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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.
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
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 2025-09-26 | Regulation C-Home Mortgage Disclosure | Treasury | HMDA data collected using this set of forms helps Treasury to determine whether depository institutions are filling their obligations to serve the housing needs of the communities and neighborhoods in which they are located and to assist public officials in distributing public-sector investments in a manner designed to improve the private investment environment. It does not appear from the listing that any changes are being made to the collection at this time. | Housing |
| 2025-09-26 | Consolidated Annual Report (CAR) for Perkins V | ED | In 2024, ED revised its reporting requirements for the Perkins V program to require data disaggregated by gender, race, and ethnicity so performance could be tracked across those characteristics. Through this notice, ED is announcing its decision to revert to an earlier version of the reporting requirements that did not require disaggregated reporting despite public comments encouraging ED to retain the more detailed requirements. | Education |
| 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 |
| 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 | Perkins V State Plan Guide | ED | In 2024, ED revised its reporting requirements for the Perkins V program to require data disaggregated by gender, race, and ethnicity so performance could be tracked across those characteristics. Through this notice, ED is announcing its decision to revert to an earlier version of the reporting requirements that did not require disaggregated reporting despite public comments encouraging ED to retain the more detailed requirements. | Education |
| 2025-09-25 | Appeals and Case Records | MSPB | The Merit Systems Protection Board rescinded their appeals and case records system and replaced it with a substantially similar system. It's unclear from the listing what changes were made in the new system. | Labor/Employment |
| 2025-09-25 | Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications | NIH | Through this notice, NIH is setting a policy thatit will not consider applications that are either substantially developed by AI, or contain sections substantially developed by AI, to be original ideas of applicants. Further, it will only accept six new, renewal, resubmission, or revision applications from an individual Principal Investigator/Program Director or Multiple Principal Investigator for all council rounds in a calendar year. | Science and Technology |
| 2025-09-23 | CPS Displaced Worker, Job Tenure, and Occupational Mobility supplement | BLS | This supplement is used to assess the size and nature of the population affected by job displacements and the needs and scope of programs serving adult displaced workers. It is also used to assess employment stability by determining the length of time workers have been with their current employer and estimating the incidence of occupational change over the course of a year. No changes are being made to the supplement at this time. | Labor/Employment |
| 2025-09-22 | National Prisoner Statistics program (NPS) | DOJ | DOJ is making a number of changes to its NPS program, which collects information about people incarcerated in state and federal facilities. Proposed changes include removing the HIV/AIDS module and conducting cognitive testing on implementing SPD15. As part of the SPD15 test, DOJ plans to assess the availability of more detailed race and ethnicity information within the respondents' data systems. | Criminal Justice |
| 2025-09-22 | Current Population Survey-Child Support Supplement | Census | This survey collects detailed information about child support agreements and awards, including both required payments and amounts received, as well as data about the socioeconomic characteristics of custodial parents and their families. Census is making modest changes to the survey, but most content is retained. | Child Welfare |
| 2025-09-22 | Allocation of Operating Funds under the Operating Fund Formula: Data Collection | HUD | This series of forms is used by Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) to submit project level budget data annually to HUD field offices. In this notice, HUD is updating the certifications PHAs are required to make as a part of this process to include certifications that the PHAs will not use funds to "promote 'gender ideology' as defined in EO 14168," to violate civil rights protections, or to "fund or promote elective abortions, as required by EO 14182," and that it will follow "immigration restrictions and requirements, including eligibility and verification requirements" and many not use and funds in any way that would "facilitate the subsidization or promotion of illegal immigration... [or] shield illegal aliens from deportation." | Housing |
| 2025-09-22 | National Crime Victimization Survey | DOJ | The NCVS provides data on the level and change of criminal victimization both reported and not reported to police in the United States. DOJ is revising the survey to add and remove several questions, including additng questions about hate crimes against people based on their religious beliefs, removing gender identity response options from the sex question (but retaining the gender identity-related hate crime question, including gender non-conforming response options), and adding language about taking action to protect property. | Criminal Justice |
| 2025-09-22 | Application for a Travel Document | DHS | This form is used by lawful permanent residents, conditional permanent residents, refugees, asylees, applicants for adjustment of status, noncitizens with pending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) applications and granted TPS, and other types of immigrants to allow them to travel to the United States and lawfully enter or reenter the United States. DHS is amending the form to remove the option to identify as "another gender identity." | Immigration |
| 2025-09-19 | J-1 Visa Waiver Recommendation Application | State | This form is used by J-1 visa holders to request a waiver of the two-year foreign residency requirement in several circumstances, including if return to the country of nationality or last residence would result in exceptional hardship to the visa holder's spouse or child who is a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident; or if the person cannot return to the country of his or her nationality or last residence because he or she would be subject to persecution on account of race, religion, or political opinion. The listing indicates that changes are being made to the form, but it's unclear from the listing what changes are being made. | Immigration |
| 2025-09-19 | Counterintelligence Investigations and Collection Activities (CICA) Privacy Act Exemption | DOD | DOD is proposing to exempt portions of its new Counterintelligence Investigations and Collection Activities (CICA) system of records from certain provisions of the Privacy Act to protect national security and law enforcement interests. | Privacy |