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Every time the government makes a change to a survey or a form — or introduces a new survey or form — you have the right to weigh in on that decision.
If you want to tell the government what you think about the changes they are making, follow these steps:
- Click on the name of the survey or form.
The link will bring you to a listing in the "Federal Register" — a daily newsletter filled with the government's regulations, surveys, forms, public meetings, and other actions
- Skim the listing to find instructions on how to submit a comment.
For most listings, this information will be found in a section titled "Addresses"
- Write in to tell the government what you think!
Most listings allow you to either:
- Send an email to the point of contact for that survey or form
- Send your thoughts to the agency or the White House through the reginfo.gov website
Showing 20 of 26 results
| Due Date | Collection | Agency | Summary | Main Issues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-13 | CPS Civic Engagement and Volunteering Supplement | CNCS | This survey measures key indicators of civic health, such as formally volunteering through an organization; informally interacting with family, friends, and neighbors; participating in associations; charitable giving; learning about and engaging with issues of public concern; and interacting with public and private institutions. CNCS does not appear to be making any changes to the survey in this listing. | Civic Engagement |
| 2026-07-13 | Community Services Block Grant Disaster Supplemental Annual Report | ACF | This collection gathers data on disaster program performance, including the amount of funds used for administrative costs and on the direct delivery of local services, as well as information on the number of and characteristics of clients served. This listing formalizes changes made last year to remove information about gender and equity from the form. | Emergency Management |
| 2026-07-13 | National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) | CDC | The NHSN is the nation's most widely used healthcare-associated infection tracking system; it provides facilities, states, regions, and the nation with data needed to identify problem areas, measure progress of prevention efforts, and ultimately eliminate healthcare-associated infections. CDC is making a number of changes to the collection tool, including revising collection of sex data to accept only male and female responses and removing the requirement to collect information on preferred language and need for an interpreter. | Healthcare |
| 2026-07-13 | Delta States Rural Development Network Grant Program | HHS/HRSA | HRSA uses the data from these forms to assess Delta Program awardees' progress in meeting the program goals, and how well each awardee meets their community needs. HRSA is proposing to modify how they display race and ethnicity measures in the data collection platform by making it display as two separate questions for current Delta Program recipients. | Public Benefits |
| 2026-07-13 | Annual Report on Households Assisted by the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) | HHS/ACF | Data collected through this form are used to prepare a report on LIHEAP for Congress and to better understand the need for LIHEAP funds. OCS is proposing to remove sex, race, and ethnicity reporting, which it argues are not required by statute. | Public Benefits |
| 2026-07-14 | Summer Law Intern Program | DOJ | These forms collect information about applicants to DOJ's summer internship programs. Through this listing, DOJ is making several cosmetic changes to questions on the form (e.g., converting from write-in to checkbox responses to a question) and is formalizing removal of gender identity questions. | Federal Government |
| 2026-07-16 | HRSA Uniform Data System | HHS/HRSA | In this notice, HRSA is revising the Uniform Data System, the annual reporting system used by federally supported health centers, largely to streamline reporting while adding some new measures on diabetes, disability, autism screening, patient support services, and upstream drivers of health. In addition, HRSA proposes to add a new question asking whether health centers provide puberty blockers, hormones, or surgical procedures to patients under 19 for the purpose of aligning their appearance with a gender identity different from their sex assigned at birth, which could increase scrutiny of health centers that provide gender-affirming care to transgender youth. | Healthcare |
| 2026-07-20 | Case Service Report (RSA-911) | ED | The RSA-911 is considered to be one of the most robust databases in describing the demographics of the disabled population in the country and as such is used widely in researchers' disability-related analyses and reports. This listing is finalizing earlier changes to question about gender - removing nonbinary and "another gender" response options. ED may be making additional changes to this collection; the supplemental materials are unclear. | Disability |
| 2026-07-20 | Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) | Census | This survey collects data on the volume and pattern of goods movements in the United States. Census is making a number of changes to the survey, including removing a subset of hazardous materials packaging respondents and their corresponding survey questions. | Economy |
| 2026-07-27 | Health Professions Student Loan Program, Loans for Disadvantaged Students Program | HHS/HRSA | These forms are used to determine the eligibility of students who are applying for loans for various health education programs. Throught this listing, HRSA is formalizing changes to gender questions made last year and may be making other changes, though it is difficult to tell from the supplemental materials that are available. | Education |
