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What We Do

Every business morning we deliver the Daily REGTrak Bulletin to your Association Manager by about 7:00 AM.  Your Association Manager is then free to redistribute the Bulletin to all Association Members that have requested to receive the Bulletin. We charge the Association a small annual fee for the daily content we provide and require a few restrictions on redistribution, reselling and the inclusion of a standard content notice (see details below). Or, association members may contact us and receive the daily bulletin directly from us.

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Why Do I Need Federal Register Notices?

It's hard to imagine one document that is more important than the Federal Register if you're an EMS manager, consultant, attorney or environmental professional.
 
Each day the Federal Register contains critical information on proposed and final regulations; comment period deadlines; documents and meetings; funding opportunities; legal settlements; and more.
 
If you're serious about environmental management, you have to know what's in the Federal Register. And, equally important, on some days there will be nothing of interest to you -- you need to know that too!
 
What Are The Alternatives?
 
There are several ways you can find out what's in the Federal Register:  (1) there are a number of pricey newsletters that will attempt to interpret what they think is in the Federal Register; (2) You can buy a hardcopy subscription to the Federal Register ($860.00/year, (click here); You can subscribe to the U.S. EPA listserve and receive daily Email announcements; (3) You can check the GPO or EPA Internet sites daily and review announcements on-line; or (4) You can receive REGTrak and make your life a whole lot easier.
 
No matter what alternative method you may try... There is simply no faster way to determine what's in the daily Federal Register that you need to know than by reviewing the Daily REGTrak Bulletin.

Why REGTrak?

It's all about TIME, MONEY & RELIABILITY!

REGTrak (complete report) summarizes all of the nationally applicable environmental announcements from U.S. EPA and other agencies; gives you all the information you need to quickly assess the importance of each announcement; and provides the active links to the full-text if you need more.  

Each day, by about 7:00 AM, we deliver to our clients an easy to digest, quick summary, that allows users to determine within 30 seconds, whether there is anything in the day's Federal Register that they need to be concerned with. Immediately, they can react -- obtain additional information; refer it to the proper persons; or do a quick note to self about follow-up later.

REGTrak WILL SAVE YOU TIME

REGTrak is designed to save you time and allow you to obtain the information you need by the fastest possible means.  You receive your Daily REGTrak Bulletin usually around 7:00 AM ET every working day.  Unless you spend the same amount of time as we do every morning reviewing and summarizing  the daily Federal Register, you cannot get the information any faster.  

Because of our issue index and unique coding systems you can immediately, within seconds, determine if there are announcements that you deem to be critical or timely.  There is no other government or private Federal Register tracking service that can make this claim.

Our Daily REGTrak Bulletin is contained in one single, reasonably sized, Email message.  The document will open in seconds and immediately allow you to review the entire daily index.  You will not have to waste your time downloading, opening, reviewing and assessing many individual messages to find the ones you really need -- That's what you have to do with EPA's "free" listserv service.

Also, REGTrak focuses on the "nationally applicable" Federal Register announcements.  So you don't have to waste your time downloading, opening and reviewing messages that only apply to a particular state, municipality, or facility -- again, that's what you have to do with EPA's "free" listserv service.  This aspect of REGTrak can save substantial amounts of time considering that approximately half of the daily Federal Register announcements are location or site specific.  If you subscribe to U.S. EPA's listserve, you receive many lengthy, full-text messages daily that must be downloaded and opened -- half of which are site/location specific.

REGTrak WILL SAVE YOU MONEY

Considering that a hardcopy subscription to the Federal Register is  $764 per year Association Members can obviously save money by receiving the REGTrak Bulletin from their Association.  But, much more important is the enormous time savings that REGTrak offers, which immediately makes it far cheaper than any of the so-called "free" services available from the U.S. EPA listserv or direct Internet access. Whether you use the "free" services or subscribe to the hardcopy, we estimate that the average technician or administrative personnel will spend at least $7,500 per year accessing, sorting, assessing and reviewing Federal Register announcements just getting them ready for top level executive review.  REGTrak can eliminate 80-90 percent of this cost.  Thus, at a minimum this service will save you several thousands of dollars per year over any other method of tracking the Federal Register.

