A sub-set, indexed in ANSI's catalog, above. Commerce Mandatory Standards Mandatory standards are governmental in origin, though they may have been adopted from one or more voluntary standards. Index of Federal Specifications, Standards U.S. General Services Administration. Alphabetic, numeric and classed lists of specifications, standards and qualified products used throughout federal government. U.S. Dept. of Defense.
Many government agencies issue standards as regulations or separate publications.
Finding these is hard. Calling the local office of the agency or searching the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications , available on the Internet via FirstSearch , may be productive. This library has access by computer to databases which contain information in a variety of subject areas. If you have not found your information in the sources listed on this guide ask at the Reference Desk for assistance. Information Service will provide free lists of standards from a key-word index and will supply names of agencies from which copies can be obtained.