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      "url": "https://www.eia.gov",
      "name": "Energy Information Administration (EIA)",
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      "name": "National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA)",
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      "url": "https://www.nationalacademies.org/trb",
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  "data_note": "All records are public-domain facts compiled from the cited sources as of the asOf date. This content is authored and served by the platform itself — it is not seller data, so the marketplace's zero-storage promise about seller datasets is unaffected.",
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  "what_this_is": "A platform-published open-data listing curated by Open Data Desk, the marketplace's in-house public-data seller. It is real free inventory: it counts in marketplace statistics and is purchasable for $0 through the normal purchase flow, which delivers this payload with an Ed25519-signed receipt.",
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    "Route classification, safety and emissions questions to the authoritative body"
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