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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.

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

Agriculture Department

• 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.

  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.

  [Paper version. A 1/58: (1942-)]
  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-
  Agricultural Marketing Service
  • 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.
  Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
  • FOIA Electronic Reading Room
    Includes APHIS manuals, animal care policy manuals, and directives, some as old as 1975.
  Food and Nutrition Service
  • FOIA
  Food Safety and Inspection Service
  • FOIA Reading Room
    Includes Administrative Manuals and directives
  • FSIS Notices and Directives
    Primarily from 1999 on, but a few earlier ones.
  Forest Service
  • FOIA Electronic Reading Room
    Links to many of the individual pages listed below.
  • Administrative Information
  • Directives
    The Forest Service Directive System consists of the Forest Service Manual and Handbooks, which codify the agency's policy, practice, and procedure. (1997-)
  • Final Appeal Decisions
    Washington & Regional Office appeals decisions. (1996-)
  • Final Opinions
    Nothing available at this time (01/2001). Page last updated Oct. 1998
  • Manuals and Guides
  • Policy & Interpretation
    Nothing available at this time (01/2001)
  Grain Inspectors, Packers, & Stockyards Administration
  • FOIA Reading Room
    Federal Grain Inspection Service
  • Reference Library
    Includes Handbooks, active Program Bulletins & Notices, and selected Program Directives. (selected, 1983-)
  National Appeals Division
  • Reading Room
    Includes NAD regulations, directives, court decisions on NAD cases, case determiniations
  Natural Resources Conservation Service
  • NRCS Electronic Directives System
    Contains Handbooks in addition to directives.
  Research, Education, and Economics
  • FOIA
    Includes links to REE administrative issuances, and FOIA Annual Reports.
  • REE Policies & Procedures
    Includes administrative issuances, manuals, bulletins.
  Rural Development
  • FOIA
    Includes directives, regulations, administrative notices, rural development handbooks, etc.
  • Rural Development Instructions
    Includes administrative notices, procedure notices, forms, letters, instructions, guides, etc.

• Accessibility Guidelines and Standards

Commerce Department

• FOIA
  Includes link to the Commerce Libraries.
• Commerce Dept. Directives Management Program
  Includes departmental organizational orders in full text back as far as 1980. All administrative orders are listed, only some are available in full text.
  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.
  • Denied Persons List
    This table lists orders that currently deny export privileges in whole or in part.
  • Entity List (Entities of Proliferation Concern List)
    Lists foreign entities which have been determined to present an unacceptable risk of proliferating weapons of mass destruction. This is Supp. 4 to CFR Part 744. The list can be directly accessed from the EAR regulations hosted by GPO.
  International Trade Administration
  • 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 Agreements Database 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.
  National Telecommunications & Information Administration
  • FOIA
  • Filings with the FCC
    Includes NTIA replies to FCC proposals, in addition to other NITA reports. (1995-)
  Patent & Trademark Office
  • Patent Decisions & other PTO Documents
    Includes Commissioner decisions, Board of Patent Appeals decisions, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decisions. From PTO FOIA site.

• FOIA
• 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-)

• DefenseLink FOIA page
  Links to all DoD Electronic Reading Rooms.
• DoD Directives
  Includes directives, instructions, publications, administrative instructions, and directive-type memoranda.
• Defense Privacy Board Advisory Opinions
• Defense Procurement & Acquisition Policy
  Includes policy documents, regulations, directives.
  Air Force
  • FOIA
  • Policy Letter Digest
    (2000-)
    "Policy Letter Digests contain leadership messages from senior officials on issues affecting the Air Force and its members. They are provided by the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs Office and the Air Force News Service."
    (Policy Letters were up from 1996- . The Air Force has been contacted about location of previous Policy Letters -- ed. 5/30/2003)
  Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals
  • Decisions
    From George Washington Law School.
    (1997-)
    *Paper equivalent: CCH Board of Contract Appeals Decisions
    *Databases: LEXIS: PUBCON; ASBCA (1962-present)
    WESTLAW FGC-ASBCA (1962-present)
  Army
  • Records Management & Declassification Agency
    Includes link to Army Electronic Reading Room
  Asst. Secretary for Command, Control, Communications & Intelligence (C3I)
  • C3I, Chief Information Officer
    Includes a document archive for documents not still available eslewehre on the C3I web site.
  • C3I Policy Memoranda
  Comptroller
  • Management Reform Memoranda
    Memoranda signed as of July 7, 1997. Site says that others will be mounted as signed.
  Inspector General
  Marine Corps
  • FOIA
  • FOIA Electronic Reading Room
    Includes directives & orders.
  Navy
  • FOIA Online
  • FOIA Electronic Reading Rooms
  • Navy Directives
    Contains OPNAV and SECNAV documents. Some documents as old as 1981.

