Administrative Decisions & Other Actions - by Subject
Banking & Finance
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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.
Federal Reserve System
Actions, Orders, and other Documents
Supervision and Regulation Letters
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Board Actions
(1996-)
Policy Manual, Technical Handbook
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-)
National Credit Union Administration
Administrative Orders, Letters of Understanding & Agreement, Interpretive Rulings, etc.
Contains various administrative materials, some as old as 1991.
Office of Management & Budget
Securitites & Exchange Commission
SEC Enforcement Division
Administrative Proceedings, Decisions, & Opinions
Treasury Department
- Regulatory Activities
Links to Enforcement Actions, Legal Interpretations, Community ReinvestmentAct actions, etc.
- 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
Business & Economic Development
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
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.
Justice Department
- 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-)
Peace Corps
Opinions, Policy Statements, Staff Manuals
Small Business Administration
Office of Hearings and Appeals
Office of Inspector General
Consumer Protection
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Office of General Counsel
- Advisory Opinions
(1973-)
Defense
Department of Defense
DoD Directives
Includes directives, instructions, publications, administrative instructions, and directive-type memoranda.
Defense Acquisition Library
Includes policy documents, regulations, directives, and a pre-1997 archive
- Policy Letter Digest
(April 1996-)
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)
- Records Management & Declassification
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.
- FOIA
- FOIA Electronic Reading Room
Includes directives & orders.
National Security Agency
Drugs
Food and Drug Administration
Education
Education Department
Key Policy Letters Signed by the Educations Secretary or Deputy
Decisions of the Secretary
Under construction.
- Decisions
"This is a list of many of the decisions issued by the various judges within OHA, organized by docket number. Included here are decisions of the Office of Higher Education Appeals (OHEA), the Office of Administrative Law Judges (OALJ), and the Civil Rights Reviewing Authority (CRRA). The page also contains a search interface for full text searches of OHA decisions. This list does not contain all decisions issued by judges within OHA, but we are continuously adding to the list and hope to have all decisions included here eventually."
Elections
Federal Election Commission
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."
Employment & Labor
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Laws, Regulations, & Policy Guidance
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-)
Federal Labor Relations Authority
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
This includes "Decisions and Orders" (if the dispute was decided by the Panel as a whole), and "Opinions and Decisions" if it was handled by a Panel member or designated staff member.
(1990-)
Federal Mine Safety and Health Review 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 - Decisions
(1995-)
Justice Department
Americans with Disabilities Act Agreements & Letters of Findings
Labor Department
- ARB Decisions
(1998-)
- Decisions
Includes both published and unpublished decisions and orders, some as old as 1993.
Employee Compensation Appeals Board
- Decisions
Headnotes only - v.39-44 (1988-1993)
Full Decisions, - v.44- (1993-)
Employment and Training Administration
Employment Standards Administration
- FOIA
- Reading Room
Contains Federal Employees' Compensation Act Bulletins, Circulars, & transmittals. - Davis-Bacon Wage Determinations
Available for a fee from NTIS
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-) - OSHA Standards Interpretations and Compliance Letters
(1972-) - Other OSHA memos, letters, & documents
(1978-) - Hazard Information Bulletins
(1984-)
Office of Administrative Law Judges
Pension & Welfare Benefits Administration
- Office of Exemptions & Determinations
ERISA Determinations - Office of Regulations & Interpretations
ERISA Advisory Opinions & Information Letters
Veterans Employment & Training Service
Railroad Retirement Board
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."
Energy
Energy Department
DOE Directives
Includes current, archived, and draft directives.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Notices, Meetings, & Major Orders
Not a complete listing of FERC orders.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Issuances, Opinions, & Decisions are not yet available on the Internet.
Commission Decision-Making Index (SECYs, SRMs, & Voting records)
Advisory Comm. on Reactor Safeguards & Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
Office of Enforcement
- FOIA
- TVA Office of the Inspector General
Contains information about the Audit and Inspection processes. Also, links to Semi-Annual Reports to Congress.
Environment
Natural Resources Conservation Service
NRCS Electronic Directives System
Currently contains two NRCS handbooks.
Environmental Protection Agency
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).
Interior Department
Office of Hearings and Appeals
Bureau of Land Management
Farming & Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
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 Dept. Administration
- Administrative Law Judges Office
Includes judges bios, listing of statutory proceedings. Does not include opinions. - Office of the Judicial Officer
Summaries of Decisions, 1998-
Annual reports, 1996- - Board of Contract Appeals
Annual reports, 1996-
Grain Inspectors, Packers, & Stockyards Administration
- Enforcement Bulletins
(1997-) - Final Opinions & Orders
(1994-) - Laws, Regulations, Standards, and Directives
Selectively includes directives, notices, and bulletins from 1983 on.
Research, Education, and Economics (Ag. Dept)
- REE Policies & Procedures
Includes administrative issuances, manuals, bulletins.
Farm Credit Administration
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.
Foreign Affairs
State Department
Office of the Legal Advisor
Food Safety
Department of Agriculture
Food Safety & Inspection Service
- FSIS Notices and Directives
Primarily from 1999 on, but a few earlier ones.
