Federal Register shall transmit it and three copies thereof to the President.

(e) If the proposed Executive order or proclamation is disapproved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget or by the Attorney General, it shall not thereafter be presented to the President unless it is accompanied by a statement of the reasons for such disapproval.

7.3 Routing and certification of originals and copies.

(a) If the order or proclamation is signed by the President, the original and two copies thereof shall be forwarded to the Director of the Office of the Federal Register for publication in the FEDERAL REGISTER: Provided, That prior to such forwarding the Seal of the United States shall be affixed to the originals of proclamations to the extent required by statute or Executive order.

(b) The Office of the Federal Register shall cause to be placed upon the copies of all Executive orders and proclamations forwarded as provided in paragraph (a) of this section the following notation, to be signed by the Director or by some person authorized by him to sign such notation: "Certified to be a true copy of the original.”

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§ 7.4 Proclamations calling for the observance of special days or events. Except as may be otherwise provided by law, responsibility for the preparation and presentation of proposed proclamations calling for the observance of special days, or other periods of time, or events shall be assigned by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to such agencies as he may consider appropriate. Such proposed proclamations shall be submitted to the Director at least 60 days before the date of the specified observ

ance.

§ 7.5 Proclamations of treaties excluded. Consonant with the provisions of section 12 of the Federal Register Act (49 Stat. 503; 44 U.S.C. 312), nothing in this order shall be construed to apply to treaties, conventions, protocols, or other international agreements, or proclamations thereof by the President.

§ 7.6 Definition.

The term "Presidential proclamations and Executive orders," as used in section 5(a) of the Federal Register Act (44 U.S.C. 305(a)), shall, except as the President or his representative may hereafter otherwise direct, be deemed to include such attachments thereto as are referred to in the respective proclamations or orders.

PART 10-GENERAL

Publication policy.

10.2 Daily publication.

10.3 Keying to Code of Federal Regulations. 10.4 Form of citation.

AUTHORITY: The provisions of this Part 10 issued under sec. 6, 49 Stat. 501, as amended; 44 U.S.C. 306. Sec. 6, E.O. 10530, 19 F.R. 2709; 8 CFR 1954-1958 Comp.

SOURCE: The provisions of this Part 10 appear at 30 F.R. 15124, Dec. 7, 1965.

§ 10.1 Publication policy.

(a) Pursuant to the act and the provisions of this chapter, the Office shall maintain a serial publication designated as the "FEDERAL REGISTER." It is the intent of the Administrative Committee that documents required or authorized to be filed for publication shall be published in the FEDERAL REGISTER as promptly as possible within limitations imposed by

considerations of accuracy, usability, and reasonable costs.

(b) In prescribing rules governing headings, preambles, effective dates, authority citations, and similar matters of form, the Administrative Committee does not intend such rules to be construed as bearing on the validity of any document which is, in fact, filed and published under law.

§ 10.2 Daily publication.

The FEDERAL REGISTER shall be published daily Tuesday through Saturday. There shall be no publication on Sunday, Monday, or on the day after an official Federal holiday.

of Federal Regulations and shall serve as daily supplements thereto.

§ 10.4 Form of citation.

Without prejudice to any other mode of citation, the contents of the FEDERAL REGISTER may be cited by volume and page number. The approved short form of citation to the FEDERAL REGISTER is "F.R." Thus "29 F.R. 3820" refers to material beginning on page 3820 of volume 29 of the daily issues.

§ 10.5 Unrestricted use.

There are no restrictions on the reproduction or republication of materials appearing in the FEDERAL REGISTER.

course of conduct, conferring a right, privilege, authority, or immunity, or imposing an obligation, and relevant or applicable to the general public, the members of a class, or the persons of a locality, as distinguished from named individuals or organizations, is hereby determined to have general applicability and legal effect. Such documents shall be filed with the Office and published in the FEDERAL REGISTER.

§ 11.3 Classes created by act of Congress. Documents or classes of documents required to be published by act of Congress shall be filed with the Office and published in the FEDERAL REGISTER.

the reader, or (2) would affect text subject to codification.

UNAUTHORIZED OR PROHIBITED

§ 11.20 Comments and news items.

The act prohibits the publication in the FEDERAL REGISTER of comments or news items of any character whatsoever (44 U.S.C. 305(b)).

§ 11.21 International agreements.

The act does not apply to treaties, conventions, protocols, and other international agreements, or proclamations thereof by the President (44 U.S.C. 312). NOTE: The materials described in § 11.21 are published by the Secretary of State pursuant to 1 U.S.C. 112a.

