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Title 44 - Public Printing and Documents
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 4, Title 44 - PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contains | Sections 101 to 4104 |
| Date | 2022 |
| Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 5, 2023 |
| Positive Law | Yes |
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- + Chapter 1 - Joint Committee on Printing (Section 101 - 103)
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Chapter 3 - Government Publishing Office
(Section 301 - 318)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 301 - Director of the Government Publishing Office: appointment
- Sec. 302 - Deputy Director of the Government Publishing Office: appointment; duties
- Sec. 303 - Director of the Government Publishing Office and Deputy Director of the Government Publishing Office: pay
- Sec. 304 - Director of the Government Publishing Office: vacancy in office
- Sec. 305 - Director of the Government Publishing Office: employees; pay
- Sec. 306 - Director of the Government Publishing Office: employment of skilled workmen; trial of skill
- Sec. 307 - Director of the Government Publishing Office: night work
- Sec. 308 - Disbursing officer; deputy disbursing officer; certifying officers and employees
- Sec. 309 - Revolving fund for operation and maintenance of Government Publishing Office: capitalization; reimbursements and credits; accounting and budgeting; reports
- Sec. 310 - Payments for printing, binding, blank paper, and supplies
- Sec. 311 - Purchases exempt from subtitle I of title 40 and division C (except sections 3302, 3501(b), 3509, 3906, 4710, and 4711) of subtitle I of title 41; contract negotiation authority; small purchase threshold
- Sec. 312 - Machinery, material, equipment, or supplies from other Government agencies
- Sec. 313 - Examining boards: paper; bindery materials; machinery
- Sec. 314 - Inks, glues, and other supplies furnished to other Government agencies: payment
- Sec. 315 - Branches of Government Publishing Office; limitations
- Sec. 316 - Detail of employees of Government Publishing Office to other Government establishments
- Sec. 317 - Special policemen
- Sec. 318 - Transfer of surplus property; acceptance of voluntary services
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Chapter 5 - Production and Procurement of Printing and Binding
(Section 501 - 517)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 501 - Government printing, binding, and blank-book work to be done at Government Publishing Office
- Sec. 502 - Procurement of printing, binding, and blank-book work by Director of the Government Publishing Office
- Sec. 503 - Printing in veterans' hospitals
- Sec. 504 - Direct purchase of printing, binding, and blank-book work by Government agencies
- Sec. 505 - Sale of duplicate plates
- Sec. 506 - Time for printing documents or reports which include illustrations or maps
- Sec. 507 - Orders for printing to be acted upon within one year
- Sec. 508 - Annual estimates of quantity of paper required for public printing and binding
- Sec. 509 - Standards of paper; advertisements for proposals; samples
- Sec. 510 - Specifications in advertisements for paper
- Sec. 511 - Opening bids; bonds
- Sec. 512 - Approval of paper contracts; time for performance; bonds
- Sec. 513 - Comparison of paper and envelopes with standard quality
- Sec. 514 - Determination of quality of paper
- Sec. 515 - Default of contractor; new contracts and purchase in open market
- Sec. 516 - Liability of defaulting contractor
- Sec. 517 - Purchase of paper in open market
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Chapter 7 - Congressional Printing and Binding
(Section 701 - 741)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 701 - "Usual number" of documents and reports; distribution of House and Senate documents and reports; binding; reports on private bills; number of copies printed; distribution
- Sec. 702 - Extra copies of documents and reports
- Sec. 703 - Printing extra copies
- Sec. 704 - Reprinting bills, laws, and reports from committees not exceeding fifty pages
- Sec. 705 - Duplicate orders to print
- Sec. 706 - Bills and resolutions: number and distribution
- Sec. 707 - Bills and resolutions: style and form
- Sec. 708 - Bills and resolutions: binding sets for Congress
- Sec. 709 - Public and private laws, postal conventions, and treaties
- Sec. 710 - Copies of Acts furnished to Director of the Government Publishing Office
