Circular Letter No. 574

November 29, 2004

TO: Printing and Publishing Officials of the Federal Government

SUBJECT: Availability of the U.S. Code on CD-ROM from the U.S. Government Printing Office

This is to advise all departments and agencies that the U.S. Code (updated through January 22, 2002) will be available on CD-ROM on approximately January 28, 2005. This format provides users with full-text access to all 50 titles of the Federal Government's official compendium of U.S. laws as well as a Table of Contents and the Table of Popular Names.

You will receive the U.S. Code, plus quick-start instructions for your CD-ROM; a handy product guide with sample searches; state-of-the-art full-text search capability; retrieval software for Windows; and a complete software manual that is searchable on the disk.

System requirements (with Windows) are: access to an IBM PC (or compatible), 386, 486, or Pentium, with at least 3.2 megabytes of random access memory, a fixed disk with 3.6 megabytes of free space, a CD-ROM drive with MS-DOS Extensions version 2.0 (or higher), and Microsoft Windows version 3.0 (or higher).

In order to take advantage of the rider rate of approximately $15 per CD‑ROM, your Fiscal Year 2005 requisition to ride Jacket 96-850 must be received no later than December 27, 2004. Please direct all inquiries to the Office of Congressional Publishing Services on 202-512-0224 (or by fax on 202-512-1101).

Sincerely,

JIM BRADLEY
Managing Director, Customer Services