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First Pass	#	Dept.	Agency, Office, or Program	Subject matter	Topic	Brief Description	Most Significant Change	Scope of Change	Main Affected URL or Subdomain	Redirect to URL or Subdomain	Full Description	Change date	Latest Date of Change	Confirmed by	Report Number	Source	Coverage	Coverage #2	Federal Web archive avail.?	Communication Coding	Agency Notice	Agency acknowledgment of change	Link to agency communication about change	Has the material been returned	Text & non-text content	Links	Redirects	Page section	Entire page	Entire site	Search	Data
Toly	1	State	Office of Global Change	Climate, Environment	Climate Change	Climate Action Reports removed from State.gov	[5] Removing an entire webpage or document	Collection of webpages and documents	https://www.state.gov/e/oes/climate/		The Department of State removed "Climate Action Report" pages and PDFs from its website. The conditions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) commit the US to publishing a report every four years, projecting greenhouse gas emissions based on current policies.	1/20/17	1/26/17	EDGI	CCR-1	EDGI	Business Insider	The Intercept	https://2009-2017.state.gov/	N/A	No		N/A	No	A				A				focusing only on removals of page/pdf
Toly	2	EPA	-	Climate, Environment	Climate Change	Removal of EPA's climate change website	[6] Overhauling or removing an entire website	Entire website	https://www.epa.gov/climatechange	https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/signpost/cc.html	The EPA removed multiple climate change subdomains, including "/climatechange," "/climate-impacts," and "/cleanpowerplan," from its website. The removed page URLs began redirecting to a notice stating: "We are currently updating our website to reflect EPA's priorities under the leadership of President Trump and Administrator Pruitt."	4/28/17	4/28/17	EDGI		Washington Post	Washington Post		https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/	1, 4b, 5	Yes	Corroborated	https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-kicks-website-updates	Partially	A	A, B, C			B	B
Toly	3	EPA	-	Climate, Environment	Climate Change	Student's climate change website omitted from EPA Web archive	[6] Overhauling or removing an entire website	Entire website	https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/	https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/signpost/cc.html	As a result of the EPA’s climate change website overhaul, the "Student’s Guide to Global Climate Change” website was removed from the main EPA website and was not captured in the EPA’s January 19 snapshot, likely due to archiving errors.	4/28/17	4/28/17	EDGI	AAR-1	EDGI	Washington Post	Climate Central	https://archive.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html	N/A	No	Did not respond to inquiry	N/A	No		A			B	B
Toly	4	EPA	-	Climate, Environment	Water Policy and Information	Overhaul of the EPA's Clean Water Rule website	[6] Overhauling or removing an entire website	Entire website	https://www.epa.gov/cleanwaterrule	https://www.epa.gov/wotus-rule	The EPA overhauled its Clean Water Rule website, which previously provided information about the benefits of clean water and details about the Clean Water Rule itself. The new website focuses on regulatory process and the EPA’s review of the Rule.	5/15/17	5/16/17	EDGI	AAR-2	EDGI	E&E News		https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/cleanwaterrule	1, 4b, 5	Yes	No known inquiry	https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-launches-new-waters-us-website	No	A, C	A			C.i	D.ii			x
Toly	5	EPA	-	Climate, Environment	Climate Change	Replacement of the removed climate and energy website with a new one that omits climate change information	[6] Overhauling or removing an entire website	Entire website	https://www.epa.gov/statelocalclimate	https://www.epa.gov/statelocalenergy	Three months after the start of the overhaul of the EPA's climate change website, which removed a website titled “Climate and Energy Resources for State, Local, and Tribal Governments,” a new replacement website was launched. The new website, titled “Energy Resources for State, Local, and Tribal Governments,” is approximately 200 pages smaller than the previous one and omits climate change mentions and information.	7/24/17	7/27/17	EDGI	AAR-5	EDGI	NY Times	E&E News	https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/	N/A	No	Corroborated	N/A	Partially	A		C.ii	A	C.i	D.ii			x
Toly	6	DOI	National Park Service (NPS)	Climate, Environment		92 Climate Action Plan PDFs removed from the "Climate Friendly Parks Program" website			https://www.nps.gov/subjects/climatechange/cfpprogram.htm		NPS removed 92 PDFs and corresponding links from its “Climate Friendly Parks Program” website.	6/17/17	12/20/17	EDGI	AAR-6	EDGI	Motherboard	Mashable	N/A	N/A	No	Corroborated	N/A			C		A	A				x
