O'Rielly Wants FCC, GPO to Stop Printing The FCC Record
The Government Printing Office and the FCC should cease printing hardbound compilations of documents issued by the FCC, Commissioner Mike O’Rielly wrote in a blog post Friday about The FCC Record. “It makes little sense to continue to publish paper…
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copies when other mechanisms are more consumer friendly, cost-efficient, and easier to access,” he said. The FCC Record collections of FCC documents printed by GPO cost $813 for a yearly subscription, and the 2016 version ran to 17 volumes with more than 14,000 pages, O’Rielly said. The FCC bought 80 copies of The FCC Record in 2016, he said. The FCC “certainly has the capability to publish the FCC Record electronically as a PDF on our website” instead, O’Rielly said. “In fact, the Commission compiles the current FCC Record, not the GPO or its contractor.” The agency could “just as easily compile the PDF and just put it online, saving the costs of purchasing paper copies for its own use,” O’Rielly said. “To aid in consumer functionality, the Commission could also establish a separate web page that consisted of only PDF Record compilations.”