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Understanding the eCFR

Reader Aids

Reader Aids help people use and understand the eCFR. Reader Aids information is not published in the Code of Federal Regulations.

How is eCFR corrected?

How are editorial errors accounted for in the eCFR?

The eCFR Corrections page, https://www.ecfr.gov/corrections, lists editorial errors OFR made in processing eCFR amendments. The Corrections cites the CFR title and section affected, the corrective action taken, the “current as of” date the error occurred, and the “current as of” date the error was corrected.

Where possible we also add a notification to the affected content to indicate when a correction was needed. Due to the nature of corrections this is not always possible and users should consult the Corrections page for the definitive list of corrections.

eCFR corrective action notification example
example: eCFR corrective action notification

Errors made by issuing agencies are not reflected in the Corrections Compilation table. Agencies correct their errors by publishing documents to amend the CFR in the daily Federal Register. Those changes are integrated into eCFR in the same manner as other amendments. Agency correction documents are generally called “final rule corrections” or “technical amendments.”