and interpretative letters." This site contains summaries of letters published from 1995 to present.
- FOIA
Documents are categorized under the fiscal year they were requested, not the year of the original document. Thus a 1988 document which was requested in FY 1997 is filed in 1997.
Office of General Counsel- Advisory Opinions
(1973-)
- Advisory Opinions
- DefenseLink FOIA page
Links to all DoD Electronic Reading Rooms. - DoD Issuances
Includes directives, instructions, publications, administrative instructions, and directive-type memoranda. - Defense Acquisition Management Information Retrieval - restricted access
- Defense Dept. Chief Information Officer
- Air Force
- Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals
-
- Decisions
(2000-)
*Paper equivalent: CCH Board of Contract Appeals Decisions
*Databases: LEXIS: PUBCON; ASBCA (1962-present)
WESTLAW FGC-ASBCA (1962-present)
- Records Management & Declassification Agency
Includes link to Army Electronic Reading Room
- FOIA
- FOIA Electronic Reading Room
Includes directives & orders.
- FOIA Online
- FOIA Electronic Reading Rooms
- Navy Issuances
Contains OPNAV and SECNAV directives, manuals, etc. Some documents as old as 1981.
- Decisions
- Key Policy Letters Signed by the Education Secretary or Deputy
- Decisions of the Secretary
- Office of Hearings & Appeals
- Guidance Documents
Significant guidance from the Dept. of Education. - Policy by Program
- NCLB Policy Letters
" These policy letters provide guidance and insight on a variety of topics of interest to State Educational Agencies (SEAs), school districts, federal program directors, and others in implementing No Child Left Behind."
- FOIA - links to most DOE guidance and policy documents.
- DOE Directives - Includes current, archived, and draft directives.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission- Notices & Decisions
- FERC Online - "Portal to documents and dockets" Registration required.
[FERC Reports - E 2.17:]
- FOIA
- Significant Guidance Documents
- EPA Dockets via Regulations.gov
- Superfund Site Information
- Record of Decision System (RODS)
RODS is the Record of Decision System. RODS contains full-text Records of Decision (RODs), ROD Abstracts, ROD Amendments, and Explanations of Significant Differences (ESDs). A ROD provides the justification for the remedial action (treatment) chosen at a Superfund site. It also contains site history, site description, site characteristics, community participation, enforcement activities, past and present activities, contaminated media, the contaminants present, scope and role of response action, and the remedy selected for cleanup.
Environmental Appeals Board- Decisions
Includes decisions issues since 1992.
- Decisions & Order - 1989-
- Compliance and Enforcement page
- Applicability Determination Index - "The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) currently issues over 100 letters or memoranda per year on Clean Air Act (CAA) applicability or monitoring issues under the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS, 40 CFR Part 60) and the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP, 40 CFR Parts 61 and 63) programs. "
- RCRA Corrective Action Enforcement
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Policy and Guidance documents. Liniks to RCRA Corrective Action Implementation Database (RCAID).
- Decisions
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Laws, Regulations, & Policy Guidance
- Federal Sector Information
- Federal Sector Appellate Decisions
"Employment discrimination complaints in the federal government are handled by the agency involved. If the individual who filed the complaint does not agree with the agency's decision, he or she can file an appeal with the EEOC. Note: Because charges outside the federal government are handled differently, there is no private sector equivalent to these decisions.
(July, 2000 -)
[Paper - EEOC Decisions - Y 3.EQ 2:18:]
Farm Credit Administration
- E-FOIA Reading Room
- Legal Opinion Summaries
"The following legal opinion summaries are provided for informational purposes only. Each opinion is based on the specific facts presented to FCA's Office of General Counsel (OGC). Different facts may result in a different determination. Additionally, each opinion is based on then-current statutes and FCA regulations. Legislative or regulatory amendments subsequent to any particular opinion may also result in OGC reaching a different determination."
(1998 - ) - Resources for the Farm Credit System
Handbooks, manuals, informational memorandums, etc.
Federal Commuications Commission
- FOIA
- FCC EDOCS - Search all FCC documents.
