Notice & Comment

Author: Andrew Leahey

Notice & Comment

Recent Rulemakings Reviewed: May 2026

Recent Rulemakings Reviewed is a monthly quantitative snapshot of federal regulatory activity, drawn from FRTracker—a platform that ingests Federal Register documents and decomposes binding rules into structured “obligations.” An “obligation” in this dataset is a single regulated duty extracted from a rule’s text, comprised of: an actor (e.g., operator, employer, importer), a deontic modal (must, shall, may not), and an action. Each issue of […]

Notice & Comment

Recent Rulemakings Reviewed: April 2026

Recent Rulemakings Reviewed is a new monthly quantitative snapshot of federal regulatory activity, drawn from FRTracker—a platform that ingests Federal Register documents and decomposes binding rules into structured “obligations.” The purpose of the FRTracker project is to make federal regulatory activity quantitatively trackable—rather than counting documents, FRTracker counts and analyzes the regulated duties inside them. An “obligation” in this […]