Federal Register Monitor: US Rules, Proposed Rules & Notices

Monitor the official US Federal Register: final rules, proposed rules open for comment, agency notices and presidential documents, with what compliance and policy teams need: comment deadlines, effective dates, dockets, CFR parts, regulations.gov comment links and the official PDF.

Search by keyword, agency, document type and date, or schedule it as a daily regulatory alert.

What can you do with it?

• ⚖️ Regulatory compliance: "every EPA proposed rule open for comment", "all FDA final rules this month".
• 🗣️ Public affairs & lobbying: catch proposed rules early and comment before the deadline.
• 🔔 Daily alerts: schedule with onlyNewSinceLastRun and receive only new documents on your topics (AI, PFAS, crypto, Medicare…).
• 📚 Research: full history since 1994, beyond the API's 10,000-document limit.

Why this Actor?

	This Actor	Typical Federal Register tools
More than 10,000 documents	✅ the period is split automatically (the API stops at 10,000)	❌ silently truncated
Several keywords in one run	✅ merged, no duplicates	❌
Open-for-comment and significant filters	✅	⚠️
Agencies by name	✅ "Environmental Protection Agency" works	⚠️ identifiers only
Compliance fields	✅ comment deadline, effective date, dockets, RINs, CFR parts, comment link, official PDF	⚠️
Daily monitoring	✅ only new documents, nothing charged when there is nothing new	❌

Input

Field	Description	Example
keywords	Words searched in the documents	["artificial intelligence"]
documentTypes	RULE, PRORULE, NOTICE, PRESDOCU	["PRORULE"]
agencies	Agency names or identifiers	["Environmental Protection Agency"]
openForComment	Comment period still open	true
significantOnly	Significant under EO 12866	false
withinDays / dateFrom / dateTo	Publication period (default 7 days)	30
onlyNewSinceLastRun	Monitoring mode	true
maxResults	Maximum documents (newest first)	500

Output

Real example (shortened):

{
    "documentNumber": "2026-20374",
    "title": "Section 3 Benchmarks for Creating Economic Opportunities for Low- and Very Low-Income Persons and Eligible Businesses",
    "type": "Rule",
    "action": "Notification of benchmark updates and request for comments.",
    "publicationDate": "2026-10-05",
    "agencies": ["Housing and Urban Development Department"],
    "commentsCloseOn": "2026-12-04",
    "effectiveOn": "2026-11-04",
    "docketIds": ["Docket No. FR-6622-N-01"],
    "cfrReferences": ["24 CFR 75"],
    "citation": "91 FR 63146",
    "commentUrl": "http://www.regulations.gov/commenton/HUD-2026-1651-0001",
    "pdfUrl": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-10-05/pdf/2026-20374.pdf"
}

Other fields: abstract, agencySlugs, dates (text), regulationIdNumbers, significant, topics, pageLength, htmlUrl, president, executiveOrderNumber, signingDate.

Notes

• FederalRegister.gov is not the official legal edition of the Federal Register: the official edition is the PDF on govinfo.gov, given in pdfUrl for every document.

Pricing

You only pay for the results returned. No subscription.

Results	Price
1 document	$0.003
100 documents	$0.30
1,000 documents	$3.00

A start fee of a fraction of a cent applies per run. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops exactly at your budget.

Use it in your tools

• No code: run it from the Apify Console, download the results as Excel, CSV or JSON, and schedule it (daily, weekly…).
• Integrations: send the results to Google Sheets, Slack, email, webhooks, Make, Zapier or n8n with Apify's integrations.
• API: start runs and read the results with the Apify API or the official Python and JavaScript clients.
• AI agents: assistants and agents that support MCP can call this Actor as a tool through Apify's MCP server (mcp.apify.com).

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Source

Federal Register (Office of the Federal Register, National Archives, and U.S. Government Publishing Office): U.S. Government public domain. This Actor is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Government.