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Federal Rulemaking: Information on Selected Agencies' Management of Public Comments

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date April 16, 2020
Release Date May 18, 2020
Report No. GAO-20-383R
Summary:

Federal agencies publish thousands of rules every year. To ensure the public has an opportunity to participate in the rulemaking process, agencies solicit comments on proposed regulations.

We surveyed 52 program offices at 10 agencies about the comment process. Almost all of them indicated that the process led to at least some substantive changes to their final rules.

Eight of the ten selected agencies use Regulations.gov as their electronic comment platform, which experts and users have criticized over its search function’s capabilities and more. Officials told us this website is being modernized.

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