Agencies such as the EPA, OSHA, SEC, FTC, etc, issue detailed regulations concerning the implementation and enforcement of many federal statutes. Regulations are primary authority and must be researched as carefully as any other primary source. The Federal Register is published every business day. Materials published in the Federal Register include final, interim, and proposed regulations of federal agencies and Presidential proclamations and executive orders. A table of contents at the beginning of each issue lists in alphabetical order the federal agencies that have issued regulations that day and the corresponding pages containing the regulations.
Pagination is continuous throughout the year.
Permanent bound volumes of the Federal Register are kept on the second floor. In the CFR all of the regulations of an agency are published in a single title. The CFR consists of 50 titles. Some of the titles correspond to those used in the federal statutes, such as Title 26 of the CFR which contains tax regulations and Title 26 of USC which contains the federal tax code. Other related statutes and regulations do not share the same title.