• Key Policy Letters Signed by the Educations Secretary or Deputy
• Decisions of the Secretary
  "Searchable database of decisions issued by the Secretary of Education organized by docket number. These decisions - - known as Decisions of the Secretary - - are issued by the Secretary as a part of the Department of Education's decision-making through administrative adjudication. A few Decisions of the Secretary remand proceedings to an administrative judge for further review and, hence, may not constitute a final agency decision. You may check with the Office of Hearings & Appeals regarding the status of any decision. ...[T]his database does not currently contain all of the decisions issued by the Secretary, we are continuously adding decisions to the database and expect to have all decisions issued in 1996 and thereafter eventually included."
• Policy
  Policy Guidance section contains "Dear Colleague" letters.
  Office of Hearings & Appeals
• Decisions
  "Searchable database of the decisions issued by judges within OHA, organized by docket number. Since most decisions issued by judges within OHA are subject to further administrative appeal, some decisions listed in this database may not be the final agency decision. You may check with the Office of Hearings and Appeals regarding the status of any decision. This database does not contain all decisions issued by the judges within OHA, but we are continuously adding to the list and hope to have all decisions included here eventually."

• FOIA
• DOE Directives
  Includes current, archived, and draft directives.
  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  • FERRIS - Federal Energy Regulatory Records Information System
    Search and retrieve electronic documents related to proceedings.
  [FERC Reports - E 2.17:]

• FOIA
• EPA Dockets
  EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) is an online public docket and comment system designed to expand access to documents in EPA’s major dockets. Dockets contain Federal Register notices, support documents, and public comments for regulations the Agency publishes and various non-regulatory activities.
• CERCLIS Hazardous Waste Sites
  CERCLIS is the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability information System. CERCLIS contains information on hazardous waste sites, potential hazardous waste sites, and remedial activities across the nation, including sites that are
  on the National Priorities List (NPL) or being considered for the NPL.
• 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.
  Office of Administrative Law Judges
  • Decisions & Orders
    (Oct. 31, 1996-)
  Compliance and Enforcement
  • Compliance and Enforcement page
  • Regional Judicial Officer Decisions
  • Applicability Determination Index
    The Applicability Determination Index (ADI) is a database that contains memoranda issued by EPA on applicability and compliance issues associated with the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (with categories for both NESHAP, Part 61, and MACT, Part 63), and chlorofluorocarbons (CFC). (1972-)
  • RCRA Corrective Action Enforcement
    Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Policy and Guidance documents. Liniks to RCRA Corrective Action Implementation Database (RCAID).

• Laws, Regulations, & Policy Guidance
• Federal Sector Information
• Federal Sector Administrative 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:]
  

• FOIA
• Bylaws
• Board Minutes
  (1996-)

• FOIA
• Orders
  Includes orders from Bureaus not listed below. Note that these are not considered official statements of Commission action.
  (1994-)
• Miscellaneous resources from FCC
  Includes filings, factsheets, calendar, orders, news releases, etc.
  Office of General Counsel
  • FCC & FRC Reported Cases
    1927-1997
  • Recent Court opinions
    (1996-)
  Cable Services Bureau
  Enforcement Bureau
  • Orders
  Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
  • Documents
    Includes orders, open proceedings, reports, factsheets, etc. (1994-)
  [FCC Record - CC 1.12/3:]

• Final Orders of the Board of Directors
• FDIC Enforcement Decisions & Orders
  "The online publication of the ED&O contains the full text of the formal enforcement orders issued by the FDIC since August 9, 1989, and made public in accordance with the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 ("FIRREA"). Modifications and terminations of these orders are also online. Orders are terminated when the institution has successfully completed the required regulatory action. The website also contains the public version of all litigated enforcement orders issued by the FDIC prior to August 8, 1989."
  (8/1989-)
• FDIC Laws, Regulations, and related Acts
  Includes links to Staff Advisory Opinions, General Counsel Opinions, and FDIC Statements of Policy.

