ORGANIC LAWS GOVERNING U.S. COAST GUARD 19 



Federal Register annual supplements; style and composition; 

 application to Code of Federal Regulations 



44 U.S.C. 311 



(a) The Administrative Committee of the Federal Register is 

 authorized, with the approval of the President, to require, from time 

 to time as it may deem necessary, the preparation and publication 

 in special or supplemental editions of the Federal Register of com- 

 plete codifications of the documents of each agency of the Govern- 

 ment which have general applicability and legal effect, which have 

 been issued or promulgated by such agency by publication in the Fed- 

 eral Register or by filing with the Committee, and which are relied 

 upon by the agency as authority for, or are invoked or used by it in 

 the discharge of, its activities or functions, and are in force and in 

 effect as to facts arising on or after such dates as may be specified 

 by the Committee. 



(b) Any codification published pursuant to subsection (a) of this 

 section shall be printed and bound in permanent form and shall be 

 designated as the "Code of Federal Regulations." The Committee 

 shall regulate the binding of the printed codifications into separate 

 books with a view to practical usefulness and economical manufacture. 

 Each book shall contain an explanation of its coverage and such other 

 aids to users as the Committee may require or authorize. A general 

 index to the entire Code of Federal Regulations shall be separately 

 printed and bound. 



(c) The Committee shall regulate the supplementation and the 

 collation and republication of the printed codifications with a view 

 to keeping the Code of Federal Regulations as current as practicable: 

 Provided, That each book shall be either supplemented or collated and 

 republished at least once each calendar year. 



(d) The Office of the Federal Register shall prepare and publish 

 the codifications, supplements, collations, and indexes authorized by 

 this section, 



(e) The codified documents of the several agencies published in the 

 supplemental edition of the Federal Register pursuant to the pro- 

 visions of this section, as amended by documents subsequently filed 

 with the Division and published in the daily issues of the Federal 

 Register, shall be prima facie evidence of the text of such documents 

 and of the fact that they are in full force and effect on and after the 

 date of publication. 



(f) The Administrative Committee of the Federal Register shall 

 prescribe, with the approval of the President, regulations for carrying 

 out the provisions of this section. 



(g) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require codifica- 

 tion of the text of Presidential documents published and periodically 

 compiled in supplements to title 3 of the Code of Federal Regulations. 



