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     SUMMARY OF ELECTRONIC PUBLIC INFORMATION NEWSLETTER
                  VOL. 5, NO. 14; July 14, 1995
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INDEX:

1. SENATE PANEL IS EXPECTED TO REJECT HOUSE BID TO SLASH GPO BUDGET
2. EXECUTIVE BRANCH SEEKS 3-LEVEL EMAIL SERVICE BY 1997
3. HOW TO FIND GOVERNMENT INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET

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1. SENATE PANEL IS EXPECTED TO REJECT HOUSE BID TO SLASH GPO BUDGET
Expectations are growing that the Senate will not go along with the
House of Representatives on its proposal to force a shift to the
electronic dissemination of government information to the
Depository Library Program (DLP) by forcing Executive Branch
agencies to pay for paper copies for the program. Washington
observers anticipate that the Legislative Branch Subcommittee of
the Senate Committee on Appropriations will reject the bid by the
House to cut the Superintendent of Documents (SuDocs) budget in
half and amend the law authorizing the DLP when it is scheduled to
mark up the Legislative Branch Appropriations bill on Tuesday
(7/18). The Subcommittee instead is expected to recommend that the
government first conduct a study to determine the feasibility of
switching to electronic dissemination.

2. EXECUTIVE BRANCH SEEKS 3-LEVEL EMAIL SERVICE BY 1997: The
federal government's interagency email working group has set a goal
of deploying three levels of email service throughout the Executive
Branch by the end of fiscal year 1997. The group is working to
equip most agencies with basic email servicesþsuch as "mail box"
servicesþby the end of this fiscal year (9/30). Agencies will be
asked to have gateway access with the capability to exchange
attachments, in ascii or binary files, by the end of FY 96, and to
achieve "business quality" e-mail, including security and other
functions sufficient to conduct financial and regulatory business,
by the end of FY 97.

3. HOW TO FIND GOVERNMENT INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET: Bewildered
by the proliferation of government information web, gopher, FTP and
telnet sites on the Internet? Now comes a book to help put some
order in the chaos. "How to Access the Federal Government on the
Internet" by Bruce Maxwell is a user-friendly guide to federal
government information on the Internet. The 402-page, paperback
bookþwhich was published in June and is selling for $19.95þprovides
detailed descriptions of nearly 300 federal Internet sites and
resources. It provides useful information on how to access each
site, describes what each one offers, provides tips for searching
selected sites, and offers advice on where to start a search for
federal government information. 

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