Federal Rulemaking Dockets & Open Comment Periods

Federal proposed rules, rules and notices open for public comment, with deadlines, dockets and comment counts. US government public data. Unofficial.

Modes (endpoint)

• open-comment-periods: Open comment periods; pages automatically up to Max results
• documents: Documents; pages automatically up to Max results
• document-detail: Document detail (ids: document IDs)
• dockets: Dockets; pages automatically up to Max results
• docket-detail: Docket detail (ids: docket IDs)

Filters are passed as JSON in filters, using the same names as the output's query object (e.g. {"agency":"EPA"}).

Output. One row per record (type: "record"), plus source_notice and removal on every row. Free status rows (never charged): invalid-input, not-found, no-results, api-error, service-busy, run-limit-reached, free-plan-limit, charge-limit-reached.

Example row:

{
 "document_id": "EPA-HQ-OAR-2026-4358-0007",
 "docket_id": "EPA-HQ-OAR-2026-4358",
 "agency": "EPA",
 "document_type": "Notice",
 "subtype": "Information Collection Request (ICR)",
 "title": "Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Standards for 2023-2025 and Other Changes",
 "posted_date": "2026-09-30",
 "comment_start_date": "2026-09-30",
 "comment_end_date": "2026-10-31",
 "comment_end_datetime": "2026-10-31T03:59:59Z",
 "open_for_comment": true,
 "within_comment_period": true,
 "allow_late_comments": false,
 "withdrawn": false,
 "fr_doc_num": "2026-20053",
 "federal_register_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2026-20053",
 "regulations_gov_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/document/EPA-HQ-OAR-2026-4358-0007",
 "last_modified": "2026-09-30T19:40:12Z"
}

Data source, notices and limits

• US government public data: federal rulemaking dockets and documents from the Regulations.gov API.
• Unofficial. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by GSA, Regulations.gov or any federal agency.
• Comment periods as published; confirm deadlines in the Federal Register document before relying on them. Not legal advice.
• Uncached lookups are paced to the source's limits and may return busy with a retry time.
• Proposed rules, rules and notices (dockets endpoint: rulemaking dockets only). No public comments, commenter details or attachment text; comment counts only.
• Lists cached up to 1 hour, dockets, documents and comment counts up to 24 hours; retrieved_at shows when.
• Removal requests: support@lepidata.com (handled within 30 days).
• Unofficial data provided as is. Not legal advice.
• Records listed for removal on request are filtered out of every run.
• Source capacity is shared by all users of this tool. When it runs low or the source rate limits, runs stop cleanly with a free service-busy row. Hard cap: 200 source calls per run, paced (about one call every 4 s).
• Free-plan accounts get up to 100 results per run.

Pricing. Pay per result row, flat on every plan, no start fee. Status rows are free.

Contact: support@lepidata.com