anchor: For the five regulatory agencies on which we focused in this review, we examined the 576 proposed rules that they published in the Federal Register during calendar year 1999 to determine the extent to which they explicitly noted that public comments could be submitted electronically or by facsimile.
positive: There were 576 proposed rules published in the Federal Register during the calendar year of 1999.
negative: The review tried to determine how many people each of the five regulatory agencies employed.