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| Due Date | Collection | Agency | Summary | Main Issues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-24 | HUD Evaluation Policy | HUD | HUD has revised its department-wide policy governing research and program evaluation, removing several explicit commitments to equity-focused research and demographic data. The prior policy directed researchers to examine structural racism and unequal impacts across groups, collect and report data on race, ethnicity, gender, income and other characteristics where feasible, engage underserved communities in research, and examine regulatory impacts across demographic groups. Those provisions are absent from the new policy, which instead incorporates the administration's “Gold Standard Science” framework. HUD retains general requirements for rigor, relevance, transparency, independence and ethics and adds stronger language encouraging publication of datasets, analytic code and model documentation, but also removes some specific transparency commitments, including a pledge to release methodologically valid evaluations regardless of their findings. | Evidence-Based Policymaking |
| 2026-09-24 | NASA Complaint of Discrimination Form 1355 | NASA | NASA is revising its discrimination complaint form to remove gender-related reporting options and replace references to “gender identity” with “sex,” which NASA says aligns the form with current executive orders and federal requirements. The form continues to cover complaints based on sex, including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions. Other changes update contact, Privacy Act, and administrative information. | Civil Rights |
| 2026-09-24 | ED and Treasury Matching Program | ED | ED is establishing an agency-wide matching program with Treasury’s Do Not Pay system to identify, prevent, and recover allegedly improper federal payments. ED will compare information about recipients and applicants for federal funds, including certain grant and scholarship recipients and people identified as having received overpayments, against federal databases used to verify payment and award eligibility, with matches potentially triggering additional review or recovery action. The program explicitly implements the administration’s “fraud, waste, and abuse” agenda and is part of a broader expansion of automated data matching to scrutinize eligibility for federal funds. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-09-24 | DOD and HHS Matching Program | DOD | DOD and CMS are establishing a matching program to verify Medicare enrollment for military health system beneficiaries and determine their eligibility for TRICARE benefits. DoD will match identifying information for eligible beneficiaries against CMS Medicare records and use the results to update DEERS with current Medicare enrollment information. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-09-24 | CPS Civic Engagement and Volunteering Supplement | Census | Americorps and Census are seeking approval for the 2027 CPS Civic Engagement and Volunteering Supplement, which measures volunteering and other forms of civic participation. The 2027 questionnaire is unchanged from 2023 and 2025, although AmeriCorps is also clearing alternative wording for possible future internet self-response. Commenters urged AmeriCorps to restore more detailed questions about formal volunteering; AmeriCorps agreed the data would be valuable but said Census limits on supplement length prevent adding them now, and identified questions about types of volunteer organizations and activities as priorities for future rounds. | Civic Engagement |
| 2026-09-24 | Title IV Loans Matching Program | ED | ED and SSA are establishing a matching program to identify student loan borrowers and TEACH Grant recipients whom SSA has determined have disabilities for which medical improvement is not expected and who may qualify for Total and Permanent Disability discharge. ED will use matched name, date of birth, Social Security number, and disability-status information to proactively notify eligible borrowers and automatically discharge their loans or obligations unless they opt out, reducing the need for borrowers to separately document their disability. | Disability |
| 2026-09-23 | Modernizing Suspension and Debarment Rules | FCC | FCC is implementing new suspension and debarment requirements across programs including Lifeline, E-Rate, Rural Health Care, Telecommunications Relay Services, and the National Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution Program. Participants will be required to disclose certain criminal or civil charges, convictions, federal exclusions, and recent terminations of government transactions, and to certify that contractors, subcontractors, consultants, and other downstream partners also comply with federal suspension and debarment rules. The FCC says it will use the information to identify fraud and other misconduct and determine whether applicants and other participants should be permitted to receive federal funds. | Waste, Fraud, and Abuse (WFA) |
| 2026-09-23 | Application To Restore Federal Firearms Rights (Relief From Federal Firearms Disabilities) | DOJ | DOJ is creating a new application for people and entities prohibited under federal law from possessing firearms to seek restoration of their federal firearms rights. The form implements DOJ’s newly finalized process for granting relief from federal firearms prohibitions, reviving a pathway that had effectively been unavailable for more than 30 years. DOJ estimates that approximately 330,000 people or entities will apply each year. | Gun Violence |
| 2026-09-21 | DHS Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Complaint and Privacy Waiver Form | DHS | DHS is seeking to continue its form for submitting complaints about civil-rights and civil-liberties violations involving immigration enforcement, detention, airport screening, disaster programs, and other DHS activities. Although the notice labels the collection a reinstatement “without change,” the prior form expressly identifies gender identity as a protected category, while the notice omits it and instead lists “sex” twice; this may be a drafting error, but it also raises concern that DHS intends to remove gender-identity discrimination from the complaint form without acknowledging a program change. The older form also expressly assures access to interpreters, translated forms, and complaints in languages other than English, making the absence of a proposed form especially important for assessing whether those protections remain. | Civil Rights |
