Federal Information by Subject: M-Z
| American Fact Finder (U.S. Census Bureau) Thematic maps from the Census of Population and Housing 2000 and reference maps showing geographic boundaries. |
| Annual State of the Climate Reports National Climatic Data Center |
| Atlas of Stroke Mortality: Racial, Ethnic and Geographical Disparities in the United States. (Centers for Disease Control) |
| Census Maps and Cartographic Products |
| Census 2000 Tract Locator by Address. Also allows you to select tracts by Economic Census and American Community Survey. |
| CIA World Factbook Country and continent maps. |
| CIESIN-SEDAC. Create maps and calculate statistics for 220 demographic variables from the 1990 U.S. Census |
| Climate Atlas of the Contiguous United States--Online sample maps from CD-ROM. |
| Dataplace. Consolidates census and other federal data into thematic maps. |
| Digital Maps Archives, from Evergreen State College. A growing collection of maps digitized for preservation, from the USGS and Washington Geological Survey. |
| EarthExplorer Allows you to query and order satellite images, aerial photographs, and cartographic products through the U.S. Geological Survey. |
| FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) |
| FEMA Map Service Center |
| Geodata.gov. "Your one stop for federal, state, and local geographic data." on a very wide range of subjects |
| GEOnet Names Server Provides access to the NIMA database of foreign geographic feature names. It is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions of the U.S. Board of Geographic Names. |
| Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names On Line. A database of modern and historical names, coordinates, and descriptions of geographic places, arranged in hierarchical order. (Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust) |
| GNIS: Geographic Names Infromation System |
| Indian Land Cessions Maps From the establishment of the U.S. government to 1894. 67 maps, originaly published 1899. |
| MABLE/Geocorr2K: Geographic Correspondence Engine with Census 2000 Geography Match geographies like zip codes, congressional districts, tracts, etc. |
| Macau: A Selection of Cartographic Images. Selected maps of Macau, the oldest permanent European settlement in Asia, which was returned to China in 1999. (Library of Congress American Memory Project) |
| Maps of Climate Normals National Climatic Data Center |
| Maps: Subject Guide (Auraria Library) |
| National Atlas of the United States |
| National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Formerly the National Imagery and Mapping Agency. |
| NCDC Climate Monitoring Reports and Products National Climatic Data Center |
| Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (University of Texas at Austin). Electronic map collection, with maps of current interest. Also has extensive links to other sources of maps on the Web |
| Tactical Pilotage Chart Index Map From Map Town |
| TerraServer. Exensive maps and aerial photographs of the U.S. supplied by USGS and operated by Microsoft. |
| TIGER (U.S. Census Bureau) Map Server Provides access to Census Bureau maps and data. |
| Topographic Map Symbols (USGS) Explains meaning of sybols on USGS maps. |
| United Nations Atlas of the Oceans |
| U.S. Gazetteer (U.S. Census Bureau). Searchable database for 2000 and 1990 of geographic places, with links to the Tiger Map Service. |
| USGS Store Allows you to find and purchase USGS publications, including maps, or to find a USGS product dealer in your area. |
| World Factbook (CIA) Contains reference maps of continents, countries |
| World Maps and Country Profiles (from WorldPress.org). Provides access to online maps with assorted information about countries. |
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| Calculate Postage (U.S. Postal Service). Calculator for domestic, international, and business postage. |
| Postage Rates |
| United States Postal Service |
| Zip + 4 Code Lookup |
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| Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress (American Memory Project) |
| Backgrounder on Impeachment from the Legal Information Institute |
| Clinton Presidential Library and Museum |
| Clinton White House Web Pages |
| C-Span: State of the Union. Transcripts of addresses back to 1945. |
| Executive Orders page at the National Archives. Includes the Executive Orders Disposition Tables covering 1937-present and the Codification of Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders, 1945-1989. |
| Executive Orders Issued by President George W. Bush |
| Inaugural Addresses from Janda.org |
| John F. Kennedy's Executive Orders |
| National First Ladies Library |
| Presidency links from St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas. |
| President of the United States (Univ. of Michigan resource site) |
| President's Home Page (at Whitehouse.gov) |
| Presidential Directives and Executive Orders (Federation of American Scientists) |
| Presidential Directives and Where to Find Them (Library of Congress resource page) |
| Presidential Executive Orders, Disposition Tables 1938-present |
| Presidential Issuances Table of Numbers of Executive Orders and Presidential Proclamations |
| Presidential Libraries Information and directory from the National Archives. |
| Presidential Clemency Actions (pardons) Statistics 1900 to 2001 (U.S. Office of the Pardon Attorney) |
| Presidential recordings from the Internet Archive. Includes both public speeches and secret recordings. |
| Presidents of the United States (POTUS) Internet Public Library. Includes background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and facts of interest. Also includes links to other sites. |
