Federal Register Monitor — Rules & Comment Deadlines
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Federal Register Monitor — Rules & Comment Deadlines
Monitor the Federal Register — new rules, proposed rules, notices and comment deadlines. Agency watchlists, keyword monitors and Regulations.gov docket links. Official API, no key needed.
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Federal Register Monitor
Monitor the Federal Register — the daily journal of the US government — via the official federalregister.gov API. No key, no browser, pure official data.
New rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents publish every business day. This actor turns them into a structured feed — and, critically, tracks public comment deadlines so your team never misses its window to respond.
Modes
| Mode | What it returns |
|---|---|
feed | Newest documents — filterable by agency, doc type, date range, significance |
deadlines | Proposed rules whose comment window closes within N days (closingWithinDays) |
agency | Everything published by one agency (e.g. environmental-protection-agency) |
search | Keyword monitor across titles/abstracts (e.g. artificial intelligence, airworthiness) |
dockets | Documents linked to Regulations.gov comment dockets — with live comment counts |
Example inputs
Comment deadlines closing in the next 14 days:
Daily digest of new EPA actions (run on a schedule):
Everything mentioning a topic this month:
Full daily feed, only economically significant rules:
Why deadlines matter
When an agency publishes a proposed rule, it opens a public comment window (usually 30–90 days). Comments are the only formal channel to influence the final rule — and the deadline is hard. deadlines mode + daysUntilCommentClose gives compliance teams a watchlist they can act on.
Output fields
documentNumber, title, docType (Rule / Proposed Rule / Notice / Presidential Document), agencies, publicationDate, effectiveOn, commentsCloseOn, daysUntilCommentClose, significant (EO-12866 reviewed), abstract, docketIds, regulationsGovDocumentId + regulationsGovUrl + regulationsGovCommentsCount, cfrReferences, htmlUrl, pdfUrl.
Agency slug cheat sheet
| Slug | Agency |
|---|---|
environmental-protection-agency | EPA |
food-and-drug-administration | FDA |
federal-aviation-administration | FAA |
securities-and-exchange-commission | SEC |
federal-communications-commission | FCC |
centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services | CMS |
defense-department | DoD |
federal-reserve-system | Federal Reserve |
transportation-department | DOT |
energy-department | DOE |
The full list: federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies (each entry's slug field works directly).
Monitoring pattern
Schedule the actor daily (weekdays) with publishedAfter = yesterday, or run deadlines weekly for a rolling comment-window watch. Ideal for regulatory affairs, trade associations, law firms, GovCon teams, journalists.
Notes & limitations
- Data is the official Federal Register API — complete since 1994.
deadlinesscans recent proposed rules and filters client-side; very old rules with long windows are included when their close date is in range.- Some proposed rules have no comment deadline (e.g. corrections) — they're excluded from
deadlines. significantreflects the API's EO-12866 flag and is only populated on some documents.
Pricing
Pay-per-event: ~$1 per 1,000 documents returned. No per-run fee.
