Federal Register Rule & Notice Monitor

One event per new Federal Register document (rule, proposed rule, notice or presidential document), filtered by agency, document type, CFR title/part and keywords, with the comment deadline and docket attached. Built for regulatory-affairs teams, government-affairs staff and regulatory counsel who need structured records for their own trackers and pipelines, not another inbox alert.

Pricing: pay per event. document-matched: $0.01 per document returned. A run with no matches costs you nothing.

Input

{"agencies": ["food-and-drug-administration"], "document_types": ["RULE", "PRORULE"],
 "cfr_title": 21, "since_days": 7, "comment_open_only": true}

Agency slugs are the last part of the agency's page URL on federalregister.gov/agencies (for example environmental-protection-agency). Leave a filter empty to leave it out.

Run it on a schedule. With only_new on (the default), a document this same watch returned in an earlier run is skipped, so a daily run with a 7-day window never bills the same document twice. The Actor keeps that memory in a named key-value store (federal-register-monitor-state) in your own account.

Example output (one dataset item per document)

{
 "document_number": "2026-19350",
 "type": "Rule",
 "title": "Nonclinical Testing Terminology",
 "action": "Direct final rule.",
 "agencies": [
  "Health and Human Services Department",
  "Food and Drug Administration"
 ],
 "agency_slugs": [
  "health-and-human-services-department",
  "food-and-drug-administration"
 ],
 "publication_date": "2026-09-22",
 "effective_on": "2027-02-04",
 "comments_close_on": "2026-12-07",
 "docket_ids": [
  "Docket No. FDA-2026-N-5347"
 ],
 "regulation_id_numbers": [
  "0910-AJ27"
 ],
 "cfr_references": [
  "21 CFR 312",
  "21 CFR 314",
  "21 CFR 315",
  "21 CFR 361",
  "21 CFR 601"
 ],
 "citation": "91 FR 59988",
 "significant": null,
 "abstract": "The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, Agency, or we) is issuing a direct final rule that substitutes references to \"animal\" tests or studies with \"nonclinical\" tests or studies…",
 "html_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/22/2026-19350/nonclinical-testing-terminology",
 "pdf_url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-09-22/pdf/2026-19350.pdf",
 "regulations_gov_url": "http://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FDA-2026-N-5347-0002"
}

Output fields

One dataset item per result. Every field is always present, empty or null when the source has no value. The fields are defined in .actor/dataset_schema.json.

Field	Type	Description
document_number	string	Federal Register document number (e.g. 2026-19350)
type	string	Rule, Proposed Rule, Notice or Presidential Document
title	string	Document title (max 500 chars)
action	string	Action line (e.g. Final rule., Notice of availability.)
agencies	array of strings	Issuing agency names
agency_slugs	array of strings	Issuing agency slugs, usable in the agencies input
publication_date	string	Publication date, YYYY-MM-DD
effective_on	string	Effective date, YYYY-MM-DD
comments_close_on	string	Comment period close date, YYYY-MM-DD
docket_ids	array of strings	Agency docket IDs
regulation_id_numbers	array of strings	Regulation Identifier Numbers (RINs)
cfr_references	array of strings	CFR parts affected, e.g. 21 CFR 314
citation	string	Federal Register citation, e.g. 91 FR 59988
significant	boolean	Significant under EO 12866 (null when not stated)
abstract	string	Summary (max 1000 chars)
html_url	string	FederalRegister.gov page
pdf_url	string	Official PDF on govinfo.gov
regulations_gov_url	string	Regulations.gov comment page

Runs stop cleanly at your max-charge limit. Nothing is pushed past what you agreed to pay for, and documents that were cut off stay "new" for the next run.

Source: the FederalRegister.gov API v1 (public, no key). Federal Register content is a US government work in the public domain. FederalRegister.gov is not the official legal edition of the Federal Register. For legal research, verify against the official edition on govinfo.gov (pdf_url).