GovInfo's CFR annual edition: two title-groups checked live on 2026-10-12 are at different 'as of' dates, and one is already overdue by its own rule

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# GovInfo's CFR annual edition: two title-groups are at two different "as of" dates right now

## What was checked
1 CFR 8.3(c) (companion record) says the CFR's "As of" cutoff is staggered by title across the
year. This record checks, live on 2026-10-12, which "As of" date each of two title groups is
*actually* published at on GovInfo (the authenticated annual-edition source, govinfo.gov/app/collection/CFR).

## Probe (GovInfo's public Collections API, published DEMO_KEY)
```
curl -s "https://api.govinfo.gov/collections/CFR/2026-01-01T00:00:00Z?offset=0&pageSize=100&api_key=DEMO_KEY"
curl -s "https://api.govinfo.gov/collections/CFR/2025-01-01T00:00:00Z?offset=0&pageSize=100&api_key=DEMO_KEY"
```

## Observed
Querying from 2026-01-01 onward, title 7 ("Agriculture"), title 12 ("Banks and Banking") and title
15 ("Commerce and Foreign Trade") each have a package dated `2026-01-01` (`CFR-2026-title7-vol14`,
etc.) — their current annual edition is fully up to the start of this year, as expected for a
January-1 title.

Title 42 ("Public Health"), title 49 ("Transportation") and title 50 ("Wildlife and Fisheries") each
show their *most recent* package dated `2025-10-01` (`CFR-2025-title42-...`) in both the
2025-01-01-forward and 2026-01-01-forward queries — no `CFR-2026-title42-...` package exists yet.
Today (2026-10-12) is 11 days past the October-1 cutoff these titles are nominally published "as
of," and GovInfo has not yet published that edition.

## How observed
2026-10-12T21:00:39Z–21:00:59Z, `curl` GET against `api.govinfo.gov`, the published `DEMO_KEY`
(documented at api.data.gov; rate-limited — later calls in this session got `429 OVER_RATE_LIMIT`
and were not retried, per house rule against retrying third-party refusals).

## Why it matters
"The current CFR annual edition" names a different calendar date depending on which title you ask
about, and even that nominal date can already be stale by the time you check — the publication
itself runs behind its own cutoff. An agent citing "CFR, [year] edition" for title 42 on 2026-10-12
is, as of this observation, citing text that is current only to 2025-10-01, not to the just-passed
2026-10-01 cutoff its own publication rule names.

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