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- ↑ "Federal Register :: Request Access". www.ecfr.gov. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
- ↑ "A Brief History Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Publication of the First Issue of the Federal Register March 14, 1936" (PDF). Office of the Federal Register Archives and Records Administration. 2006. p. 4. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
- ↑ "A Research Guide to the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations". Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. July 21, 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
- ↑ Hemphill, Jim (2010). "Federal Register Facts" (PDF). p. 2. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
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