- Official Documents - searchable database for orders, notices and other official FCC documents. Includes link to the FCC EDocs advanced search database.
- Final Orders of the Board of Directors
- FDIC Enforcement Decisions & Orders - Some orders as far back as 1975.
- FDIC Laws, Regulations, and related Acts
Includes links to Financial Institution Letters. Click on FDIC Laws, Regulations, and related Acts to see Staff Advisory Opinions, General Counsel Opinions, and FDIC Statements of Policy.
- Laws & Regulations - includes links to Advisory Opinions, Policy Statements, etc. [ see Federal Election Commission Record - Y 3.El 2/3:11/]
- Enforcement Matters - inlcudes the Enforcement Query System.
Federal Labor Relations Authority
- E-FOIA Reading Room - includes cases and final actions.
- Authority Decisions
(1979- present, v. 1 - )
Includesall volumes of FLRA Decisions and Digests.
Paper and microfiche reports issued under Y 3.F31/21-3:10-4/ . - Negotiability Determinations
From the Office of Personnel Management. "Summarizes negotiability determinations issued by the Federal Labor Relations Authority from January 11, 1979, through December 31, 2001."
Office of General Counsel Federal Services Impasses Panel - (1990-) - Administrative Law Judges
Administrative Law Judge Decisions Report - Y 3.F 31/21-3:10-4 - not available on the Internet
Federal Maritime Commission
- FOIA
- E-FOIA Reading Room - includes a E-Reading Room Search
- Online Agreement Library
- Federal Maritime Commission Adjudicatory Decisions
Includes formal docket decisions and Administrative Law Judges opinions.
(Nov. 1, 1996-)
Issued in paper as FMC 1.10: - Decisions of the Federal Maritime Commission.
- "The Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is an independent
adjudicative agency that provides administrative trial and appellate review of legal disputes arising under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Amendments Act of 1977 (Mine Act)." - Commission Decisions
(1995-)
Office of Administrative Law Judges
[Paper - Y 3.M 66:9/] - Decisions
(1995-)
Federal Register Office
- Federal Register via FDsys
- Code of Federal Regulations via FDsys
Federal Reserve System
- Actions, Orders, and other Documents
Oct. 25, 1997- - Enforcement Actions
Enforcement actions back to 1989 are listed.
(1989-) - Supervision and Regulation Letters
1990- - Legal Interpretations
1996-
- Federal Trade Commission Actions
Past Commission actions available, 1995- .
Federal Trade Commission Decisions, paper - FT 1.11:
Online from 1969 (v.75)
- Legal Products
- Comptroller General Decisions
Searchable database from GPO Access.
[Paper - GA 1.5:] - GAO Policy & Guidance Materials
General Services Administration
Government Printing Office
Health and Human Services Department
- FOIA
- Policies and Regulations
- Departmental Appeals Board
Administration for Children & Families Food and Drug Administration Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services- Advisory Opinions
- CMS Rulings of the Administrator
[HCFA Rulings - HE 22.38:] - Manuals
Includes Program memoranda and Program Transmittals.
- Fraud Prevention & Detection
Includes Advisory Opinions, Open letters, Compliance guidance.
Homeland Security Department
- FOIA
Not much in the HS FOIA pages, only explantions and FOIA statutes.
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service- FOIA Electronic Reading Room
Includes APHIS manuals, animal care policy manuals, and directives, some as old as 1975.
- Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS)
CROSS is a searchable database of approximately 90,000 Customs rulings. Rulings collections are separated into Headquarters and New York and span the years 1989 to present. - Customs Legal Page
Pertinent FR notices, Rulings, Bulletins, Decisions, and informed compliance publications.
[Customs Bulletin - T 17.6/3-5: and T 1.11/4:]
- FOIA Electronic Reading Room
- Adopted Decisions
See also the Board of Immigration Appeals, Justice Dept.
