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Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government - http://members.cox.net/govdocs/govspeak.html
Adolescent Health in the United States --http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/misc/adolescent2007.pdf
Agent Orange Home --http://www1.va.gov/agentorange/
American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics (Revolutionary War -Iraq War) --http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf
Americans with Disabilities Act ADA HomePage (U.S. Dept. of Justice) - http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm
Army Field Manuals/War Department/Department of Army Pamphlets, U.S. --
http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pamphlets_manuals.html
Army Heritage Collection Online --http://www.ahco.army.mil/site/index.jsp

Base Structure Report FY 2009 Baseline -- http://www.acq.osd.mil/ie/download/bsr/BSR2009Baseline.pdf
Battle of Antietam --http://purl.access.gpo.govGPO/LPS74606
Bird Checklist of the United States -http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/birds/chekbird/index.htm

CIA: Maps and Publications - https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/cia-maps-publications/index.html | Electronic Reading Room --http://www.foia.cia.gov | Family Jewels Report
Carcinogens, Report on - http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/roc/toc
Child Labor, U.S. Department of Labor Findings on the Worst Forms of -- http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/media/reports/iclp/main.htm
Cigarette Report, FTC - http://www.ftc.gov/os/2009/08/090812cigarettereport.pdf
Civil Rights Commission, Historical Publications of the United States --http://www.law.umaryland.edu/Marshall/usccr/index.asp
Classification of Diseases and Functioning and Disability - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd.htm
Climate, State of (U.S. and Global Climate Perspective. ) -http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/index.php
Committee Assignments : U.S. House of Representatives | U.S. Senate
Congressional Research Service Reports (via State Dept)(1999--) - http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/c18185.htm
Country Studies (Library of Congress )--http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/
Criminal Background Check System, National Instant - http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/nics.htm
CyberCemetery -- http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/default.htm

DANFS Online (Dictionary of American Fighting Ships) - http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/
DOD Dictionary of Military & Associated Terms - http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/new_pubs/jp1_02.pdf
Davis-Bacon Wage Determinations - http://www.access.gpo.gov/davisbacon/
Defense Installations -- http://www.acq.osd.mil/ie/index.shtml
Deschler's Precedents of the U.S. House of Representatives - http://www.gpoaccess.gov/precedents/deschler/index.html
Dictionary of Occupational Titles - http://immigration-usa.com/dot_index.html
See also its replacement: O*Net (Occupational Information Network)
Dietary Guidance -http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=4&tax_level=2&tax_subject=256&level3_id=0&level4_id=0&level5_id=0&topic_id=1342&&placement_default=0
Diplomatic List - http://www.state.gov/s/cpr/rls/dpl/
Disability Rights Laws, A Guide to -- http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/cguide.htm
Diversity Series: Religions, Cultures and Communities

EEOC Laws, Federal - http://www.eeoc.gov/abouteeo/overview_laws.html
eLaws (Employment Laws Assistance for Workers and Small Businesses) - http://www.dol.gov/elaws/
EHP (Environmental Health Perspectives) Online - http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/
EPA Database --http://nepis.epa.gov
Elections, Historical Results - http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/historical.html
Electric Current Worldwide - http://ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/ecw/
Emerging Infectious Diseases - http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/
Enviromapper - http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/em/
Environmental Laws and Regulations (EPA) --http://www.epa.gov/lawsregs/laws/index.html
Excluded Parties List System -- http://epls.arnet.gov/

FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - http://www.fbi.gov/publications/leb/leb.htm
FDA Consumer - http://www.fda.gov/fdac/
FDIC Banking Review - http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/banking/index.html
FDIC Consumer News - http://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/news/index.html
FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile - http://www2.fdic.gov/qbp/qbpSelect.asp?menuitem=QBP
A Failure of Initiative: the Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation of and Response to Hurricane Katrina. (U.S. House of Representatives) --http://katrina.house.gov/
FedBizOpps - http://www.fedbizopps.gov/
Federal Register Tutorial: What It Is and How to Use It - http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/tutorial/
Federal Reserve Bulletin - http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/default.htm
Federal Web Harvest -- http://www.webharvest.gov/collections/
Finding Information on Personal Participation in World War 11 -- http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/ww2-participation.pdf
Flood Maps (FEMA) - http://www.fema.gov/hazard/map/flood.shtm
Food Safety Information, Government Gateway to - http://www.foodsafety.gov/
Foreign Embassies in the United States(see: Diplomatic List)
Freedom of Information Act Guide(FOIA) - http://www.usdoj.gov/joip/