Toly	7	EPA	Office of International and Tribal Affairs (OITA)	Climate, Environment		Removal of EPA’s “International Priorities” and grants pages			https://www.epa.gov/international-cooperation		The EPA removed its “International Priorities” page, which previously listed several priority areas such as strong environmental institutions, climate change, air quality, toxics, and others. The "International Grants and Cooperative Agreements” page was also removed from EPA’s "International Cooperation" website.	10/25/17	12/14/17	EDGI	AAR-7	EDGI	ThinkProgress	Politico	N/A	N/A	No	Did not acknowledge finding	N/A		A				A
Toly	8	DOI	Bureau of Land Management (BLM)	Climate, Environment		Removal of BLM's climate change page			https://www.blm.gov/about/how-we-manage/climate-change		DOI’s Bureau of Land Management removed its climate change webpage, which included information about climate change issues specific to BLM's operations and links to other government climate change websites. Language about BLM's priorities was also altered and links to informational pages were removed and altered.	1/22/17	11/28/17	EDGI	CCR-21	EDGI	New York Times		N/A	N/A	No	No known inquiry	N/A		A	C		A	A

Toly	9	Multiple Departments	Office of Management and Budget (OMB)	Research, Statistics methodology		Removal of the FedStats website and reduction in access to statistical methods reports on the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology website	[3] Moving an entire webpage or collection of webpages or establishing redirects		https://fedstats.sites.usa.gov/	https://nces.ed.gov/FCSM/index.asp	Statistical resources that were previously accessible from the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology's (FCSM) website and the removed FedStats websites were made inaccessible from the relaunched FCSM website. Among the inaccessible resources were reports about sexual orientation and gender identity data collection methods.	2/1/17	2/28/18	WIP	1	WIP	Politico Pulse		No	2	No	Corroborated	http://web.archive.org/web/20180831220741/https://nces.ed.gov/FCSM/index.asp \|\| Notice on website			C	C.ii		C.i-ii	D.ii
Toly	10	HHS	Office on Women's Health (OWH)	Health, LGBTQ		Overhaul of HHS’s Office on Women’s Health website	[6] Overhauling or removing an entire website		https://www.womenshealth.gov/a-z-topics		The Office on Women’s Health (OWH) removed portions of its website, including text, links, and entire pages and documents. Pages and links to pages related to lesbian and bisexual health, breast cancer, men’s health, interpersonal and domestic violence, and health topics relevant to the elderly have been removed.	4/26/17	1/12/18	WIP	2	WIP	NBC News	The Hill	https://wayback.archive-it.org/4438/*/https://www.womenshealth.gov/	No	No	Refuted at least in part	N/A		A	A, C	A.i, C.i-ii	A	C.i-ii	C.ii
Toly	11	HHS	Office on Women's Health (OWH)	Health, LGBTQ		Removal of a lesbian and bisexual health factsheet from the Office on Women’s Health website	[5] Removing an entire webpage or document		https://www.womenshealth.gov/a-z-topics/lesbian-and-bisexual-health		The Office on Women’s Health (OWH) removed a webpage with extensive information about lesbian and bisexual health, and links that correspond to that webpage, from its website. A PDF containing very similar content to the removed page is live but is not linked from elsewhere in the OWH website, rendering it inaccessible by navigating through the website.	4/26/17	1/12/18	WIP	3	WIP	Politico	Vice News	https://wayback.archive-it.org/4438/*/https://www.womenshealth.gov/	No	No	Refuted at least in part	N/A		A	A, C	A.i		A
Toly	12	HHS	Office on Women's Health (OWH)	Health		Removal of a Breast Cancer website from within the Office on Women's Health website	[6] Overhauling or removing an entire website		https://www.womenshealth.gov/breast-cancer/		The “Breast Cancer” website and related pages were removed from within the HHS's Office on Women’s Health (OWH) website. While content about mammogram breast cancer screening remains, informational pages and factsheets about the disease, including symptoms, treatment, risk factors, and public no- or low-cost cancer screening programs, have been entirely removed and are no longer found elsewhere on the OWH site.	4/26/17	3/26/18	WIP	4	WIP	ThinkProgress	Medpage Today	https://wayback.archive-it.org/4438/*/https://www.womenshealth.gov/	No	No	Corroborated	N/A		A	C	C.i-ii	A	A, C.ii	C.ii
