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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. 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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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."
  3. 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
2025-07-12 Overdose Response Strategy Data Collection This collection focuses on a survey and a reporting tool that ORS teams and their partners will complete to provide critical data to CDC for program monitoring, to inform technical assistance and guidance documents produced by CDC or other partners, and to assess the extent to which the ORS program is achieving the goal of supporting public health and public safety partnerships to reduce drug overdose. Drug Use New HHS Individuals and grantees
2025-07-11 NCHS Rapid Surveys System (RSS) Round 7 The RSS has three major goals: (1) to provide CDC and other partners with time-sensitive data of known quality about emerging and priority health concerns; (2) to use these data collections to continue NCHS's evaluation of the quality of public health estimates generated from commercial online panels; and (3) to improve methods to communicate the appropriateness of public health estimates generated from commercial online panels. Among other topics, panelists in the RSS will be asked about health status, life satisfaction, chronic conditions, diabetes, veteran status, health care access and utilization, mental health, and body mass index. Female panelists will be asked about their pregnancy history and family planning. Health and Safety Revision CDC Individuals
2025-07-11 National HIV Surveillance System The National HIV Surveillance System (NHSS) data are the primary data used to monitor the extent and characteristics of the HIV burden in the United States. Revisions were made to simplify data collection and entry for health departments, to collect more relevant data that would help health departments track progress in responding to HIV clusters, and to help health departments better communicate their progress and challenges to CDC so that CDC can provide more effective technical assistance and other support for responding to clusters and outbreaks. HIV/AIDS Revision CDC Health departments
2025-07-11 WISEWOMAN: Well-Integrated Screening and Evaluation for Women Across the Nation The WISEWOMAN program sponsored by the CDC, provides services to low income, uninsured, or underinsured women aged 35-64. The program collects data on cardiovascular disease risk factors and types of healthy behavior support services for participants served by the program. Among other changes, this notice announces the implementation of new SPD15 race/ethnicity collection standards. Healthcare Revision CDC Grantees
2025-07-11 WIC & FMNP Outreach, Innovation, and Modernization Evaluation WIC provides supplemental food, nutrition education, and referrals to health and social services to pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and children up to age 5 who are living in households with low incomes and are at nutritional risk. This evaluation includes 3 components. An implementation study will provide a comprehensive understanding of project implementation while accommodating variations in the timing of projects within different program areas, implementation within and between State agencies, and innovative approaches. A waiver study will provide an understanding of waiver issuance and use. An impact study will measure the impact of the WIC and FMNP modernization projects on participants through key short-term and intermediate-term outcome measures Food Access New USDA Governments, businesses, and households
2025-07-10 FCC Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program This document announces a new computer matching program the FCC and the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) will conduct with the Minnesota Department of Human Services (MDHS). The purpose of this matching program is to verify the eligibility of applicants to and subscribers of Lifeline, and the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). Under this program, FCC will transfer Social Security Number, date of birth, first and last name to MDHS, which will respond either “yes” or “no” that the individual is enrolled in SNAP or Medicaid. Public Benefits New FCC N/A
2025-07-09 Sterilization of Persons in Federally Assisted Family Planning Projects This consent form solicits information to assure voluntary and informed consent to persons undergoing sterilization in programs of health services which are supported by federal financial assistance administered by the United States Public Health Service (PHS). Reproductive Justice Renewal HHS Individuals
2025-07-09 U.S. Election Assistance Commission 2025 Data Summit: Election Administration by the Numbers During the meeting, election officials, academics, and other key stakeholders will participate in panel discussions on election administration and related innovative and groundbreaking data and research. Topics will include the results of the 2024 Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS), election funding, voter list maintenance, workforce development, and more. Voting Rights N/A EAC N/A
2025-07-09 Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network Community Arts Engagement Subgranting Program Evaluation Forms The Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network seeks to improve the health, well-being, and quality of life for military and veteran populations exposed to trauma, and for their families and caregivers through clinical and non-clinical programs. The forms associated with this listing include a pre-post Participant Survey, an Arts Engagement Facilitator Survey, and interviews with grantees, partners, arts engagement facilitators, and program participants. Evaluation results will provide actionable evidence to support current and future iterations of the grant program and Creative Forces Community Engagement grantees. Evaluation New NEA Grantees
