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When federal legislation is enacted, an executive agency is charged with the responsibility for developing rules and regulations implementing the law. For example, rules and regulations implementing IDEA and FERPA are issued by the U.S. DOE. For all intents and purposes, rules and regulations have the same impact as actual legislation. School psychologists need to be familiar with both the statute itself and the regulations implementing the law. Federal statutes are compiled and published in the United States Code (U.S.C.). Rules and regulations implementing a law first appear in a daily publication called the Federal Register (FR) and subsequently are published in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The Code of Federal Regulations has 50 titles, and each volume is updated once each calendar year. The Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR) can be accessed on the Internet at www.govinfo.gov. The e-CFR is updated daily, but it is not considered to be the “official” legal edition of federal regulations. The U.S. DOE Web site also has links to statutes and regulations pertinent to education (http://www.ed.gov). Citations for important federal statutes are provided in Appendix D at the back of this book.