| Research Presidential Materials. U.S. National Archives |
| Public Papers of the Presidents, 1992 (George H.W. Bush) forward |
| Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Official Web Site, Univ. of Texas. |
| State of the Union Messages (American Presidency Project) |
| State of the Union Addresses (PoliTxts at janda.org) |
| Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1993 forward |
| White House |
| White House Tapes: the President Calling Documentaries and transcripts of telephone conversations with presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. |
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| Consumer Price Indexes From the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Includes inflation calculator and detailed historical statistics back to 1913 | |
| Cost-of-Living and Salary Calculator For U.S. cities and metro areas | |
| Inflation (from World Economic Outlook) (You must scroll down) | |
| Inflation Conversion Factors for dollars 1665 to estimated 2017 | |
| Import/Export Price Indexes (BLS) Import Price Indexes (MPI) and Export Price Indexes (XPI); data on changes in the prices of nonmilitary goods and services traded between the U.S. and the rest of the world. | |
| Producer Price Indexes | |
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| Bushsecrecy.org. Site by Public Citizen, a public interest group. Information on secrecy in the George W. Bush administration. Information on FOIA, executive privilege, national security issues |
| Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Electronic Reading room - FBI, Dept. of Justice |
| General Land Office (GLO) Records Automation Project Provides image access to federal land title records of Eastern Public Lands States issued between 1820 and 1908. |
| Project on Government Secrecy, from the Federation of American Scientists. Includes George W. Bush administration presidential documents and other official documents on secrecy policy |
| Vietnam War Declassification Project from the Gerald R. Ford Library. Provides links to documents, including photographs, related to the war in that library. |
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| Code of Federal Regulations |
| Federal Acquisition Regulations |
| Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Alphabetical subject index of OMB documents |
| U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services |
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| Consumer Product Safety Commission |
| National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |
| National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health |
| National Safety Council |
| National Transportation Safety Board |
| Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
| Statistics on Worker Safety and Health (Bureau of Labor Statistics) |
| http://www.foodsafety.gov/ Gateway to Government Food Safety Information |
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SCIENCE/ENGINEERING/TECHNOLOGY
| DOE Data Explorer Provides access to data generated by DOE research, including computer simulations, numeric data files, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, and scientific images, etc. |
| DOE Information Bridge an open source to full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics. |
| Energy Citations Database. Contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Dept of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies from 1948 to the present. |
| Entrez Text-based search and retrieval system for major databases at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, including PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy and others. |
| Environmental Protection Agency's Science Inventory A searchable, agency-wide catalog of over 4,000 science activities such as research, technical assistance and assessments, including more than 750 peer-reviewed products. More than 19,000 records . |
| Federal R&D Project Summaries Provides R&D summaries for a consortium of agencies including the Dept. of Energy, National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation. |
| Human Genome Resources (NIH) |
| National Academy of Sciences |
| National Biological Information Infrastructure Links to biological information on the Web |
| National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
| National Science Foundation |
| National Technical Information Service Search the collection from 1964 to the present. |
| NIST Chemistry Webbook. Gateway to the data collections of the National Institute of Standards and Technology under the Standard Reference Data Program. |
| Science.gov Gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results. Includes technical reports, journal citations, databases, Federal web sites, and fact sheets. |
| ScienceAccelerator From the DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Searches science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more. |
| NIOEM Occupational employment statistics collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. |
| SESTAT National Science Foundation's database on the science and technology labor force. |
| Smithsonian Institution |
| United States Regulatory Agencies Unified Biotechnology Website. Focuses on the agricultural products of modern biotechnology, including a search able database of genetically engineered products that have completed all required or recommended federal approvals for food, feed, or planting. |
| www.climatescience.gov/ U.S. Climate Change Science Program site |
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| Catalog of Domestic Assistance Provices access to a database of all Federal programs available to state and local governments, federally recognized indian tribal governments, other organizations, and individuals. |