| 2026-09-21 | Transformed—Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) | HHS/CMS | CMS is revising T-MSIS, the national beneficiary- and claims-level Medicaid and CHIP database, to support three changes. States will report updated immigration-status information and whether coverage ended because of a status change or failed verification. States must also report monthly whether adults subject to the Medicaid work requirement met the 80-hour standard, their qualifying activities and exemptions, and whether they were disenrolled for noncompliance. Finally, CMS will add a code separately identifying per-member-per-month home-health payments, which are currently grouped under “other,” to improve oversight of those programs. | Healthcare |
| 2026-09-21 | Security Threat Assessment for Individuals Applying for a Hazardous Materials Endorsement for a Commercial Driver's License | DHS/TSA | TSA is renewing the collection used to conduct security-threat assessments for commercial drivers seeking hazardous-materials endorsements, including extensive biographic information, immigration status, criminal history, and fingerprints. TSA is also implementing previously approved enrollment in the FBI’s Rap Back program, which replaces reliance on a one-time fingerprint background check with ongoing notifications to TSA when participating drivers’ fingerprints are associated with new criminal-history information. | Transportation |
| 2026-09-20 | IRS and Louisiana Data Matching Agreement | IRS | IRS is modifying an existing data-matching agreement used by Louisiana to verify income and determine eligibility and benefit amounts for federally assisted programs. Louisiana can send IRS the names and Social Security numbers of applicants and beneficiaries, and IRS returns detailed unearned-income records, including income type and amount, payer and recipient identifying information, addresses, and account information. Louisiana may run matches monthly for new applicants and annually for all beneficiaries. The modification changes the Louisiana programs participating in the match, with the Department of Children and Family Services no longer participating. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-09-18 | Consumer Price Index Commodities and Services Survey | DOL/BLS | BLS is seeking continued approval for the Consumer Price Index Commodities and Services Survey, which collects prices from retail stores, service providers, doctors’ offices, and other establishments to calculate the commodities and services portion of the CPI. No substantive changes to the collection are proposed. | Economy |
| 2026-09-18 | Attending Physician's Certification of Continuing Workers' Compensation Disability | DOL | DOL is seeking approval for a new standardized form for federal employees receiving continuing workers’ compensation benefits to obtain medical certification of their ongoing disability from their attending physician. The form will collect information about continued disability, medical treatment and work capacity, which OWCP will use to determine continued benefit eligibility and payment amounts and to support return-to-work efforts. The form is new, but the underlying requirement to periodically provide medical evidence of continuing disability is longstanding; the new CA-21 largely standardizes information that workers and physicians currently provide through narrative medical reports. | Disability |
| 2026-09-18 | Survey of Housing Starts, Sales, and Completions | DOC/Census | The Census Bureau is seeking to continue, without changes, its monthly Survey of Housing Starts, Sales, and Completions, which collects information from builders and property owners on the timing, characteristics, sale, price, and financing of new residential construction. The survey produces federal statistics on housing starts, completions, and new-home sales; estimated reporting burden is increasing modestly because construction projects are taking longer to start, complete, and sell. | Housing |
| 2026-09-18 | Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories and Orders (M3) Survey | DOC/Census | The Census Bureau is seeking to continue, without changes, its monthly Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories and Orders Survey, which collects data from about 5,000 manufacturers on shipments, new and unfilled orders, and inventories to measure current industrial activity and future production. Paper reporting was phased out in January 2026, with responses now submitted online or by email. | Economy |
| 2026-09-16 | 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 |
| 2026-09-16 | Federal-State Unemployment Compensation (UC) Program; Data Availability | DOL | DOL finalized a rule requiring state unemployment agencies to provide confidential unemployment compensation data to federal officials when requested for program oversight and audits. Previously, federal regulations permitted states to make these disclosures; the new rule makes them mandatory, giving DOL, its Inspector General, and other authorized federal officials guaranteed access to information needed to investigate fraud, improper payments, and state administration of unemployment programs. DOL made one significant privacy-related change after public comments: federal officials outside DOL, DOL-OIG, and GAO must explain in writing what data they are requesting, how they will use it for unemployment-program oversight or audits, and their legal authority, and generally may use the data only for the stated purpose. DOL rejected broader objections that mandatory disclosure exceeds its statutory authority or creates unacceptable privacy and federalism concerns. | Labor/Employment |
| 2026-09-14 | IPEDS Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS) | ED | ED is moving forward with a major new collection of highly detailed college admissions data, requiring institutions to report admissions, financial aid, enrollment, and student-outcome information broken down by characteristics including race and sex. ED says the data will help students compare their likelihood of admission, while also explicitly saying it intends to use the collection to study the role of race in college admissions before and after the Supreme Court’s affirmative-action decision. Colleges will prepare student-level records for the collection, which will then be aggregated before submission to ED, allowing the government to analyze admissions and outcomes for specific race-sex groups and other characteristics at individual institutions. | Education |
| 2026-09-14 | Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Formula | HUD | HUD is seeking comment on possible changes to the formula used to allocate Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding, including proposals to rely less on SBA and FEMA data, base economic-development and infrastructure needs partly on housing damage, and establish different thresholds for metropolitan, rural, and Tribal areas. HUD will continue using its 2025 formula for 2023 and 2024 disasters while it develops a final rule. | Housing |