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The Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR) provides a way of exploring the Code of Federal Regulations as it exists today and at points in time back to January 2017. The eCFR allows you to:The eCFR is not an official legal edition of the CFR. Understanding the eCFR explains its status and the editorial process. The...
Navigating to Content of Interest
Each title in the CFR is organized hierarchically – for example a title may be divided into chapters, parts, subparts, sections and appendices. Each level of hierarchy provides some context about the content contained in it and is useful in understanding the broader purpose of the content. You can see an example below or...
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In the following screenshot, you see a single section of eCFR. You can see this same page on the eCFR here. The main content is shown in the center of the page. It includes the title of the section, § 578.5 Inflationary adjustment of civil penalties, the text of the content, “The civil penalties set forth ….”, and a...
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eCFR Changes through time
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You can subscribe to receive email updates when eCFR content changes. Your subscriptions can target any level of the eCFR hierarchy from individual sections and appendixes up to entire titles, or to all changes made to content of a particular agency, or even to the results of specific searches. Let’s see how: First, if you...
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With the exception of published content, references to agencies in eCFR.gov are non-official, editorial supplements to the Code of Federal Regulations. These references are derived from CFR chapter headings but may have been modified to help identify the agency or agencies currently associated with the selected content....
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