| 2026-07-27 | Client Assistance Program Performance Report | ED | The CAP program provides advocacy and legal representation to individuals receiving services under the Rehabilitation Act to resolve disputes with programs providing such services, including vocational rehabilitation services. This form collects information on people served by CAP grantees. This listing is formalizing the removal of questions and response options related to gender identity from the reporting form. | Disability |
| 2026-07-27 | Consolidated State Performance Report Renewal | ED | This reporting tool collects information from states related to the performance and monitoring activities of programs under ESSA and the McKinney-Vento Act. ED is making significant changes to the collection, including eliminating questions on Assessment waivers, Title III, Part A allocation timeline, McKinney-Vento and ARP Homeless, Certification requirement for OME, Postsecondary URLs, Title I, Part D, and Funding Transferability for State and Local Education Agencies; and combining the CSPR I and II into a single CSPR collection. | Education |
| 2026-07-28 | Health Benefits Election Form | OPM | Federal employees use this form to enroll in or change enrollment in federal health insurance. Through this listing, OPM is formalizing changes to questions about gender and swapping out the phrase "biological child" for "natural child." They also indicate that additional changes to the form may be made "to facilitate verification of eligibility or to provide revised instructions" in response to a forthcoming regulation on verification requirements for family member coverage. | Healthcare |
| 2026-08-03 | RFI on Family Friendly Transit | DOT | In this RFI, DOT asks a number of questions about data that is available for (or that should be available for) better understanding the availability and accessibility of public transportation. For example, the RFI asks for input on "the extent to which transit agencies collect and use data regarding accessibility of transit systems beyond the minimum ADA requirements;" as well as on "the extent to which agencies make real-time service data available to customers to support trip planning, including service disruptions." | Transportation |
| 2026-08-03 | Autism CARES Initiative Evaluation | HHS/HRSA | This evaluation measures outputs and outcomes across program components, identifies promising practices and implementation facilitators; assesses how investments function as a system to advance shared outcomes; and provides annual, decision-ready findings for HRSA leadership and project officers. HRSA is revising the evaluation by eliminating one-time, grantee-specific, semi-structured interviews and replacing them with semi-structured, time-limited virtual focus groups designed to elicit cross-program and systems-level insights. | Health and Safety |
| 2026-08-03 | Census of Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies (CTLEA) | DOJ/BJS | The CTLEA, last fielded in 2019, collects data on all tribal law enforcement agencies operating in the U.S. Data collected include the number of sworn staff by tribe and type of agency, arrests and call for service and functions performed by each agency. The listing indicates that changes are being made to the survey, but no supplemental materials are available to help us understand what changes are being made. | Policing |
| 2026-08-03 | National Survey of Syringe Services Programs (NSSSP) | CDC | This survey asks SSPs about operational characteristics and services, funding resources, community relations, and key operational successes and challenges. The listing indicates that the survey is being revised, but no supplemental materials are available to help us identify what changes are being made. | Drug Use |
| 2026-08-07 | Juvenile Facility Census Program (JFCP) | DOJ/OJP | The JFCP consists of two separate survey modules: the Youth Population module collects detailed information on individual youth housed in facilities, including demographic details, placement characteristics, and length of stay; the Facility Operations module collects information on resident services, facility features, and operations. DOJ is making changes to both modules, including formalizing changes to gender questions, removing questions on several services, reformatting population total questions, and streamlining questions on mental health. | Criminal Justice |
| 2026-08-10 | RFI on Online Career Tools and the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) Program | DOL | DOL is seeking input from workforce development experts, workers, and employers on how to improve ETA's online career tools and the O*NET program. Among many other questions, DOL is looking for input on barriers to accessing public workforce data and about improvements that could be made to taxonomies, metadata, filters, etc. | Labor/Employment |
| 2026-08-10 | Stronger Connections Grant Program Annual Performance Report | ED | The Stronger Connections program provides funds to school departments with "high needs" - those with high concentrations of poverty and one or more of the following: need for additional mental health staff, high rates of chronic absenteeism, exclusionary discipline, referrals to the juvenile justice system, bullying/harassment, community and school violence, students experiencing homelessness, students in foster care, or substance use, or where a disaster or traumatic event has occurred. ED is discontinuing the annual reporting requirement for these grants and replacing it with only a final report. | Education |