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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-21 | National Survey of Digital Health Companies | HHS | 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 |
| 2025-07-21 | Records Disposition | NARA | 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 |
| 2025-07-18 | ACF Matching Program; Privacy Act of 1974 | HHS/ACF | 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 |
| 2025-07-17 | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Work Requirements and Screening | USDA | 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 |
| 2025-07-17 | ACF Matching Program; Privacy Act of 1974 | ACF | 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 |
| 2025-07-16 | NIST's Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) | DOC | 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 |
| 2025-07-14 | Regional Partnership Grants National Cross-Site Evaluation and Evaluation Technical Assistance | HHS/ACF | 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 |
| 2025-07-14 | Telehealth Resource Center Performance Measurement | HRSA | 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 |
| 2025-07-14 | Evaluation of the Center for Legal and Judicial Innovation and Advancement (CLJIA) | HHS/ACF | 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 |
| 2025-07-12 | National Violent Death Reporting System | HHS | 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+ |
| 2025-07-12 | Overdose Response Strategy Data Collection | HHS | 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 |
| 2025-07-11 | WIC & FMNP Outreach, Innovation, and Modernization Evaluation | USDA | 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 |
| 2025-07-11 | WISEWOMAN: Well-Integrated Screening and Evaluation for Women Across the Nation | CDC | 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 |
| 2025-07-11 | National HIV Surveillance System | CDC | 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 |
| 2025-07-11 | NCHS Rapid Surveys System (RSS) Round 7 | CDC | 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 |
| 2025-07-10 | FCC Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program | FCC | 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 |
| 2025-07-09 | U.S. Election Assistance Commission 2025 Data Summit: Election Administration by the Numbers | EAC | 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 |
| 2025-07-09 | Proposed Designation of Database to the Do Not Pay Working System | OMB | 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 |
| 2025-07-09 | Sterilization of Persons in Federally Assisted Family Planning Projects | HHS | 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 |
| 2025-07-09 | Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network Community Arts Engagement Subgranting Program Evaluation Forms | NEA | 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 |