§ 0.453   Public reference rooms.

   The Commission's main Web site at http://www.fcc.gov and its electronic
   reading room at
   http://www.fcc.gov/general/freedom-information-act-electronic-reading-r
   oom host the Commission's online public reference room. The Commission
   also maintains the FCC Reference Information Center as its public
   reference room at its offices in Washington, DC.

   (a) The Reference Information Center maintains files containing the
   record of all docketed cases, petitions for rule making and related
   papers. A file is maintained for each docketed hearing case and for
   each docketed rule making proceeding. Cards summarizing the history of
   such cases for the years before 1984 are available for inspection.
   Information summarizing the history of such cases for the years from
   1984 through present is available online on the Electronic Comment
   Filing System (ECFS). ECFS serves as the repository for official
   filings in the FCC's docketed proceedings from 1992 to the present. The
   public can use ECFS to retrieve any document in the system, including
   selected pre-1992 documents.

   (b) The Commission will maintain a regularly updated listing of other
   routinely available records in its electronic reading room at
   http://www.fcc.gov/general/freedom-information-act-electronic-reading-r
   oom.

   [ 82 FR 4189 , Jan. 13, 2017]

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