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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-30 | Recompete Pilot Program Implementation | Recompete Pilot Program grantees will use these forms to submit information to EDA on topics like employment and wage outcomes for Recompete program participants, economic distress in service areas, effectiveness of workforce development programming, effectiveness of small business supports, and local economic development capacity. | Economic Development | New | EDA | Grantees |
| 2025-07-28 | Generic Clearance for the Collection of Certain Biographic and Employment Identifiers on Immigration Forms | This listing adds six new questions to several immigration forms, including petitioner SSN, family member information, and employer information. | Immigration | New | DHS | Individuals and households |
| 2025-07-28 | American Time Use Survey | ATUS measures how people in the United States spend their time. For example, ATUS measures time spent with children, working, providing eldercare, sleeping, or doing leisure activities. Several other Federal surveys collect income and wage data for individuals and families, and analysts often use such measures of material prosperity as proxies for quality of life. Time-use data substantially augment these quality-of-life measures. | Data Collection | Renewal | DOL | Individuals and households |
| 2025-07-28 | Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Data Report | Tribes with an approved Tribal TANF program use these forms to collect data on the recipients served by the tribes' programs. This information includes both aggregated and disaggregated data on case characteristics and individual characteristics. | Food Access | Renewal | HHS | Tribal governments |
| 2025-07-28 | Review Choice Demonstration for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Services | This demonstration project is intended to assist CMS in developing improved procedures for the identification, investigation, and prosecution of Medicare fraud occurring among IRFs providing services to Medicare beneficiaries. CMS plans to continue the demonstration - which uses pre-claim and postpayment review - in Alabama and Pennsylvania, then expand to Texas, and California. | Healthcare | Renewal | CMS | Businesses and non-profits |
| 2025-07-28 | Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Complaint Forms | Treasury is changing its EEO Complaint forms to remove gender identity and sexual orientation as a basis for a sex discrimination complaint, despite the Supreme Court's determination in Bostock v. Clayton that "An employer who fires an individual employee merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964." | LGBTQI+ | Revision | Treasury | Individuals |
| 2025-07-25 | The Impact and Potential of “Co-Production” in Addressing Climate Adaptation Across the Pacific Islands | PI-CASC aims to support a portfolio of research projects that foster long-lasting partnerships between researchers, natural and cultural resource stewards and managers, and community leaders. While building local capacities, PI-CASC endeavors to co-develop the science/knowledge bases informing our current understanding of climate change and its impacts, as well as how we might take steps to adapt to those impacts across the Pacific Islands. PI-CASC is seeking to conduct surveys and interviews with project leaders, collaborators, and community members to better understand the state of co-production across the portfolio and how such cooperative efforts may be improved moving forward. | Climate/Environment | New | USGS | Researchers |
| 2025-07-23 | USDA Matching Program; Privacy Act of 1974 | USDA is creating a new "National Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Information Database," which will be used to verify SNAP recipient eligibility against federally maintained databases. This includes verifying eligibility based on immigration status, identifying and eliminating duplicate enrollments, assisting States in mitigating identity theft, and performing other eligibility and program integrity checks using internal and interagency data. This also includes sharing information with State agencies when necessary to investigate and rectify fraudulent or otherwise improper or illegal SNAP enrollments or transactions. | Food Access | New | USDA | N/A |
| 2025-07-23 | HRSA Uniform Data System | The HRSA Uniform Data System is used to collect information from grantess such as Health Center Program (HCP) awardees and Advanced Nursing Education program awardees. In addition to removing both sexual orientation and gender identity questions, HRSA is adding measures realated to tobacco use, opioid use, substance use, and Alzheimers. | Healthcare | Revision | HRSA | Grantees |
| 2025-07-23 | Retaining Employment and Talent After Injury/Illness Network (RETAIN) Demonstration Projects and Evaluation | RETAIN projects will test the impact of early intervention strategies that improve stay-at-work/return-to-work outcomes of individuals who experience work-related disability while employed. | Labor/Employment | New | DOL | Individuals or households |
| 2025-07-21 | Records Disposition | NARA publishes notice of certain Federal agency requests for records disposition authority (records schedules) for records schedules in which agencies propose to dispose of records they no longer need to conduct agency business. Through this notice, NARA invites comments on 18 disposition requests, including BOP inmate monitoring records, DOJ debt collection records, and records from HHS's National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses. | N/A | New | NARA | N/A |