- Sec. 711 - Printing Acts, joint resolutions, and treaties
- Sec. 712 - Printing of postal conventions
- Sec. 713 - Journals of Houses of Congress
- Sec. 714 - Printing documents for Congress in two or more editions; printing of full number and allotment of full quota
- Sec. 715 - Senate and House documents and reports for Department of State
- Sec. 716 - Printing of documents not provided for by law
- Sec. 717 - Appropriation chargeable for printing of document or report by order of Congress
- Sec. 718 - Lapse of authority to print
- Sec. 719 - Classification and numbering of publications ordered printed by Congress; designation of publications of departments; printing of committee hearings
- Sec. 720 - Senate and House Manuals
- Sec. 721 - Congressional Directory
- Sec. 722 - Congressional Directory: sale
- Sec. 723 - Memorial addresses: preparation; distribution
- Sec. 724 - Memorial addresses: illustrations
- Sec. 725 - Statement of appropriations; "usual number"
- Sec. 726 - Printing for committees of Congress
- Sec. 727 - Committee reports: indexing and binding
- Sec. 728 - United States Statutes at Large: distribution
- Sec. 729 - United States Statutes at Large: references in margins
- Sec. 730 - Distribution of documents to Members of Congress
- Sec. 731 - Allotments of public documents printed after expiration of terms of Members of Congress; rights of retiring Members to documents
- Sec. 732 - Time for distribution of documents by Members of Congress extended
- Sec. 733 - Documents and reports ordered by Members of Congress; franks and envelopes for Members of Congress
- Sec. 734 - Stationery and blank books for Congress
- Sec. 735 - Binding for Senators
- Sec. 736 - Binding at expense of Members of Congress
- Sec. 737 - Binding for Senate library
- Sec. 738 - Binding of publications for distribution to libraries
- Sec. 739 - Senate and House document rooms; superintendents
- Sec. 740 - Senate Service Department and House Publications Distribution Service; superintendents
- Sec. 741 - Disposition of documents stored at Capitol
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Chapter 9 - Congressional Record
(Section 901 - 910)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 901 - Congressional Record: arrangement, style, contents, and indexes
- Sec. 902 - Congressional Record: Indexes
- Sec. 903 - Congressional Record: daily and permanent forms
- Sec. 904 - Congressional Record: maps; diagrams; illustrations
- Sec. 905 - Congressional Record: additional insertions
- Sec. 906 - Congressional Record: gratuitous copies; delivery
- Sec. 907 - Congressional Record: extracts for Members of Congress; mailing envelopes
- Sec. 908 - Congressional Record: payment for printing extracts or other documents
- Sec. 909 - Congressional Record: exchange for Parliamentary Hansard
- Sec. 910 - Congressional Record: subscriptions; sale of current, individual numbers, and bound sets; postage rate
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Chapter 11 - Executive and Judiciary Printing and Binding
(Section 1101 - 1123)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1101 - Printing and binding for the President
- Sec. 1102 - Printing to be authorized by law and necessary to the public business, not in excess of appropriation, and on special requisition filed with the Director of the Government Publishing Office
- Sec. 1103 - Certificate of necessity; estimate of cost
- Sec. 1104 - Restrictions on use of illustrations
- Sec. 1105 - Form and style of work for departments
- Sec. 1106 - Inserting "compliments" forbidden
- Sec. 1107 - Appropriations chargeable for printing and binding of documents or reports
- Sec. 1108 - Presidential approval required for printing of periodicals; number printed; sale to public
- Sec. 1109 - Printing documents in two or more editions; full number and allotment of full quota
- Sec. 1110 - Daily examination of Congressional Record for immediate ordering of documents for official use; limit; bills and resolutions
- Sec. 1111 - Annual reports: time for furnishing manuscript and proofs to Director of the Government Publishing Office
- Sec. 1112 - Annual reports: type for reports of executive officers
- Sec. 1113 - Annual reports: exclusion of irrelevant matter
- Sec. 1114 - Annual reports: number of copies for Congress
- Sec. 1115 - Annual reports: time of delivery by Director of the Government Publishing Office to Congress
- Sec. 1116 - Annual reports: limitation on number of copies printed; reports of bureau chiefs
