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968 went quiet.
Proposed federal rules whose comment period closed and produced nothing — and 411 dated commitments still ahead. This page holds both ends.
411 still ahead4,943 proposals joinedTomorrow's Federal Register
A proposed rule names the day its comment period closes; then a final rule follows or nothing does, and nothing does is invisible — no page anywhere says a rulemaking went quiet. This one counts both ends.
Still open 11
Comment periods still running on rules the Federal Register itself marked significant, read on 2026-10-11. Significance is the government’s own flag, not this desk’s judgement: the other 175 open periods are mostly state implementation plans and routine approvals, and all of them are still in the artifact. Each row below carries the agency’s own submission link, so the countdown ends somewhere a reader can actually write.
A count here is the number of comments regulations.gov held against that Federal Register document when the Register last asked — not a live figure, and not the whole docket. A notice that only extends or reopens the comment period on an earlier proposal gets its own document, so on its own it carries only what was filed through it; this board counts it with the proposal it moves, and the row says so. Where that proposal cannot be found, the row says the count is the notice’s alone and it is left out of any comparison. The readings are not all from the same day, so each row prints how old its count is.
- 9 days leftComments openRegulation Crypto Assets
Securities and Exchange Commission
comment count not readThe Register publishes no submission link for this one - 16 days leftComments openPassports: Expanding Online Passport Renewal Overseas
State Department
7 comments on this document · counted 2 days agoFile a comment - 23 days leftComments openTransfer Agent Rules
Securities and Exchange Commission
comment count not readThe Register publishes no submission link for this one - 37 days leftComments openEmployment in the Excepted Service
Personnel Management Office
7 comments on this document · counted 18 days agoFile a comment - 40 days leftComments openRescission of Rule 14a-8's Federal Regulation of Shareholder Proposals and Amendments to Rule 14a-4
Securities and Exchange Commission
comment count not readThe Register publishes no submission link for this one - 43 days leftComments openAmendments To Import Requirements for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
Agriculture Department · Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
6 comments on this document · counted 6 days agoFile a comment - 50 days leftComments openInternational Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR): Review of the U.S. Munitions List and Related Definitions and License Exemptions
State Department
4 comments on this document · counted 2 days agoFile a comment - 57 days leftComments openAdviser and Regulated Fund Custody Rules; Crypto Custody Rules
Securities and Exchange Commission
comment count not readThe Register publishes no submission link for this one - 59 days leftComments openSubstances Generally Recognized as Safe
Health and Human Services Department · Food and Drug Administration
705 comments on this document · counted 2 days agoFile a comment - 64 days leftComments openAdvance Traveler Information for Rail
Homeland Security Department · U.S. Customs and Border Protection
comment count not readThe Register publishes no submission link for this one - 80 days leftComments openClarification of Certain Mariner Training Requirements
Homeland Security Department · Coast Guard
4 comments on this document · counted 2 days agoFile a comment
Across all 186 open periods, 26 carry no submission link in the Register at all. Those are invitations with no address on them, and this desk will not guess a URL to fill the gap.
What this counts
Proposed rules published between 2023-01-01 and 2025-08-27, joined to final rules by regulation identifier or docket, with final rules searched through 2026-10-11 — past the end of the proposal window, because a rule proposed late may be finalised afterwards and counting it as abandoned would be an artefact of the arithmetic.
- Proposed rules in window4,943
- Comment period has closed4,375
- Closed, and no final rule followed968
173 proposals carry neither a regulation identifier nor a docket, and are excluded rather than assumed either way.
What has not come due yet 411
Read from the Federal Register on 2026-10-11: 186 proposed rules whose comment period is still open, and 225 final rules that are published and do not bind yet — across 70 agencies. These are not predictions. Each one is a date an agency has already published, and each is checkable on the day by re-reading one document.
4 of them carry neither a regulation identifier nor a docket. Those are the ones this desk will not be able to follow up on, and they are counted here rather than discovered missing a year from now.