Chief Administrative Law Judge Marine BoardFederal Emergency Management Administration
Transportation Security Administration - FOIA Electronic Reading Room
Housing and Urban Development Department
- FOIA
- FOIA Reading room
- HUDClips
Links to many HUD and non-HUD information sources. - Library section
Links to searchable and browseable HUD policies, directives, legal opinions, OGC documents, etc. - HUD Legal Opinions & Guidance
- HUD Notices
- HUD Letters
Administrative Law Judges- Decisions
Cases from as far back as 1989.
- Decisions
Interior Department
- FOIA
- Electronic Library of Interior Policies
Departmental manual.
Office of Hearings and Appeals
Bureau of Land Management Bureau of Reclamation- Reclamation Manual
Includes policy statements, directives, and standards.
- Directives
Includes Fish & Wildlife Service Manual, Director's Orders, and National Policy Issuance System. - Centralized Library of Servicewide Policies
Includes resource laws, FR documents, memorandums, Bulletins, Directives, handbooks, etc.
- Office of Policy
Regulations, Director's Orders, Executive Orders. etc. - NPS Reference Desk
Links to the Office of Policy, and the Departmental Manual.
- Solicitor's Opinions
(1993-)
- Reclamation Manual
- FOIA
- FOIA Electronic Reading Room
- Recent Complaints and Petitions
- Electronic Documents Information System
Docketing information and images of the public documents filed in USITC investigations instituted since 1996.
Justice Department
- FOIA
- Agency FOIA Contacts list
- Legal Documents
Includes briefs, advisory letters, consent decrees, guidelines, regs., and laws for all Justice Dept. agencies. - Americans with Disabilities Act Agreements & Letters of Findings
Attorney General- FOIA Reading Room
Contains policy statements, instructions to staff, manuals, annual reports.
- FOIA page
Much of what's on the Division FOIA page is listed below. - Public Documents
Includes Appellate briefs (1993-), Guidelines & Policy statements. - Antitrust Case Filings
Selected documents filed by the Division since Dec. 1994. - Business Review Letters
(1993-)
- Immigration Litigation Bulletin
2003 issues were released due to a FOIA request.
EOIR Virtual Law LibraryBureau of Prisons
Board or Immigration Appeals Precedent Decisions
[Paper - Administrative Decisions under the Immigration & Nationality Laws - J 21.11:]
Administrative decisions under employer sanctions, unfair immigration-related employment practices, and civil penalty document fraud laws
Link to bound decisions at bottom of page
[Paper - J 1.103:]- FOIA
Contains BOP Program Statements, elaborating on various policies. Appear to be complete, back to at least 1994.
- Opinions
"This website includes opinions that have previously been released to the public, opinions as to which the addressee has agreed to publication, and opinions to Department of Justice officials that the Department has determined may be released.
Volumes 1-20 of the published Opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel contain the official versions of opinions for the years 1977-2000.
[Paper - J 1.5/4:]
Those opinions are also available on Westlaw and LEXIS. Additional volumes containing opinions for subsequent years will continue to be published on a regular basis. "
(1992-)
- Administrative Decisions regarding Private Trustees
The U.S. Trustee Program's duties include supervising private bankruptcy trustees. If a United States Trustee decides to suspend or terminate case assignments to a panel or standing trustee, the trustee may obtain administrative review of that decision from the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees. See 28 C.F.R. � 58.6. Redacted copies of the Executive Office's administrative decisions are available from this site.
(1997-)
- FOIA Reading Room
Labor Department
- FOIA
Administrative Review Board - ARB Decisions
USDOL/OALJ Reporter: Decisions of the Administrative Review Board
May 1996 to Present
Paper - Decisions of the Office of Administrative Law Judges and Office of Administrative Appeals. - L 1.5/2:
Part of the Decisions continue on CD-ROM (Whistle Blower Library)
Class L 1.89:W 57
Benefits Review Board- Decisions
Includes both published and unpublished decisions and orders.
1989-
- Decisions
Headnotes only - v.39-44 (1988-1993)
Full Decisions, - v.44- (1993-)
Links to The Fien Group, Inc. site.
