Administrative Decisions

Agriculture Department

• FOIA Electronic Reading Room

  USDA Electronic Reading Room by agency.
• Agriculture Department 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 Decisions

  "OALJ presently consists of three Judges who conduct rulemaking and adjudicatory hearings throughout the United States in proceedings subject to the Administrative Procedure Act. There are approximately 40 statutes administered by agencies within the Department of Agriculture that require APA hearings. The Judges issue initial decisions and orders in adjudicatory proceedings which become final decisions of the Secretary unless appealed to the Judicial Officer by a party to the proceedings." Archived Decisions
  [Paper version. A 1/58: (1942-)]
• Board of Contract Appeals

  Annual reports, 1996-
• Office of the Judicial Officer

  Summaries of Decisions, 1971/1995, 1996-
  Annual reports, 1996-
• Agricultural Marketing Service

  AMS FOIA
• Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

  APHIS e-FOIA Reading Room includes APHIS manuals, animal care policy manuals, and directives, some as old as 1975.
• Agricultural Research Service

  REE FOIA
  REE Administrative Issuances
• Food and Nutrition Service

  FOIA
  FOIA Reading Room - administrative staff manuals, agency unpublished policies
• Food Safety and Inspection Service

  FOIA Reading Room & FISI Notices Index - Administrative manuals and directives
• Forest Service

  e-FOIA Reading Room - Links to many of the individual pages listed below.
  Publications, Regulations, Manuals
  Directives - The Forest Service Directive System consists of the Forest Service Manual and Handbooks, which codify the agency's policy, practice, and procedure. (1997-)
  Environmental Appeals & Litigation
  Environmental Appeals Decisions - Washington & Regional Office appeals decisions. (1996-2008)
• Grain Inspection, Packers & Stockyard Administration

  FOIA Reading Room
  Laws & Regulations
  Enforcement Actions
  Directives & Notices
• USDA National Appeals Division

  NAD Determinations
• Natural Resources Conservation Service

  NCRS Electronic Directives System - Contains Handbooks in addition to directives.
• Rural Development

  FOIA - Includes directives, regulations, administrative notices, rural development handbooks, etc.
  Regulations & Guidance - Includes administrative notices, procedure notices, forms, letters, instructions, guides, etc.

• Commodity Futures Trading Commission

  FOIA & e-FOIA Reading Rooms
  Opinions & Adjudicatory 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, and a few from the 1970s..
• 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.
  E-FOIA Library
  Office of General Counsel
  Advisory Opinions
  (1973-)

• Defense Department

  FOIA - Links to all DoD Electronic Reading Rooms.
  DoD Issuances - Includes directives, instructions, publications, administrative instructions, and directive-type memoranda.
  Defense Acquisition Management Information Retrieval - restricted access
  Defense Dept. Chief Information Officer
• Air Force

  FOIA
• Armed Services Contract Appeals Board

  • Decisions
  (2000-)
  *Paper equivalent: CCH Board of Contract Appeals Decisions
  *Databases: LEXIS: PUBCON; ASBCA (1962-present)
  WESTLAW FGC-ASBCA (1962-present)
• Army

  Records Management and Declassification Agency links to eFOIA information.
• DoD Comptroller
• DoD Inspector General
• Marine Corps

  •FOIA
  •FOIA Electronic Reading Room
  Includes directives & orders.
• Navy

  •FOIA Online
  •FOIA Electronic Reading Rooms
  •Navy Issuances
  Contains OPNAV and SECNAV directives, manuals, etc. Some documents as old as 1981.

Education Department

Energy Department

• Environmental Protection Agency

  •FOIA
  •Significant Guidance Documents
  •EPA Dockets via Regulations.gov
  •Superfund Site Information
  •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 fo
• Environmental Appeals Board

  •Decisions
  Includes decisions issues since 1992.
• Office of Administrative Law Judges

  Office of Administrative Law Judges
  •Decisions & Order - 1989-
• Compliance and Enforcement

  ■Statements of Policy & Interpretation
  •Applicability Determination Index - "The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) currently issues over 100 letters or memoranda per year on Clean Air Act (CAA) applicability or monitoring issues under the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS, 40 CFR Part 60) and the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP, 40 CFR Parts 61 and 63) programs. "
  •RCRA Corrective Action Enforcement
  Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Policy and Guidance documents. Liniks to RCRA Corrective Action Implementation Database (RCAID).