	13	HHS	Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)	Healthcare		Removal of the “Affordable Care Act & Medicare” Webpage and Corresponding Links from the Medicare Website	[5] Removing an entire webpage or document		https://www.medicare.gov/about-us/affordable-care-act/affordable-care-act.html		In December 2017, a page titled “The Affordable Care Act & Medicare” was removed from the Medicare website. The page previously linked to healthcare.gov, which is the federal health insurance marketplace, and to another webpage on the Medicare domain called “Medicare & the Marketplace,” which is no longer linked from the “About Us” portion of the Medicare website	12/11/17	4/16/18	WIP	5	WIP	Pacific Standard	Government Executive	https://wayback.archive-it.org/2650/*/https://www.medicare.gov	No	No	Corroborated	N/A		A	C	A.i	B	A
	14	DHS	U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)	Immigration, Asylum		Removal of 26 Documents for Asylum Officer Training from the USCIS Website	[5] Removing an entire webpage or document		https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum/asylum/asylum-division-training-programs		Between March and April 2017, a series of 26 documents pertaining to training asylum officers were removed from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website. The materials were prepared for personnel charged with reviewing and vetting asylum claims under certain international agreements and provisions of U.S. law.	3/2/17	4/27/18	WIP	6	WIP	La Opinión	Newsweek	Partial		No	Refuted at least in part	N/A		A	C		B	A
	15	HHS	Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)	Healthcare		Removal of the Affordable Care Act Website from within Medicaid.gov			www.medicaid.gov/affordable-care-act/index.html		In June 2018, the “Affordable Care Act” website, which contained fourteen webpages, was removed from within Medicaid.gov. The main page of the website, which was itself titled “Affordable Care Act,” had links to thirteen pages with topics related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that have also been removed. Medicaid.gov’s top menu previously listed a prominent link with the text “Affordable Care Act,” which served as a dropdown menu with links to the removed pages.	5/28/18	7/13/18	WIP	7	WIP	CNN	Washington Post	https://wayback.archive-it.org/2651/*/https://www.medicaid.gov/		No	Corroborated	N/A		A	C	A.iii		C	C.ii
	16	HHS	Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)	Health		Notice of Removal on HHS’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Clearinghouse Websites			https://www.guidelines.gov/		Between April and May 2018, HHS’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) added a notice of removal on its National Guideline Clearinghouse and National Quality Measures Clearinghouse websites, stating that the websites “will not be available after July 16, 2018.”	4/13/18	5/18/18	WIP	8	WIP	Daily Beast	Vox	http://wayback.archive-it.org/5265/20180413165905/https://www.guideline.gov/		Yes	Corroborated	Notice appeared on website							B, D.ii	D	A
	17	HHS	Office for Civil Rights (OCR)	Healthcare		Language Removals Pertaining to Sex Discrimination from HHS’s Office for Civil Rights Webpages about Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act	Language Removals Pertaining to Sex Discrimination from HHS’s Office for Civil Rights Webpages about Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act		https://www.hhs.gov/civil-rights/for-individuals/section-1557/1557faqs/index.html		Between March and August 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) removed language relating to sex discrimination and prohibitions on sex discrimination on several webpages about Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Mentions of “sex stereotyping” and information about sex discrimination on the basis of gender identity and termination of pregnancy were removed.	3/15/17	7/7/18	WIP	9	WIP	Washington Post	Politico	N/A		No	Did not respond to inquiry	N/A		A	C		B	A
	18	HHS	Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)	Healthcare		Changes in Language and Removals of Descriptive Text on ASPE’s Website, Reducing Emphasis on the Affordable Care Act			https://aspe.hhs.gov/affordable-care-act-research	https://aspe.hhs.gov/historical-research	In 2017, the office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) altered and added webpages on its website about research related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), demonstrating a shift in language, which deemphasized the stated positive impacts of the health care law. The title of its “Affordable Care Act Research” webpage was changed to “Historical Research.”	5/26/17	12/7/17	WIP	10	WIP	Sunlight Foundation	Politico	N/A		No	Did not acknowledge finding	N/A		A	A	C.i