REGTrak WILL BE THERE 
EVERY MORNING

We have been providing tracking and electronic delivery of environmental Federal Register announcements since 1994 when they first became available.  We have been providing the daily REGTrak subscription service to our clients, mostly in Michigan, since 1996. 

Who Receives REGTrak?

Our existing clients include primarily major environmental law firms, Fortune 500 EH&S/ISO 14001 managers, large and small environmental consultants, TSDF operators, and local government officials.

HERE'S WHAT YOU GET...

You get a complete daily report (complete report) of all the nationally applicable Federal Register announcements of U.S. EPA and various other agencies dealing with the environment. For each announcement you receive:

  • Complete summaries of what the announcement is about
  • Citations and reference information
  • Contacts for additional information
  • Important dates for compliance, meetings, hearings, etc.
  • "Click on" active links so you can immediately see the full-text of the announcement if you need further details (pdf and html)

PLUS...

You get a Daily index of all announcements right up front which you can quickly scan to determine which announcements are most important to you.  To make it even easier, the title information for each announcement is double coded so at a glance you can determine...

  • The subject of the announcement within ten (10) different categories (i.e. Air Pollution, Remediation, Drinking Water, Hazardous Waste, Pollution Prevention, Solid Waste, Tanks, Toxics, TSCA, Surface Water, or if it relates to All categories)
  • The type of the announcement (i.e. Proposed Rulemaking, Final Rule, Funding Opportunity, Notice of information or reports, Notice of meeting, Notice of settlement, Record of Decision, etc.)

Note: Some persons, prefer the simple abbreviated summary report with direct links to only the PDF full-text. Click here for sample.


REGTrak Testimonials

"We will be renewing.  It is a very helpful service and a must for anyone serious about environmental law."
--Environmental Attorney

"We have completely discontinued our subscription to the Federal Register and rely on your service. Paperless is clearly the way to do things. You have been a bit ahead of your time."
--Hazardous Waste Management Consultant

"The best thing about the service is that it is easy to scan quickly and forward to other attorneys in the office, and it's harder to ignore an e-mail than it is to let a hard copy sit in the 'I'll get to it later' bin."
--Environmental Attorney

"We are utilizing the Federal Register (FR) notification service and have found it to be very useful... Our annual subscription to the FR is due in February. We are now deciding whether to keep it or drop it. It seems most consensus is to drop..."
--President, Full-Service Environmental Consulting Firm

"I use the excerpted, summarized FR announcements as a 'flag' to note things pending, requiring comment, becoming final, etc...  I would rather utilize a service such as you offer to help me screen things and find specific things as I need them.  More efficient, more effective."
--Environmental Manager Major Manufacturing Company

"I think it's great.  It gives us a heads up before the printed edition gets here."
--Environmental Legal Assistant, Major Environmental Law Firm

"...an easy way to view federal regulatory activity without having to read the Federal Register on a daily basis.  Further, it allows me to sort through the environment related notices and focus on only those I am
likely to have an interest in."
--Statewide Association Director


Association Service Details

  • State and Sub-state Associations Only*

  • 1 Flat Fee, $1,000 per year (or, $100 per month); no membership maximums; no minimums (invoice or major credit cards)

  • WIMS delivers each day; Association redistributes to members; or, members may receive directly from us

  • No re-selling of information content

  • No redistribution by association members beyond individual office

  • Redistributed in standard WIMS html format -- complete format (click here); abbreviated format (click here). Some variations possible.

  • Redistribution includes standard WIMS by-line information

  • Association may add header logo, text message, sponsor ad**, etc.

*National Associations may also participate; however, some details may be different depending on the nature of the association.

** Sponsor Ad. While the $1,200 annual fee is very reasonable, Associations may want to consider having a member(s) sponsor the service and in return include their banner ad as a header in each issue for a year or portion of a year.

REGTrak Association Services

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