What is an IPD?
An IPD is an Interactive Public Docket.. The purpose of an IPD is to break the government’s monopoly over what is contained in a regulatory docket.
More specifically public input into the determination of the contents of a docket for a regulatory proceeding and access to to such content is very limited. Presently the regulators are the sole determinant of what papers used in the pre-Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) stage goes into the docket; the regulators are also the sole determinant of what papers go into the docket subsequent to the close of the public comment period. The public can only affect the content of the docket in a limited time period of, for example , the 60 to 90 day time period alloted for public comment out of a time period of several or more years needed to complete a rulemaking.