- Sec. 1117 - Annual reports: discontinuance of printing of annual or special reports to keep within appropriations
- Sec. 1118 - Documents beyond scope of ordinary departmental business
- Sec. 1119 - Government publications as public property
- Sec. 1120 - Blanks and letterheads for judges and officers of courts
- Sec. 1121 - Paper and envelopes for Government agencies in the District of Columbia
- Sec. 1122 - Supplies for Government establishments
- Sec. 1123 - Binding materials; bookbinding for libraries
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Chapter 13 - Particular Reports and Documents
(Section 1301 - 1344)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1301 - Agriculture, Department of: report of Secretary
- Sec. 1302 - Agriculture, Department of: monthly crop report and other publications
- Sec. 1303 - American Historical Association: report
- Sec. 1304 - Army and Navy registers
- Sec. 1305 - Attorney General: opinions
- Sec. 1306 - Civil Service Commission: report
- Sec. 1307 - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: nautical products, sale and distribution
- Sec. 1308 - Coast Guard: annual report of the Commandant
- Sec. 1309 - Coast Guard: notices to mariners and other special publications
- Sec. 1310 - Commerce Department: navigation and weather information
- Sec. 1311 - Repealed. Pub. L. 104-316, title I, §123(b)(1), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3839
- Sec. 1312 - Director of Public Health of District of Columbia: report
- Sec. 1313 - Education, Commissioner of: report
- Sec. 1314 - Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac
- Sec. 1315 - Fish and Wildlife Service: bulletins
- Sec. 1316 - Fish and Wildlife Service: report of the Director
- Sec. 1317 - Foreign Relations
- Sec. 1318 - Geological Survey: classes and sizes of publications; report of mineral resources; number of copies; reprints; distribution
- Sec. 1319 - Geological Survey: specific appropriations required for monographs and bulletins
- Sec. 1320 - Geological Survey: distribution of publications to public libraries
- Sec. 1320A - Historical societies' publications
- Sec. 1321 - Hydrographic Surveys; foreign surveys
- Sec. 1322 - Immigration and Naturalization Service: report
- Sec. 1323 - Interstate Commerce Commission: report
- Sec. 1324 - Labor Statistics, Bureau of: bulletins
- Sec. 1325 - Labor Statistics, Bureau of: report of Commissioner
- Sec. 1326 - Librarian of Congress: reports
- Sec. 1327 - Mines, Bureau of: publications
- Sec. 1328 - Merchant vessels of the United States
- Sec. 1329 - Mint: reports of Director
- Sec. 1330 - Monthly Summary Statement of Imports and Exports
- Sec. 1331 - National Academy of Sciences: report
- Sec. 1332 - National encampments of Veterans' organizations; proceedings printed annually for Congress
- Sec. 1333 - National high school and college debate topics
- Sec. 1334 - Naval Intelligence Office: additional copies of publications
- Sec. 1335 - Naval Observatory Observations
- Sec. 1336 - National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: special publications
- Secs. 1337, 1338 - Repealed. Pub. L. 106-113, div. B, §1000(a)(9) [title IV, §4732(b)(25)
- Sec. 1339 - Printing of the President's Message
- Sec. 1340 - Director of the Government Publishing Office: annual report
- Sec. 1341 - Smithsonian Institution: report
- Sec. 1342 - Repealed. Pub. L. 104-127, title IV, §384, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1016
- Sec. 1343 - Statistical Abstract of the United States
- Sec. 1344 - Treasury Department: reports
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Chapter 15 - Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations
(Section 1501 - 1511)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1501 - Definitions
- Sec. 1502 - Custody and printing of Federal documents; appointment of Director
- Sec. 1503 - Filing documents with Office; notation of time; public inspection; transmission for printing
- Sec. 1504 - "Federal Register"; printing; contents; distribution; price
- Sec. 1505 - Documents to be published in Federal Register
- Sec. 1506 - Administrative Committee of the Federal Register; establishment and composition; powers and duties
- Sec. 1507 - Filing document as constructive notice; publication in Federal Register as presumption of validity; judicial notice; citation
- Sec. 1508 - Publication in Federal Register as notice of hearing
- Sec. 1509 - Costs of publication, etc.