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Export-Import Bank of the United States

Farm Credit Administration

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Federal Election Commission

• Federal Labor Relations Authority

  •E-FOIA Reading Room - includes cases and final actions.
  •Authority Decisions
  (1979- present, v. 1 - )
  Includes all volumes of 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."
  Office of General Counsel
  •OGC Guidance
  •OGC Manuals
  Federal Services Impasses Panel - (1990-)
  •Administrative Law Judges
  ALJ Decisions Report - Y 3

Federal Maritime Commission

Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission

• Office of the Federal Register

  •Federal Register via GovInfo.gov
  •Code of Federal Regulations via GovInfo.gov
  •E-CFR
  "The Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR) is a currently updated version of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). It is not an official legal edition of the CFR. "

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

• Federal Trade Commission Actions
  Past Commission actions available, 1995- .
  Federal Trade Commission Decisions, paper - FT 1.11:
  Online from 1969 (v.75)

General Accounting Office

• Legal Products
• Comptroller General Decisions
  Searchable database from GovInfo.gov.
  [Paper - GA 1.5:]
• GAO Policy & Guidance Materials

General Services Administration

Government Printing Office

• GPO Board of Contract Appeals Decisions

Health and Human Services Department

• FOIA
• Policies and Regulations
• Departmental Appeals Board
  Administration for Children & Families
• Food and Drug Administration
  • FOIA
  • FDA Enforcement Reports
  • FDA Guidance Documents
  • FDA Warning Letters
  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
  • Advisory Opinions
  • CMS Rulings of the Administrator
    [HCFA Rulings - HE 22.38:]
  • Manuals
    Includes Program memoranda and Program Transmittals.
  Office of Inspector General
  • Fraud Prevention & Detection
    Includes Advisory Opinions, Open letters, Compliance guidance.

Homeland Security Department

• FOIA
  Not much in the HS FOIA pages, only explantions and FOIA statutes.
  Bureau of Customs & Border Protection
  • Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS)
    CROSS is a searchable database of approximately 175,000 Customs rulings. Rulings collections are separated into Headquarters and New York and span the years 1989 to present.
  • Customs Legal Decisions & Publications 
    Pertinent FR notices, Rulings, Bulletins, Decisions, and informed compliance publications.
    [Customs Bulletin - T 17.6/3-5: and T 1.11/4:]
  Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • FOIA Electronic Reading Room
  • Adopted Decisions
    See also the Board of Immigration Appeals, Justice Dept.
  Coast Guard

• The Coast Guard Library includes selected Directives and Doctrine, as well as Mariner's Safety Information Bulletins.

  FOIA - Indluding Safety Investigations, Administrative Investigations, Coast Guard Opinions.

  Directives
  Commandant Instructions
  Commandant Notices
  Investigation Reports
  Chief Administrative Law Judge
  • Commandant's Decisions

  Federal Emergency Management Administration

  Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  ICE FOIA
  Federal Emergency Management Administration
  Transportation Security Administration

Housing and Urban Development Department

• FOIA
• FOIA Reading Room
• 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 & Guidance
• HUD Notices
• HUD Letters
• Office of Hearings and Appeals
  • Adminstrative Law Judges Decisions
    Cases from as far back as 1989.

Interior Department

• FOIA
• Electronic Library of Interior Policies
  Departmental manual.
  Office of Hearings and Appeals
  • Decisions
  Bureau of Land Management
  • FOIA
  • BLM Instruction Memoranda, Information Bulletins, & Manuals
  Bureau of Reclamation
  • Reclamation Manual
    Includes policy statements, directives, and standards.
  Fish & Wildlife Service
  • Directives
    Includes Fish & Wildlife Service Manual, Director's Orders, and National Policy Issuance System.
  • Centralized Library of Servicewide Policies
    Includes resource laws, FR documents, memorandums, Bulletins, Directives, handbooks, etc.
  National Park Service
  • Office of Policy
    Regulations, Director's Orders, Executive Orders. etc.
  • NPS Reference Desk
    Links to the Office of Policy, and the Departmental Manual.
  Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
  • FOIA
  • Guidance & Regulations
• Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement
  • Regulations & Guidance - including internal policy and directives
• Office of Environmental Policy & Compliance
• Office of Inspector General - website in transition (2/19/2013)
• Office of Surface Mining
  • Directives
  Office of the Solicitor
  • Solicitor's Opinions
    (1993-)

International Trade Commission

• FOIA
• FOIA Electronic Reading Room
• Recent Complaints and Petitions
• Electronic Documents Information System
  Docketing information and images of the public documents filed in USITC investigations instituted since 1996.

