The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) conducted a web harvest (i.e. capture) of Federal Agency public web sites in 2004. Congressional web sites have been preserved at the end of each Congress since the conclusion of the 109th Congress in 2006. These web harvests are available below.

In January 2005, NARA issued Guidance on Managing Web Records, which addresses agencies' responsibilities for identifying, managing and scheduling web materials they identify as Federal records. Accordingly, each agency is now responsible, in coordination with NARA, for determining how to manage its web records, including whether to preserve a periodic snapshot of its entire web page.

The accuracy of each harvest was affected by these factors:

• The completeness of URL source lists,
• Whether URLs resolved successfully, and
• The capabilities of crawler tools used (see Heritrix at http://crawler.archive.org/) and the server environment being crawled. See a report on limitations of capabilities [PDF].

NARA has made every reasonable effort to ensure that web sites' code and programming were captured accurately. NARA is not responsible for any web sites' compliance with Federal laws, regulations, and requirements. NARA is responsible for providing public access to these copied web sites but is not responsible for maintaining code such as links, accessibility features, search or site maps, or other functionality that may have been true of the sites before they were copied.

Mention of commercial products, services, or resources within this notice does not constitute an endorsement by the National Archives and Records Administration or the United States Government.

Learn more: To find current Federal agency web sites, please use http://www.usa.gov/. For technical issues, contact info@archive.org. For questions about these Federal records, contact cer@nara.gov. For questions about this website, contact brandon.hirsch@nara.gov.