Document Corrections before Publication
Correcting documents after publication
Withdrawing documents from publication
Correcting a document before sending to OFR
If you find an error before you send your paper document to the OFR, you or your agency’s Federal Register Liaison Officer may make a legible ink change to the document. Write your initials and the date in the right-hand margin where you made the change and update the Word file on the CD. For an electronically-signed document, unless the correction is insignificant, you may have to have the document re-signed. You should not rely on us to make significant, substantive changes for you during the review process. If those changes are extensive, we may require that you withdraw the document and start over — which would also require that you have the document re-signed.
Correcting a document after sending to OFR
If you find a substantive error in an unpublished document, immediately contact your agency’s Federal Register Liaison Officer.[1] If we have not yet scheduled the document for publication, we may be able to make the correction to the document during the review process.
Before filing
If we have scheduled but not yet filed the document for public inspection, your Liaison Officer may request minor corrections by emailing us the Document Correction Request letter, including the first page of the document and the page with the correction. We will make the corrections as time and resources permit.
Extensive changes (including changes that carry over to the next line) are difficult to make once we have assigned a publication date for your document. If you need to make extensive changes to your document, we may require that you withdraw the document from publication and resend it for publication after you have made the corrections. You must then send a new document package and request for publication, following the procedures in Chapter 8: How do I publish a document in the Federal Register?.
After filing
If we have filed the document for public inspection, your Liaison Officer may make minor corrections by emailing us the Document Correction Request letter.
We must receive the letter before 12 noon of the workday before the document’s scheduled publication date.
When we receive your letter, if we are able, we make corrections and re-post your document on public inspection with an editorial note. The OFR retains both the original document and the letter of correction.[2]
Extensive changes are difficult to make once we have assigned a publication date for your document. If you need to make extensive changes to your document, we may require that you withdraw the document from publication and resend it for publication after you have made the corrections. You must then send a new document package and request for publication, following the procedures in Chapter 8: How do I publish a document in the Federal Register?.