Federal Register Notices Feed: New Rules, Proposed Rules, Notices & Grants

Track new Federal Register documents every day: final rules, proposed rules (NPRMs), agency notices and presidential documents (executive orders, proclamations, memoranda), straight from the official federalregister.gov API. Filter by agency, document type, keyword, significant (EO 12866) status or open comment period, and optionally add new grants.gov funding opportunities in the same clean schema. Schedule it in new since last run mode and each run delivers only documents you have not seen yet.

Who it's for

• Lobbyists and government-affairs teams: a daily list of new rules and NPRMs from the agencies you cover, with comment deadlines and docket IDs.
• Compliance and regulatory teams: catch final rules and their effective dates before they bite; route by agency or CFR part.
• Government contractors (govcon) and grant writers: agency notices, RFIs and new grants.gov opportunities with close dates and Assistance Listing (CFDA) numbers.
• Policy analysts, journalists and researchers: keyword-driven feeds ("artificial intelligence", PFAS, tariff, Medicare) into Sheets, Slack, a database or an LLM pipeline.

What you get

• All four Federal Register document types: Rule, Proposed Rule, Notice, Presidential Document.
• Filters: agencies (slug, full name or short name like EPA), types, full-text keyword, significant only, comment period still open.
• Normalized records: source, documentNumber, type, title, abstract, agencies, publicationDate, effectiveDate, commentsCloseOn, docketIds, htmlUrl, pdfUrl, plus action, RINs, CFR references, topics, citation and the regulations.gov comment link.
• Optional grants.gov source: newly posted and forecasted grant opportunities (no API key) with closeDate, agency code and Assistance Listing numbers, in the same schema (source: "grants.gov").
• New since last run: per State key history, so a daily schedule pays only for new documents.
• Fast and cheap: a default run takes a few seconds at 512 MB.

Quick start

1. Click Start with the default input. You get the 30 newest Federal Register documents from the last 3 days (3 days always spans a weekend).
2. Narrow it: e.g. {"agencies": ["EPA"], "types": ["PRORULE"], "commentsOpenOnly": true} for EPA proposed rules you can still comment on.
3. Keyword watch: {"keyword": "artificial intelligence", "lookbackDays": 30, "maxItems": 200}.
4. Add grants: {"includeGrants": true, "grantAgencyCodes": ["HHS-NIH11"], "keyword": "cancer"}.

Schedule tip (daily feed)

Create an Apify Schedule (for example weekdays at 8:00 am ET, after the Federal Register publishes around 6 am ET) with:

{ "mode": "sinceLastRun", "stateKey": "epa-daily", "agencies": ["environmental-protection-agency"], "maxItems": 500 }

Use one stateKey per schedule. Connect the run to Slack, email, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or a webhook via Apify integrations.

Input

Field	Meaning
mode	window (default, stateless) or sinceLastRun (set this for schedules)
lookbackDays	Calendar days back (US Eastern), default 3. In window mode an empty result is retried once with 10 days
agencies	Federal Register agency slugs, names or short names (EPA, coast-guard, food-and-drug-administration). Empty = all
types	RULE, PRORULE, NOTICE, PRESDOCU. Empty = all
keyword	Full-text search term (also applied to grants.gov)
significantOnly	Only EO 12866 significant documents
commentsOpenOnly	Only documents whose comment deadline is today or later
includeGrants, grantAgencyCodes	Add new grants.gov opportunities; optional exact agency codes like HHS-NIH11, DOT-FMCSA
maxItems	Cap per run (also caps your spend), default 30. With grants on, up to half goes to grants
stateKey	One key per saved search (sinceLastRun)

Output (example, from a real record)

{
  "source": "federalregister.gov",
  "documentNumber": "2026-22123",
  "type": "Proposed Rule",
  "subtype": null,
  "title": "Reducing Bureaucracy and Burden for Block Grants",
  "abstract": "ACF proposes to amend its block grant regulations to modernize requirements, reduce administrative burden on States and Tribal grantees, and improve the clarity and efficiency of program administration. The current regulations include outdated provisions and procedural requirements that no longer re...",
  "action": "Notice of proposed rulemaking.",
  "agencies": [
    {
      "name": "Health and Human Services Department",
      "slug": "health-and-human-services-department"
    },
    {
      "name": "Children and Families Administration",
      "slug": "children-and-families-administration"
    }
  ],
  "publicationDate": "2026-10-29",
  "effectiveDate": null,
  "commentsCloseOn": "2026-11-30",
  "closeDate": null,
  "docketIds": [],
  "regulationIdNumbers": [
    "0970-AD49"
  ],
  "cfrReferences": [
    "45 CFR 96"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Administrative practice and procedure",
    "Energy conservation",
    "Grant programs-health",
    "Grant programs-social programs",
    "Reporting and recordkeeping requirements"
  ],
  "significant": null,
  "citation": "91 FR 68097",
  "pageLength": 5,
  "htmlUrl": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/10/29/2026-22123/reducing-bureaucracy-and-burden-for-block-grants",
  "pdfUrl": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-10-29/pdf/2026-22123.pdf",
  "commentUrl": "http://www.regulations.gov/commenton/ACF_FRDOC_0001-0173",
  "assistanceListings": [],
  "firstSeenAt": "2026-10-30T11:00:35.174Z"
}

grants.gov records use the same fields with source: "grants.gov", type: "Grant Opportunity" or "Grant Forecast", closeDate and assistanceListings. See sample-output.json. Every run also writes a summary (window, filters, counts, why it stopped) to the OUTPUT record.

Pricing

Pay per event (Apify takes care of billing; you only pay for what is delivered):

Event	Price	Charged
apify-actor-start	$0.005	once per run
notice-record	$0.003	per Federal Register document (or grants.gov opportunity) delivered

A default test run (30 documents) costs about $0.095. A daily single-agency schedule (~5 new documents/day) costs about $0.02/day. maxItems and Apify's max cost per run cap your spend; the Actor stops delivering when your budget is reached, so you are never charged for more than you set. No separate platform-usage charges: compute is included in the event prices.

Data sources and notes

• Federal Register API v1 (Office of the Federal Register / GPO, no key). Federal Register content is a US government work. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Office of the Federal Register; the official legal text is the PDF on govinfo.gov.
• grants.gov Search2 API (no key). Always confirm eligibility and deadlines on grants.gov.
• Polite: at most about 3 requests per second per host, with retries and backoff.
• The significant flag is only populated by the Federal Register for some documents (often null); significantOnly uses the official filter.
• Public-documents only: no personal data is collected.

FAQ

Why are today's documents missing at 5 am? The Federal Register publishes each federal business day around 6 am ET (documents are on public inspection the day before). Can I get public-inspection (pre-publication) documents? Not yet; ask in Issues. Is it the same as a Federal Register RSS feed? It is more filterable, structured (JSON/CSV/Excel), deduplicated across runs and can mix in grants.gov.