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. DataWatch — 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 | Summary | Main Issues | New/Renew | Agency | Respondents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-15 | National Vital Statistics Report Form | This form collects data on births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, and divorces reported in the National Vital Statistics System. It's unclear from the listing whether any changes are being made to the collection. | Data Collection | Renewal | CDC | States |
| 2025-08-15 | Regional Economic Development Data Collection Instrument | This listing authorizes a one-time questionnaire that will be sent to EDA Tech Hubs consortium leads to gather data and stories to inform regional impact evaluations, resources, and tools for regional economic development decision-makers. | Economic Development | New | DOC/EDA | Grantees |
| 2025-08-15 | Annual Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad | This survey obtains sample data on the financial structure and operations of U.S. parents and their foreign affiliates. This notice announces BEA's intention to discontinue collection of minority-owned foreign affiliates. | Trade | Revision | BEA | Businesses |
| 2025-08-15 | Standard Application Process Common Form | The Evidence Act required OMB to establish a Standard Application Process (SAP) for requesting access to certain confidential data assets. The SAP Portal is an online interface connecting applicants seeking data with a catalog of data assets owned by the federal statistical agencies and units as well as an application to apply for those assets. The SAP Portal is not a data repository or warehouse; confidential data assets continue to be stored in secure data access facilities owned and hosted by the federal statistical agencies and units. This form is used by researchers and other data users to apply to access confidential data assets held by 15 federal statistical agencies or units for the purposes of developing evidence. | Data Collection | Extension | NSF | Researchers, States |
| 2025-08-15 | Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program Performance Analysis Study | The SRAE PAS collects information on program structure, cost, and support for implementation; program attendance, reach, and dosage; the characteristics of youth involved in programming; youth sexual and other risky behavior prior to program participation; and youth sexual and other risky behavior intentions at program exit. In addition to removing questions about gender identity from these studies, ACS is proposing revisions to the current performance measures to address feedback from grant recipients to simplify and clarify participant surveys, and to ensure the measures meet FYSB data needs. | Sex Education | Revision | HHS/ACF | Grantees |
| 2025-08-15 | Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services Activity and Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services Outcomes Reports | The Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) program identifies and ranks unemployment insurance (UI) claimants by their potential for exhausting UI benefits before returning to work and refers these claimants to appropriate reemployment services. The ETA 9048 report describes the number of claimants at various points in the WPRS system from initial profiling through the completion of specific reemployment services. The ETA 9049 report describes the reemployment experience of profiled claimants selected for referral to services by examining the state's existing wage record files to capture which quarter the individuals who received reemployment services became employed, the amount of wages they earned, and whether the individuals receiving services changed industries. | Labor/Employment | Extension | DOL | Workforce Agencies |
| 2025-08-15 | National Youth Tobacco Survey | The NYTS provides national estimates of tobacco use behaviors, information about exposure to pro- and anti-tobacco influences, and information about racial and ethnic disparities in tobacco-related topics is the most comprehensive source of nationally representative tobacco data among students in grades 9-12, and is the only source of data for students in grades 6-8. | Health and Safety | Revision | CDC | Individuals |
| 2025-08-15 | National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Program | The NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Program was started in 2011 to develop and nurture a national innovation ecosystem built upon fundamental research that guides the output of scientific and engineering discoveries closer to the development of technologies, products, and services that benefit society. This clearance would allow the NSF I-Corps program to collect characteristics, inputs, outputs, and outcomes information from the I-Corps teams funded by the program. This collection will enable the evaluation of the impacts on program themes of Training an Entrepreneurial Workforce, Translating Technologies, Nurturing an Innovation Ecosystem, and Enabling Economic Impact. | Science and Technology | Revision | NSF | Grantees |
| 2025-08-14 | Federal Student Aid Partner Connect Records System | ED is consolidating some of its record systems - and associate web portals - into a unified digital front-end platform for entities participating in or involved in the administration of financial aid programs for postsecondary students authorized under title IV of the Higher Education Act. Because of that consolidation, ED is discontinuing use of two other records systems - the Student Aid Internet Gateway (SAIG) and the Postsecondary Education Participants System (PEPS). The notice also adds new users and routine uses, which include disclosure to states and law enforcement agencies for the purpose of identifying, preventing, or recouping improper payments; and disclosure to DOJ for advice on any matter. | Education | New | ED | N/A |
