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965 went quiet.

Proposed federal rules whose comment period closed and produced nothing — and 410 dated commitments still ahead. This page holds both ends.

410 still ahead4,943 proposals joinedTomorrow's Federal Register

Comments close · October 27Passports: Expanding Online Passport Renewal OverseasState DepartmentEvery open comment period ↓

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 13

Comment periods still running on rules the Federal Register itself marked significant, read on 2026-10-24. Significance is the government’s own flag, not this desk’s judgement: the other 170 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.

The spread is the finding. 766 comments have been filed on Substances Generally Recognized as Safe. 2 have been filed on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Electronic Benefits Transfer Card Security Measures. Both counts were read on the same day, both rules are open, both are significant by the same standard, and only one of them has anyone in the room.

  1. 3 days left
    Comments openPassports: Expanding Online Passport Renewal Overseas

    State Department

    10 comments on this document · counted 2 days agoFile a comment
  2. 10 days left
    Comments openTransfer Agent Rules

    Securities and Exchange Commission

    comment count not readThe Register publishes no submission link for this one
  3. 24 days left
    Comments openEmployment in the Excepted Service

    Personnel Management Office

    8 comments on this document · counted 7 days agoFile a comment
  4. 27 days left
    Comments 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
  5. 30 days left
    Comments openAmendments To Import Requirements for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza

    Agriculture Department · Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

    8 comments on this document · counted 2 days agoFile a comment
  6. 32 days left
    Comments openFederal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Modernization of FMVSS No. 108 To Accommodate ADS-Equipped Vehicles

    Transportation Department · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

    comment count not readThe Register publishes no submission link for this one
  7. 37 days left
  8. 44 days left
    Comments 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
  9. 46 days left
    Comments openSubstances Generally Recognized as Safe

    Health and Human Services Department · Food and Drug Administration

    766 comments on this document · counted todayFile a comment
  10. 51 days left
    Comments openAdvance Traveler Information for Rail

    Homeland Security Department · U.S. Customs and Border Protection

    5 comments on this document · counted todayFile a comment
  11. 51 days left
    Comments openInvestment Company Cross Trading

    Securities and Exchange Commission

    comment count not readThe Register publishes no submission link for this one
  12. 59 days left
    Comments openSupplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Electronic Benefits Transfer Card Security Measures

    Agriculture Department · Food and Nutrition Administration

    2 comments on this document · counted todayFile a comment
  13. 67 days left
    Comments openClarification of Certain Mariner Training Requirements

    Homeland Security Department · Coast Guard

    6 comments on this document · counted 4 days agoFile a comment

Across all 183 open periods, 33 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 2026-10-24 — 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.

  1. Proposed rules in window4,943
  2. Comment period has closed4,375
  3. Closed, and no final rule followed965

    173 proposals carry neither a regulation identifier nor a docket, and are excluded rather than assumed either way.

What has not come due yet 410

Read from the Federal Register on 2026-10-24: 183 proposed rules whose comment period is still open, and 227 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

  1. today
    Takes effectRIN 1625-AA00

    Homeland Security Department · Coast Guard

  2. tomorrow
    Takes effectOperating Limitations at John F. Kennedy International Airport

    Transportation Department · Federal Aviation Administration

  3. tomorrow
    Takes effectSpecial Local Regulation; Lake Havasu, Lake Havasu City, AZ

    Homeland Security Department · Coast Guard

  4. in 2 days
    Takes effectAir Plan Approval; Alabama; Transportation Conformity

    Environmental Protection Agency

  5. in 2 days
  6. in 2 days
    Takes effectAirworthiness Directives; Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GmbH (AHD) Helicopters

    Transportation Department · Federal Aviation Administration

  7. in 2 days
    Comments closeAirworthiness Directives; Airbus SAS Airplanes

    Transportation Department · Federal Aviation Administration

  8. in 2 days
    Comments closeAirworthiness Directives; Airbus SAS Airplanes

    Transportation Department · Federal Aviation Administration

  9. in 2 days
    Comments closeAirworthiness Directives; Airbus SAS Airplanes

    Transportation Department · Federal Aviation Administration

  10. in 2 days
    Comments closeAirworthiness Directives; Bell Textron Canada Limited Helicopters

    Transportation Department · Federal Aviation Administration

  11. in 2 days
    Comments closeAirworthiness Directives; Bell Textron Canada Limited Helicopters

    Transportation Department · Federal Aviation Administration

  12. in 2 days
    Comments closeAirworthiness Directives; Bombardier, Inc. Airplanes

    Transportation Department · Federal Aviation Administration

  13. in 2 days
    Comments closeAirworthiness Directives; Bombardier, Inc., Airplanes

    Transportation Department · Federal Aviation Administration

  14. in 2 days
    Comments closeAirworthiness Directives; Dassault Aviation Airplanes

    Transportation Department · Federal Aviation Administration

  15. in 2 days
    Takes effectAnnual Notices on Explosive Materials Storage Facilities to Local Fire Authority

    Justice Department · Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Bureau

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    Takes effectAutomated Commercial Environment (ACE) Electronic Export Manifest for Rail Cargo