Due in the next thirty days
- in 2 daysTakes effectAirworthiness Directives; Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GmbH (AHD) Helicopters
Transportation Department · Federal Aviation Administration
- in 2 daysTakes effectAirworthiness Directives; Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecnam S.P.A. Airplanes
Transportation Department · Federal Aviation Administration
- in 2 daysComments closeAirworthiness Directives; Embraer S.A. Airplanes
Transportation Department · Federal Aviation Administration
- in 2 daysComments closeAtlantic Highly Migratory Species; Revisions to Fishing Gear Regulations
Commerce Department · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- in 2 daysComments closeCommunity Reinvestment Act Regulations
Treasury Department · Comptroller of the Currency · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- in 2 daysComments closeDecennial Census of the Population of Americans; Proposed Residence Criteria and Proposed Regulations for Demographic Questions
Commerce Department · Census Bureau
- in 2 daysComments closeFCC To Review E-Rate Program To Ensure Congress's Vision
Federal Communications Commission
- in 2 daysTakes effectFisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Reallocation of Pacific Cod in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area
Commerce Department · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- in 2 daysTakes effectFisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone off Alaska; Reallocation of Pacific Cod in the Western Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska
Commerce Department · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- in 2 daysTakes effectFisheries of the Northeastern United States; Greater Atlantic Region Catch Share Cost Recovery Program Updates
Commerce Department · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- in 2 daysTakes effectFisheries of the Northeastern United States; Summer Flounder Fishery; 2026 Commercial Quota Harvested for the State of Maine
Commerce Department · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- in 2 daysComments closeHazardous and Solid Waste Management System: Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals From Electric Utilities; Federal CCR Permit Program; General Permit Provisions
Environmental Protection Agency
- in 2 daysComments closeIn Situ Recovery Monitoring and Decommissioning Timeliness
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- in 2 daysComments close · replies to 2026-10-16Information Reporting Regarding Qualified Opportunity Zones and Updated Qualified Opportunity Fund Certification and Decertification Procedures
Treasury Department · Internal Revenue Service
- in 2 days
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- in 2 daysTakes effectMedicaid Program; Prohibition on Federal Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program Funding for Sex-Rejecting Procedures Furnished to Children
Health and Human Services Department · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- in 2 daysComments closeModernization of Regulations Under 9 CFR Parts 101-118 and 123-124
Agriculture Department
- in 2 daysComments closeProposed Establishment of the Kaw Valley Viticultural Area
Treasury Department · Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
- in 2 daysComments closeProposed Establishment of the Llano Uplift and Hickory Sands District Viticultural Areas
Treasury Department · Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
- in 2 daysComments closeProposed Establishment of the Mill Creek-Walla Walla Valley Viticultural Area
Treasury Department · Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
- in 2 daysComments closeProposed Establishment of the Rancho Santa Fe Viticultural Area
Treasury Department · Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
- in 2 daysTakes effectProtecting Against National Security Threats to the Communications Supply Chain Through the Equipment Authorization Program
Federal Communications Commission
- in 2 daysComments closeReef Fish Fishery of the Gulf of America; 2027 Red Grouper Commercial Quota Retention
Commerce Department · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- in 2 daysComments closeSpecial Conditions: Skyryse, Robinson Helicopter Company Model R66 Helicopter; Control Margin Awareness
Transportation Department · Federal Aviation Administration
- in 2 daysTakes effectTelecommunications Relay Service ASCII Format Requirement
Federal Communications Commission
- in 2 days
- in 3 daysTakes effectAirworthiness Directives; Elixir Aircraft
Transportation Department · Federal Aviation Administration
- in 3 daysTakes effectAirworthiness Directives; The Boeing Company Airplanes
Transportation Department · Federal Aviation Administration
- in 3 daysTakes effectApproval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans; California; San Joaquin Valley, Revisions to Motor Vehicle Emissions Budgets for Ozone
