aid: administrative-conference-of-the-united-states url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/administrative-conference-of-the-united-states/refs/heads/main/apis.yml name: Administrative Conference of the United States created: '2024-11-20' modified: '2026-04-19' specificationVersion: '0.19' tags: - Federal Government - Regulatory Reform - Administrative Law - Government Efficiency - Open Data - Policy Research description: >- The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) is an independent federal agency within the executive branch whose statutory mission is to identify ways to improve the procedures by which federal agencies administer regulatory, benefit, and other government programs. ACUS issues approximately a dozen recommendations per year to agencies, Congress, the President, and the Judicial Conference, aimed at enhancing efficiency and fairness in administrative procedures. The agency maintains the Federal Administrative Adjudication Database (with Stanford Law School), the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) online database, and various open data resources under the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018. apis: - aid: administrative-conference-of-the-united-states:eaja-database name: Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) Database description: >- ACUS maintains an online database of Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) awards, tracking awards of attorney's fees and other costs against the United States government. ACUS collects and reports this information to Congress annually, with data accessible through the ACUS website. The database provides transparency into government litigation costs and EAJA awards by agency, fiscal year, and case type. humanURL: https://www.acus.gov/data tags: - Equal Access to Justice - Administrative Law - Open Data - Legal properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.acus.gov/data - type: DataAPI url: https://www.acus.gov/data - aid: administrative-conference-of-the-united-states:federal-administrative-adjudication-database name: Federal Administrative Adjudication Database description: >- A joint project between ACUS and Stanford Law School, the Federal Administrative Adjudication Database provides comprehensive data on federal agency adjudication processes across the U.S. government. The database tracks administrative law judges, adjudicative proceedings, hearing processes, and adjudication statistics across federal agencies to support research and policy reform. humanURL: https://acus.gov/recommendations tags: - Administrative Law - Adjudication - Open Data - Research properties: - type: Documentation url: https://acus.gov/recommendations - type: DataAPI url: https://acus.gov/recommendations common: - type: LinkedIn url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/administrative-conference-of-the-united-states - type: Website url: https://www.acus.gov/ - type: Portal url: https://www.acus.gov/ - type: Resources url: https://www.acus.gov/page/resources - type: Contact url: https://www.acus.gov/about-acus - type: Features data: - name: Regulatory Reform Recommendations description: >- Issues approximately a dozen formal recommendations per year to federal agencies, Congress, the President, and the Judicial Conference aimed at improving the efficiency, fairness, and transparency of administrative procedures and regulatory programs. - name: Federal Administrative Adjudication Database description: >- Joint project with Stanford Law School providing comprehensive data on federal agency adjudication processes, administrative law judges, and hearing statistics across all federal agencies. - name: Equal Access To Justice Act (EAJA) Reporting description: >- Annual reporting to Congress on awards of attorney's fees and costs against the United States under EAJA, with an online database of all EAJA awards accessible to the public. - name: Sourcebook Of US Executive Agencies description: >- Comprehensive reference resource documenting the structure, authority, and programs of all U.S. executive agencies, updated periodically to reflect organizational changes. - name: Administrative Law Research And Publications description: >- ACUS consultants and staff prepare research reports, model rules, and periodic summaries of administrative law reform bills on topics related to administrative procedure and government efficiency. - name: Open Government Data Initiative description: >- ACUS maintains open data resources and has designated a Chief Data Officer in compliance with the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018. - type: UseCases data: - name: Administrative Law Research description: >- Legal researchers, law schools, and practitioners can access ACUS recommendations, reports, and the adjudication database to study trends in federal administrative law and regulatory practice. - name: Regulatory Process Benchmarking description: >- Federal agencies can use ACUS recommendations and research to benchmark their regulatory and adjudicative procedures against best practices and ACUS-recommended reforms. - name: EAJA Litigation Cost Analysis description: >- Researchers and policymakers can use the EAJA database to analyze government litigation costs, identify agencies with high fee award rates, and evaluate the effectiveness of EAJA in providing access to justice. - name: Rulemaking Process Reform description: >- Congressional staff and agency officials can draw on ACUS reports and model rules for guidance on improving rulemaking procedures, notice-and-comment processes, and public participation. - name: Government Efficiency Analysis description: >- Public interest organizations and policy researchers can use ACUS data and publications to analyze opportunities for improving government administrative processes and reducing regulatory burdens. maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane X-twitter: apievangelist email: info@apievangelist.com