| 2025-08-12 | Campus Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA) Survey | This survey is a collection tool to compile the annual data on college athletics. The data is collected from the individual institutions by ED and is made available to the public through the Equity in Athletics Data Analysis Cutting Tool as well as the College Navigator. | Education | Renewal | ED | Universities, State Governments |
| 2025-08-12 | WIC Tribal Organizations and U.S. Territories Study | WIC is a food access program intended to improve the health of nutritionally at-risk women and children. This study aims to inform FNS about variations in operations among Tribal Organizations, U.S. territories, and geographic States administering WIC. The results of the study may inform efforts to improve WIC program operations and participant services. | Food Access | New | USDA | Tribal organizations and US territories |
| 2025-08-12 | Family Self-Sufficiency | The FSS Program promotes the development of local strategies to coordinate public and private resources that help housing choice voucher program participants, public housing tenants, and tenants in the Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) program obtain employment that will enable participating families to achieve economic independence and reduce dependence on welfare assistance and rental subsidies. This notice announces changes to the forms associated with this program, but doesn't clarify what changes are being made. | Housing | Revision | HUD | PHAs |
| 2025-08-11 | CMS Modified System of Records | CMS is modifying its Home Health Agency (HHA) Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) to collect information on patients with any payer source, instead of just patients with Medicare/Medicaid pay sources and to add new routine uses, which include sharing with courts and other adjudicative bodies and sharing with congressional offices in response to constituent requests. | Healthcare | Revision | HHS/CMS | N/A |
| 2025-08-11 | Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students With Intellectual Disabilities (TPSID) Evaluation Protocol | In 2020, ED entered into a grant with Umass Boston to conduct 22 model demonstration projects aimed at creating inclusive comprehensive transition and postsecondary programs for students with intellectual disabilities known as Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (TPSIDs). Although it is unclear what changes are being made, the listing indicates that NCC has streamlined and simplified the previously approved evaluation system for the TPSID programs. | Education | Revision | ED | Program participants |
| 2025-08-11 | Nurse Corps Scholarship Program | The Nurse Corps SP collects data to determine an applicant's eligibility for the program, monitor a participant's continued enrollment in a school of nursing, monitor the participant's compliance with the Nurse Corps SP service obligation, and prepare annual reports to Congress. This notice announces minor changes to this information collection, including replacing “gender” with “sex” and a discontinuation of the collection of resumes within the application as they are not used to determine eligibility. | Healthcare | Revision | HHS | Individuals |
| 2025-08-08 | Multiple Worksite Report (MWR) and the Report of Federal Employment and Wages (RFEW) | The collections covered by this listing support the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), a Federal/State cooperative effort which compiles monthly employment data, quarterly wages data, and business identification information from employers subject to State Unemployment Insurance (UI) laws. No changes are being made to this collection. | Economic Justice | Renewal | DOL | Businesses |
| 2025-08-08 | Plan for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance-Title IV-E | Child welfare agencies requesting federal funding for foster care and adoption assistance, as well as for the optional guardianship assistance, kinship navigator and prevention services programs, use these forms to provide assurances the programs will be administered in conformity with the specific requirements stipulated in title IV-E of the Social Security Act. Several changes are being made to these forms; from the listing, the changes appear to be innocuous. | Child Welfare | Revision | HHS/ACF | Child welfare agencies |
| 2025-08-08 | National Directory of New Hires | The NDNH is a federally mandated repository of employment and wage information used by state child support agencies to locate a parent living or working in a different state and to take appropriate interstate actions to establish, modify, or enforce a child support order. Minor changes are being made to the collection, including changing the date format and removing the option to submit by mail. | Child Welfare | Revision | HHS/ACF | Employers, SLT governments |
| 2025-08-08 | Reserve Component Spouse Survey | This survey is the primary source for reliable and generalizable data on the effects of military life on military spouses and their families and the impact of military life on Reserve component war fighter readiness and retention. This data provides vital information on the need for programs and policies under the purview of DoD's Military Community and Family Policy Department. It's unclear from the listing whether any changes are being made to this survey. | Military | Renewal | DOD | Individuals and households |
| 2025-08-07 | Greenhouse Gas Emissions Value Analysis | This form will be used to collect information from electricity producers in order to provide such electricity producers with an emissions value that a qualifying facility may use to petition the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a Provisional Emissions Rate (PER) and claim the section 45Y or 48E tax credits. | Climate/Environment | New | DOE | Businesses |