Environmental Protection Agency
- in 3 days
- in 3 daysComments closeApproval and Promulgation of State Air Quality Plans for Designated Facilities and Pollutants; Maryland; Negative Declaration for Existing Other Solid Waste Incinerators
Environmental Protection Agency
- in 3 daysComments closeClean Data Determination; 1997 8-Hour Ozone Standards; California; Sacramento Metro Area
Environmental Protection Agency
- in 3 daysTakes effectFisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of America, and South Atlantic; Reef Fish Fishery of the Gulf of America; 2026-2027 Recreational Closure for Greater Amberjack
Commerce Department · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- in 3 daysTakes effectPacific Island Fisheries; Catch and Retention Limits for Striped Marlin in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean North of the Equator
Commerce Department · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- in 4 daysTakes effect[WC Docket Nos. 25-208, 25-209; FCC 26-19; FR ID 370342] Reducing Barriers to Network Improvements and Service Changes, Accelerating Network Modernization
Federal Communications Commission — no RIN or docket, so this one cannot be followed up
- in 4 days
- in 4 days
- in 5 daysComments closeAirworthiness Directives; Airbus Helicopters
Transportation Department · Federal Aviation Administration
- in 5 daysTakes effectAirworthiness Directives; Dassault Aviation Airplanes
Transportation Department · Federal Aviation Administration
By the term the proposal was published in
Raw per-term counts are not comparable: a rule proposed in 2025 has had one year to reach a final rule and one proposed in 2021 has had five, so a later term will always look worse. The figure below is the matched one — of proposals whose comment period closed at least 365 days ago, the share that never produced a final rule. It is a fact about publication dates, not an attribution: a rulemaking proposed under one administration is usually finished, or abandoned, under the next.
- Term beginning 2021-01-2022.3%
772 of 3462 proposals whose comment period closed at least a year ago never produced a final rule. 3980 proposals fall in this term overall.
- Term beginning 2025-01-2021.6%
171 of 792 proposals whose comment period closed at least a year ago never produced a final rule. 963 proposals fall in this term overall.
Where the silence sits
Agencies ranked by how many of the longest-silent rulemakings below are theirs.
- Environmental Protection Agency50
- Transportation Department21
- Commerce Department20
- Health and Human Services Department16
- Agriculture Department14
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission13
- Federal Communications Commission12
- Securities and Exchange Commission11
- Postal Regulatory Commission10
- Energy Department9
Longest silence first
Every row took public comment, closed it on the date shown, and has produced no final rule since. Each links to the proposal in the Federal Register so the reading can be repeated.
- Defense Department1406 days · 3.9 years
Potomac River at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Virginia; Danger Zone
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/21/2023-03527/potomac-river-at-the-naval-surface-warfare-center-dahlgren-division-dahlgren-virginia-danger-zone - Environmental Protection Agency1363 days · 3.7 years
Significant New Use Rules on Certain Chemical Substances (22-1.5e); Extension of Comment Period
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/03/2022-28468/significant-new-use-rules-on-certain-chemical-substances-22-15e-extension-of-comment-period - Environmental Protection Agency1347 days · 3.7 years
Receipt of a Pesticide Petition Filed for Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various Commodities November 2022
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/03/2022-28524/receipt-of-a-pesticide-petition-filed-for-residues-of-pesticide-chemicals-in-or-on-various - Postal Regulatory Commission1341 days · 3.7 years
Periodic Reporting
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/01/2023-01930/periodic-reporting - Federal Communications Commission1336 days · 3.7 years
Wireline Competition Bureau Seeks Comment on Requests To Allow the Use of E-Rate Funds for Advanced or Next-Generation Firewalls and Other Network Security Services
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/06/2022-28657/wireline-competition-bureau-seeks-comment-on-requests-to-allow-the-use-of-e-rate-funds-for-advanced - Environmental Protection Agency1336 days · 3.7 years
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plan; Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/13/2023-00552/approval-and-promulgation-of-air-quality-implementation-plan-mohegan-tribe-of-indians-of-connecticut - Defense Department1333 days · 3.7 years
