Many U.S. Government publications distributed through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) are superseded by later or revised editions. Materials falling under the supersession criteria described below may be discarded according to your professional judgment under provisions of Title 44, United States Code, §1912 without submitting them on a weeding list for regional depository approval.

There are some regionals that have made a collection development decision to retain superseded materials. In these instances, the regional will communicate this information to the selective depositories in the state or region through the state plan or discard procedures. Selectives should provide these resources, if withdrawn, to the regional depository per any state or region agreements. Depositories should note that they are not required to dispose of superseded materials if they do not wish to do so. All collection development decisions should be made to meet the Federal Government information needs of the depository’s users.