comments: EPA-HQ-OW-2026-6965-0021

Public comments submitted to federal agencies via Regulations.gov. Over 3.9M comments with submitter names and types. ⚠ COVERAGE (measured 2026-09-04 against regulations.gov, queue #706): this table is NOT complete and NOT current. 2026: complete through February for most agencies (DOI through August; DOL only through 11 Feb), PARTIAL March–July with large holes (EPA, FDA and FWS hold under 2% of March–June), and NO comments posted after 2026-07-21. Prior years were acquired by the same mechanism and are also short (queue #536: ~37.7% of what the source declared at fetch time); re-verification is running. Per-agency-month figures, upstream vs held: /explore/comments-coverage.html. Repair in progress — do not treat any month as complete unless that page shows upstream == held. ⚠ PARTICIPATION: where an agency folded a mass-comment campaign into a single record carrying an asserted count (comment_details.duplicate_comments), the same campaign usually also appears as thousands of individual records — measured 2026-08-30 across the regulations.gov bulk exports, 94.1% of dockets with a folded campaign also hold an unfolded one. Neither the record count nor the asserted count is the number of people who commented, and the two must never be summed. https://datadawn.org/methodology.html#participation