- Sec. 1510 - Code of Federal Regulations
- Sec. 1511 - International agreements excluded from provisions of chapter
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Chapter 17 - Distribution and Sale of Public Documents
(Section 1701 - 1722)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1701 - Publications for public distribution to be distributed by the Director of the Government Publishing Office; mailing lists
- Sec. 1702 - Superintendent of Documents; sale of documents
- Sec. 1703 - Superintendent of Documents: assistants, blanks, printing and binding
- Sec. 1704 - Superintendent of Documents: pay of employees for night, Sunday, holiday, and overtime work
- Sec. 1705 - Printing additional copies for sale to public; regulations
- Sec. 1706 - Printing and sale of extra copies of documents
- Sec. 1707 - Reprinting of documents required for sale
- Sec. 1708 - Prices for sales copies of publications; crediting of receipts; resale by dealers; sales agents
- Sec. 1709 - Blank forms: printing and sale to public
- Sec. 1710 - Index of documents: number and distribution
- Sec. 1711 - Catalog of Government publications
- Sec. 1712 - Documents for use of the Director of the Government Publishing Office
- Sec. 1713 - Documents to be delivered to the Executive Mansion
- Sec. 1714 - Publications for use of National Archives and Records Administration
- Sec. 1715 - Publications for department or officer or for congressional committees
- Sec. 1716 - Public documents for legations and consulates of United States
- Sec. 1717 - Documents and reports for foreign legations
- Sec. 1718 - Distribution of Government publications to the Library of Congress
- Sec. 1719 - International exchange of Government publications
- Sec. 1720 - Documents not needed by departments to be turned over to Superintendent of Documents
- Sec. 1721 - Exchange of documents by heads of departments
- Sec. 1722 - Departmental distribution of publications
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Chapter 19 - Depository Library Program
(Section 1901 - 1916)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 1901 - Definition of Government publication
- Sec. 1902 - Availability of Government publications through Superintendent of Documents; lists of publications not ordered from Government Publishing Office
- Sec. 1903 - Distribution of publications to depositories; notice to Government components; cost of printing and binding
- Sec. 1904 - Classified list of Government publications for selection by depositories
- Sec. 1905 - Distribution to depositories; designation of additional libraries; justification; authorization for certain designations
- Sec. 1906 - Land-grant colleges constituted depositories
- Sec. 1907 - Libraries of executive departments, service academies, and independent agencies constituted depositories; certifications of need; disposal of unwanted publications
- Sec. 1908 - American Antiquarian Society to receive certain publications
- Sec. 1909 - Requirements of depository libraries; reports on conditions; investigations; termination; replacement
- Sec. 1910 - Designations of replacement depositories; limitations on numbers; conditions
- Sec. 1911 - Free use of Government publications in depositories; disposal of unwanted publications
- Sec. 1912 - Regional depositories; designation; functions; disposal of publications
- Sec. 1913 - Appropriations for supplying depository libraries; restriction
- Sec. 1914 - Implementation of depository library program by Director of the Government Publishing Office
- Sec. 1915 - Highest State appellate court libraries as depository libraries
- Sec. 1916 - Designation of libraries of accredited law schools as depository libraries
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Chapter 21 - National Archives and Records Administration
(Section 2101 - 2120)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 2101 - Definitions
- Sec. 2102 - Establishment
- Sec. 2103 - Officers
- Sec. 2104 - Administrative provisions
- Sec. 2105 - Personnel and services
- Sec. 2106 - Reports to Congress
- Sec. 2107 - Acceptance of records for historical preservation
- Sec. 2108 - Responsibility for custody, use, and withdrawal of records
- Sec. 2109 - Preservation, arrangement, duplication, exhibition of records
- Sec. 2110 - Servicing records
- Sec. 2111 - Material accepted for deposit
- Sec. 2112 - Presidential archival depository
- Sec. 2113 - Depository for agreements between States
- Sec. 2114 - Preservation of audio and visual records
- Sec. 2115 - Reports; correction of violations
- Sec. 2116 - Legal status of reproductions; official seal; fees for copies and reproductions
- Sec. 2117 - Limitation on liability
- Sec. 2118 - Records of Congress
- Sec. 2119 - Cooperative agreements
- Sec. 2120 - Online access of founding fathers documents
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Chapter 22 - Presidential Records
(Section 2201 - 2209)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 2201 - Definitions
- Sec. 2202 - Ownership of Presidential records
- Sec. 2203 - Management and custody of Presidential records
- Sec. 2204 - Restrictions on access to Presidential records
- Sec. 2205 - Exceptions to restricted access
- Sec. 2206 - Regulations
- Sec. 2207 - Vice-Presidential records
- Sec. 2208 - Claims of constitutionally based privilege against disclosure
- Sec. 2209 - Disclosure requirement for official business conducted using non-official electronic messaging accounts
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Chapter 23 - National Archives Trust Fund Board
(Section 2301 - 2308)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 2301 - Establishment of Board; membership
- Sec. 2302 - Authority of the Board; seal; services; bylaws; rules; regulations; employees