Justice Department

• FOIA
• Agency FOIA Contacts list
• 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
  
  Attorney General
  • FOIA Reading Room
    Contains policy statements, instructions to staff, manuals, annual reports.
  Antitrust Division
  • 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-)
  Civil Division
  • Office of Immigration Litigation
    2003 issues of Immigration Litigation Bulletin were released due to a FOIA request.
  Executive Office for Immigration Review
  EOIR Virtual Law Library
  Board or Immigration Appeals Precedent Decisions
  [Paper - Administrative Decisions under the Immigration & Nationality Laws - J 21.11:]
  Administrative decisions under employer sanctions, unfair immigration-related employment practices, and civil penalty document fraud laws
  Link to bound decisions at bottom of page
  [Paper - J 1.103:]
  Bureau of Prisons
  • FOIA
    Contains BOP Program Statements, elaborating on various policies. Appear to be complete, back to at least 1994.
  Office of Legal Counsel
  • Opinions
    "This website includes opinions that have previously been released to the public, opinions as to which the addressee has agreed to publication, and opinions to Department of Justice officials that the Department has determined may be released.
    Volumes 1-20 of the published Opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel contain the official versions of opinions for the years 1977-2000.
    [Paper - J 1.5/4:]
    Those opinions are also available on Westlaw and LEXIS. Additional volumes containing opinions for subsequent years will continue to be published on a regular basis. "
    (1992-)
  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-)

Labor Department

• FOIA
  Administrative Review Board
• ARB Decisions
  USDOL/OALJ Reporter: Decisions of the Administrative Review Board
  May 1996 to Present
  Paper - Decisions of the Office of Administrative Law Judges and Office of Administrative Appeals. - L 1.5/2:
  Part of the Decisions continue on CD-ROM (Whistle Blower Library)
  Class L 1.89:W 57
  Benefits Review Board
  • Decisions
    Includes both published and unpublished decisions and orders.
    1989-
  Employee Benefits Security Administration
  Compliance Assistance
  Includes ERISA Advisory Opinions (back to 1992).
  Employee Compensation Appeals Board
  • Decisions
    Headnotes only - v.39-44 (1988-1993)
    Full Decisions, - v.44- (1993-)
    Links to The Fien Group, Inc. site.
  Employment and Training Administration
  • Advisories and Memorandums
    "The advisory system (formerly called directives) encompasses guidance letters, program letters, handbooks and technical assistance guides. This system was reengineered recently to respond to suggestions from states and localities on how to make these communications more responsive to customer needs. "
    (1983-
• Davis-Bacon Wage Determinations
  Available from the Government Printing Office.
  [Paper - General wage determinations issued under the Davis-Bacon and related acts - L 36.211:]
• 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-)
  • Hazard Information Bulletins
    (1984-)
  • OSHA Letters of Interpretation
    • (1972-)
  • OSHA Enforcement page
  Office of Administrative Law Judges
  • OALJ Law Library
  • Whistleblower Library
  Office of Exemption Determinations
  • Class Exemptions
  • Individual Exemptions
  Veterans Employment & Training Service
  • Reading Room
    Includes ASVET Memoranda, and Program Letters.

Merit Systems Protection Board

• Merit Systems Protection Board Decisions
• Reduction in Force (RIF) Resource Portal
  From Office of Personnel Management.

NASA

• FOIA
• NODIS - NASA Online Directives Information System
  Directives in the NODIS Directives Library seem to date back to 1996. Full text is available.

National Credit Union Administration

• NCUA Reference Information System
  Contains various administrative orders, letters of understanding, legal opinion letters. 1991-

National Labor Relations Board

• NLRB Decisions & Orders
  Contains bound volumes of NLRB Decisions & Orders back to vol. 300 (September 1990).

National Security Agency

• FOIA Home Page

National Transportation Safety Board

• Office of the General Counsel
  Office of Administrative Law Judges
• NTSB Case Decisions Database
  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-)

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission

• Decisions
  Both Administrative Law Judges and Commission Decisions back to 1993.

