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How it works

How OSED works

OSED reads the public environmental record, finds the gaps, drafts against the authorities that already exist, and translates the result into plain language. Every judgment is flagged for review. It drafts; a licensed attorney decides.

The pipeline, surveyed

a field map · trace the trail to the courthouse
The OSED pipeline drawn as a trail across a topographic survey. A hand-drawn contour map. A dashed clay trail threads six numbered waypoints across hills and a river to a courthouse: one, Intake; two, Gap analysis, beside survey stations for the Federal Register, eCFR, GovInfo and Regulations.gov; three, Drafting, in the town of Drafting; four, Precedent retrieval, beside a CourtListener courthouse, which loops with step three; five, Plain-language; and finally the court, where a human attorney decides. Trail signs read DRAFT, attorney review and currency. The same sequence is written as an ordered list below. ⇄ iterate GAP ANALYSIS · STATIONS Federal Register eCFR GovInfo Regulations.gov CourtListener DRAFT currency ⚠ ATTORNEY 1 Intake the record arrives 2 Gap analysis record vs. law 3 Drafting assemble 4 Precedent retrieval how courts read it 5 Plain-language made readable THE COURT the attorney decides N The OSED Survey RECORD · TO · INSTRUMENT · MMXXVI a process, not to scale
  1. The same trail, in order
  2. Intake.Gather the public record for a place and a concern.
  3. Gap analysis.Compare the record to the law via Federal Register, eCFR, GovInfo, and Regulations.gov.
  4. Drafting.Assemble a structured draft, flagging every judgment.
  5. Precedent retrieval.Check how courts have read it, via CourtListener. Drafting and retrieval loop until the draft holds.
  6. Plain-language.Translate the draft so a person can read and check it.
  7. The human attorney decides.A licensed attorney reviews, corrects, and owns the result. The trail ends here.
Data sources, explained

Where the record comes from

OSED works only from public, authoritative sources. Each answers one narrow question, and each has a limit worth naming up front.

Federal Register

Did the agency act, and when?

Limit: Evidence a document published on a date — not proof a duty was met or missed.

eCFR

Does the rule exist now?

Limit: The unofficial daily edition; the legally operative text is the annual GPO CFR.

GovInfo (US Code)

What is the statutory duty?

Limit: A deadline may live in uncodified notes or public law, not the codified section.

Regulations.gov

The docket / delay timeline.

Limit: Posting and comment dates are raw evidence of activity — never proof of a missed deadline.

CourtListener

Does the citation resolve to a real, published case?

Limit: Confirms it exists — not that it is still good law. The attorney judges currency.

Your record

What happened, where, and when?

Limit: Only what you provide; nothing is invented.

The guardrails, briefly

The trail has signs for a reason

Every waypoint on the map holds to the same invariants. They are stated in full in the guide.

The six invariants Read the disclaimer
  • DRAFT A draft banner persists until a person signs off.
  • ⚠ ATTORNEY Every judgment is flagged inline for review.
  • currency Authorities are verified in force at draft time.
  • no facts Only your record; nothing is invented.
  • no verdict It never says you have a case or will win.