In accordance with EO 13713, Half-Day Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on Thursday, December 24, 2015, signed on December 11, 2015, the Office of the Federal Register will close at 12 noon to Federal Agencies … Continue reading
If you have ever tried to search our site for Federal Register documents published prior to 1994, you’ve realized that there is nothing online from 1936 to 1994. Then you may have called our office, only to find out you’d either … Continue reading
Today, the General Services Administration (GSA) released updates to their PKCS7Sign tool. The tool allows federal agencies to leverage the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificates on many Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards. The update to the tool adds an unpack … Continue reading
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) hosted the 2nd Annual PKI Conference on August 25, 2015. New OFR Director Oliver Potts welcomed the attendees and briefly talked about OFR’s role in … Continue reading
We are excited to announce the availability of XML (Extensible Markup Language) data for www.ecfr.gov through our partnership with the Government Publishing Office (GPO)! The XML eCFR.gov data can be repurposed for mobile web applications, data mashups, and other analytic … Continue reading
[Cross-posted from National Archives internal blog, Declarations] The National Archives and Records Administration and the Office of the Federal Register are pleased to announce the selection of Oliver Potts as the 9th Director of the Federal Register, effective August 9, … Continue reading
[This post was written by OFR intern Lissa N. Snyders] Although agency regulations are not official until they are published in the Federal Register, the public has the opportunity to preview these documents before they are published. All documents that … Continue reading
On June 2, 2015, the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) hosted its 3rd Annual Federal Register Liaison Conference in the National Archives’ McGowan Theater. What exactly is a Federal Register Liaison? Each federal agency is required to designate an … Continue reading
[This post was written by OFR intern Lissa N. Snyders] We are excited to announce a new visual collection of the U.S. Government Manual (USGM) covers. The covers of each edition from 1935 to 2013 were digitized and additional information … Continue reading
[This blog post was written by OFR intern Lissa N. Snyders] Our users frequently ask for information about Office of the Federal Register (OFR) publications. Publication statistics for the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations are compiled annually … Continue reading