Office of Government Ethics

• Legal Advisories

Office of Management & Budget

• OMB Circulars
• Selected OMB Bulletins
  (1995-)
• Selected OMB Memoranda
  (1995-)

Office of Personnel Management

• FOIA
• Digest of Significant Classification Decisions and Opinions
• Classification Appeals & Decisions
  Compensation Administration
  • Includes links to Emergency Guidance Memoranda, Compensation and Leave Decisions, salaries tables, etc.
  • Compensation Policy Memoranda
    (Dec. 1996-)

Peace Corps

• Documents
  Includes Opinions, Policy Statements, and Staff Manuals

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

• PBGC Opinion Letters

Postal Regulatory Commission

• Electronic Reading Room
  Contains Opinions & Decisions, Orders, Pending Cases, etc. Some as old as 1996.

Postal Service

• USPS Administrative Decisions

Railroad Retirement Board

• FOIA
• 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."

Securitites & Exchange Commission

• Commission Decisions
• Regulatory Actions
  Includes Concept Releases (the first stage in rulemaking), other stages in rulemaking, exemptive orders, interpretive releases, policy statements, and other Commission actions.
• Staff Interpretations
  Includes Staff No Action letters, Staff accounting bulletins, Staff Legal Bulletins.
• Edgar SEC Filings
• Division of Corporate Finance
  SEC Enforcement Division
• Investment Management Division
  Division of Market Regulation
  Paper - Decisions and Reports - SE 1.11:

Selective Service System

• FOIA

Small Business Administration

• FOIA
  Office of Advocacy
  Official Regulatory Comment Letters
  Letters to various government agencies & others (FCC, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, IRS, etc.) advocating small business perspectives regarding proposed regulations or guidelines.
  (1996-)
  Office of Hearings and Appeals
  • Includes OHA Decisions and OHA Appeals.
  Office of Inspector General

Social Security Administration

• FOIA
• Social Security Rulings and Acquiscence Rulings
  This Index reflects all Rulings published in Rulings currently in effect.
  [Paper - Rulings. Cumulative edition : Social Security
  rulings on federal old-age, survivors, disability, supplemental security income, and black lung benefits. HE 3.44/2:1960-1995
  (1960-)]

State Department

• FOIA
  E-FOIA Reading Room
  Includes Foreign Affairs Manual,and Foreign Affairs Handbooks
  Office of the Legal Advisor
  • Digest of United States Practice in International Law
    "In order to assist readers in locating the full text of documents which are excerpted in the 2001 Digest but readily accessible elsewhere, the volume includes citations to Internet or other public sources."
    Includes amicus briefs, letters, Statements of interest, memoranda, etc.
  • Treaty Affairs
    Many links,  including Treaty Actions and Treaties in Force.

Tennessee Valley Authority

• FOIA
• TVA Office of the Inspector General
  Contains information about the Audit and Inspection processes. Also, links to Semi-Annual Reports to Congress.

Transportation Department

• • FOIA
  • Docket Management System
  • Aviation Orders
    Federal Aviation Administration
    • Regulation and Policies
    • Airworthiness Directives
    • Flight Standards Service
    Federal Highway Administration
    • FHWA Directives
    Federal Railroad Administration
    • E-Library Search 
      Including Notices, Policy & guidance.

• Federal Transit Administration

• • • FTA Circulars

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

• • • Interpretation Letters

Office of General Counsel
Office of Inspector General

• • • Single Audits - read DoT OIG audits back to 1996

Surface Transportation Board

• • Decisions, Notices and Environmental Assessments
    (1994-)

Treasury Department

• FOIA
  Comptroller of the Currency
• Regulatory Activities
• Internal Revenue Service
  • FOIA
  • Chief Counsel Directives Manual
  • Chief Counsel Notices
    Notices and directives not yet incorporated into the Directives Manual.
    Internal Revenue Bulletin
    Revenue Rulings,  Revenue Procedures published in the IRB.  Available back to 1996
  • Internal Revenue Manual
  • IRS Written Determiniations
    Taxpayer-specific rulings or determinations are written memoranda furnished by the IRS National Office in response to requests by taxpayers under published annual guidelines. Technical advice memoranda are written memoranda furnished by the National Office of the IRS upon request of a district director or chief appeals officer pursuant to annual review procedures. Chief Counsel advice are written advice or instructions prepared by the Office of Chief Counsel and issued to field or service center employees of the IRS or Office of Chief Counsel.
  Office of Foreign Assets Control
  • Interpretive Rulings