Just because you can hit a backend without a rate limit, doesn't mean you should. In my experience, government IT is very humorless about this sort of thing. Far better to blend in with normal traffic than to stand out as a bad actor.
X-Crawl-Reason: Finding spare license plates, throttled ONLY to prevent service disruption. To the best of my knowledge, [legalese claiming good faith and compliance to all applicable laws]
(Mandatory disclaimer: IANAL, ignorance is no excuse for breaking laws)