- Advisories and Memorandums
"The advisory system (formerly called directives) encompasses guidance letters, program letters, handbooks and technical assistance guides. This system was reengineered recently to respond to suggestions from states and localities on how to make these communications more responsive to customer needs. "
(1983-)
- FOIA
Reading Room
Contains Federal Employees' Compensation Act Bulletins, Circulars, & transmittals. - Davis-Bacon Wage Determinations
Available from the Government Printing Office.
[Paper - General wage determinations issued under the Davis-Bacon and related acts - L 36.211:]
- FOIA Reading Room
Includes Petitions for Modification, Program Policy Letters, Procedure Instruction Letters, etc.
- OSHA Directives
Keyword searchable database. Directives are also listed by date and Directive number.
(1978-) - Hazard Information Bulletins
(1984-) - OSHA Standards Interpretations and Compliance Letters
(1972-) - Other OSHA memos, letters, & documents
(1978-) - Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and Administrative Law Judge Decisions
OSHRC is an independent agency (see below). OSHA provides this search page for its Decisions.
(1981-)
- Reading Room
Includes ASVET Memoranda, and Program Letters.
- Decisions
- Merit Systems Protection Board Decisions
- Reduction in Force (RIF) Resource Portal
From Office of Personnel Management.
NASA
- FOIA
- NODIS - NASA Online Directives Information System
Directives in the NODIS Directives Library seem to date back to 1996. Full text is available.
- NCUA Reference Information System
Contains various administrative orders, letters of understanding, legal opinion letters. 1991-
- NLRB Decisions & Orders
Contains bound volumes of NLRB Decisions & Orders back to vol. 300 (September 1990).
National Security Agency
National Transportation Safety Board
- Office of the General Counsel
Office of Administrative Law Judges - NTSB Case Decisions Database
The final decisions, Opinions & Orders, of the National Transportation Safety Board with regard to an airman, mechanic or mariner's appeal of action on his or her certificate are found in National Transportation Safety Board Decisions. A searchable index is available on-line; complete text for decisions issued since mid-1992 is also available in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
(1992-)
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Document Collections
Includes Commission Action Memoranda, voting records, meeting records, orders, Congressional testimony, internal Commission procedures, commission Decision-Making Index (SECYs, SRMs, & Voting records), and Commission Meeting Transcripts, Administrative Letters, Bulletins, Generic Letters, Information Notices, etc.
1999-
All NRC documents are indexed and stored in ADAMS, older documents may only have citations available online. Boards orders and issuances are entered only into the ADAMS database, and users can search for them using search criteria such as subject, document date and docket number.
NRC documents which pre-date the electronic database, ie, before Nov 1999 are generally not available online. The bibliographic citations are in the ADAMS Legacy Library, but the older documents are stored on microfiche.
[Paper - Nuclear Regulatory Commission issuances : opinions and decisions of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission with selected orders - Y 3.N 88:11/
Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission
- Decisions
Both Administrative Law Judges and Commission Decisions back to 1993.
- Legal Advisories
- GPO Access OGE Search page
"This database, sponsored by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) contains informal advisory letters and memoranda and formal opinions on how to interpret and comply with conflict of interest, post-employment, standards of conduct, and financial disclosure requirements in the executive branch. "
Office of Management & Budget
- OMB Circulars
- Selected OMB Bulletins
(1995-) - Selected OMB Memoranda
(1995-)
Office of Personnel Management
- FOIA
- Digest of Significant Classification Decisions and Opinions
- Classification Appeals & Decisions
Compensation Administration- Includes links to Emergency Guidance Memoranda, Compensation and Leave Decisions, salaries tables, etc.
- Compensation Policy Memoranda
(Dec. 1996-)
Peace Corps
- Documents
Includes Opinions, Policy Statements, and Staff Manuals
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Postal Regulatory Commission
- Electronic Reading Room
Contains Opinions & Decisions, Orders, Pending Cases, etc. Some as old as 1996.
Postal Service
Railroad Retirement Board
- FOIA
- Board Coverage Decisions
"Board Coverage Decisions are the determinations of the three member Railroad Retirement Board as to the status of various companies or persons with respect to coverage as employers or employees under the RailroadRetirement and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Acts."