GAO Reports (General Accounting Office) - http://www.gao.gov/main.html
GNA GEOnet Names Server Database - http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/htm
GNIS (Geographic Names Information System) - http://geonames.usgs.gov/index.html
Genetics Home Reference -- http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/
Geodata.gov (U.S. Maps and Data) - http://www.geodata.gov/gos
Government Authority to Conduct Warrantless Electronic Surveillance to Gather
Foreign Intelligence Information (Congressional Research Service) --http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/m010506.pdf
Government Sales and Auctions - http://www.firstgov.gov/shopping/shopping.shtml
GovSales.gov --http://www.govsales.gov
Guide to Law Online (Library of Congress) -- http://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide.html

HCPCS (Health Care Common Procedure Coding System - http://www.cms.hhs.gov/HCPCSCodesforStateMed/
HIPAA-Medical Privacy - National Standards to Protect the Privacy of Personal Health Information - http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/
HealthierUS - http://www.healthierus.gov/index.html
Holocaust Era Assets Records - http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/hear/
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act --http://www.ffiec.gov/hmda/default.htm
Homeland Security Digital Library Recommended Websites --http://www.hsdl.org?recommended
Homelessness - http://www.huduser.org/publications/povsoc.html
Human Rights, Country Reports on --http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/
Hurricane Katrina: A Nation Still Unprepared --http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/creports/katrinanation.html

ICD-International Classification of Diseases - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd.htm
Indian Affairs, Bureau --http:///www.bia.gov
Industry and Occupation Classifications - http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/ioindex/ioindex.html
Intelligence Community's Pre-War Intelligence Assessment on Iraq , Report of the U.S. - http://intelligence.senate.gov/prewar.pdf
International Religoius Freedom Reports - http://www.state.gov/g/drl/irf/

JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute - http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/

Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties - http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/

McCarthy Hearings - http://www.gpo.gov/congress/senate/senate12cp107.html
Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq --http://www.defenselink.mil/home/features/Iraq_Reports/Index.html
Medal of Honor Citations - http://www.army.mil/cmh/moh.html
Medicare and You - http://www.medicare.gov/publications/pubs/pdf/10050.pdf | Medicare Reguation and Guidance-- http://www.cms.hhs.gov/home/regsguidance.asp
Metropolitan Statistical Areas- http://www.census.gov/population/www/metroareas/metrodef.html
Minimum Wage Laws in the States - http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/america.htm
Missing and Exploited Children, Federal Resources on -- http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/216857.pdf
Monitoring the Future: a Continuing Study of American Youth--http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/
Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (Selected retrospective issues, 1937--)--http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=monthly%20catalog
MyPyramid Plan - http://www.mypyramid.gov/

NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) - http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html
NamUs -National Missing and Unidentified Persons System --http://www.namus.gov
Narcotics Control Reports - http://www.state.gov/p/inl/rls/nrcrpt/
National Atlas of the United States, 1970 - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/census3.html
National Atlas of the United States - http://www.nationalatlas.gov/

National Intelligence Council -- http://www.dni.gov/nic/NIC_home.html
National Map - http://nationalmap.gov/
National Priorities List (NPL) - http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/
National Register of Historic Places - http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/
Nursing Home Compare - http://www.medicare.gov/NHCompare/Home.asp

100 Milestone Documents --http://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?flash=true&page=milestone
O*Net Resource Center (Occupational Information Network) - http://www.onetcenter.org/
See also previous edition: Dictionary of Occupational Titles
OMB Circulars - http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/index.html
Occupational Outlook Handbook - http://www.bls.gov/oco/
Orange Book (Electronic): Approved Drug Products with their Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations - http://www.fda.gov/cder/ob/default.htm
Our Changing Planet -http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/ocp2009/
Ozone Designations, 8- Hour Ground Level - http://www.epa.gov/ozonedesignations

Patent Search Database - http://www.uspto.gov/main/patents.htm
Pentagon Library Resource Guide -- http://www.hqda.army.mil/library/statistics.htm
Poverty Guidelines, Federal - http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/poverty.shtml
Preservation Briefs, National Park Service -- http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/TPS/breifs/presbhom.htm
Public Papers of the President of the United States(Presidents Hoover forward) - http://www.hti.umich.edu/p/ppotpus/
Publlic Records, Your Guide to Researching -http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/prguide1.shtml

Recall Database (National Highway Traffic Safety Adm.)