§ 11.22 Papers other than documents.

The act authorizes and requires the publication of certain "documents," as that term is defined in section 4 of the act (44 U.S.C. 304), and does not authorize or require the publication of papers that do not come within that definition.

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12.16 12.17

Procedure for Schedule 3.
Criteria for Schedule 3.
Timing.

AUTHORITY: The provisions of this Part 12 issued under sec. 6, 49 Stat. 501, as amended; 44 U.S.C. 306. Sec. 6, E.O. 10530, 19 F.R. 2709; 3 CFR 1954-1958 Comp.

SOURCE: The provisions of this Part 12 appear at 30 F.R. 15125, Dec. 7, 1965. § 12.1 Publication schedules.

Documents properly submitted for publication in the FEDERAL REGISTER Shall be immediately assigned by the Office to one of the following publication schedules:

Schedule 1-Emergency.
Schedule 2-Regular.

Schedule 3-Special.

§ 12.2 Receipt and processing.

Documents shall be received during a working day. Upon receipt, documents shall be held for confidential processing until filed for public inspection.

§ 12.3 Filing for public inspection.

Documents shall be filed for public inspection on the working day preceding the publication day thereof. The Office shall place upon the original and certified copies of all documents a notation of the day and hour when they are filed and made available for public inspection. (See § 16.6 of this chapter.)

EMERGENCY SCHEDULE

§ 12.5 Procedure for Schedule 1.

A document shall be assigned to "Schedule 1-Emergency" upon specific request of the issuing agency and agreement thereto by the Director. Requests may be made by letter of transmittal or otherwise, as time permits. Confirmation of the assignment shall be made as promptly as possible.

§ 12.6 Criteria for Schedule 1.

Schedule 1 is designed to provide the fastest possible publication of a document involving the prevention, alleviation, control, or relief of an emergency situation. Requests for such publication should briefly describe the emergency and the benefits attributable to immediate publication in the FEDERAL REGISTER. Assignments to Schedule 1 shall be allowed whenever feasible. § 12.7 Timing.

Documents received by the Office. before noon and assigned to Schedule 1 shall be published in the daily issue next following. Whenever such documents are received in the afternoon, they shall be published as soon thereafter aspracticable.

§ 12.8 Transmittal from distant points.

The text of a Schedule 1 document may be transmitted from a distant field installation to its Washington office by telecommunication. Certified transcriptions thereof may be filed forthwith, in advance of receipt of the original document. The original document must then be filed at the earliest possible time. In such cases, the publication date under Schedule 1 shall be based on receipt by the Office of the certified transcribed: copies. (See § 16.1(c) of this chapter.)

§ 12.15

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SPECIAL SCHEDULE

Published Thursday. Friday.

Saturday. Tuesday. Wednesday.

Procedure for Schedule 3.

(a) Documents received in the ordinary course of business may be assigned to Schedule 3 by the Director, who shall cause the liaison officer concerned to be immediately notified of the assignment and the reasons therefor.

(b) Documents that are the subject of agreements involving special editorial or publication services may be placed in Schedule 3 by prearrangement. § 12.16

Criteria for Schedule 3.

Except by prearrangement, documents may be assigned to Schedule 3 only because of technical problems requiring additional time to prepare material for the press. Such requirement for additional time gcnerally may be obviated through advance consultation with the Office respecting unusual tabulations, illustrations, or exceptionally voluminous submissions.

§ 12.17 Timing.

(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, documents assigned to Schedule 3 because of technical problems shall be published as nearly on regular schedule as practicable.

(b) Documents assigned to Schedule 3 by prearrangement shall be published on the date agreed upon, without regard to the regular schedule.

The President.

Rules and Regulations.
Proposed Rule Making.
Notices.

§ 13.2 The President.

There shall be published under this heading all Executive orders and proclamations in the numbered series, and all other Presidential documents which the President submits for publication or orders to be published.

§ 13.3 Rules and Regulations.

There shall be published under this heading all other documents subject to codification.

§ 13.4 Proposed Rule Making.

There shall be published under this heading all general notices of proposed rule making submitted pursuant to section 4(a) of the Administrative Procedure Act or pursuant to the provisions of any other act, and similar notices voluntarily undertaken by the issuing agency. § 13.5 Notices.

There shall be published under this heading all documents not falling within the provisions of §§ 13.2 to 13.4. These documents include:

(a) Miscellaneous documents not subject to codification.

(b) Notices of hearings that are not included under proposed rule making.

(c) Documents which in the opinion of the Director are of sufficient public interest to warrant publication. (See § 11.5 of this chapter.)