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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. 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 | Agency | Summary | Main Issues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-19 | TRICARE Select Survey of Civilian Providers | DOD | This survey is designed to gather data on providers (physicians including primary care physicians, specialist, and mental health providers and non-physician behavioral health providers) to assess the extent to which they are aware of the overall TRICARE program, accept new TRICARE patients specifically, the extent to which these providers accept Medicare patients, and reasons if they are not. It's unclear from the listing whether any changes are being made. | Military |
| 2025-09-19 | Childbirth and Breastfeeding Demonstration Survey | DOD | This survey will be used to evaluate the Childbirth and Breastfeeding Support Demonstration (CBSD), which is a project that will cover services of certain extra medical providers (certified labor doulas, certified lactation consultants, and certified lactation counselors) over a 5-year period. The survey will solicit information from TRICARE beneficiaries who have given birth in the specified reporting period. Results will be used to assist in evaluating the effectiveness of the CBSD project. | Military |
| 2025-09-18 | National Outbreak Reporting System | HHS/CDC | NORS is used to report disease outbreaks to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC is revising the sex fields in the form to remove the words "identify as" so they now read "primary cases who are male/female." | Health and Safety |
| 2025-09-17 | Annual Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad | DOC/BEA | This survey collects data on the financial structure and operations of U.S. parents and their foreign affiliates. The data are needed to provide reliable, useful, and timely measures of U.S. direct investment abroad to assess its impact on the U.S. and foreign economies. The previous listing for this survey indicated that BEA was discontinuing collection on minority-owned foreign affiliates; it's unclear from this listing whether BEA is moving forward with that change or not. | Economy |
| 2025-09-16 | Unaccompanied Alien Children Sponsor Application Packet | HHS/ACF | This packet of forms is used by the Office of Refugee Resettlement to assess the suitability of potential sponsors for unaccompanied immigrant children. ORR is making many changes to this form packet, including adding new forms on financial support and DNA testing, changing language throughout to insert the word "alien," requiring addresses from age 18 to present, adding attestations on false statements and ability to provide for the child, requiring additional documentation, and more. | Immigration |
| 2025-09-16 | School-Level Finance Survey (SLFS) | ED | SLFS is a comprehensive source of school-level finance data for public education including salaries, benefits, and total current expenditures broken out by activity (function) for all publicly funded schools serving students in prekindergarten through 12th grade. Data on school-level spending patterns is helpful for parents to make choices for the education of their child. Uniform and comparable data helps states measure the effectiveness of resource allocation. Collecting this data at the national level addresses the need for reliable and unbiased measures that can be utilized to compare how resources are distributed among schools within local districts. Education finance statistics provided by this collection allow for comparisons of how public elementary-secondary schools are spending their funds. No changes are being made to this survey. | Education |
| 2025-09-16 | NASA Assurance of Civil Rights Compliance | NASA | NASA grantees use this form to submit an assurance of non-discrimination as part of their initial grant application package. In the current iteration, NASA is including a clarifying statement that reads "Title VI’s protections against discrimination based on race, color, and national origin include antisemitism and other forms of discrimination when based on shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics." | Non-Discrimination |
| 2025-09-16 | National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS) 2025-2027 | ED | NPEFS is a comprehensive source of state-level finance data for public education including revenues, expenditures, and average daily attendance of all publicly funded schools and elementary-secondary local education agencies (LEAs), state payments on behalf of LEAs, and state support for a free public education for students in prekindergarten through 12th grade. NPEFS data are used to calculate a state's “average per-pupil expenditure” (SPPE) for elementary and secondary education and in calculating allocations for certain formula grant programs. No changes are being made to the survey. | Education |
| 2025-09-15 | Evaluation of the National Human Trafficking Hotline: Understanding Engagement With the Community, Law Enforcement, and Other Hotlines | HHS/ACF | This collection will examine how the NHTH processes contacts, interacts with law enforcement and other hotline providers, and advertises its services to potential contactors. | Criminal Justice |
| 2025-09-15 | National Compensation Survey | DOL/BLS | The NCS collects data on employer costs for employee compensation, including wages and salaries, and benefits; compensation trends; and the incidence of employer-sponsored benefits among workers. These data are used to calculate statistics like change in labor costs over time, details of employer-provided health and retirement benefit plans, and wage data by occupation. BLS intends to eliminate several questions, including on sick leave carryover, non-medical premiums, the provision of other benefits, and workers compensation. | Labor/Employment |
