Federal Register

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Type	Dailyofficial journal
Publisher	Office of the Federal Register
Founded	July 26, 1935 (1935-07-26)
Language	English
Headquarters	United States
ISSN	0097-6326
OCLC number	1768512
Website	federalregister.gov
Free online archives	archives.gov/federal-register

Administrative law of theUnited States
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Statutory framework Administrative Procedure Act Freedom of Information Act National Environmental Policy Act Government in the Sunshine Act National Emergencies Act Inspector General Act Regulatory Flexibility Act Paperwork Reduction Act Unfunded Mandates Reform Act Congressional Review Act Federal Vacancies Reform Act
Regulatory coordination Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrative Conference Executive orders Cost–benefit analysis (Executive Order 12866)
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Separation of powers Appointments Clause Freytag Noel Canning Congressional oversight Authorization Organic statute Appropriation Hearings Senate confirmation Independent agencies Humphrey's Executor Seila Law Unitary executive theory Legislative veto Chadha Nondelegation
Regulated fields (and agencies) Antitrust and competition FTC CPSC CFPB Banking Treasury OCC FDIC FRB Communication FCC Energy DOE FERC Environment EPA FWS Food FDA CDC Health care HHS Immigration DHS EOIR Labor DOL NLRB Patent/trademark PTO Securities SEC CFTC Taxation IRS TC Trade DOC ITC Transportation DOT STB NTSB Social Security SSA
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TheFederal Register (FR or sometimesFed. Reg.) is theofficial journal of thefederal government of the United States that contains government agency rules, proposed rules, and public notices.^[1] It is published every weekday, except onfederal holidays. The final rules promulgated by a federal agency and published in theFederal Register are ultimately reorganized by topic or subject matter andcodified in theCode of Federal Regulations (CFR), which is updated quarterly.^[2]

TheFederal Register is compiled by theOffice of the Federal Register (within theNational Archives and Records Administration) and is printed by theGovernment Publishing Office. There are nocopyright restrictions on theFederal Register; as awork of the U.S. government, it is in thepublic domain.^[3]

TheFederal Register provides a means for the government to announce to the public changes to government requirements, policies, and guidance.

• Proposed new rules and regulations
• Final rules
• Changes to existing rules
• Notices of meetings and adjudicatory proceedings
• Presidential documents includingexecutive orders, proclamations and administrative orders.

Both proposed and final government rules are published in theFederal Register. ANotice of Proposed Rulemaking (or "NPRM") typically requests public comment on a proposed rule and provides notice of any public meetings where a proposed rule will be discussed. The public comments are considered by the issuinggovernment agency, and the text of a final rule along with a discussion of the comments is published in theFederal Register. Any agency proposing a rule in theFederal Register must provide contact information for people and organizations interested in making comments to the agencies and the agencies are required to address these concerns when it publishes its final rule on the subject.

The notice and comment process, as outlined in the Administrative Procedure Act, gives the people a chance to participate in agencyrulemaking. Publication of documents in theFederal Register also constitutesconstructive notice, and its contents arejudicially noticed.^[4]

TheUnited States Government Manual is published as a special edition of theFederal Register. Its focus is on programs and activities.^[5]

Each daily issue of the printedFederal Register is organized into four categories:

• Presidential Documents (executive orders andproclamations)
• Rules and Regulations (including policy statements and interpretations of rules by federal agencies)
• Proposed Rules (including petitions to agencies from the public)
• Notices (such as scheduled hearings and meetings open to the public and grant applications)

Citations from theFederal Register are [volume] FR [page number] ([date]),e.g., 71 FR 24924 (April 7, 2006).

The final rules promulgated by a federal agency and published in theFederal Register are ultimately reorganized by topic or subject matter and re-published (or "codified") in theCode of Federal Regulations (CFR), which is updated annually.

Copies of theFederal Register may be obtained from the U.S. Government Publishing Office. Mostlaw libraries associated with anAmerican Bar Association-accredited law school will also have a set, as willfederal depository libraries.^[6]

TheFederal Register has been available online since 1994.Federal depository libraries within the U.S. also receive copies of the text, either in paper ormicrofiche format. Outside the U.S., some major libraries may also carry theFederal Register.

As part of the Federal E-Government eRulemaking Initiative, the web siteRegulations.gov was established in 2003 to enable easy public access to agency dockets on rulemaking projects including the publishedFederal Register document. The public can use Regulations.gov to access entire rulemaking dockets from participating Federal agencies to include providing on-line comments directly to those responsible for drafting the rulemakings. To help federal agencies manage their dockets, the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) was launched in 2005 and is the agency side of regulations.gov.

In April 2009, Citation Technologies created a free, searchable website forFederal Register articles dating from 1996 to the present.^[7]

GovPulse.us,^[8] a finalist in the Sunlight Foundation's Apps for America 2,^[9] provided a Web 2.0 interface to theFederal Register, including sparklines of agency activity and maps of current rules, but is no longer available.

On July 25, 2010, the Federal Register 2.0^[10] website went live.^[11] The new website is a collaboration between the developers who created GovPulse.us, theGovernment Publishing Office and theNational Archives and Records Administration.

On August 1, 2011, theFederal Register announced a newapplication programming interface (API) to facilitate programmatic access to theFederal Register content. The API is fullyRESTful, utilizing theHATEOAS architecture with results delivered in theJSON format. Details are available at the developers' page^[12] andRuby andPython clientlibraries are available.

In addition to purchasing printed copies or subscriptions, the contents of theFederal Register can be acquired via several commercial databases:

• Citation Technologies offers the complete Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs) through subscription-based web portals such asCyberRegs.^[13]
• HeinOnline (1936–): Full coverage available dating back to 1936 in an image-based searchable PDF format.
• LexisNexis (July 1, 1980–): Searchable text format since 45FR44251.
• Westlaw (January 1, 1981–): Searchable text format since 46FR1. The Unified Agenda and the official English text of the 1980United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, which became effective January 1, 1988, are included. Sunshine Act Meeting Notices are not available prior to 1991. Unified Agenda documents are not available prior to October 1989.

TheFederal Register system of publication was created on July 26, 1935, under the Federal Register Act.^[4][14] The first issue of theFederal Register was published on March 16, 1936.^[15] In 1946 theAdministrative Procedure Act required agencies to publish more information related to their rulemaking documents in theFederal Register.^[16]

• Emergency Federal Register
• Government gazette – for other similar government publications in other countries
• Regulations.gov
• California Regulatory Notice Register
• Florida Administrative Register
• Illinois Register
• New Jersey Register
• New York State Register
• Pennsylvania Bulletin
• United States Reports
• United States Statutes at Large

• "About theFederal Register". Office of the Federal Register. August 15, 2016.
• McKinney, Richard J. (June 12, 2016)."A Research Guide to the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations". Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.
• Carey, Maeve P. (May 1, 2013).Counting Regulations: An Overview of Rulemaking, Types of Federal Regulations, and Pages in the Federal Register(PDF).Congressional Research Service.
• Kohlmetz, William J. (1948)."Administrative Law—The Effect of Publication in the Federal Register".Marquette Law Review.32 (1):58–64.

Scholia has avenue profile forFederal Register.

• Official website from theOffice of the Federal Register
• Federal Register (official) onGovInfo from theGovernment Publishing Office
• Federal Register 2.0 (official but not authoritative) from the Office of the Federal Register
• List of CFR Sections Affected on GovInfo from the Government Publishing Office
• Office of the Federal Register in theFederal Register
• Administrative Committee of the Federal Register in theFederal Register
• Sources and Tools to the Federal Register free and commercial from LLSDC.org

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