• AAPDs/CIB - Acquisition & Assistance Policy Directives / Contract Information Bulletins
• AIDAR - AID Acquisition Regulations
• Archives - National Archives and Records Administration

• CFR - Code of Federal Regulations (database, U.S. Government Printing Office site)
• CFR referenced in the ADS

• DSSR - Department of State Standardized Regulations
• DSSR Section 920

• EO - Executive Orders (National Archives and Records Administration site)
• EO referenced in the ADS
• Executive Order 13279, Equal Protection of the Laws for Faith-Based and Community Organizations

• The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (FAA)
• The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended
  (4,145KB, 507 page PDF document)
• Legislation on Foreign Relations Through 2002, Volume I-A
  (3,399KB, 1137 page PDF document, includes the FAA)
• USAID History (with reference to the FAA)
• FAM/FAH - Foreign Affairs Manual and Foreign Affairs Handbooks (U.S. Department of State Regulations site)
• FAM/FAH referenced in the ADS
• FAR - Federal Acquisition Regulation
• FAR referenced in the ADS
• FASAB - Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
• Foreign Per Diem Rates
• Foreign Service Act of 1980
• FTR - Federal Travel Regulation

• General Records Schedules (GRS)
• GSA Forms - U.S. Government Forms (GSA, Standard and Optional)
• Standard Forms Referenced in the ADS

• NARA - National Archives and Records Administration

• OMB - Office of Management & Budget
• OMB Circulars
• OMB Bulletins
• OMB referenced in the ADS

• Plain Language - Plain Language Home Page
• Writing User-Friendly Documents
• Drafting Legal Documents (an Office of the Federal Register publication)
• Pub. L. - Public Laws (via Thomas, Library of Congress information site)
• Pub. L. referenced in the ADS

• Salaries and Wages - U.S. Office of Personnel Management 2002 Salary Tables and Related Information

• U.S.C. - U.S. Codes (database, U.S. House Office of the Law Revision Counsel site)
• U.S.C. referenced in the ADS

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