Natural Disaster Procedures: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Activities of the Corps of Engineers
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/10/2023-00300/natural-disaster-procedures-preparedness-response-and-recovery-activities-of-the-corps-of-engineers - Federal Trade Commission1333 days · 3.7 years
Petition for Rulemaking of Jonathan Askin, Professor of Clinical Law, Brooklyn Law School
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/17/2023-00671/petition-for-rulemaking-of-jonathan-askin-professor-of-clinical-law-brooklyn-law-school - Environmental Protection Agency1332 days · 3.6 years
Air Plan Approval; AK; Adoption and Permitting Rule Updates
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/18/2023-00817/air-plan-approval-ak-adoption-and-permitting-rule-updates - Environmental Protection Agency1327 days · 3.6 years
Hazardous Waste Management System; Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste Proposed Rule
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/23/2023-00685/hazardous-waste-management-system-identification-and-listing-of-hazardous-waste-proposed-rule - Environmental Protection Agency1326 days · 3.6 years
Hazardous Waste Management System; Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste Proposed Rule
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/24/2023-00835/hazardous-waste-management-system-identification-and-listing-of-hazardous-waste-proposed-rule - Federal Communications Commission1318 days · 3.6 years
Media Bureau Opens Docket and Seeks Comment for 2022 Quadrennial Review of Media Ownership Rules
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/17/2023-00878/media-bureau-opens-docket-and-seeks-comment-for-2022-quadrennial-review-of-media-ownership-rules - Housing and Urban Development Department1315 days · 3.6 years
The Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022: Overview of Applicability to HUD Programs
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/04/2022-28073/the-violence-against-women-act-reauthorization-act-of-2022-overview-of-applicability-to-hud-programs - Defense Department1315 days · 3.6 years
Establishment of Three Danger Zones for the Naval Support Activity Annapolis, Annapolis, Maryland, in the Waters of Carr Creek and Whitehall Bay
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/19/2023-00889/establishment-of-three-danger-zones-for-the-naval-support-activity-annapolis-annapolis-maryland-in - Nuclear Regulatory Commission1313 days · 3.6 years
Licensing Safety Analysis for Loss-of-Coolant Accidents
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/02/2023-02131/licensing-safety-analysis-for-loss-of-coolant-accidents - Agriculture Department1311 days · 3.6 years
Wild and Exotic Animal Handling, Training of Personnel Involved With Public Handling of Wild and Exotic Animals, and Environmental Enrichment for Species
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/09/2023-00021/wild-and-exotic-animal-handling-training-of-personnel-involved-with-public-handling-of-wild-and - Postal Regulatory Commission1311 days · 3.6 years
Periodic Reporting
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/21/2023-03533/periodic-reporting - Interior Department1304 days · 3.6 years
Mining of the Osage Mineral Estate for Oil and Gas
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/13/2022-28098/mining-of-the-osage-mineral-estate-for-oil-and-gas - Nuclear Regulatory Commission1301 days · 3.6 years
Alternatives to the Use of Credit Ratings
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/03/2022-27935/alternatives-to-the-use-of-credit-ratings - Transportation Department1301 days · 3.6 years
Safe Integration of Automated Driving Systems (ADS)-Equipped Commercial Motor Vehicles (CMVs)
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/01/2023-02073/safe-integration-of-automated-driving-systems-ads-equipped-commercial-motor-vehicles-cmvs - Environmental Protection Agency1301 days · 3.6 years
Air Plan Approval; ID; State Board Composition
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/17/2023-03415/air-plan-approval-id-state-board-composition - Nuclear Regulatory Commission1298 days · 3.6 years
Draft Regulatory Guide: Perimeter Intrusion Alarm Systems
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/21/2023-03490/draft-regulatory-guide-perimeter-intrusion-alarm-systems - Nuclear Regulatory Commission1297 days · 3.6 years
Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/22/2023-02041/unified-agenda-of-federal-regulatory-and-deregulatory-actions - Securities and Exchange Commission1297 days · 3.6 years
Regulatory Flexibility Agenda
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/22/2023-02043/regulatory-flexibility-agenda - Education Department1297 days · 3.6 years
Direct Grant Programs, State-Administered Formula Grant Programs