| Childwelfare.gov |
| DisabilityInfo.gov. Comprehensive Federal website of disability-related government resources |
| GovBenefits.gov. Provides information on government benefits on both federal and state levels. |
| Green Book (Entitlement Programs) (House Ways and Means Committee) |
| Health and Social Services Ready Reference Links (Columbia University) |
| Housing and Urban Development Department |
| National Endowment for the Arts |
| National Endowment for the Humanities |
| Office of Policy, Social Security Administration. Links to various reports, including Annual Statistical Supplement to the Social Security Bulletin |
| Poverty page (Census Bureau). Provides definitions, poverty thresholds, and statistics. |
| President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security |
| Social Security Online (Social Security Administration) |
| Social Security Programs Throughout the World |
| U.S. Historical Poverty Tables--People (Census Bureau) |
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| American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Technical Standards for Industries Worldwide |
| ANSI Online: American National Standards Institute |
| Dept. of Energy (DOE) Technical Standards |
| DoD Online Documents (Specs and Standards on the Web). Available at www.dsp.dla.mil (You can access this by typing it in your web browser, if you register; web page linking not permitted) |
| How to Find Standards (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Index of Federal Specifications, Standards, and Commercial Item Descriptions. U.S.General Services Administration |
| ISO Online. International Organization for Standardization. Includes real-time search facility. |
| National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) |
| NSSN: A National Resource for Global Standards |
| Official U.S. Time |
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| General Sites |
| American FactFinder [Census] |
| Global Business Cycle Indicators: Leading economic indicators and related composite indexes (Conference Board) for the U.S. and a number of other countries. |
| CenStats Databases [Census] |
| County and City Data Book Population and housing data from the 2000 census for all U.S. counties, cities with 25,000 or more inhabitants, and places with 2,500 or more inhabitants. |
| Economic Indicators from GPO Access |
| Economic Indicators from the Census Bureau |
| Economic Indicators from OMB Watch |
| EconomicIndicators.gov from the Economics and Stationatistics Administration. |
| FedStats links to federal statistics |
| Frequently Used Site-Statistics. --Comprehensive links to statistics, from the Government Documents Round Table, American Library Association |
| Lexis-NexisStatistical [Auraria Library Users Only] |
| Major Economic Indicators [BLS] & news releases |
| National Agricultural Statistics Service |
| Overview of the Economy BEA] |
| State and Metropolitan Area Data Book contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States at the State and metropolitan area levels. Also serves as a guide to sources of other data from the Census Bureau and elsewhere. |
| Statistical Abstract of the United States [Census] From the current edition back to 1878. |
| Statistical Resources on the Web [Univ. of Michigan] Comprehensive listing of links. |
| Statistical Sites on the World Wide Web [BLS] Links to U.S. and international statistical agencies' web pages. |
| STAT-USA/Internet (U.S. Dept. of Commerce). The most important site for U.S. business, economic, and trade information. Includes State of the Nation, with current economic and historic economic and financial releases, and Globus and NTDB, for current and historical trade-related releases. |
| U.S.A Counties Census Bureau) Features over 5700 data items for the United States, states, counties, and equivalent areas from a variety of sources. |
| White House Economic Statistics Briefing Room Provides easy access to basic federal economic indicators.. |
| White House Social Statistics Briefing Room Provides easy access to current federal social statistics, in overview |
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| Major U.S. Government Statistical Agencies |
| Bureau of Economic Analysis [BEA] |
| Bureau of Justice Statistics [BJS] |
| Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS] |
| Bureau of the Census |
| Bureau of Transportation Statistics [BTS] |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] |
| Economic Research Service (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture) |
| Economics and Statistics Administration |
| Energy Information Administration [eia] |
| Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] |
| Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] |
| Federal Election Commission |
| Federal Reserve Board / Statistics Releases |
| Internal Revenue Service [IRS];Tax statistics |
| National Agricultural Statistics Service [NASS] |
| National Center for Education Statistics [NCES] |
| National Center for Health Statistics [NCHS] |
| National Criminal Justice Reference Service [NCJRS] |
| Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] |
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| Other Statistical Sites |
| Agricultural Indicators [USDA NASS] |
| Agricultural Statistics [.pdf] and Statistical Highlights [HTML and .pdf] |
| Auraria Library Statistics Subject Page |
| Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Provides access to data sets in social sciences and public health. |
| ChildStats.gov. Includes America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-being |