2025-07-09 Proposed Designation of Database to the Do Not Pay Working System The Do Not Pay Working System is a centralized portal through which users can search multiple databases to obtain information about potential payees and awardees. OMB designates databases for inclusion in the Working System. This notice designates the VA Benefits Enterprise Platform (BEP) database for use in the Do Not Pay Working System with the Public Assistance Reporting Information System (PARIS), which will provide State Public Assistance Agencies (SPAAs) with VA compensation and pension data on a periodic basis to use in determining the eligibility of public assistance applicants and recipients for benefits under Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and other general assistance programs. Public Benefits New OMB N/A
2025-07-07 National Directory of New Hires State child support agencies use the NDNH information 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. Specific State and Federal agencies also use NDNH information for authorized purposes to help administer certain programs, prevent overpayments, detect fraud, assess benefits, and recover funds. Revisions seem technical. Labor/Employment Revision HHS Employers, SLT governments
2025-07-07 Annual Survey of School System Finances The Annual Survey of School System Finances is a comprehensive source of prekindergarten through 12th grade public elementary-secondary school system finance data collected on a nationwide scale using uniform definitions, concepts, and procedures. The collection covers the revenues, expenditures, debt, and assets of all public elementary-secondary school systems. Education Extension Census SLT governments
2025-07-07 Formative Data Collections for Evaluation, Research, and Evidence-Building SBA intends to design and conduct evidence-building activities of SBA programs. SBA's evidence-building activities include formative evaluations of existing programs, process, and new initiatives; logic model development and testing; process or journey mapping; research syntheses; survey, questionnaire, and metric development; analysis; and foundational fact-finding through descriptive and exploratory studies. Evaluation New SBA Various
2025-07-07 Veterans Engagement Action Center (VEAC) Surveys The VEAC gathers feedback from Veterans, Active Military, Guard/Reservist, Family members, caregivers, providers, and survivors. The VEAC then provides that feedback to VA leaders to measure the success of the outreach event and measure the ease, effectiveness, emotion, and trust from the participants as they exit. Veterans Revision VA Individuals
2025-07-07 BLS Wage Records Data Application BLS has started a program to exchange data about the employment and wages of individuals that was not previously provided from employers or State UI programs under the QCEW. The program promotes the interchange of information, from participating States who have entered into MOUs with the BLS. The additional wage records data will be compiled into a multi-state longitudinal database and the data will be used to improve existing BLS data products and to explore the creation of new ones. Labor/Employment New DOL SLT governments
2025-07-07 Stepped and Tiered Rent Demonstration Evaluation, Phase 2 HUD has selected 10 Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) to participate in the second cohort of the Moving to Work (MTW) Expansion, Stepped and Tiered Rent Demonstration (STRD). Five PHAs are implementing a stepped rent and five PHAs are implementing a tiered rent. HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) is evaluating the impacts of those alternative rent policies, using a randomized controlled trial. Housing New HUD PHAs
2025-07-04 Higher Education Research and Development Survey This survey is used to produce statistics on R&D expenditures by source of funding, type of R&D (basic research, applied research, or development), and field of research, with separate data requested on research equipment by field. Further breakdowns are collected on funds passed through to subrecipients and funds received as a subrecipient, and on R&D expenditures by field from specific federal agency sources. The survey also requests total R&D expenditures funded from foreign sources, R&D within an institution's medical school, clinical trial expenditures, R&D by type of funding mechanism (contracts vs. grants), and R&D by cost category (salaries, equipment, software, etc.). In addition, the survey requests headcounts and full-time equivalents of R&D personnel (researchers, R&D technicians, and R&D support staff). Education Extension NSF Higher Education institutions
2025-07-03 Behavioral Health Integration Evidence Based Telehealth Network Program Outcome Measures This program supports evidence-based projects that use telehealth technologies through telehealth networks in rural and underserved areas to: (1) improve access to integrated behavioral health services in primary care settings, and (2) expand and improve the quality of health information available to health care providers by evaluating the effectiveness of integrating telebehavioral health services into primary care settings and establishing an evidence-based model that can assist health care providers. Mental Health New HHS Grantees
2025-07-03 Selective Service Systems of Record Notice The Selective Service System is modifying its system for Reasonable Accommodation, Religious Exception, and Medical Exception Health Records, which is designed to collect records related to the processing of requests from employees and applicants for employment who are seeking a reasonable accommodation based upon disability under the Rehabilitation Act or for a religious belief, observance, or practice underthe Civil Rights Act or the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993; or other applicable law. It is unclear from the listing what changes are being made. Religious Liberty/Exemptions Revision SSS N/A
2025-07-02 DOJ Systems of Records Notice This SORN modifies the records systems associated with DOJ's Security Monitoring and Analytics Service (SMAS), which provides DOJ-managed information technology (IT) service offerings to other federal agencies wishing to leverage DOJ's cybersecurity services. The listing includes a number of changes, primarily to the Users and Purposes section of the SORN, expanding routine uses to include several kinds of law enforcement investigations. Criminal Justice Revision DOJ N/A
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