AI Rules
Environmental Protection Agency · OFA
Overview
- Development stage
- In development or acquisitionSource: a) Pre-deployment – The use case is in a development or acquisition status.
- High-impact designation
- Not high-impactSource: c) Not high-impact
- Impact justification
- The output of this AI use case does not serve as a principal basis for decisions or actions that have a legal, material, binding, or significant effect on rights or safety.
- Start date
- Not reported
- Withheld from public reporting
- NoSource: a) No
Mission
- Topic area
- Administrative Functions
- Operational functions
- Summarization Derived by keyword rules; see methodology
Problem the AI is intended to solve
To speed up the time it takes to manually read and process public comments on proposed rules.
Expected benefits
Faster response to public comments on proposed rules. Cost savings from not having to outsource the work to contractors.
System outputs
AI Rules processes public comments and identifies substantive material that requires response and save those as snippets. Snippets are categorized by sender and theme for review. Snippets are also summarized by sender group and theme for review by rulemaking teams.
Technology
- AI classification
- Natural language processingSource: Natural Language Processing: AI that processes, interprets, and shares information in human language.
- System name(s)
- Not reported
- Custom-developed code
- Not reported
- Public source code
- Not reported
Sourcing
- How it was built
- Not reported
- Vendor (as reported)
- Not reported
- Vendors (standardized)
- None on the standard list
A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.
Data and privacy
- Involves PII
- Not reported
- Privacy Impact Assessment
- Not reported
- Authorization to Operate
- Not reported
- Demographic features
- Not reported
- Training and evaluation data
- Not reported
- Federal Data Catalog
- Not reported
Governance
0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.
Potential impacts and how they were identified
Not reported