documents
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- comment_end_date
- A FULL UTC INSTANT, not a calendar date, despite the column name: '2026-08-29T03:59:59Z' is 11:59:59 PM EASTERN on 2026-08-28. Federal comment periods close at 11:59:59 PM Eastern, so the UTC calendar date is ONE DAY LATER than the official deadline on every end-of-day close — 444,689 of the 444,690 populated rows (measured 2026-09-06). Convert to America/New_York before presenting a deadline, and compare with julianday(comment_end_date) > julianday('now'): a plain > datetime('now') is a TEXT comparison between two different formats and keeps already-closed dockets matching for up to ~20 hours. The sibling column on open_comments.documents WAS corrected to an Eastern calendar date (queue #498); this one is unchanged and still an instant — the two databases do not agree on grain. (queue #644)
- comment_start_date
- A FULL UTC INSTANT, not a calendar date, despite the column name — same grain as comment_end_date on this table. Convert to America/New_York before presenting it. (queue #644)
1,728,051 rows sorted by posted_date descending
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posted_year >30
- 2018 106,690
- 2016 98,713
- 2019 91,918
- 2015 80,499
- 2024 78,228
- 2023 73,203
- 2017 72,886
- 2021 71,789
- 2022 71,318
- 2020 69,829
- 2006 68,985
- 2014 65,338
- 2007 63,922
- 2011 61,511
- 2025 61,376
- 2013 61,338
- 2012 60,059
- 2010 56,532
- 2008 55,828
- 2009 54,066
- 2004 47,970
- 2005 47,206
- 2026 35,428
- 2003 34,977
- 2002 28,411
- 2001 20,449
- 2000 19,990
- 1999 17,091
- 1998 14,407
- 1995 13,108
- …
agency_id >30
- EPA 495,227
- FDA 230,393
- DOT 194,125
- FAA 192,831
- BIS 56,803
- FMCSA 49,212
- SEC 41,970
- PHMSA 38,191
- FERC 37,545
- USCG 32,732
- OSHA 31,908
- NHTSA 28,862
- FRA 28,087
- FWS 16,108
- NRC 15,664
- NOAA 15,286
- USTR 13,623
- ITA 13,273
- NIH 13,161
- MARAD 11,632
- FCC 10,117
- ED 9,633
- FEMA 9,340
- VA 7,743
- CMS 7,157
- HUD 7,140
- APHIS 6,249
- DOE 5,349
- USPS 5,323
- CPSC 4,957
- …
document_type 5
- Other 659,070
- Supporting & Related Material 621,397
- Notice 316,679
- Rule 88,228
- Proposed Rule 42,677
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CREATE TABLE documents (
id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
agency_id TEXT,
docket_id TEXT REFERENCES dockets(id),
title TEXT,
document_type TEXT,
subtype TEXT,
posted_date TEXT,
posted_year INTEGER,
posted_month INTEGER,
comment_start_date TEXT,
comment_end_date TEXT,
last_modified TEXT,
fr_doc_num TEXT,
open_for_comment INTEGER,
withdrawn INTEGER,
object_id TEXT
);
CREATE INDEX idx_docs_agency ON documents(agency_id);
CREATE INDEX idx_docs_docket ON documents(docket_id);
CREATE INDEX idx_docs_date ON documents(posted_date);
CREATE INDEX idx_docs_year ON documents(posted_year);
CREATE INDEX idx_docs_type ON documents(document_type);
CREATE INDEX idx_docs_frnum ON documents(fr_doc_num);
CREATE INDEX idx_docs_comment_end ON documents(comment_end_date) WHERE comment_end_date IS NOT NULL AND withdrawn = 0;