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Documents to be published in Federal Register 



44 U.S.C. 305 



(a) Proclamations and Executive Orders; documents having gen- 

 eral applicability and legal effect; documents required to he published 

 hy Congress. 



There shall be publislied in the Federal Register (1) all Presiden- 

 tial proclamations and Executive Orders, except such as have no gen- 

 eral applicability and legal effect or are effective only against Federal 

 agencies or persons in their capacity as officers, agents, or employees 

 thereof; (2) such documents or classes of documents as the President 

 shall determine from time to time have general applicability and legal 

 effect; and (3) such documents or classes of documents as may be re- 

 quired so to be published by Act of the Congress: Provided, That for 

 the purposes of this chapter every document or order which shall 

 prescribe a penalty shall be deemed to have general applicability and 

 legal effect. 



(b) Documents authorized to he published by regulations; com- 

 ments and news items excluded. 



In addition to the foregoing there shall also be published in the Fed- 

 eral Register such other documents or classes of documents as may be 

 authorized to be published pursuant hereto by re^ilations prescribed 

 hereunder with the approval of the President, but m no case shall com- 

 ments or news items of any character whatsoever be authorized to be 

 published in the Federal Register. 



(c) Suspension of requirements for filing of documents; alternate 

 systems for p^^omulgating^ filing or publishing docvmients; preserva- 

 tion of originals. 



In the event of an attack or threatened attack upon the continental 

 United States, by air or otherwise, and a determination by the Presi- 

 dent that as a result of such attack or tlireatened attack (i) publica- 

 tion of the Federal Register or filing of documents with the Division 

 is impracticable, or (ii) under exist mg conditions publication in the 

 Federal Register would not serve to give appropriate notice to the 

 public of the contents of documents, the President may, without re- 

 gard to the provisions of this chapter or of the Administrative Pro- 

 cedure Act, or of any other provision of law, suspend all or any part 

 of the requirements of law or regulation for filing with the Division 

 or publication in the Federal Register of all or any documents or 

 classes of documents. Such suspensions shall remain in effect until 

 revoked b^ the President, or by concurrent resolution of the Congress. 

 The President shall establish such alternate systems for promulgat- 

 ing, filing, or publishing documents or classes of documents affected 

 by such suspensions, including requirements relating to their effective- 

 ness or validity, as may be deemed under the then existing circum- 

 stances practicable to provide public notice of the issuance and of the 

 contents of such documents. Such alternate systems may, without 

 limitation, make provision for the use of regional or specialized pub- 

 lications or depositories for documents, or of the press, the radio, or 

 similar mediums of general communication. Compliance with such 

 alternate systems of filing or publication shall have the same force and 

 effect as filing with the Division or publication in the Federal Register 



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