# Merit Systems Protection Board — the long-form archive

Everything Merit Systems Protection Board has published while this archive has been running: 3 documents across 3 days, oldest first.

Coverage begins on 2026-08-12, which is when this archive started holding Federal Register
issues — not when the agency started publishing. Anything earlier is absent from this page and
its absence is not evidence.

[HTML](https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/merit-systems-protection-board/archive.html) · [the last five days](https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/merit-systems-protection-board/index.md)

## 12 August 2026 — 1 document

- **Rule** [Appellate Jurisdiction Update II](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/12/2026-16456/appellate-jurisdiction-update-ii) · `2026-16456`

## 31 August 2026 — 1 document

> The Merit Systems Protection Board published a notice seeking renewal of an information collection for qualitative feedback on agency service delivery.

- **Notice** [Agency Information Collection Activities; Renewal of a Currently Approved Information Collection; Comment Request; Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/31/2026-17678/agency-information-collection-activities-renewal-of-a-currently-approved-information-collection) · `2026-17678`

## 3 September 2026 — 1 document

> The Merit Systems Protection Board issued a final rule amending its review of penalty reasonableness in federal employee misconduct cases, effective October 5, 2026.

- **Rule** [Determining the Appropriate Penalty for Federal Employees Charged With Misconduct](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/03/2026-18061/determining-the-appropriate-penalty-for-federal-employees-charged-with-misconduct) · `2026-18061`

## Ask an assistant instead

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```
Using the Downstream MCP server at mcp.downstream.sh, call whats_new_since with agency "Merit Systems Protection Board" since 2026-08-12, then tell me what this agency has been working on and which of its deadlines are still open.
```

Reaches `whats_new_since`. The response carries its own citations and states what it is missing,
including which dates it has no record for.

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