Grain Inspectors, Packers, & Stockyards Administration
- Enforcement Bulletins
(1997-) - Final Opinions & Orders
(1994-) - Laws, Regulations, Standards, and Directives
Selectively includes directives, notices, and bulletins from 1983 on.
Food and Drug Administration
Forestry
Forest Service
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 (4/00). Page last updated Oct. 1998
Policy & Interpretation
Nothing available at this time (4/00)
Freedom of Information Reading Rooms
Agriculture Dept.
Food and Nutrition Service
Food Safety and Inspection Service
- FOIA Reading Room
Includes Administrative Manuals and directives
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.
Grain Inspectors, Packers, & Stockyards Administration
Forest Service
Research, Education, and Economics
- FOIA
Includes links to REE administrative issuances, and FOIA Annual Reports
Rural Development
- FOIA
Includes directives, regulations, administrative notices, rural development handbooks, etc.
Commerce Department
Bureau of Export Administration
- FOIA Library
Includes antiboycott warning letters and reports, public comments on regulations.
Consumer Product Safety Commission
- 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.
Defense Department
Energy Department
Environmental Protection Agency
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Federal Commuications Commission
Federal Maritime Commission
- FOIA
Includes Public Information Handbook, information demand orders, fact findings, and adjudicatory decisions
Health and Human Services Department
Housing and Urban Development Department
Interior Department
Import Export Bank
International Trade Commission
- FOIA
Currently no documents are available here (06/2000
Justice Department
- FOIA
Contains BOP Program Statements, elaborating on various policies. Appear to be complete, back to at least 1994.
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Labor Department
Mine Safety and Health Administration
- FOIA Reading Room
Includes Petitions for Modification, Program Policy Letters, Procedure Instruction Letters, etc.
NASA
National Security Agency
Office of Personnel Management
Small Business Administration
Social Security Administration
State Department
Transportation Department
Treasury Department
Government
Federal Register Office
Federal Register via GPO Access
Code of Federal Regulations via GPO Access
General Accounting Office
GAO Policy & Guidance Materials
General Services Administration
Office of Governmentwide Policy
Government Printing Office
GPO Board of Contract Appeals Decisions
From the Dept. of Commerce Office of General Counsel
Office of Government Ethics
Ethics Resource Library
Includes Advisory Letters, Memoranda, Formal Opinions, Policy Memoranda, etc.
Informal Advisory Letters, Memoranda, & Formal Opinions file library.
(1979-1999)
Search page
GPO Access supplied search page for IALs, Memoranda, and Opinions.
President
Health
Health and Human Services Department
Health Care Financing Administration
Office of Inspector General
Homeland Security
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.
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
Federal Emergency Management Administration
Transportation Security Administration
Housing
Housing and Urban Development Department
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.
- Decisions
Cases from as far back as 1989.
Immigration
Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services
Executive Office for Immigration Review
Board or Immigration Appeals Precedent Decisions
[Paper - Administrative Decisions under the Immigration & Nationality Laws - J 21.11:]
Intellectual Property
Patent & Trademark Office
Patent Decisions & other PTO Documents
Includes Commissioner decisions, Board of Patent Appeals decisions, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decisions.
Justice
Justice Department
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
- 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-)
NASA
NASA
Directives
Click on NODIS Directives Library
Postal Service
Postal Rate Commission
Electronic Reading Room
Contains Opinions & Decisions, Orders, Pending Cases, etc. Some as old as 1996.
Postal Service
Social Security
Railroad Retirement Board
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."
Social Security Administration
Tax
Internal Revenue Service
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 Rulings & Procedures
Telecommunications
Federal Commuications Commission
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-)
- FCC & FRC Reported Cases
- Enforcement Bureau
- Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
- Documents
Includes orders, open proceedings, reports, factsheets, etc. (1994-)
- Documents
National Telecommunications & Information Administration
Filings with the FCC
Includes NTIA replies to FCC proposals, in addition to other NITA reports. (1995-)
Trade
Commerce Department
Bureau of Export Administration
- 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.
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.
Customs Service
Customs Office Ruling Letters & Legal Precedent Retrieval System
Customs Office General Counsel Advisory Opinions
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Board Minutes
(1996-)
International Trade Administration
Import Administration
- Import Library
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
Includes the Trade Agreement Database. Fully searchable texts of more than 250 trade agreements. Includes most of the trade agreements to which the United States is a party and related documents which are important to business.
Export-Import Bank of the United States
- 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.
- Federal Trade Commission Formal Actions, Opinions, & Activities
Past Commission actions available, 1995- .
International Trade Commission
Transportation
Federal Maritime Commission
Federal Maritime Commission Adjudicatory Decisions
(Nov. 1, 1996-)
National Transportation Safety Board
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-)
Transportation Department
Coast Guard
- Chief Administrative Law Judge
- Marine Board
Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA Regulatory Materials
- Index to Advisory Circulars
- FAA Advisory Circulars
- Airway Facilities Directives Index
- Information Bulletins & Handbooks
Federal Highway Administration
Federal Railroad Administration
Federal Transit Administration
- FTA Circulars
Click on Laws, Regulations, & Guidance
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Office of General Counsel
- Board of Correction of Military Records
Office of Inspector General
Surface Transportation Board
Veterans
Veterans Affairs Department
Board of Veterans Appeals Decisions