The notice and comment process, as outlined in the Administrative Procedure Act, gives the people a chance to participate in agency rulemaking.

[4] The United States Government Manual is published as a special edition of the Federal Register.

In April 2009, Citation Technologies created a free, searchable website for Federal Register articles dating from 1996 to the present.

[7] GovPulse.us,[8] a finalist in the Sunlight Foundation's Apps for America 2,[9] provided a Web 2.0 interface to the Federal Register, including sparklines of agency activity and maps of current rules, but is no longer available.

[11] The new website is a collaboration between the developers who created GovPulse.us, the Government Publishing Office and the National Archives and Records Administration.

The API is fully RESTful, utilizing the HATEOAS architecture with results delivered in the JSON format.

[15] In 1946 the Administrative Procedure Act required agencies to publish more information related to their rulemaking documents in the Federal Register.