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2026-08-16 Domestic Mail Manual USPS USPS is proposing a new federal database linking people who receive mail or absentee ballots to their addresses and the unique barcodes on their outgoing and return ballot envelopes. The records would be retained for five years and used by election officials and for law-enforcement purposes, allowing named voters’ ballot mail to be tracked even though their voting choices would not be collected. The system would take effect only if USPS finalizes its currently enjoined ballot-mail rule. Voting Rights
2026-08-15 Application for the Reviewer Contact Information Form SAMHSA SAMHSA is revising its application for grant peer reviewers to replace gender with a binary sex question; remove transgender and “prefer not to answer” options; implementing new SPD15 standards by adopting a combined race and ethnicity question that adds Middle Eastern or North African and removes “Mixed Race”; and eliminate LGBTQ and racial or ethnic minority expertise categories. It also removes SAMHSA’s statement of values promoting positive behavioral health. Civil Rights
2026-08-14 ORR Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Program Application HHS/ACF ORR is revising the Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Program application by cutting open-ended questions and using more structured questions on sponsors, placement preferences, and minors’ medical, mental-health, behavioral, and accommodation needs. Despite public comments, the form limits sex responses to male or female and continues using the term “unaccompanied alien child.” However, in response to public comments, ORR restored an optional upload for child advocates’ best-interest determinations and added language allowing minors, providers, advocates, and legal services providers to identify placement and support needs. Immigration
2026-08-14 Regulatory Agendas Various The 2026 Unified Regulatory Agenda previews a broad wave of rules that could change what data the federal government collects, how it verifies eligibility, and what civil-rights information remains available. Across agencies, planned actions would eliminate or narrow some race, disability, language-access, and disparate-impact requirements; expand immigration-status verification, biometrics, and public-benefit eligibility checks; increase fraud, waste, abuse, and program-integrity data collection; and revise demographic fields, including new requirements to collect “biological sex” in some settings. Other planned rules could affect SNAP and WIC participant and retailer data, ACA eligibility documentation, federal-contractor disability reporting, and data used to enforce discrimination protections. Several of these actions were scheduled for July or August 2026, suggesting a substantial number of data-related rules may be forthcoming soon. Data Collection
2026-08-13 Consumer Experience Survey Data Collection HHS/CMS CMS is revising its survey of Marketplace plan enrollees to remove four tobacco-use questions, combine race and ethnicity into one question aligned with the 2024 SPD15 federal standards, and update questions about telehealth. The revisions also add screening questions to reduce unnecessary follow-up questions and make several changes intended to improve response rates. Healthcare
2026-08-13 State Exchange Improper Payment Measurement (SEIPM) HHS/CMS CMS is creating a new program requiring state-based Health Insurance Marketplaces to submit annual samples of households receiving advance premium tax credits so CMS can assess whether subsidies were calculated correctly. CMS will report an aggregate improper-payment rate across state Exchanges; an improper payment does not necessarily indicate fraud. Waste, Fraud, and Abuse (WFA)
2026-08-12 Insider Threat Incident Reporting Tool DHS/TSA TSA is seeking approval for a new online tool that allows current or former people with authorized access to DHS facilities, systems, or information to report suspected insider threats. Reports may include personal information about the person accused and details of the incident; TSA also wants the tool approved as a common form that other federal agencies could adopt. Federal Government
2026-08-12 NSF and Treasury Data Matching Program NSF NSF is establishing an agency-wide match between records for applicants and recipients of grants, fellowships, and other federal funds and Treasury’s Do Not Pay system to screen eligibility and identify or recover alleged improper payments. NSF may share identifying, contact, and bank-account information; potential matches must be reviewed and verified before adverse action. Waste, Fraud, and Abuse (WFA)
2026-08-12 SPD 8: North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) OMB/OIRA OMB is seeking comment on proposed 2027 updates to NAICS, the government-wide system for classifying businesses by industry. The changes would separate streaming services from social networks, recognize spaceport operations and electric-vehicle motor manufacturing, and combine several related manufacturing, transit, training, and other industries. OMB is not proposing requested new classifications for the bioeconomy. If finalized, federal statistical agencies would use the revised categories for data covering 2027 and later. Economy
2026-08-11 Race and Ethnic Data Reporting Form HUD HUD uses this form for collecting information concerning the race, ethnicity, and other protected class data of the populations intended to benefit from HUD funding. The listing does not indicate that any changes to the form are being made at this time. However, the last time this form was renewed HUD indicated that in this renewal they would be updating the form to reflect the 2024 SPD15 standards on race and ethnicity data collection. Housing
2026-08-11 DOC-Census Workforce Development Collection DOC/NIST This new form will collect data on individuals who participate in workforce development training programs sponsored by the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Economic Development Administration (EDA). The collected data will be linked to Census Bureau data sets—including demographic, household, and jobs data—to produce measurable metrics that inform workforce training program outcomes and support evidence-based decision-making for future investments. Labor/Employment
2026-08-11 AmeriCorps State and National Application Instructions CNCS Americorps is proposing a number of changes to its grant application instructions, including addressing how unexpended funds are handled; removing the fixed percentage rate method as an option for calculating administrative/indirect costs for cost-reimbursement grants; updating the de minimis indirect cost rate; adding a new Attachment; adding clarifying language; and reflecting regulatory changes since the last renewal, including, for example, updating the match requirements and updating terminology. Federal Funding
2026-08-10 National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center Evaluation Package HHS/ACF ACF is revising the evaluation forms used to collect feedback on National Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Center services by replacing gender questions with sex questions limited to male and female response options, and by removing or rewriting all questions referencing diversity, equity, and inclusion; they also streamline the forms and add evaluation of SOAR Demonstration Grant activities. Trafficking
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
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 Medical Examination for Visa or Immigration Benefit State Physicians use this form to record information about non-US citizens seeking entry into the US. Through this listing, State is expanding the scope of the collection to allow eMedical processing for all people subject to a medical examination under the INA, including not only immigrant visa applicants but also certain nonimmigrant, follow-to-join refugee, diversity visa, asylum, parole, and K-visa applicants. Immigration
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
2026-08-07 Income Driven Repayment Plan Request ED ED is revising the income-driven student-loan repayment form to add the new Repayment Assistance Plan, restrict borrowers with loans disbursed on or after July 1, 2026 to that plan among income-driven options, and notify borrowers that PAYE and ICR will end in 2028. Education
2026-08-06 Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program Measures HHS/HRSA HRSA is revising annual performance reporting for Rural Health Care Services Outreach grantees by reorganizing existing measures, adding nine maternal-health measures for Healthy Rural Hometown Initiative grantees, and adding or revising questions about whether funded services can be sustained after the grant ends. Healthcare
2026-08-06 Annual Moving To Work (MTW) Plan and Report Elements HUD HUD is revising annual reporting for newer Moving to Work housing agencies by eliminating many general questions and all activity-specific questions about policies such as work requirements, rent changes, and time-limited assistance. Agencies would also stop reporting their own evaluations, reducing standardized information available to HUD, residents, and the public about how these policies operate and affect families. Housing
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