| Community Information by Zip Code. California State University, Northridge |
| EDGAR (database of Securities and Exchange Commission filings and forms). |
| EUROSTAT. Statistical site for the European Union. Some statistics are free, others not |
| FAS Online--U.S. Trade Internet System. Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). U.S. exports, imports and re-exports of agricultural, fish, forest and textile products. |
| GreenBook: Overview of Entitlement Programs from the House Ways and Means Committee (via GPO Access) |
| Macroeconomic Time Series Data Source Locator (Univ. of Chicago). Gives locations of data, either in print books held there or on the Web. Useful for identifying possible data sources. |
| Nation Master.Contains extensive statistics on all countries, in a format that allows you to generate comparative graphs. |
| Scholar's Lab Formerly GEOSTAT, digital resources as the University of Virginia, including demographic, economic, and social data |
| NASS Reports Arranged by Title [USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service] |
| Science and Engineering Statistics National Science Foundation. & Bureau of Labor Statistics databases on the science and technology labor force. |
| State & County QuickFacts [Census] Quick, easy access to information about people, business, and geography |
| Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center) |
| Tax Statistics (Internal Revenue Service) |
| TradeStats Express Allows you to retrieve, vizualize, analyze, print, and download your customized output. |
| Transtats "One-stop shopping" for transportation data. Provides a searchable index of over 200 databases in every mode of transportation, with many social and demographic datasets commonly used in transportation analysis. Provides the ability to do simple statistical summaries, create time series or cross tabulations, generate graphics online, and cut/paste results into reports, as well as interactive mapping. |
| U.S.D.A. Economics, Statistics, and Markets InformationSystem. With Mann Library, Cornell University. Contains reports and datasets from the economics agencies of the Dept. of Agriculture |
| WISQARS. Web-based
Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System. Customizable
mortality tables by type of injury, state, race, and sex from the Centers for Disease Control. |
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| BNA Tax Management BNA's Tax Management Portfolios Plus on the Web. Comprises analysis, practice tools (including interactive forms), primary sources, and news regarding taxation of U.S. income; estates, gifts and trusts; and foreign income |
| CCH Tax Research Network -- Full text federal and state tax information including cases, regulations, and rulings. (Auraria Library users only) |
| Federal and State Tax Forms (LSU Libraries) Provides links to sources of forms. |
| Internal Revenue Service. Includes tax forms. |
| Tax Links. IRS Revenue Rulings, 1954 to present |
| States Ranked by Total Taxes and Per Capita Amount: 2000 (Census) |
| State Tax Forms From Federation of Tax Administrators |
| Tax Statistics (Internal Revenue Service) |
| Treasury Dept. |
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| DOE Information Bridge -- A component of DOE’s EnergyFiles; provides free, convenient, and quick access to full-text DOE research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topic. |
| Energy Citations Database, 1948-present -- Energy Citations contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The Database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 through the present, with continued growth through regular updates. |
| E-print Network Repository of scientific or technical documents circulated electronically to facilitate peer exchange, and a gateway to over 12,000 web pages and databases worldwide, containing e-prints in basic and applied science, primarily physics but also chemistry, biology and life sciences, materials science, nuclear sciences and engineering, energy research, computer and information technologies, and other disciplines of interest |
| Federal R&D Project Summaries -- Searchable descriptions and awards amounts of current federal research projects funded with federal grants from U.S. Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation. |
| Military Education and Research Library Network -- MERLN offers provides access to the library holdings and electronic information resources of the Air University, Armed Forces Staff College, Command & General Staff College, Marine Corps University, Marshall Center, National Defense University, Naval War College, U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Army War College, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy. |
| National Environmental Publications Information System (NEPIS) -- NEPIS began in 1997 to offer one stop shopping for over 6,000 full text, on line EPA documents. |
| National Technical Information Service -- Publishes scientific and technical reports of government sponsored research. You can search their bibliographic database for reports since 1990. Many of these are available from the University of Colorado at Boulder Government Publications Library which has an extensive, comprehensive, historical collection in microfiche of technical reports from various federal agencies such as NTIS, NASA, U.S. Atomic Energy Agency, and Dept. of Energy. An interlibrary loan request will produce a microfiche copy of the report which you may keep or donate back to the Auraria Library. Be sure to indicate clearly on your request that it is a U.S. government technical report to be requested from CU-Boulder. 1990 to present. |
| NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server Scientific and technical information from NASA's technical report servers and non-NASA sites pertinent to NASA's mission, using the Open Archives Initiative. |
| Office of Technology Assessment legacy site. Provides access to the complete publications of this office, which closed in 1995 after providing Congressional members and committees with objective and authoritative analysis of complex scientific and technical issues for 23 years. |
| Science.gov "A gateway to authoritative selected scienc information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results. |
| STINET-Defense Technical Information Center -- Search databases such as DOE Reports Bibliographic Database, NASA Technical Reports Database, NASA Open Literature Database, NASA NACA Technical Reports Database, as well as DTIC Full Text Technical Report Database simultaneously. |
| See also Technical Reports at the Government Publications Department web site, University of Colorado at Boulder for more links. |
| Virtual Technical Reports Center, Univ. of Maryland. Provides links to institutions that provide either full-text reports or searchable extended abstracts of their technical reports. Provides access to technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports fo all kinds. |
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| Export.gov. Portal to all export-related assistance and market information offered by the federal government. | ||
| FAS Online--U.S. Trade Internet System Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). U.S. exports, imports and re-exports of agricultural, fish, forest and textile products. | ||
| Federal Trade Commission | ||
| Foreign Agricultural Trade of the U.S. (FATUS) Database search by commidity group | ||
| Foreign Trade Statistics (U.S. Census Bureau). Product trade by country. | ||
| Industry, Trade and the Economy: Data and Analysis. Office of Trade and Industry Information) | ||
| International Trade Administration (ITA) U.S. Foreign Trade Highlights provides exports and imports by product and by country. | ||
| International Trade Commission Includes TradeStats Express, which allows you to retrieve, vizualize, analyze, print, and download your customized output. | ||
| International Trade Commission Interactive Tariff and Trade DataWeb Provides direct access to tariff and trade data and customized reports. Also includes scheduled U.S. tariff reductions. | ||
| State Exports to Countries and Regions. By industry sector, country, plus rankings in value. from the Census Bureau's Exporter Location series. | ||
| STAT-USA/Internet The federal government's comprehensive site of international trade reports and domestic economic information. National Trade Data Bank (NTDB), country commercial guides, market research reports, import/export statistics, and all other NTDB reports. Domestic economic statistics, Commerce Dept. contract/procurement announcements, and more.
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| Trade.gov (International Trade Administration) A portal to Web resources offering sector-specific statistics, background documents, current trade updates, and links to further industry information. | ||
| United States Trade Representative Office | ||
| United States Commercial Service Provides market research, listings of trade events, introducitons to qualified buyers and distributors, and counseling. | ||
| United Nations Statistics Division, UN Comtrade UN commodity trade statistics database. Statistics for over 130 countries, detailed by commodity and partner country. For many countries statistics go from 1962 to the most recent completed year | ||
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| Air Traffic Publications (FAA) |
| Bureau of Transportation Statistics |
| National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |
| National Transportation Library. Contains documents and databases, including a linke toTRIS Online, the largest and most comprehensive source of information on published transportation research. |
| National Transportation Statistics |
| Transportation Department |
| Transportation Online Publications (Dept. of Transportation) |
| Transportation Security Administration |
| Transportation Statistics Bureau |
| TranStats: "One-stop shopping" for transportation data. Provides a searchable index of over 200 databases in every mode of transportation, with many social and demographic datasets commonly used in transportation analysis. Provides the ability to do simple statistical summaries, create time series or cross tabulations, generate graphics online, and cut/paste results into reports, as well as interactive mapping. |
| TRIS Online (Transportation Research Information Services) Contains records of almost half a million reports and books. |
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| Bureau of Consular Affairs, State Dept. Passport and visa information and much more. |
| CDC Travelers Health Travel health information for your destination countries. |
| Recreation.gov Recreational
opportunities on public lands. Single source web site
for all federal federal recreation areas, including national parks. |
| travel.state.gov Travel information from the State Dept., including travel warnings |
| Transportation Security Administration Travelers & Consumers page |
| Travel
and Living Abroad (State Dept.) Contains
many useful resources for travelers and those with foreign origin or connections. |
| U.S. Customs & Border Protection: Travel Spotlight Information about regulations concering international travel and customs from the Dept. of Homeland Security. Includes new information. |
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