The theory of change: issue preservation at scale
Under the Administrative Procedure Act, an agency must consider and respond to substantive comments before finalizing a decision. Identical form letters get bundled and counted once; they preserve nothing. A specific comment citing the record, the environmental assessment’s own section and page, creates the duty to respond and enters the record a later objection or lawsuit stands on. PLAN reads the government’s own documents, marks the holes, and hands the reader the citation. The reader writes the sentence themselves; the handoff goes to the official docket; the comment is filed in the reader’s own name. PLAN never files anything.
The handoff ledger
Click-throughs to official comment systems since launch, July 9, 2026, once per browser session. Handoffs, not unique people. Anonymous: no account, no email, no IP stored.
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Covered systems
Open comment windows ingested daily from five federal systems, including project registers that never reach the Federal Register. Open actions now, by source:
Honest edge: Reclamation, FWS refuge planning, and BOEM are incidental Federal Register catches today. Direct coverage is expanding.
The document harvest
Every finding carries a section-and-page citation to the agency’s own document (live examples, as stored: "What's New", "Project Description", "How to Submit Comments on Chapters 1 & 2 of the EIS (Due by November 9, 2026)", "Background"). A verification gate rejects any quoted passage that is not one contiguous verbatim run from the document text; stitched quotes and paraphrases do not publish. The remainder is stated: 0 documents read yielded no finding that survived the gate (those pages stay blurb-only), 0 actions have no public document yet, 0 have one not yet retrievable, 2 arrived since the last harvest pass.
How to check the work
- The methodology is public: morethanjustparks.com/public-lands-action-network/methodology. Every action links its official source document.
- Accuracy validators run in CI against the live board: official source link on every action, no first-person factual claims drafted on a reader’s behalf, no template tokens, a known source system on every row. A hard failure blocks.
- Agency deadline moves are recorded in a drift ledger (23 to date), never silently corrected. Cross-source duplicates resolve to one canonical fight, so nothing is double counted.