- Sec. 2303 - Powers and obligations of the Board; liability of members
- Sec. 2304 - Compensation of members; availability of trust funds for expenses of the Board
- Sec. 2305 - Acceptance of gifts
- Sec. 2306 - Investment of funds
- Sec. 2307 - Trust fund account; disbursements; sales of publications and releases
- Sec. 2308 - Tax exemption for gifts
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Chapter 25 - National Historical Publications and Records Commission
(Section 2501 - 2507)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 2501 - Creation; composition; appointment and tenure; meetings
- Sec. 2502 - Vacancies
- Sec. 2503 - Executive director, staff, transportation expenses
- Sec. 2504 - Duties; authorization of grants for historical publications and records programs; authorization for appropriations
- Sec. 2505 - Special advisory committees; membership; reimbursement
- Sec. 2506 - Records to be kept by grantees
- Sec. 2507 - Repealed. Pub. L. 98-497, title I, §107(b)(12)(A), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2287
- + Chapter 27 - Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress (Section 2701 - 2706)
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Chapter 29 - Records Management by the Archivist of the United States and by the Administrator of General Services
(Section 2901 - 2912)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 2901 - Definitions
- Sec. 2902 - Objectives of records management
- Sec. 2903 - Custody and control of property
- Sec. 2904 - General responsibilities for records management
- Sec. 2905 - Establishment of standards for selective retention of records; security measures
- Sec. 2906 - Inspection of agency records
- Sec. 2907 - Records centers and centralized microfilming or digitization services
- Sec. 2908 - Regulations
- Sec. 2909 - Retention of records
- Sec. 2910 - Preservation of Freedmen's Bureau records
- Sec. 2911 - Disclosure requirement for official business conducted using non-official electronic messaging accounts
- Sec. 2912 - Preservation of electronic messages and other records
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Chapter 31 - Records Management by Federal Agencies
(Section 3101 - 3107)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 3101 - Records management by agency heads; general duties
- Sec. 3102 - Establishment of program of management
- Sec. 3103 - Transfer of records to records centers
- Sec. 3104 - Certifications and determinations on transferred records
- Sec. 3105 - Safeguards
- Sec. 3106 - Unlawful removal, destruction of records
- Sec. 3107 - Authority of Comptroller General
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Chapter 33 - Disposal of Records
(Section 3301 - 3324)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 3301 - Definition of records
- Sec. 3302 - Regulations covering lists of records for disposal, procedure for disposal, and standards for reproduction
- Sec. 3303 - Lists and schedules of records to be submitted to the Archivist by head of each Government agency
- Sec. 3303a - Examination by Archivist of lists and schedules of records lacking preservation value; disposal of records
- Secs. 3304 to 3307 - Repealed. Pub. L. 91-287, §2(c), June 23, 1970, 84 Stat. 321
- Sec. 3308 - Disposal of similar records where prior disposal was authorized
- Sec. 3309 - Preservation of claims of Government until settled in Government Accountability Office; disposal authorized upon written approval of Comptroller General
- Sec. 3310 - Disposal of records constituting menace to health, life, or property
- Sec. 3311 - Destruction of records outside continental United States in time of war or when hostile action seems imminent; written report to Archivist
- Sec. 3312 - Photographs or microphotographs of records considered as originals; certified reproductions admissible in evidence
- Sec. 3313 - Moneys from sale of records payable into the Treasury
- Sec. 3314 - Procedures for disposal of records exclusive
- Secs. 3315 to 3324 - Repealed. Pub. L. 113-187, §7(a), Nov. 26, 2014, 128 Stat. 2011
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Chapter 35 - Coordination of Federal Information Policy
(Section 3501 - 3583)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Subchapter I - Federal Information Policy (Section 3501 - 3549)
- Subchapter II - Information Security (Section 3551 - 3559)
- Subchapter III - Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency (Section 3561 - 3583)
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Chapter 36 - Management and Promotion of Electronic Government Services
(Section 3601 - 3616)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 3601 - Definitions
- Sec. 3602 - Office of Electronic Government
- Sec. 3603 - Chief Information Officers Council
- Sec. 3604 - E-Government Fund
- Sec. 3605 - Program to encourage innovative solutions to enhance electronic Government services and processes
- Sec. 3606 - E-Government report
- Sec. 3607 - Definitions
- Sec. 3608 - Federal risk and authorization management program
- Sec. 3609 - Roles and responsibilities of the General Services Administration
- Sec. 3610 - FedRAMP Board
- Sec. 3611 - Independent assessment
- Sec. 3612 - Declaration of foreign interests
- Sec. 3613 - Roles and responsibilities of agencies
- Sec. 3614 - Roles and responsibilities of the Office of Management and Budget
- Sec. 3615 - Reports to Congress; GAO report
- Sec. 3616 - Federal Secure Cloud Advisory Committee
- + Chapter 37 - Advertisements by Government Agencies (Section 3701 - 3703)
- + Chapter 39 - Government Publishing Office: Office of Inspector General (Section 3901 - 3903)
- + Chapter 41 - Access to Federal Electronic Information (Section 4101 - 4104)
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