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How are people submitting comment period comments, and can we let users edit suggested comments?

  • December 3, 2025
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This is a two part question that stems from government comment periods not providing email addresses to deliver comments, and what appears to be EA’s inability to deliver comments to government portals any longer. 

First, can someone confirm that EA cannot deliver to governement comment periods on the government website?

Second, if that is true, I would still like to allow users to customize suggested copy the way they do with an advoacy form. If we could download all the comments and deliver them to a target, using an advocacy action would be fine. But it seems as though you cannot collect advocacy form comments and then deliver them separately - they need to go to a target. And even if I made a fake target, there’s no way to download them? But petitions do not allow for customization of comments. So people can only insert a comment as a custom field, producing some strange comments when you then deliver your signatures. 

How are groups handling this? Any suggestions?

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Sally Heaven
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  • December 3, 2025

I’ll defer to Bonterrans to confirm whether EA can no longer deliver comments to Regulation.gov. I believe the administration removed the POST API that made it possible: https://www.citizen.org/news/trump-quietly-removes-public-comment-tool/

I know some nonprofits have been downloading and delivering letters, though. You can do an Advocacy Report and then Edit Columns to get the message subject, topic, and text along with the constituent information, and then use that file to mail merge letters (or just send the spreadsheet if you want to deliver comments and don’t want to fuss about a mail merge).

Interested to hear what others have been doing! The glory days of Regulation.gov delivery were glorious. 


Megan Dodds
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  • December 4, 2025

Great question ​@hstamper and thanks for your input ​@Sally Heaven ! l can confirm that earlier this year the United States General Services Administration disabled the API used to submit regulations.gov Advocacy forms, which is why this functionality is no longer available.

Our team has been working on a new solution to this and you can expect to hear more early next year! Hope this helps :) 


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  • December 9, 2025

Thank you Sally! This worked, and we will do it going forward. 


Sally Heaven
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  • December 10, 2025

Great! I’m glad that worked.