• Advisory Opinions
  "An advisory opinion is an official Commission response to a question relating to the application of the Federal campaign finance law to a specific, factual situation. Any person affected by the Federal Election Campaign Act or Commission regulations may request an advisory opinion. An authorized agent may also make the request, as long as the agent discloses whom he or she is representing." (1977-)
• Advisory Opinion Requests
  "Currently pending Advisory Opinion requests received by the Commission, along with any correspondence, comments, extensions of time for response, or other communication between the requestor and the Commission."
• Request Materials for Issued Advisory Opinions
  "Request materials for issued advisory opinions, including the any correspondence, comments, extensions of time for response, or other communication between the requestor and the Commission. An advisory opinion is an official Commission response to a question relating to the application of the Federal campaign finance law to a specific, factual situation." 
  [Federal Election Commission Record - Y 3.El 2/3:11/]

• FOIA
• Authority Decisions
  (1994-)
  Includes volumes 48-51, 55- (1993-1996, 1998- ) of the 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."
• FLRA Bulletin
  (1996-)
  Office of General Counsel
  • Policies & Guidance
    Policies and guidance issued by General Counsel Joseph Swerdzewski since he was sworn in as General Counsel in 1993.
  • OGC Manuals
  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

• FOIA
  Includes Public Information Handbook, information demand orders, fact findings, and adjudicatory decisions.
• 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 via GPO Access
• Code of Federal Regulations via GPO Access

• 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

• GPO Board of Contract Appeals Decisions
  

• FOIA
• Policies and Regulations
• Departmental Appeals Board
  Administration for Children & Families
  • Policy Documents
  Food and Drug Administration
  • FOIA
  • FDA Enforcement Reports
  • FDA Guidance Documents
  • FDA Warning Letters
  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
  • Advisory Opinions
  • CMS Rulings of the Administrator
    [HCFA Rulings - HE 22.38:]
  • Manuals
    Includes Program memoranda and Program Transmittals.
  Office of Inspector General
  • Fraud Prevention & Detection
    Includes Advisory Opinions, Open letters, Compliance guidance.

• 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.
  Bureau of Customs & Border Protection
  • 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:]
  Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • FOIA Electronic Reading Room
  • Administrative Decisions
    See also the Board of Immigration Appeals, Justice Dept.
  Coast Guard
  Chief Administrative Law Judge

  • Commandant's Decisions

  Marine Board

  • Routine Investigation Reports
  Federal Emergency Management Administration
  Transportation Security Administration

• FOIA
• 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, Notices, Letters, etc.
  Administrative Law Judges
  • Decisions
    Cases from as far back as 1989.

• FOIA
• Electronic Library of Interior Policies
  Departmental manual.
  Office of Hearings and Appeals
  Unavailable as of 07/11/2003.
  • Decisions - unavailable - 07/11/2003
  Bureau of Land Management
  • FOIA
  • BLM Instruction Memoranda, Information Bulletins, & Manuals
  Bureau of Reclamation
  • Reclamation Manual
    Includes policy statements, directives, and standards.
  Fish & Wildlife Service
  • 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.
  National Park Service
  • Office of Policy
    Regulations, Director's Orders, Executive Orders. etc.
  • NPS Reference Desk
    Links to the Office of Policy, and the Departmental Manual.
  Minerals Management Service
  • Employee Manuals
  Office of Environmental Policy & Compliance
  • Environmental Documents - EAM, ECM, ERM, ESM
  Office of Inspector General
  • Reports
  Office of Surface Mining
  • Directives
  Office of the Solicitor
  • Solicitor's Opinions
    (1993-)
    

• FOIA
  Currently no documents are available here (06/2000)
• Recent Complaints and Petitions
• Electronic Documents Imaging System On-line
  Docketing information and images of the public documents filed in USITC investigations instituted since 1996.