| 2025-09-15 | American Indian and Alaska Natives Facility Condition, Location, and Ownership Survey | HHS/ACF | This survey, conducted every five years, collects data on the condition, location, and ownership of facilities used by AIAN Head Start programs. Changes to the survey in this cycle include more detailed questions on facility safety (e.g., lead testing, pest control, disaster impact), clearer definitions of facility conditions, and expanded items on funding sources and barriers. These revisions aim to strengthen data on infrastructure challenges and needs across AIAN programs. | Education |
| 2025-09-14 | VA National Patient Database | VA | VA is updating what is included in its National Patient Database - which includes information about VHA patients and providers as well as about people who receive services through HUD's homeless veterans programs - and how that database is used. VA is expanding the system to collect "disease registries including Veteran demographics (e.g.,name, age), military information, and screening responses" and adding data uses including sharing with other federal health care providers - including DOD - and to non-VA entities to conduct outreach to veterans on health care benefit entitlements. | Veterans |
| 2025-09-12 | Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) | HHS/CMS | The provides a holistic view of Medicare beneficiaries' social and medical risk factors and rich information on the relationship between these risk factors, healthcare utilization, and health outcomes, at a point in time and over time. CMS is revising the survey to change the question on sexual orientation, remove the question on gender identity, and remove the question on perceived discrimination, which was used to measure perceived discrimination from health care providers due to certain personal attributes, including race or ethnicity, language or accent, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, age, culture or religion, disability, or medical history. | Healthcare |
| 2025-09-12 | The Real Cost Campaign Outcomes Evaluation Study | FDA | FDA is proposing further evaluation of its Real Cost Campaign, an effort which uses evidence-based messaging distributed through multiple channels, including paid media advertising, to highlight the negative health consequences of tobacco use to U.S. youth. The purpose of this study is to provide credible evidence that changes in key outcomes can be attributed to exposure to the campaign. | Health and Safety |
| 2025-09-10 | Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Management System (FMS2) | HUD | HUD is updating its FOIA records system to capture information about the citizenship of people making FOIA requests. | Housing |
| 2025-09-10 | Biographic Information/Alien Registration | DHS | This form is used by non-citizens to register under the Immigration and Naturalization Act. The form collects personal and biometric information. During the 60-day public comment period, DHS received many comments challenging the type and extent of information collected on this form, largely on the grounds that the information is overbroad, burdensome, and sets non-citizens up for potential criminal liability due to complexities in question wording and other issues. DHS chose not to make any changes to the form in response to these comments. | Immigration |
| 2025-09-10 | IRS and SSA Data Sharing Agreement | SSA | Under this matching program, the IRS will disclose to SSA certain tax return information for the purpose of establishing the correct amount of Medicare Part B premium subsidy adjustments and Medicare Part D premium increases provided under the Social Security Act, the Medicare Modernization Act, and the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). | Data Sharing |
| 2025-09-09 | Special Census Program | Census | This program allows local officials to request a Special Census when there has been a significant population change in their community due to annexation, growth, or the addition of new group quarters facilities. Many states use Special Census population statistics to determine the distribution of state funds to local jurisdictions. The Census Bureau is proposing to extend this program in its current form without any changes. | Data Collection |
| 2025-09-08 | Mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) | ED | The CRDC collects data related to the civil rights laws' requirement that public local educational agencies (LEA) and elementary and secondary schools provide equal educational opportunity. In the 60-day notice on the CRDC, ED proposed a number of changes to the collection, including improving data collection on nonbinary students and race and ethnicity and added additional collection elements on disability and bullying. In a more recent document, ED announced that it would discontinue the collection of nonbinary data, along with several other questions that include gender identity information, such as questions about bullying and harassment on the basis of gender identity. However, changes to questions about race, ethnicity, and disability appear to be moving forward. | Education |
| 2025-09-08 | Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses | DOL/OSHA | This survey measures the overall rate of work injuries and illnesses by industry and is the primary indicator of the Nation's progress in providing every working man and woman safe and healthful working conditions. The listing does not indicate that any changes are being made to the survey at this time. | Labor/Employment |