Take Action!
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. Take Action! highlights surveys or forms the government is changing, renewing, or introducing. 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, or
- Send your thoughts to the agency or the White House through the reginfo.gov website.
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Due Date | Collection | Agency | Summary | Main Issues |
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2025-10-07 | Application To Make and Register NFA Firearm | ATF | This form is used by any person other than a qualified manufacturer who wishes to make and register an NFA firearm. In addition to several technical changes, ATF is revising this form to combine the race and ethnicity questions in alignment with the new SPD15 standards. | Gun Violence |
2025-10-07 | Application To Transfer and Register NFA Firearm (Tax Paid) | ATF | This form is used by people with an NFA firearm to apply to ATF for approval to transfer and register the firearm. In addition to reducing transfer fees to $0, ATF is making a number of small technical revisions and combining the race and ethnicity questions to align with new SPD15 guidance. | Gun Violence |
2025-10-06 | Monthly Retail Surveys | Census | The Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MRTS) provides estimates of monthly retail sales, end-of-month merchandise inventories, and quarterly e-commerce sales; the Advance Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MARTS) provides an early indication of monthly sales for retail trade and food services firms. The Census Bureau is planning to extend both of these surveys without changes. | Trade |
2025-10-06 | Application To Transfer and Register NFA Firearm (Tax Exempt) | ATF | This form is used to apply for permission to transfer and register a National Firearms Act (NFA) firearm. In addition to several other technical changes, ATF is revising this form to combine the race and ethnicity questions in alignment with SPD15. | Gun Violence |
2025-10-06 | Data Resource Toolkit Protocol for the Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program | SAMHSA | This suite of forms are is used to record information about mental and behavioral health services provided to people and communities in the wake of a presidentially-declared major emergency. Forms are being revised to update race and ethnicity questions to align with SPD15, to remove gender options other than male or female, to remove questions about recent immigration, to add a question about primary languages spoken during encounters, and to implement several other technical changes. | Emergency Management |
2025-10-06 | Selective Service System Registration Form 1 | SSS | This form is used by 18-year-old citizens and immigrants living in the US to register for military service. The listing indicates that SSS is making changes to the Privacy Act statement on the form - the list of entities that SSS will share registration information with - but it's unclear from the listing what changes are being made. | Military |
2025-10-03 | FDA Food Safety and Nutrition Survey | FDA | FDA is reinstating its Food Safety Survey and Health and Diet Survey, to measure consumers' knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about food safety and nutrition issues. The proposed 2025 FSANS will contain many of the same questions and topics as the previous surveys to facilitate measuring trends in food safety and diet knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors over time. The proposed survey will also be updated to explore emerging consumer food safety and nutrition topics and to expand understanding of previously asked topics. | Food Access |
2025-10-02 | NTIA Internet Use Survey | DOC/NTIA | This survey, a supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS), asks roughly 60 questions about whether and how Americans use the Internet. NTIA has made several changes to the survey in this iteration; commenters to the 60-day notice supported most of the changes and suggested minor revisions - it doesn't appear that NTIA has changed anything in response to those comments. | Science and Technology |
2025-09-30 | Direct Digital Data Feeds | Census | The Census Bureau is planning a new program which will allow businesses, state and local government and education agencies, and other entities normally reporting in private- and public-sector business surveys to provide us with Direct Digital Data Feeds. A data feed is an automated transmission of data from an organization's existing digital systems such as databases, accounting software, or administrative records directly to the Census Bureau, without requiring manual data entry or separate survey responses. Initially, the Census Bureau will focus on inviting large businesses, which are typically included in multiple surveys, to participate in the program. | Data Collection |
2025-09-30 | Selective Service Systems of Record Notice | SSS | This notice amends all 7 Selective Service System's Systems of Records Notices' (SORNs) routine uses to allow for the disclosure of personally identifiable information to the appropriate parties in the course of responding to a breach or suspected breach of the agency's PII or to assist another agency in its response to a confirmed or suspected breach. | Data Sharing |
2025-09-29 | Understanding Participant Experiences in SNAP E&T | USDA | This evaluation will help FNS develop a comprehensive understanding of how SNAP participants experience the SNAP Employment and Training program and to identify actionable recommendations to help programs improve their customer service and efficiently connect participants with training and services that meet their needs. | Food Access |
2025-09-29 | Understanding Service Member Experiences with Family Planning | DOD | This survey will help DOD understand how service members experience family planning both within the Military Health System and via community providers. These focus groups will also gather information on service members' experiences with any new policies related to reproductive health. | Reproductive Justice |
2025-09-29 | Defense Organizational Climate Survey (DEOCS) | DOD | This survey is used to assess the unit or organization climate as measured by 19 unique protective and risk factors associated with the six strategic target outcomes (STOs): sexual assault, sexual harassment, racial/ethnic discrimination, suicide, readiness, and retention. These data provide the DoD’s only official estimates of racial/ethnic harassment and discrimination. It's unclear from the listing what in the survey is being changed. | Military |
2025-09-29 | Federal-State Unemployment Compensation (UC) Program; Data Availability | DOL | DOL is proposing to revise its regulation on unemployment compensation data to require - rather than to permit - the disclosure of confidential UC information to Federal officials for the purposes of UC program oversight and audits. According to the proposal, mandatory collection of this data is essential to ensure the UC program is being administered consistent with Federal law and to identify and prevent fraud. | Labor/Employment |
2025-09-29 | Medicare Quality of Care Complaint Form | HHS | This form, which is used by beneficiaries to submit a written complaint about the quality of care they received, is being revised to update demographic questions to align with the new standards in SPD-15. | Healthcare |
2025-09-29 | Nurse Corps Scholarship Program | HRSA | This form is used by HRSA to determine applicant eligibility for scholarships to nursing students in exchange for a minimum 2-year full-time service commitment (or part-time equivalent), at an eligible health care facility with a critical shortage of nurses. HRSA is making minor changes to the form, including replacing “gender” with “sex” and a discontinuing the collection of resumes within the application as they are not used to determine eligibility. | Healthcare |
2025-09-29 | Adjudication and Appeal Records | DOJ | DOJ is significantly changing its adjudication and appeals records sharing to, among other things, increase sharing with the Dept of State to get their opinion on cases or claims, sharing with other agencies to aid them in benefit eligibility determinations (according to the listing, "The fact that an individual is in proceedings before EOIR, and the outcome of such proceedings, may constitute evidence necessary to determine eligibility for certain federal benefits."), and sharing "aggregate statistical information with the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom for the purpose of preparing a variety of reports advising on the status of religious freedom abroad." | Immigration |
2025-09-29 | Privacy Act Rulemaking: Adjudication and Appeal Records | DOJ | DOJ is proposing to revise its Privacy Act regulations to allow for additional sharing of its adjudicaiton and appeals records. | Immigration |
2025-09-26 | National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses | Census | This survey collects data on the evolving demographics, educational qualifications, and career employment patterns of RNs. The survey has been fully redesigned for 2026; changes include removing items, modifying existing items, and adding new content. | Healthcare |
2025-09-26 | National Disease Surveillance Program | CDC | Generally, the NDSP monitors communicable diseases. This portion of the NDSPcovers surveillance activities associated with four, rare diseases: 1. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD); 2. Reye Syndrome; 3. Kawasaki Syndrome; and 4. Acute Flaccid Myelitis. Changes are being requested only to the Acute Flaccid Myelitis form's race and ethnicity responses, though it's unclear from the listing exactly what changes are being made. | Health and Safety |