Digital Government

Government to Business

Electronic Filing System
Patent and Trademark Office
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www.uspto.gov/ebc/index.html
This Web site enables inventors to submit patent applications online. Also included in PTO’s Electronic Business Center is the Patent Application Information Retrieval system, which tracks the status of inventors’ applications.

Docket Management System Transportation
Transportation
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http://dms.dot.gov
Transportation has put regulation dockets online and has started to accept comments via e-mail, bringing the regulatory process into the 21st century.

Enviromapper
Environmental Protection Agency
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www.epa.gov/enviro/html/em/index.html
Enviromapper users can create maps of geographic areas overlaid with environmental data such as Superfund sites, hazardous waste and toxic releases.

Dockets Management
Food and Drug Administration
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www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/default.htm
Like Transportation, the FDA has put its dockets online, enabling businesses and citizens to view them from anywhere across the United States.

Ozone Mapping Project
Environmental Protection Agency
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www.epa.gov/airnow/ozone.html
The project’s Web site displays on animated maps ozone data collected by state and local governments.

Do-It-Yourself (DIY)
Transportation
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http://diy.dot.gov
Truckers and trucking companies can obtain licenses from and pay fines to multiple Transportation agencies via the Web.

FastLane on the Web
National Science Foundation
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www.fastlane.nsf.gov/fastlane.htm
FastLane can take a grant proposal from submission to review and finally to payment using electronic funds transfer.

G-Bay
FinanceNet
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www.financenet.gov
Still in the planning stages, this site will be the federal government’s own E-Bay. G-Bay, as it is now known, will be used to auction off all surplus government equipment.

Access America for Exporters
Small Business Administration
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www.tradenet.gov
TradeNet centralizes all the government information an exporter might need to conduct business overseas.

U.S. Business Advisor
Small Business Administration
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www.business.gov
This Web site seeks to help businesses with everything from development and financing to legal and workplace issues.