    Homeland Security Department · U.S. Customs and Border Protection

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    Takes effectEstate Tax Closing Letter User Fee Update

    Treasury Department · Internal Revenue Service

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    Takes effectImplementing the Safe Explosives Act

    Justice Department · Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Bureau

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    Comments closePro Rata Share of Subpart F Income, Tested Income, or Tested Loss

    Treasury Department · Internal Revenue Service

  25. in 2 days
    Takes effectReef Fish Fishery of the Gulf of America; 2026 Red Snapper Recreational For-Hire Fishing Season in the Gulf of America

    Commerce Department · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

  26. in 2 days
    Takes effectRescission of Executive Order 11246 Implementing Regulations

    Labor Department · Federal Contract Compliance Programs Office

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  33. in 4 days
    Takes effectHazardous Materials: Incorporation of ASME Code Section XII and the National Board Inspection Code

    Transportation Department · Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

  34. in 4 days
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  37. in 4 days
    Comments closePeriodic Reporting

    Postal Regulatory Commission

  38. in 5 days
    Comments closeAirworthiness Directives; Airbus SAS Airplanes

    Transportation Department · Federal Aviation Administration

  39. in 5 days
    Comments closeAirworthiness Directives; Bombardier, Inc., Airplanes

    Transportation Department · Federal Aviation Administration

  40. in 5 days
    Comments closeAirworthiness Directives; CFM International, S.A. Engines

    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.

  1. Term beginning 2021-01-2022.2%

    769 of 3462 proposals whose comment period closed at least a year ago never produced a final rule. 3980 proposals fall in this term overall.

  2. Term beginning 2025-01-2022.0%

    177 of 803 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.

  1. Environmental Protection Agency51
  2. Transportation Department21
  3. Commerce Department20
  4. Health and Human Services Department15
  5. Agriculture Department14
  6. Nuclear Regulatory Commission13
  7. Federal Communications Commission12
  8. Securities and Exchange Commission11
  9. Postal Regulatory Commission10
  10. 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.

  1. Defense Department1419 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
  2. Environmental Protection Agency1376 days · 3.8 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
  3. Environmental Protection Agency1360 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
  4. Postal Regulatory Commission1354 days · 3.7 years

    Periodic Reporting

    Proposed · comments closed

    https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/01/2023-01930/periodic-reporting
  5. Federal Communications Commission1349 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
  6. Environmental Protection Agency1349 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
  7. Defense Department1346 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
  8. Federal Trade Commission1346 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
  9. Environmental Protection Agency1345 days · 3.7 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
  10. Environmental Protection Agency1340 days · 3.7 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
  11. Environmental Protection Agency1339 days · 3.7 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
  12. Federal Communications Commission1331 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
  13. Housing and Urban Development Department1328 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
  14. Defense Department1328 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
  15. Nuclear Regulatory Commission1326 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
  16. Agriculture Department1324 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
  17. Postal Regulatory Commission1324 days · 3.6 years

    Periodic Reporting

    Proposed · comments closed

    https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/21/2023-03533/periodic-reporting
  18. Interior Department1317 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
  19. Nuclear Regulatory Commission1314 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
  20. Transportation Department1314 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
  21. Environmental Protection Agency1314 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
  22. Nuclear Regulatory Commission1311 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
  23. Nuclear Regulatory Commission1310 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
  24. Securities and Exchange Commission1310 days · 3.6 years

    Regulatory Flexibility Agenda

    Proposed · comments closed

    https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/22/2023-02043/regulatory-flexibility-agenda
  25. Education Department1310 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
  26. Commerce Department1310 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
  27. Interior Department1307 days · 3.6 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
  28. Farm Credit Administration1307 days · 3.6 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
  29. Health and Human Services Department1307 days · 3.6 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
  30. Environmental Protection Agency1307 days · 3.6 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
  31. Transportation Department1305 days · 3.6 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
  32. Commerce Department1304 days · 3.6 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
  33. Securities and Exchange Commission1303 days · 3.6 years

    Order Competition Rule

    Proposed · comments closed

    https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/03/2022-27617/order-competition-rule
  34. Commerce Department1303 days · 3.6 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
  35. Securities and Exchange Commission1303 days · 3.6 years

    Regulation Best Execution

    Proposed · comments closed

    https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/27/2022-27644/regulation-best-execution
  36. Interior Department1300 days · 3.6 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
  37. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau1300 days · 3.6 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
  38. Treasury Department1300 days · 3.6 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
  39. Homeland Security Department1300 days · 3.6 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
  40. Housing and Urban Development Department1300 days · 3.6 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

How this was measured

Source
The Federal Register API, the government’s own publication of record. No secondary reporting is used.
Last run
What it cannot show
A rulemaking finalised under a different identifier reads here as silence. And silence is not itself wrongdoing — agencies drop proposals for good reasons, and the Federal Register does not publish the reason. This counts the gap; it does not explain it.
Whether it can fail
Yes. If every proposal in the window had been finalised or withdrawn, this page would print zero rows, and that would be the finding.

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