Securitites & Exchange Commission
- Commission Decisions
- Regulatory Actions
Includes Concept Releases (the first stage in rulemaking), other stages in rulemaking, exemptive orders, interpretive releases, policy statements, and other Commission actions. - Staff Interpretations
Includes Staff No Action letters, Staff accounting bulletins, Staff Legal Bulletins. - Edgar SEC Filings
- FreeEdgar
SEC filings from a private company, Edgar Online. This is the free version of their product.
SEC divisions link to decisions and other actions in their respective areas.
Division of Corporate Finance
SEC Enforcement Division Investment Management Division
Division of Market Regulation
Paper - Decisions and Reports - SE 1.11:
Selective Service System
Small Business Administration
- FOIA
Office of AdvocacyOfficial Regulatory Comment LettersOffice of Hearings and Appeals
Letters to various government agencies & others (FCC, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, IRS, etc.) advocating small business perspectives regarding proposed regulations or guidelines.
(1996-)- Search OHA decisions
Includes various types of SBA decisions - SIC, size, SDB (small disadvantaged business), etc. Early 1990s to present.
- Search OHA decisions
Social Security Administration
- FOIA
- Social Security Rulings and Acquiscence Rulings
This Index reflects all Rulings published in Rulings currently in effect.
[Paper - Rulings. Cumulative edition : Social Security
rulings on federal old-age, survivors, disability, supplemental security income, and black lung benefits. HE 3.44/2:1960-1995
(1960-)]
State Department
- FOIA
Regulations
Includes Foreign Affairs Manual,and Foreign Affairs Handbooks
Office of the Legal Advisor- Digest of United States Practice in International Law
"In order to assist readers in locating the full text of documents which are excerpted in the 2001 Digest but readily accessible elsewhere, the volume includes citations to Internet or other public sources."
Includes amicus briefs, letters, Statements of interest, memoranda, etc. - Treaty Affairs
Many links, including Treaty Actions and Treaties in Force (see Part 2 of this document for the current Multilateral Treaties to which the US is a Party)
- Digest of United States Practice in International Law
Tennessee Valley Authority
- FOIA
- TVA Office of the Inspector General
Contains information about the Audit and Inspection processes. Also, links to Semi-Annual Reports to Congress.
Transportation Department
- FOIA
- Docket Management System
- Aviation Orders
Federal Aviation Administration Federal Highway Administration Federal Railroad Administration Federal Transit Administration National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Office of General Counsel
Board of Correction of Military Records Office of Inspector General Surface Transportation Board
Treasury Department
- FOIA
Comptroller of the Currency - Regulatory ActivitiesInternal Revenue Service
- FOIA
- Chief Counsel Documents
Includes IRS Written Determinations,Technical Advice Memoranda (TAMs), Private Letter Rulings (PLRs), Actions on Decisions, Chief Counsel Bulletins, Information Letters, etc. Use IRS Site Search (http://search.irs.gov/web/advanced-search.htm) to find any items not found in Chief Counsel Documents - Internal Revenue Bulletin
- Internal Revenue Manual
- IRS Revenue Rulings and Procedures
- Back to 2000 http://www.irs.gov/retirement/article/0,,id=96691,00.html
- Use IRS Site Search (http://search.irs.gov/web/advanced-search.htm) to search for Revenue Rulings archives back to 1954
- IRS Written Determiniations
Taxpayer-specific rulings or determinations are written memoranda furnished by the IRS National Office in response to requests by taxpayers under published annual guidelines. Technical advice memoranda are written memoranda furnished by the National Office of the IRS upon request of a district director or chief appeals officer pursuant to annual review procedures. Chief Counsel advice are written advice or instructions prepared by the Office of Chief Counsel and issued to field or service center employees of the IRS or Office of Chief Counsel.
- Board of Veterans Appeals Decisions
(1994-) - VA Directives Management System
Contains Department-wide policies, procedures and guidance to assist customers and VA employees in the execution of their mission.
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