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Administrative Decisions & Other Actions - By Agency

Administrative Decisions & Other Actions - By Subject



By Agency - (A-D) (E-G) (H-K) (L-R) (S-Z)



This page is not an attempt to link to Federal Register or the Code of Federal Regulations information for each federal agency. It links to other administrative actions which are outside the scope of the CFR or the FR. What is available via the Internet varies from agency to agency.

Because Electronic FOIA Reading Rooms often contain administrative information this page links to the primary E-FOIA Reading Room for each agency covered.

Please send additions or corrections to bselby@virginia.edu

Agriculture Department


Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board)


Commerce Department

Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  • FOIA
  • Opinions & 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.

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.
    Office of General Counsel

Department of Defense
Education Department
  • Key Policy Letters Signed by the Educations Secretary or Deputy
  • Decisions of the Secretary
    "Searchable database of decisions issued by the Secretary of Education organized by docket number. These decisions - - known as Decisions of the Secretary - - are issued by the Secretary as a part of the Department of Education's decision-making through administrative adjudication. A few Decisions of the Secretary remand proceedings to an administrative judge for further review and, hence, may not constitute a final agency decision. You may check with the Office of Hearings & Appeals regarding the status of any decision. ...[T]his database does not currently contain all of the decisions issued by the Secretary, we are continuously adding decisions to the database and expect to have all decisions issued in 1996 and thereafter eventually included."
  • Policy
    Policy Guidance section contains "Dear Colleague" letters.
    Office of Hearings & Appeals
  • Decisions
    "Searchable database of the decisions issued by judges within OHA, organized by docket number. Since most decisions issued by judges within OHA are subject to further administrative appeal, some decisions listed in this database may not be the final agency decision. You may check with the Office of Hearings and Appeals regarding the status of any decision. This database does not contain all decisions issued by the judges within OHA, but we are continuously adding to the list and hope to have all decisions included here eventually."

Energy Department
Environmental Protection Agency
  • FOIA
  • EPA Dockets
    EPA Dockets (EDOCKET) is an online public docket and comment system designed to expand access to documents in EPA’s major dockets. Dockets contain Federal Register notices, support documents, and public comments for regulations the Agency publishes and various non-regulatory activities.
  • CERCLIS Hazardous Waste Sites
    CERCLIS is the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability information System. CERCLIS contains information on hazardous waste sites, potential hazardous waste sites, and remedial activities across the nation, including sites that are
    on the National Priorities List (NPL) or being considered for the NPL.
  • 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 for cleanup.
    Environmental Appeals Board
    • Decisions
      Includes decisions issues since 1992.
    Office of Administrative Law Judges Compliance and Enforcement

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  • Laws, Regulations, & Policy Guidance
  • Federal Sector Information
  • Federal Sector Administrative Decisions
    "Employment discrimination complaints in the federal government are handled by the agency involved. If the individual who filed the complaint does not agree with the agency's decision, he or she can file an appeal with the EEOC. Note: Because charges outside the federal government are handled differently, there is no private sector equivalent to these decisions.
    (July, 2000 -)
    [Paper - EEOC Decisions - Y 3.EQ 2:18:]
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Farm Credit Administration
    Legal Opinion Summaries
    "The following legal opinion summaries are provided for informational purposes only. Each opinion is based on the specific facts presented to FCA's Office of General Counsel (OGC). Different facts may result in a different determination. Additionally, each opinion is based on then-current statutes and FCA regulations. Legislative or regulatory amendments subsequent to any particular opinion may also result in OGC reaching a different determination."
    (1998 - )
    Resources for the Farm Credit System
    Handbooks, manuals, informational memorandums, etc.

Federal Commuications Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Election Commission
  • Advisory Opinions
    "An advisory opinion is an official Commission response to a question relating to the application of the Federal campaign finance law to a specific, factual situation. Any person affected by the Federal Election Campaign Act or Commission regulations may request an advisory opinion. An authorized agent may also make the request, as long as the agent discloses whom he or she is representing." (1977-)
  • Advisory Opinion Requests
    "Currently pending Advisory Opinion requests received by the Commission, along with any correspondence, comments, extensions of time for response, or other communication between the requestor and the Commission."
  • Request Materials for Issued Advisory Opinions
    "Request materials for issued advisory opinions, including the any correspondence, comments, extensions of time for response, or other communication between the requestor and the Commission. An advisory opinion is an official Commission response to a question relating to the application of the Federal campaign finance law to a specific, factual situation." 
    [Federal Election Commission Record - Y 3.El 2/3:11/]

Federal Labor Relations Authority
  • FOIA
  • Authority Decisions
    (1994-)
    Includes volumes 48-51, 55- (1993-1996, 1998- ) of the 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."
  • FLRA Bulletin
    (1996-)
    Office of General Counsel
    • Policies & Guidance
      Policies and guidance issued by General Counsel Joseph Swerdzewski since he was sworn in as General Counsel in 1993.
    • OGC Manuals
    Federal Services Impasses Panel
      This includes "Decisions and Orders" (if the dispute was decided by the Panel as a whole), and "Opinions and Decisions" if it was handled by a Panel member or designated staff member.
      (1990-)
    Administrative Law Judges
      Administrative Law Judge Decisions Report - Y 3.F 31/21-3:10-4 - not available on the internet - 07/24/2003

Federal Maritime Commission Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
    "The Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is an independent
    adjudicative agency that provides administrative trial and appellate review of legal disputes arising under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Amendments Act of 1977 (Mine Act)."
  • Commission Decisions
    (1995-)
    Office of Administrative Law Judges
    [Paper - Y 3.M 66:9/]
  • Decisions
    (1995-)

Federal Register Office
Federal Reserve System Federal Trade Commission General Accounting Office

General Services Administration
Government Printing Office

Health and Human Services Department
Homeland Security Department
Housing and Urban Development Department
Interior Department International Trade Commission
Justice Department
Labor Department Merit Systems Protection Board
NASA National Credit Union Administration National Labor Relations Board
National Security Agency
National Transportation Safety Board
    Office of the General Counsel
    Office of Administrative Law Judges
  • Opinions & Orders (of both GC and ALJ)
    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
    Electronic Reading Room General NRC information and guidance materials. ADAMS - Agency Documents Access Management System
    1999-
    All NRC documents are indexed and stored in ADAMS, older documents may only have citations available online. Boards orders and issuances are entered only into the ADAMS database, and users can search for them using search criteria such as subject, document date and docket number.
    NRC documents which pre-date the electronic database, ie, before Nov 1999 are generally not available online. The bibliographic citations are in the ADAMS Legacy Library, but the older documents are stored on microfiche.
    [Paper - Nuclear Regulatory Commission issuances : opinions and decisions of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission with selected orders - Y 3.N 88:11/

Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission
  • Decisions
    Both Administrative Law Judges and Commission Decisions back to 1993.
Office of Government Ethics
Office of Management & Budget
Office of Personnel Management