| 2025-07-21 | National Survey of Digital Health Companies | The Cures Act aimed to advance the exchange of electronic health information by promoting patient access through standardized application programming interfaces (APIs). Ongoing assessment of these technologies is crucial to examining the impacts of the Cures Act's health IT provisions and is critical to informing the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's (ASTP/ONC's) policy efforts. | Healthcare | New | HHS | Digital health companies |
| 2025-07-18 | ACF Matching Program; Privacy Act of 1974 | ACF is re-establishing a matching program between HHS/ACF/OCSS and state agencies administering the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The matching program compares state TANF agency records with new hire, quarterly wage, and unemployment insurance information maintained in the National Directory of New Hires (NDNH). The outcomes of the comparisons help state agencies to establish and verify eligibility for applicants and recipients of TANF benefits, reduce TANF benefit errors, and maintain program integrity. | Public Benefits | New | HHS/ACF | N/A |
| 2025-07-17 | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Work Requirements and Screening | This form incorporates changes to screening protocols to determine whether applicants are eligible for exemptions from the general work requirements and exceptions from the able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWD) time limit. All changes are being made pursuant to the December 2024 Final Rule on SNAP work requirements. | Food Access | Revision | USDA | States and individuals |
| 2025-07-17 | ACF Matching Program; Privacy Act of 1974 | This notice announces a new data matching program under which ACF will compare name and Social Security number (SSN) combinations of unemployment compensation (UC) applicant and recipient records from each state workforce agency (SWA) to new hire and quarterly wage information maintained in the OCSS National Directory of New Hires (NDNH) system of records. Any match results from the comparison are returned to help the SWAs with establishing or verifying UC applicants' and recipients' eligibility for assistance, reducing payment errors, and maintaining program integrity, including determining whether duplicate participation exists or if an applicant or recipient resides in another state. The SWAs may also use the NDNH match information for secondary purposes, such as updating UC recipients' reported participation in work activities, updating recipients' and their employers' contact information, administering the SWAs' tax compliance function, and complying with DOL reporting requirements. | Public Benefits | New | ACF | N/A |
| 2025-07-16 | NIST's Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) | The ISPAB is tasked with identifying emerging managerial, technical, administrative, and physical safeguard issues relative to information security and privacy. Meetings on 7/16 + 7/17 will cover NIST IT Lab activities and updates on several NIST programs. | Privacy | N/A | DOC | N/A |
| 2025-07-14 | Evaluation of the Center for Legal and Judicial Innovation and Advancement (CLJIA) | This notice announces a revision to what was originally related to a larger project, the Evaluation of the Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative, focused on studying outcomes of TA to child welfare agencies and courts, for both states and tribes. This request will remove most of the prior instruments approved for this project. The larger project was successful in getting information about the broad array of TA. It also showed therein that there was more variation among the professional audiences being served than anticipated and thus CB had opted to pursue evaluation individually by Center going forward. | Child Welfare | Revision | HHS/ACF | Individuals |
| 2025-07-14 | Telehealth Resource Center Performance Measurement | In order to evaluate existing programs, recipients of the NTRC and RTRC cooperative agreements submit data to HRSA through HRSA's DCP. The data are used to measure the effectiveness of the technical assistance. | Evaluation | Revision | HRSA | Grantees |
| 2025-07-14 | Regional Partnership Grants National Cross-Site Evaluation and Evaluation Technical Assistance | RPG grants develop interagency collaborations and integration of programs, activities, and services designed to increase well-being, improve permanency, and enhance the safety of children who are in an out-of-home placement or at risk of being placed in out-of-home care as a result of a parent's or caretaker's substance misuse. This evaluation will extend the understanding about how RPG programs and services may improve outcomes for children and families. | Child Welfare | Renewal | HHS/ACF | Grantees |
| 2025-07-12 | National Violent Death Reporting System | NVDRS is a state-based surveillance system developed to monitor the occurrence of violent deaths (i.e., homicide, suicide, undetermined deaths, and unintentional firearm deaths) in the United States (U.S.) by collecting comprehensive, detailed, useful, and timely data from multiple sources (e.g., death certificates, coroner/medical examiner reports, law enforcement reports) into a useable, anonymous database. In this revision, CDC is changing the gender variable to "sex" and allowing for only male and female responses as well as removing gender and gender identity from the hate crime reporting section. | LGBTQI+ | Revision | HHS | States |