Federal Register document data type
A Federal Register rule, proposed rule, or presidential document touching federal acquisition (48 CFR), small business (13 CFR), or grants (2 CFR), with its citation, dates, and amended CFR sections.
- Source: Federal Register API, published by the Office of the Federal Register.
- Update frequency: Daily source updates and a backfill to 1994.
- Volume: About 15,800 Federal Register documents in scope as of October 2026, counted from the Federal Register API.
- Web: Federal Register documents
- MCP: Search Federal Register documents MCP tool
Notes
Federal Register documents show what is changing in the rules that govern federal buying, rather than the current regulation text. GovTribe keeps rules and proposed rules published since 1994 that touch 48 CFR (the FAR and agency supplements such as the DFARS and GSAR), 13 CFR (SBA programs, including size standards), or 2 CFR (grants and agreements), plus every presidential document, such as executive orders and proclamations. A few hundred older documents, mostly from 1994, carry the types correction or uncategorized.
Cite a document with citation_header, which carries the Federal Register citation, the FR Doc. number, the effective date, and the comment deadline. govtribe_url opens the document in GovTribe for signed-in users; source_url is the document on federalregister.gov. comment_period_open and in_effect are worked out on the day you search. amended_sections comes from the regulatory text, so documents published before 2000 and presidential documents have none. A correction is its own document: a newer one keeps the type of the document it corrects and names it in correction_of, while an older one is typed correction and usually names nothing. Filter with is_correction to find both. Each document also links to the GovTribe records it names: its agencies, the regulation sections and parts it amends, the executive orders it implements, its corrections, the NAICS codes a size-standard rule changes, and its contacts.
Attributes
| Field | Type | Attribute |
|---|---|---|
govtribe_id | string | GovTribe ID |
govtribe_type | string | GovTribe type |
govtribe_url | string | null | GovTribe URL |
name | string | Name |
citation_header | string | Citation header |
document_number | string | Document number |
citation | string | null | Citation |
presidential_citation | string | null | Presidential citation |
document_type | string | null | Document type |
document_type_label | string | null | Document type label |
document_subtype | string | null | Document subtype |
document_subtype_label | string | null | Document subtype label |
title | string | Title |
action | string | null | Action |
abstract | string | null | Abstract |
summary | string | null | Summary |
dates_text | string | null | Dates text |
publication_date | string | Publication date |
effective_date | string | null | Effective date |
comment_close_date | string | null | Comment close date |
comment_period_open | boolean | null | Comment period open |
in_effect | boolean | null | In effect |
signing_date | string | null | Signing date |
significant | boolean | null | Significant |
agencies | object[] | Agencies |
federal_agencies | relationship | Federal agency |
cfr_parts | string[] | CFR parts |
regulations | string[] | Regulations |
amended_sections | string[] | Amended sections |
amended_regulation_section_ids | string[] | Amended regulation section IDs |
regulation_part_ids | string[] | Regulation part IDs |
unresolved_regulation_citations | object[] | Unresolved regulation citations |
size_standard_naics_codes | string[] | Size-standard NAICS codes |
naics_categories | relationship | NAICS category |
regulation_identifier_numbers | string[] | Regulation identifier numbers |
docket_ids | string[] | Docket IDs |
regulations_dot_gov_docket_id | string | null | Regulations.gov docket ID |
comment_url | string | null | Comment URL |
points_of_contact | relationship | Contact |
executive_order_number | string | null | Executive order number |
implemented_executive_order_numbers | string[] | Implemented executive order numbers |
implemented_executive_order_govtribe_ids | string[] | Implemented executive order GovTribe IDs |
presidential_document_number | string | null | Presidential document number |
correction_of | string | null | Correction of |
correction_of_govtribe_id | string | null | Correction of GovTribe ID |
corrections | string[] | Corrections |
correction_govtribe_ids | string[] | Correction GovTribe IDs |
page_range | string | null | Page range |
source_url | string | null | Source URL |
pdf_url | string | null | PDF URL |
body | string | Body |
body_page | number | null | Body page |
body_page_count | number | Body page count |
body_sections | object[] | Body sections |
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Federal grant sub-award
A subaward that a pass-through entity reported to a subrecipient under a prime federal financial assistance award.
Federal transaction
A contract, financial assistance, or sub-award transaction with action-level details such as value, action date, agency, recipient, and place of performance.