Religion (the Census Bureau is prohibited by PL94-521 from asking a question on religious affiliation on a mandatory basis) Suggested sites for religious data:

Association of Religion Data Archive - http://www.thearda.com/index.asp
Glenmary Research Center - http://www.glenmary.org/grc/default.htm
Hartford Institute for Religious Resarch at Hartford Seminary - http://hirr.hartsem.edu/

Religious Freedom, Annual Report to Congress on International - http://www.state.gov/g/drl/irf/rpt/
Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA Patriot Act (as required by section 1001(3) of PL 107-56)

SBA Online Library Reading Room - http://www.sba.gov/tools/resourcelibrary/index.html
Safer Journey: Interactive Pedestrial Safety Awareness - http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/saferjourney/
Salary Tables and Related Information - http://www.opm.gov/oca/09tables/index.asp
Science Tracer Bullet Online - http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/
Serial Set, U.S. Congressional (15th Congress--) - http://www.wooster.edu/library/gov/serialset/main.htm
Smithsonian Year --http://www.si.edu/opa/annualrpts/
Smoking and Tobacco Use - http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/index.htm
Social Security Online - http://www.ssa.gov/
Standard Industrial Classification System - http://www.osha.gov/oshstats/sicser.html
Standard Occupational Classification System - http://www.bls.gov/soc/home.htm
State of Aging and Health in America 2007 --http://www.cdc.gov/aging/saha.htm
Stem Cell Information -- http://stemcells.nih.gov/index.asp
Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Directory - http://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/facilitylocatordoc.htm
Superfund - http://www.epa.gov/superfund/index.htm
Surgeon General Reports, Since 1964 - http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/reports.htm
Surplus/Excess Property Sales - http://www.gsa.gov/Portal/gsa/ep/ contentView.do?contentType=GSA_BASIC&contentId=9912&noc=T

TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding & Referencing System) - http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/
Tar, Nicotine, and Carbon Monoxide of the Smoke of 1294 Varieties of Domestic Cigarettes for theYear 1998 - http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/07/t&n2000.htm
Terrorism, Country Report on - http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/

Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, National Commission on - http://www.9-11commission.gov/
Topographic Maps - http://topomaps.usgs.gov/
Toxics Release Inventory - http://www.epa.gov/tri/
TOXMAP (Environmental Health)-- http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/main/index.jsp
Trademark Information(USPTO) - http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm
Trafficking in Persons Report - http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/
Travel (State.gov) - http://travel.state.gov/
Travel Tips (Travelers and Consumers) - http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/index.shtm
Travel Warnings -http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_1764.html
Traveler's Health - http://www.cdc.gov/travel

Treaty Affairs --http://www.state.gov/s/l/treaty/
Tribal Governments Websites - http://www.firstgov.gov/Government/State_Local/Tribal_Sites.shtml

USA Patriot Act of 2001 - http://www.law.cornell.edu/background/warpower/3162.html
(Also see paper copy as public law (PL107-56) at AE2.110:107-56)

USA. Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005
Uniform Code of Military Justice - http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/10/stApIIch47.html

Veterans History Project - http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall - http://thewall-usa.com

Water Information, Local Drinking Water - http://www.epa.gov/safewater/dwinfo.htm
Water Quality Criteria - http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/criteria/wqcriteria.html
Wetland Online Mapper - http://wetlandsfws.er.usgs.gov/wtlnds/metadata/metadata.htm
Where We Serve: Information about Defense Department Installations. - http://www.defenselink.mil/faq/pis/sites.html
Wildlife Refuge System, America's National - http://refuges.fws.gov/
Women in Congress, 1917-(Based on the Book, Women in Congress, 1917-2006)- --http://womenincongress.house.gov/index.html
Women Working 1800-1930's: Women's Bureau Bulletins -
Working Poor- 2006, Profile of the - http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2006.pdf
World Trade Center Attack: The Official Documents (via Columbia University) - http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/usgd/wtc.html
World War 11 Memorial, National - http://www.wwiimemorial.com

Youth Violence Prevention - http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/yvp/default.htm

 

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