The Service Tree lists all services in "branched" groups, starting with the very general and moving to the very specific. Click on the name of any group name to see the sub-groups available within it. Click on a service code to see its details and the providers who offer that service.
Regulations/Standards
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Programs that are responsible for granting charters to and examining the operation and activities of national banks, credit unions, bank holding companies and foreign banks that wish to open branches in the United States. State banks and savings and loan institutions are also subject to this form of regulation.
Programs that are responsible for developing telecommunications policy at state or national levels and/or for regulating intrastate, interstate and foreign communication by means of radio, television, wire, cable and satellite as well as the new forms of communication including voice, data, image graphics and full motion video made possible by the emerging broadband telecommunications platform. Responsibilities include allocating bands of frequencies to individual stations; licensing and regulating stations and operators; regulating common carriers in intrastate, interstate and foreign communications by telegraph, telephone or satellite; and overseeing the development and utilization of a broadband telecommunications platform.
Programs that protect consumers from hazardous or harmful consumer goods through enforcement of laws that establish standards for the purity, safety and wholesomeness of food and the safety and effectiveness of drugs and consumer products.
Programs that establish and enforce legislation which promotes free and fair competition in interstate or international commerce through prevention of general trade restraints such as price fixing agreements, boycotts, illegal combinations of competitors, exclusive dealing, tying arrangements, monopolistic practices or other unfair methods of competition or deceptive trade practices.
Programs that establish and enforce legislation which protects the working public from exploitation and unsafe working conditions.
Public Utility Regulation/Deregulation
Programs that establish and enforce regulations that govern the rates and services of utility companies and/or provide information about utility deregulation.
Transportation Safety Standards
Programs that are responsible for developing and enforcing regulations that are designed to ensure public safety on highways, railways, airlines, shipping lines and other modes of transportation; which enforce compliance with safety standards; and which investigate serious accidents involving civil aviation, railroad accidents, pipeline accidents, selected highway accidents, selected marine accidents and other transportation accidents that are catastrophic.