Inspection is hard to get.
Mendelson 15 – Joseph L. Sax Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, J.D. from Yale University.
Nina Mendelson, “Public Access to the Law Must Be Taken More Seriously,” The Regulatory Review, 01-28-2015, https://www.theregreview.org/2015/01/28/mendelson-public-access/
Agencies have incorporated – but only by reference – over 9,000 privately drafted standards into binding law. These “incorporated by reference” (IIBR) standards, unlike the text of all other statutes and regulations, are not readily available either online or in libraries, but instead are strewn across numerous private websites, with prices for access ranging into the hundreds or even thousands of dollars per standard.
Physical inspection of a standard in a Washington, D.C., agency office is typically the only alternative. In a positive development, some private standards development organizations (SDOs) have begun to create online reading rooms in which some IBR rules can be freely viewed. But readers must waive rights or even agree to indemnification and forum selection clauses. Meanwhile, SDOs uniformly reserve the right to revoke access at will. This is not meaningful public access.