OMB Individually Reported

Proposals and Public Comments

Low riskExact public inventory row

Description

Efficiently process large volumes of public regulatory comments while ensuring proper handling of sensitive information

Detailed example

The Board’s processing of comments may use artificial intelligence (AI) to provide more efficient processing of public comments (e.g., PII redaction recommendations, sentiment analysis, text matching, entity identification, and text similarity matching). A human verifies the system recommendations.

AI / analytics pattern

Natural Language Processing: AI that processes, interprets, and shares information in human language.

Automation level / stage

c) Deployed – The use case is being actively authorized or utilized to support the functions or mission of an agency.

Expected benefit

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) is developing the Proposals and Public Comments (PPC) system to electronically process and manage comments from the public on regulatory rulemakings, information collections, and other proposals (collectively, proposals) and to post those comments to the Board’s public website. The first release of PPC is expected in mid-November 2024. The Board’s processing of comments may use artificial intelligence (AI) to provide more efficient processing of public comments (e.g., PII redaction recommendations, spam detection).

Controls / human review

ATO: Yes; PIA: https://www.federalreserve.gov/files/pia_ppc.pdf

Data needed

External – Public Comments