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. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-29 | Phase 1 of the 2030 Census Redistricting Data Program: The Block Boundary Suggestion Project | DOC/Census | Phase 1 of this project provides states the opportunity to supply the Census Bureau with their suggestions for the 2030 Census tabulation block inventory. | Data Collection |
| 2025-08-26 | Current Population Survey (CPS) Basic Demographic Items | DOL | This portion of the CPS - which produces federal statistics on employment and unemployment - collects demographic data on topics like age, marital status, sex, Armed Forces status, education, race, origin, and family income. This year, BLS is conducting an experimental collection of Race and Ethnicity information using the new SPD15 standard. The main goal of the study is to assess the effect of the new race and ethnicity standard on estimates obtained from the CPS. The study will also aid in the implementation of the new standard for interviewer-administered data collections (both in-person and by phone). The study will examine the impact of differences in reporting using the new 2024 standard and the 1997 standard (which CPS currently is using) on race distributions, labor force estimates, weighting, and missing data. | Racial Justice |
| 2025-08-25 | Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project (STEW-MAP) | USDA | The purpose of this research is to gather information on civic stewardship groups and their efforts such as where they work, the types of projects they focus on, and how they are organized. This information will be summarized and, for the groups agreeing to be represented on a public map, made publicly available online for use by decision-makers, land managers, environmental professionals, the general public, the stewards themselves, and other natural resource management stakeholders. | Climate/Environment |
| 2025-08-25 | CAHPS Enrollee Survey | OPM | CAHPS surveys ask consumers and patients to report on and evaluate their experiences with health care. These surveys cover topics that are important to consumers and focus on aspects of quality that consumers are best qualified to assess, such as the communication skills of providers and ease of access to health care services. The notice indicates that the surveys are being changed, but it's unclear from the listing what changes are being made. | Healthcare |
| 2025-08-25 | Application for Veterans Pension | VA | The Application for Pension is the prescribed form for veterans applying for pension benefits. The notice indicates that the form is being revised, but it's unclear from the listing what changes are being made. | Veterans |
| 2025-08-21 | Improving Our Nation Through Better Design | EOP | Establishes a National Design Studio within the EOP tasked with comprehensively improving the visual presentation and usability of Federal services provided to the public in both digital and physical spaces. Requires agencies to "produce initial results" by July 4, 2026. | Federal Government |
| 2025-08-21 | FEMA and DHS Data Matching Program | FEMA/DHS | Under this agreement, FEMA and SBA will share and compare federal records regarding financial/benefits award decisions of individuals, businesses, and/or other entities to connect survivors with SBA for disaster assistance, prevent duplicative aid from being provided in response to the same disaster or emergency and recover aid when the comparison identifies a duplication of benefits, and provide updates on SBA loan status in DHS/FEMA's Individual Assistance System. | Emergency Management |
| 2025-08-21 | National Survey of the Use of Booster Seats | DOT | This survey collects data to support estimates of restraint use for all children under 13. The collection includes race/ethnicity breakouts of restraint use among all occupants in a vehicle as well as age, height, and weight of children. | Health and Safety |
| 2025-08-21 | Transmittal for Unemployment Insurance Materials | DOL | This form is used to provide DOL with sufficient information to determine if employers in a state qualify for tax credits under the FUTA; the state meets the requirements for obtaining administrative grants under Title III, SSA; and the state is fulfilling its obligations under Federal UC programs. | Labor/Employment |
| 2025-08-21 | 21st Century Community Learning Centers Annual Performance Report | ED | This form is used to assess how well community learning centers are providing academic enrichment opportunities for children, particularly students who attend high poverty and low-performing schools, meeting State and local student standards in core academic subjects, offering students a broad array of enrichment activities that can complement their regular academic programs, and offering literacy and other educational services to the families of participating children. The form collects race and ethnicity data, but ED has decided not to implement the new SPD15 standards at this time, saying they will implement SPD15 "at a time that states and funded projects have revised their student-level collections and reporting with the SPD 15 requirements to address the new federal statistical standard for race/ethnicity items." | Education |
| 2025-08-20 | DOD Counterintelligence Investigations and Collection Activities (CICA) | DOD | DOD is establishing a new records program that will hold information related to investigations to determine whether an individual is acting for or on behalf of foreign powers organizations, or persons, or their agents, or international terrorist organizations or activities, and to determine actions required to neutralize such acts. The records housed in this system will include personal information such as names, social security numbers, date and place of birth, addresses, contact information, biometric information, fingerprints and retinal data, medical/psychological information, travel identification information, biographic information, family and dependent information, sex, race/ethnicity, and property information; as well as employment information such as work address, email address, supervisor's name and contact information, military records, personnel security information, employment personnel files, financial information (to include tax identification information), financial reports and transaction data, and education and training records. | Criminal Justice |