	19	HHS	Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)	Contact information		Removal of HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement Staff Directory Webpage			https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/resource/staff-directory		In late 2017, HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement removed its staff directory webpage, which listed contact information for 22 staff across internal divisions of ORR. The contact information is no longer available anywhere on the ORR website, and only a centralized email and phone number for media inquiries remain, with no name for an individual staff contact attached to them.	10/11/17	6/26/18	WIP	11	WIP	Newsweek	La Opinión	https://archive-it.org/collections/8654		No	Corroborated	N/A					A	A
	20	White House	-	Communication, newsletter		Removal of WhiteHouse.gov’s “1600 Daily” Archive			https://www.whitehouse.gov/previously-on-1600daily		The White House removed the “1600 Daily” newsletter archive from its website and is no longer storing past posts on WhiteHouse.gov. The removal coincided with an overhaul of the style and organization of the White House’s website, which occurred in mid-December 2017. Previous “1600 Daily” post URLs from before the overhaul lead to a notice stating “That page cannot be found.”	10/20/17	6/3/18	https://sunlightfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AAR-12-White-House-1600-Daily-Archive-Removal-180911.pdf	12	WIP	Quartz		N/A		No	Did not refute	N/A					X	X
	21	DOJ	Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention (OJJDP)	Criminal justice		Reduction in Access to Pages about Programs and Policy Guidance on the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Website			https://www.ojjdp.gov		The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has reduced access to webpages about programs and policy guidance. Several links corresponding to webpages about OJJDP programs and policy guidance have been removed from or added to the “OJJDP In Focus” and “Programs and Initiatives” pages. Many of the pages that correspond to removed links have been completely removed, including a page with a policy guidance titled “Girls and the Juvenile Justice System.”	12/23/16	7/20/18	https://sunlightfoundation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/AAR-13-OJJDP-Programs-Policy-Guidances-181002.pdf	13	WIP	The Guardian	NBC News	N/A	N/A	No	Did not acknowledge finding	N/A		X	X		X	X

	22	USDA	Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service	Agriculture	Animal Welfare	Removed set of various reports and archive of annual reports.	[8] Altering, removing, or deleting datasets	Dataset	https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/home/		APHIS removed a set of reports concerning animal welfare at circuses, aquariums, zoos, etc. It also removed an archive of annual reports filed by facilities that experiment on animals.	2/3/17	TBD	Sunlight	stub	Washington Post	Memory Hole	Washington Post	N/A	N/A	No		N/A	Partially					X			X
	23	Treasury	Office of Tax Analysis (OTA)	Economy	Taxes	Report on corporate taxes removed	[5] Removing an entire webpage or document	Collection of webpages and documents	https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/tax-policy/tax-analysis/Documents/TP-5.pdf		A 2012 paper on corporate taxes, “Distributing the Corporate Income Tax: Revised U.S. Treasury Methodology,” was removed from the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Analysis website. A link and reference to the report was removed from the OTA Technical Papers page.	7/6/17	9/29/17	Sunlight	stub	Wall Street Journal	WSJ		N/A	N/A	No		N/A	No	X	X			X
	24	DHS	Office of Inspector General (OIG)	Governance and Oversight	FOIA	FOIA records removed from Office of Inspector General webpage	[5] Removing an entire webpage or document	Collection of webpages and documents	https://www.oig.dhs.gov/foia/reading-room		Two documents were removed from a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General webpage, which lists frequently requested Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) records. The removed records detailed hundreds of misconduct allegations involving DHS employees.	7/13/17	10/10/17	Sunlight	stub	POGO	POGO		N/A	N/A	No		N/A		X	X			X
	25	DOE	-	Contact information	Contact information	DOE department-wide phonebook removed	[7] Altering or removing search engines and open data platforms	Search engine or open data platform	https://www.energy.gov/doe-phonebook		A Web portal providing access to the DOE’s phonebook, which contained contact information for agency employees, was removed from the DOE’s website.	2/14/17	2/24/17	Sunlight	stub	E&E News	E&E News		N/A	N/A	No		N/A	No							X

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