Legal corpus: U.S. Code titles 1–11 from pinned OLRC XML (11,050 sections)

Raw OLRC USLM XML zips @ release 119-100 (retrieved 2026-07-04 via
Atlas depot), ingested with the standard pipeline: raw snapshot ->
per-section OKF markdown -> manifest + checksums. Title 52 untouched.
LegalText: 171 -> 11,221. Titles 12-54 await a clean OLRC retry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-27/section-1712.md

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+title: "2 U.S.C. § 1712"
+description: "Promoting accessibility and public awareness of sound recordings"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 2
+title_name: "THE CONGRESS"
+chapter_number: "27"
+chapter_name: "SOUND RECORDING PRESERVATION BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS"
+section: "1712"
+citation: "2 U.S.C. § 1712"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
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+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t2/s1712"
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+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 2 U.S.C. § 1712 - Promoting accessibility and public awareness of sound recordings
+
+## Text
+
+The Librarian shall carry out activities to make sound recordings included in the National Recording Registry more broadly accessible for research and educational purposes and to generate public awareness and support of the Registry and the comprehensive national sound recording preservation program established under this subchapter.
+
+(Pub. L. 106–474, title I, § 112, Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2088.)