oregon-stories · executive-regulatory-frameworks × federal-reference
The federal ceiling: 916 authority claims, 1 resolving
Oregon's administrative rules do not stand on state law alone: 916 times, a rule names federal law as its legal basis — 34 CFR 300 (special education) alone carries 105 authority claims. The platform's federal corpus was built from what the AUDITORS cite, so of what the RULES claim as authority, 1 target currently resolves. That is a measured hole in this platform's own ceiling — drawn here so it gets filled deliberately, most-cited first.
Distinct federal targets cited
1,271
across 75,961 scanned documents
Authority claims
916
an Oregon rule naming federal law as its legal basis
Mentions besides
8,700
references that stop short of claiming authority
Targets the platform resolves
1
federal-reference holds 43 documents across 5 instruments — chosen for audit citations, not rule authority
The twenty most-claimed federal authorities (solid = held in the platform)
Named instruments, counted by prose reference
| instrument | authority claims | mentions | held |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIPAA | 2 | 377 | — |
| WIOA | 0 | 96 | — |
| FERPA | 0 | 22 | — |
| IRS-PUB-1075 | 0 | 8 | — |
| CJIS-SECURITY-POLICY | 0 | 8 | — |
| PERKINS-CTE | 0 | 6 | — |
Read this before quoting the chart
This measures the platform's coverage, not Oregon's compliance with anything. An 'authority claim' is a mechanical read of a rule's own authority line; a 'mention' is any other citation — the catalog's distinction, applied unchanged. Solid bars are instruments federal-reference holds; faded bars are the queue. Named-instrument rows (HIPAA at 377 mentions, WIOA, FERPA…) count prose references that no CFR-part arithmetic captures. The 28 CFR 35 row is the ADA Title II rule discussed in the documents-as-pictures story — 7 authority claims, not yet held; its ingest is filed as a federal-reference issue.