US Federal Regulations Normalizer — regulations.gov Search & Enrichment

Search the US federal rulemaking database (regulations.gov) for proposed rules, final rules, notices and supporting materials, and get back clean, enriched, ready-to-use records — with agency names resolved to full names, documents grouped into dockets, and open comment periods flagged with days-to-deadline.

Built for compliance teams, law firms, government-affairs and lobbying professionals, and policy analysts who need to track US rulemaking without hand-cleaning messy government data.

What it does

• 🔍 Live keyword search across 700,000+ federal rulemaking documents
• 🏛️ Agency name resolution — EPA → Environmental Protection Agency, FDA → Food and Drug Administration (331 agencies mapped)
• 📁 Docket grouping — clusters related documents into dockets with per-docket document and open-comment counts
• ⏰ Comment-period analysis — flags which documents are open for public comment and how many days remain until the deadline
• 🧹 Title normalization — strips file-number prefixes (e.g. 117_, 139_UIC_) and HTML entities
• 📅 Date normalization — ISO YYYY-MM-DD dates across the board
• 🔗 Direct links to each document on regulations.gov

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
searchTerm	string	✅	Keyword/phrase to search (e.g. PFAS, climate disclosure, telehealth)
agencyId	string	—	Optional agency acronym filter (e.g. EPA, FDA, FAA, SEC)
documentType	select	—	Rule / Proposed Rule / Notice / Supporting & Related Material / Other
maxResults	integer	—	Max documents to return (1–250, default 50)
apiKey	string	—	Optional regulations.gov API key. Defaults to the free DEMO_KEY (~10 req/hr); register free at api.data.gov for 1,000 req/hr

Example input

{
  "searchTerm": "PFAS",
  "agencyId": "EPA",
  "documentType": "Proposed Rule",
  "maxResults": 25
}

Example output (dataset item)

{
  "documentId": "EPA-HQ-OPPT-2020-0549-0001",
  "docketId": "EPA-HQ-OPPT-2020-0549",
  "title": "Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances; Toxic Substances Control Act",
  "agencyId": "EPA",
  "agencyName": "Environmental Protection Agency",
  "documentType": "Proposed Rule",
  "documentTypeNormalized": "Proposed Rule",
  "postedDate": "2025-03-12",
  "commentEndDate": "2025-06-10",
  "commentStatus": "Open (45 days left)",
  "commentDaysRemaining": 45,
  "openForComment": true,
  "withinCommentPeriod": true,
  "withdrawn": false,
  "frDocNum": "2025-05123",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.regulations.gov/document/EPA-HQ-OPPT-2020-0549-0001"
}

Use cases

• Compliance monitoring — track proposed and final rules affecting your industry
• Public-comment tracking — find open comment periods before deadlines close
• Government affairs — build a pipeline of rulemaking activity by agency
• Competitive intelligence — watch regulatory pressure signals in a sector
• Legal research — locate Federal Register citations and supporting material

Data source

Data is fetched live from the regulations.gov API v4 (US Government, public domain). This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the US Government or regulations.gov.