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The Federal Register provides the fulltext of the Federal Register, a daily publication of the United States Government that serves as the medium for notifying the public of official agency actions. Published every Federal working day, the Federal Register provides a uniform system for making available to the public regulations and legal notices issued by Federal agencies and the President. The documents are grouped and published in the following categories: Presidential documents, rules and regulations, proposed rules, notices, and Sunshine Act meetings. Corrections, Table of Contents, and Unified Agenda records are also available online. Daily and weekly current awareness searching provides the capability of monitoring relevant developments.

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Subject Coverage [top]

• Agriculture
• Arts and Humanities
• Business
• Communications
• Consumer Affairs
• Defense
• Economy
• Education
• Energy
• Environment
• Finance
• Foreign Affairs
• Government Contracts
• Housing
• Law Enforcement
• Parks and Recreation
• Political Affairs
• Resources
• Social Services
• Taxation
• Technology
• Trade
• Transportation

Sources [top]

The Federal Register provides the full text of the daily Federal Register publication. Contributing agencies and departments include: the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Interior, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Energy (DOE), the Veterans' Administration (VA), Agriculture Department, Defense Department, Federal Communications Commission (FTC), Federal Maritime Commission, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), NASA, Transportation Department, Securities and Exchange Commission, Treasury Department, and many others.

Print Counterparts [top]

• Federal Register

Dialog File Data [top]

Database Content [top]

• Complete Text Records

Document Types Indexed [top]

• Government Documents

Geographic Coverage [top]

• US Only

Geographic Restrictions [top]

• None

Special Features [top]

• ERA Available
• Graduate Education Program
• KWIC and HILIGHT Available
• DIALOG Alert Available
• CURRENT Feature Available

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Terms and Conditions [top]

No special terms or conditions.

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BASIC INDEX [top]

¹ Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

² Use /CF or CF= to search for a specific part of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Use the limit /CFR to restrict the search any references from the CFR.

³ Only the first page of the document is specified. Page numbers mentioned in the Table of Contents or in page references can be searched in the Basic Index.

⁴ The Legal Publications field can be searched in the Basic Index with the /LW suffix for records published 1985-1998. From 1999, this information is searched without the suffix.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

⁵ Document Types searchable: Presidential Documents, Rules and Regulations, Proposed Rules, Notices, Sunshine Meetings, Corrections, and Table of Contents.

⁶ Internal document numbers can be searched just as numbers, e.g. S IN=98-14296.

⁷ Unified Agenda records are not available with DT=. Use the NOT operator, e.g., S S1 NOT UNIFIED(W)AGENDA/AC to exclude them from a search.

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