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/22/2023-03670/direct-grant-programs-state-administered-formula-grant-programs - Commerce Department1297 days · 3.6 years
Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Atlantic Spiny Dogfish Fishery; 2023 Specifications
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/09/2023-04799/fisheries-of-the-northeastern-united-states-atlantic-spiny-dogfish-fishery-2023-specifications - Interior Department1294 days · 3.5 years
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for the Sickle Darter
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/24/2023-00977/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-designation-of-critical-habitat-for-the-sickle-darter - Farm Credit Administration1294 days · 3.5 years
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation Funding and Fiscal Affairs; Risk-Based Capital Requirements
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/24/2023-01042/federal-agricultural-mortgage-corporation-funding-and-fiscal-affairs-risk-based-capital-requirements - Health and Human Services Department1294 days · 3.5 years
Action Levels for Lead in Food Intended for Babies and Young Children; Draft Guidance for Industry; Availability
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/25/2023-01384/action-levels-for-lead-in-food-intended-for-babies-and-young-children-draft-guidance-for-industry - Environmental Protection Agency1294 days · 3.5 years
Receipt of a Pesticide Petition Filed for Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various Commodities January 2023
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/23/2023-03676/receipt-of-a-pesticide-petition-filed-for-residues-of-pesticide-chemicals-in-or-on-various - Transportation Department1292 days · 3.5 years
Airworthiness Criteria: Special Class Airworthiness Criteria for the Asylon DroneSentry Model ASY02C+ Unmanned Aircraft
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/27/2023-03890/airworthiness-criteria-special-class-airworthiness-criteria-for-the-asylon-dronesentry-model-asy02c - Commerce Department1291 days · 3.5 years
Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Northeast Multispecies Fishery; Approval of 2023 and 2024 Sector Operations Plans and Allocation of 2023 Northeast Multispecies Annual Catch Entitlements
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/15/2023-05283/magnuson-stevens-act-provisions-fisheries-of-the-northeastern-united-states-northeast-multispecies - Securities and Exchange Commission1290 days · 3.5 years
Order Competition Rule
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/03/2022-27617/order-competition-rule - Commerce Department1290 days · 3.5 years
Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings and Hearings
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/12/2023-00323/pacific-fishery-management-council-public-meetings-and-hearings - Securities and Exchange Commission1290 days · 3.5 years
Regulation Best Execution
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/27/2022-27644/regulation-best-execution - Interior Department1287 days · 3.5 years
Proposed Supplementary Rule for the Mineral and Hell Roaring Canyons Area of Public Lands and Requirement To Obtain an Individual Special Recreation Permit to Rock Climb Within the Moab Canyons Special Wildlife Area (Mineral and Hell Roaring Canyons) Managed by the Moab Field Office in Grand County, Utah
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/31/2023-01694/proposed-supplementary-rule-for-the-mineral-and-hell-roaring-canyons-area-of-public-lands-and - Consumer Financial Protection Bureau1287 days · 3.5 years
Registry of Supervised Nonbanks That Use Form Contracts To Impose Terms and Conditions That Seek To Waive or Limit Consumer Legal Protections
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/01/2023-00704/registry-of-supervised-nonbanks-that-use-form-contracts-to-impose-terms-and-conditions-that-seek-to - Treasury Department1287 days · 3.5 years
Coverage of Certain Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/02/2023-01981/coverage-of-certain-preventive-services-under-the-affordable-care-act - Homeland Security Department1287 days · 3.5 years
Advance Passenger Information System: Electronic Validation of Travel Documents
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/02/2023-02139/advance-passenger-information-system-electronic-validation-of-travel-documents - Housing and Urban Development Department1287 days · 3.5 years
Federal Housing Administration (FHA): Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance: Standard Program Regulation and Renewal Contract; Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Request for Public Comment
Proposed · comments closed
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/02/2023-02181/federal-housing-administration-fha-section-8-project-based-rental-assistance-standard-program