| 2025-08-20 | VA-SSA Matching Program | VA | VA and SSA are entering into a data sharing agreement to match Social Security Administration (SSA) Master Beneficiary Records and the Master Files of Social Security Number (SSN) Holders and SSN Applications (Enumeration System) with VA pension, compensation, and dependency and indemnity compensation records. The goal of this match is to identify beneficiaries, who are receiving VA benefits and SSA benefits or earned income, and to reduce or terminate VA benefits, if appropriate. | Veterans |
| 2025-08-20 | National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 | DOL | The NLSY studies the transition from full-time schooling to the establishment of careers and families, tracing respondents' education, training, work experience, fertility, income, and program participation.Research based on the NLSY contributes to the formation of national policy in the areas of education, training, employment programs, and school-to-work transitions. In this iteration, the NLSY will add questions on retirement income and health, including new questions on disability using the American Community Survey model. | Labor/Employment |
| 2025-08-20 | DHS/ICE Search, Arrest, and Seizure Records (SAS) | DHS | DHS is modifying its records policies regarding information it uses to document searches of individuals and property, arrests of individuals, and detentions and seizures of property and goods. In this notice, DHS is (1) modifying the purpose of the system to include documentation of enforcement actions between ICE and the public via video and audio recording; (2) modifying categories of individuals to include witnesses, bystanders, and others captured by recording devices; (3) modifying categories of records to include biometric, geolocation, social media, commercial data, and IT and cryptocurrency data; and (4) modifying routine uses of the data to include sharing with any court, sharing for the purposes of implementing new technology solutions, sharing with state/local/tribal/territorial governments, and sharing with the Department of State. | Immigration |
| 2025-08-20 | DHS/ICE Intelligence Records Systems | DHS | DHS is modifying its records policies on raw intelligence and intelligence products collected to support its law enforcement intelligence, counterterrorism, and homeland security mission. Through this notice, ICE is documenting the decommissioning of two legacy IT systems, modifying categories of covered individuals to include informants, modifying categories of records to include social media and location data, and updating routine uses in a number of ways including law enforcement referrals. | Immigration |
| 2025-08-19 | Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership (HFPP): Data Sharing and Information Exchange | HHS/CMS | The Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership (HFPP) is a voluntary, public-private partnership between the federal government, state and local Medicaid agencies, law enforcement, private health insurance plans, and healthcare anti-fraud associations to identify and reduce fraud, waste, and abuse across the healthcare sector. Although the listing indicates that changes are being made to the HFPP forms, it's unclear from the listing what changes are being made. | Healthcare |
| 2025-08-19 | U.S. Elections Survey - Election Office Staffing | EAC | This survey will collect information on election office staff composition, hiring capabilities, and perceived staffing needs. The EAC is fielding this survey to meet its obligations under the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) to serve as a national clearinghouse and resource for the compilation of information with respect to the administration of Federal elections. Section 241 of HAVA gives the EAC authority to periodically conduct studies on election administration issues. | Democracy |
| 2025-08-18 | SSA Matching Program | SSA | Under this program, OPM will share civil service benefit and payment data with SSA. SSA will use that data to calculate civil service benefit offset obligations. SSA is legally required to offset Disability Insurance benefits under the Old-Age, Survivors, Disability Insurance (OASDI) program, and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits and Special Veterans' Benefits (SVB), by a percentage of the benefit recipients' Federal Government retirement or disability benefits. | Disability |
| 2025-08-18 | BLS Wage Records Data Application | DOL/BLS | This new form will allow states participating in the BLS Unemployment Insurance Wage Records Data Sharing Program to request data from other participating states for statistical research. | Labor/Employment |
| 2025-08-18 | Agricultural Resource Management Phases 3 Economic Surveys | USDA | The ARMS are the primary source of information for the USDA on a broad range of issues related to agricultural resource use, cost of production, and farm sector financial conditions. USDA is proposing to update its questions on race and ethnicity to comply with new SPD15 standards but is requesting an exception from OMB to use the minimal category version that does not include examples for each of the seven main race/ethnicity categories. According to their supporting statement, "Additional questions on detailed race/ethnicity would require more time and effort from respondents, many of whom may already face time constraints." | Agriculture |