U.S. Code Revision Codification

Somebody is doing something to drag the U.S. Code into the modern era and bring some degree of order to a bowl of spaghetti.

That somebody is:  The Office of Law Revision Counsel.  This link will describe the office and what they do.  One of they do is Codification Legislation.  Link to this and it will describe what it is all about.  Link to this .pdf and it will tell you how it and its objectives.

The codification project is required by this law:


1Under section 205(c)(1) of House Resolution No. 988, 93d Congress, as enacted into law by Public Law 93-554 (2 U.S.C. 285b(1)), the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the United States House of Representatives is required "[t]o prepare, and submit to the Committee on the Judiciary one title at a time, a complete compilation, restatement, and revision of the general and permanent laws of the United States which conforms to the understood policy, intent, and purpose of the Congress in the original enactments, with such amendments and corrections as will remove ambiguities, contradictions, and other imperfections both of substance and of form, separately stated, with a view to the enactment of each title as positive law." 

This link tells more about U.S. Code Codification:  The Term "Positive Law"

This U.S. Code Codification is a very small step.  It organizes the words of the USC in a better manner which is conducive to establishing the under laying  conceptual structure in a formal conceptual structural relationship.  


This small step moves the USC toward being more amenable to Concept Mining