Federal Register

Public Workshops

If you work with the Federal Register (FR) or the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), you may find these free workshops especially valuable.

You can also take the:

On-line Tutorial On-line Tutorial

Go to the Federal Register Main Page

On-line TutorialCurrent Workshop

The Federal Register:  What It Is and How to Use It

Government Actions

The Federal Register at the National Archives

About Our Public Workshops

We invite anyone interested in Federal regulations to attend these workshops, and to refer to our online tutorial.

Our workshops:

  • are free and open to the public
  • last about three hours
  • are presented by staff members of the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration

The Federal Register:  What It Is and How to Use It

Both the workshop and the tutorial include:

  1. A discussion of the regulatory process, focusing on public participation.
  2. An explanation of the relationship between the FR and CFR.
  3. A "Guided Tour" of an issue of the FR and a volume of the CFR.
  4. An introduction to FR / CFR finding aids.
  5. An introduction to using the FR and CFR online.

The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001
Telephone: 1-86-NARA-NARA or 1-866-272-6272