[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 181 (Monday, September 18, 2000)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-23847]



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Department of Defense

General Services Administration

National Aeronautics and Space Administration





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Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); Elimination of the Paper Copy of 
the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); Looseleaf Edition; Notice

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

National Aeronautics and Space Administration


Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); Elimination of the Paper 
Copy of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR); Looseleaf Edition

AGENCIES: Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration 
(GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice is to advise users that beginning January 1, 2001, 
the General Services Administration (GSA) will no longer seek 
publication of a paper copy of the Federal Acquisition Regulation 
(FAR). Instead, GSA will actively publish the FAR only on the Internet. 
The URL for GSA's FAR website is: http://www.arnet.gov/far/

DATES: Elimination of the printing and distribution of the paper copy 
is effective January 1, 2001. Any current or renewed subscriptions will 
continue until this date.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: General Services Administration, FAR 
Secretariat (MVR), 1800 F Street, NW. Room 4035, Attn: Ms. Laurie 
Duarte, Washington, DC 20405, (202) 501-4755.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In addition to providing free access to the 
FAR in HTML and PDF formats, the FAR website also provides electronic 
copies of Federal Acquisition Circulars (FACs). GSA will continue to 
provide these electronic looseleaf materials even after it stops 
seeking publication of the paper FAR. FAC contents on the website are 
identical to the contents of looseleaf materials that the Government 
Printing Office (GPO has provided by subscription.
    Many Internet browsers display the materials GSA provides on its 
FAR website. If your does, you have choices. You can reference the FAR 
only on the Internet, or you can produce your own looseleaf FAR on 
paper by downloading and printing electronics FACs as GSA posts them to 
the FAR website. Otherwise, after January 1, 2001, you must seek some 
other source of the printed looseleaf.
    Agency publications liaisons should provide this information to 
their FAR users. Consider whether to submit requisitions for FY 2001 
subscribing anew to the FAR looseleaf. Along with your internal 
notifications, we will notify all on GPO's subscriber distribution 
list, agency procurement executives, and small agency councils of these 
changes.
    The Superintendent of Documents at the Government Printing Office 
has indicated that it will continue publication of the Federal 
Acquisition Regulation in looseleaf format. Current subscribers will be 
provided with more specific information by the Superintendent of 
Documents as soon as it is available. To contact the Superintendent of 
Documents directly, you may call (202) 512-1706.

    Dated: September 11, 2000.
Edward C. Loeb,
Director, Federal Acquisition Policy Division.
[FR Doc. 00-23847 Filed 9-15-00; 8:45 am]
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