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B-156248 1 (1974-05-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkxs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: & /O~~T~Tt - de the Ge'zelra ' UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE j WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 LOGISTICS AND COMMUNICATIONS i7 AfLASED DIVISION 6 B-1 56248 MAY 2 5 1974 1 The Honorable Thomas F. Eagleton United States Senate Dear Senator Eagleton: By letter of March 22, 1974, you requested this office to inquire into the cop &pringfield,, Missouri,,,abut tipe .,AderaY Bgi.ter.) Mr. Scott said that he previously received only those parts of the Register that pertained to his line of business but that he was now receiving bales of paper pertaining to every line of business, at a time when the Nation faces a p&per-.s,o.itge. Mr. Scott suggested that, in the interest of Government efficiency, proper adjustments be made. The Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Record Service, General Services Administration, publishes the Federal Register; the Government Printing Office (GPO) prints it, and GPO's Public Documents Division distributes it. The Register provides a uniform,.sys.temf..o.r making available to the general pui)lic the req,,,,la- iaon aZd ! g -;- is nubl ished 'orday tions and legal-m~ot cis. Feder,&a1,agenclesissue. i'bisi- 'ova thro gh Friday and varies from a few to several hundred pages. On April 8 we advised a representative of your office that the Superintendent of Documents never distributed parts of the Federal Register but distributed only the entire Register; this practice has not changed in the last 10 years. After corresponding with Mr. Scott, your representative requested that we inquire further into this matter. We learned that before February 1973 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reprinted certain parts of the Federal Register pertaining to specific lines of business and sent these reprints to subscribers free of charge. We found that Mr. Scott had been a subscriber to this service through February 1973. When FDA stopped the service in February 1973, it sent an advisory letter to all subscribers with an order blank for those who wished to subscribe to the Register directly from the Superintendent

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