Internal Revenue Service (Official IRS Web site) - http://www.irs.gov; Construction Industry page is http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/industries/content/0,,id=99329,00.html
The White House (Official White House Web site) - http://www.whitehouse.gov
Official US Executive Branch Web Site - http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/executive/fed.html
United States Senate - http://www.senate.gov
United States House of Representatives (House Web server) - http://www.house.gov
Status of Legislation (Library of Congress) - http://thomas.loc.gov
Who Is My Representative? - http://www.vote-smart.org
Email Your Member of Congress Today! - http://www.MrSmith.com
Texas Board of Professional Land Surveying (Web site for TBPLS) - http://www.txls.state.tx.us
Texas General Land Office (Web site for the state's oldest agency, which features archives and records, energy resources, events and programs, maps, research and data, and news and information) - http://www.glo.state.tx.us
Texas Veterans Land Board - http://www.glo.state.tx.us/vlb
(Surveyors can find the Survey Requirements for Texas Veterans Land Board Tracts on pages 24-26 of the following website - http://www.glo.state.tx.us/vlb/forms/land/origination/land_app_pack.pdf)
National Geodetic Survey (Official Web site of NGS) - http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/
United States Geological Survey (Official Web site for USGS) - http://www.usgs.gov/
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA site with new page that collects all of the mapping resources of the agency in one place - flood maps, hazard maps, disaster maps and FEMA Map Service Center products) - http://www.fema.gov/mapsBureau of Land Management (Official Web site for Bureau of Land Management) - http://www.blm.gov/
Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA is a conservation and reclamation district which supplies electricity to more than a million Texans through 43 wholesale customers, including nine electric cooperatives and 33 cities.) - http://www.lcra.org
Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT Web site includes information about contracting with TxDOT, consumer protection, the "Don't Mess With Texas" program, a Kid's Page, local transportation issues, statewide news, recycling information, road conditions, and more.) - http://www.dot.state.tx.us
Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS - division of Texas Water Development Board. Natural resources data, distribution center for U.S. Geological Survey maps) - http://www.tnris.state.tx.us
Texas General Land Office/Adopt-A-Map (Information on Adopt-A-Map and Adopt-A-Document) - http://www.glo.state.tx.us/archives/adopt.html
Texas Judiciary (Web site of the Texas State Law Library) - http://www.sll.courts.state.tx.us/
Texas County Data (Contains tax rolls for 46 counties - and it's free. Submitted by Franklin Schodek) - http://www.txcountydata.com
Municipal Code Corp. (Ordinances resource Web site) - http://www.municode.com/
National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (Provides list of state licensure boards, contacts, phone numbers, addresses. Also includes info for engineering/surveying students and interns about licensure exams) - http://www.ncees.org
Texas Legislature (Online information about Texas Legislature, including bill information, legislative reports and a bill search feature) - http://www.capitol.state.tx.us
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA official Web site) - http://www.noaa.gov/
National Weather Service - http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
U.S. Gov't Printing Office (Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register) - http://www.access.gpo.gov/
Land Surveying and Geomatics (On-line resources for surveying/geomatics professions) - http://www.surveying.mentabolism.org
US Coast Guard Navigation Center (NAVCEN - Includes GPS status information, notices of coming GPS interruptions) - http://www.navcen.uscg.mil/
International GPS Service (IGS - Provides GPS orbits, tracking data and other high quality GPS data and data products) - http://www.igscb.jpl.nasa.gov/
Occupational Outlook Handbook (U.S. Dept. of Labor - Page features the Bureau of Labor Statistics' employment projections for surveyors through the year 2005) - http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos040.htm
FEMA Fill Bulletin (Bulletin addressing flood issues for structures built on fill or near special flood hazard area - pdf file) - http://www.fema.gov/mit/tb1001.pdf
Associations
ACSM (American Congress on Surveying and Mapping) - http://www.acsm.net
NSPS (National Society of Professional Surveyors) - http://www.nspsmo.org/
OSLS (Oklahoma Society of Land Surveyors) - http://www.osls.org
ASPS (Arkansas Society of Professional Surveyors) - http://www.asps.ar-business.com
LSPS (Louisiana Society of Professional Surveyors) - http://www.lsps.net
NMPS (New Mexico Professional Surveyors) - http://www.nmps.org
TSPS Chapter Sites (This link takes you to our Chapters section, with links to TSPS chapter Web pages, chapter member lists and more) - http://www.tsps.org/chapter/chapterinfo.htm