• 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.
  Antitrust Division
  • 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-)
  Civil Division
  
  • Immigration Litigation Bulletin
    2003 issues were released due to a FOIA request.
  Executive Office for Immigration Review
  EOIR Virtual Law Library
  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:]
  Bureau of Prisons
  • FOIA
    Contains BOP Program Statements, elaborating on various policies. Appear to be complete, back to at least 1994.
  Office of Legal Counsel
  • 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 1977-1996.
    [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-)
  U.S. Trustee Program
  • 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
  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-
  Employee Benefits Security Administration
  Compliance Assistance
  Includes ERISA Advisory Opinions (back to 1992).
  Employee Compensation Appeals Board
  • Decisions
    Headnotes only - v.39-44 (1988-1993)
    Full Decisions, - v.44- (1993-)
    Links to The Fien Group, Inc. site.
  Employment and Training Administration
  • 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-)
  Employment Standards Administration
  • 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:]
  Mine Safety and Health Administration
  • FOIA Reading Room
    Includes Petitions for Modification, Program Policy Letters, Procedure Instruction Letters, etc.
  Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  • 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-)
  Office of Administrative Law Judges
  • OALJ Law Library
  • Whistleblower Library
  Office of Exemption Determinations
  • Class Exemptions
  • Individual Exemptions
  Veterans Employment & Training Service
  • Reading Room
    Includes ASVET Memoranda, and Program Letters.
    

• Merit Systems Protection Board Decisions
• Reduction in Force Case Finder
  From Office of Personnel Management.

• 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).

• FOIA Home Page

• Office of the General Counsel
  Office of Administrative Law Judges
• Opinions & Orders (of both GC and ALJ)
  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-)

• Decisions
  Both Administrative Law Judges and Commission Decisions back to 1993.
  

• Advisory Opinions
  Advisory letters, memoranda, and Formal Opinions.
  1979-
• Informal Advisory Opinions
  (1996-2002)
• 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. "

• OMB Circulars
• Selected OMB Bulletins
  (1995-)
• Selected OMB Memoranda
  (1995-)

• 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-)

• Documents
  Includes Opinions, Policy Statements, and Staff Manuals

• PBGC Opinion Letters

• Electronic Reading Room
  Contains Opinions & Decisions, Orders, Pending Cases, etc. Some as old as 1996.

• USPS Administrative Decisions

• Executive Orders
• Proclamations

• 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."

• 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
  • Administrative Proceedings, Decisions, & Opinions
  Investment Management Division
  Division of Market Regulation
  Paper - Decisions and Reports - SE 1.11:

• FOIA

• FOIA
  Office of Advocacy
  Official Regulatory Comment Letters
  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-)
  Office of Hearings and Appeals
  • Search OHA decisions
    Includes various types of SBA decisions - SIC, size, SDB (small disadvantaged business), etc. Early 1990s to present.
  Office of Inspector General
  • Audit Reports
    Includes audit reports on business loans, disaster loans, minority enterprise, government contracting, etc.
    (1990-)
  • Inspection Reports
    (1991-)
  • Monthly Updates
  • Semi-Annual Reports

• 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-)]

• FOIA
  Regulations
  Includes Foreign Affairs Manual,and Foreign Affairs Handbooks
  Office of the Legal Advisor
  • Multilateral Treaties to which the US is a Party
  • 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.
  • Treaties in Force
  • Treaty Actions
    Archived Treaty Actions prior to Jan. 20, 2001.

• FOIA
• TVA Office of the Inspector General
  Contains information about the Audit and Inspection processes. Also, links to Semi-Annual Reports to Congress.

• FOIA
• Docket Management System
• Aviation Orders
  Federal Aviation Administration
  • FAA Regulatory Materials
  • FAA Advisory Circulars
  • Airworthiness Directives
  • Flight Standards Service
  Federal Highway Administration
  • FHWA Directives
  Federal Railroad Administration
  • Regulations, Orders, Notices
  Federal Transit Administration
  • FTA Circulars
    Click on Laws, Regulations, & Guidance
  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  • Interpretation Letters
  Office of General Counsel
  Board of Correction of Military Records
  • Selected Decisions
  Office of Inspector General
  • Audit Reading Room
  Surface Transportation Board
  • Decisions, Notices and Environmental Assessments
    (1994-)

• 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.
  • Internal Revenue Bulletin
  • Internal Revenue Manual
  • IRS Revenue Rulings and Procedures
  • Online search of the entire IRS Revenue Ruling Library from 1954 to the present. Provided by TaxLinks.com
  • IRS Written Determiniations
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