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| Due Date | Collection | Agency | Summary | Main Issues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-13 | Decennial Census of the Population of Americans; Proposed Residence Criteria and Proposed Regulations for Demographic Questions | DOC/Census | The Census Bureau is proposing sweeping changes to the 2030 Census that would fundamentally change both who is counted for political representation and what demographic information the census collects. Most significantly, Census would exclude from the population used to apportion seats in Congress anyone who is neither a U.S. citizen nor a lawful permanent resident, including undocumented immigrants and many people lawfully living in the country on temporary statuses. Census would determine immigration status using administrative records from across the federal government and other sources, and is also considering adding a legal-status question to the census questionnaire. The rule would separately prohibit the decennial census from asking about race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation, eliminating the race and ethnicity data historically used for redistricting, civil-rights enforcement, research, and allocation of public resources. Census says it could continue collecting demographic information through the American Community Survey and obtaining it from administrative records. The proposal would also substantially increase Census's reliance on tax and other administrative records to determine where people should be counted. | Census |
| 2026-10-13 | National Special Education Spending Study | ED | This study will collect survey information and district financial data during the 2026–27 and 2027–28 school years to produce nationally representative estimates of spending on services for students with disabilities. The study will examine what special education spending pays for, how spending varies by disability category, student and district characteristics, and geography, and how much of those costs are covered by federal IDEA funding. | Disability |
| 2026-10-14 | Petition To Remove the Conditions on Residence | DHS/USCIS | USCIS is revising Form I-751, which conditional permanent residents who obtained status through marriage use to request removal of the conditions on their permanent residence. USCIS has not provided information in this notice explaining what is changing on the form. | Immigration |
| 2026-10-15 | Consolidated State Performance Report | ED | ED is reducing the information states must report through the Consolidated State Performance Report, its annual collection used to monitor federal K-12 education programs. The changes eliminate several reporting requirements, including some information about funding for English learners and programs serving neglected, "delinquent," and at-risk youth, while consolidating other reporting. In response to concerns about losing information, ED repeatedly said that some of the removed data will continue to be collected or monitored elsewhere, including through EDFacts and program monitoring, while retaining several requirements after commenters warned that eliminating them would reduce transparency and accountability. | Education |
| 2026-10-15 | IDEA Part B State Performance Plan (SPP) and Annual Performance Report (APR) | ED | ED is reducing federal reporting requirements used to monitor outcomes and racial disparities for students with disabilities under IDEA. Among other changes, ED is eliminating two indicators that track racial disparities in long-term suspensions and expulsions and eliminating a separate indicator examining whether racial and ethnic groups are disproportionately identified within particular disability categories. ED is also removing requirements that states analyze whether parent-engagement and post-school-outcomes survey respondents are demographically representative. Commenters warned that the changes could reduce transparency and make disparities harder to identify; ED emphasized that states remain legally responsible for examining racial disparities and can continue many of these analyses themselves, even though they will no longer be required through the federal performance-reporting system | Disability |
| 2026-10-15 | IDEA Part C State Performance Plan (SPP) and Annual Performance Report (APR) | ED | ED is revising states’ required reporting on early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities under IDEA Part C. Among the changes, ED is eliminating a requirement that states analyze whether families responding to surveys about their involvement in early intervention services are demographically representative of the children enrolled in the program. Commenters warned that the requirement had pushed states to improve representation and helped identify underserved communities; ED responded that states can continue conducting demographic representativeness analyses on their own, even though the federal government will no longer require them. The revisions also replace “gender” with “sex” in sampling instructions and make several other changes to state performance reporting. | Disability |
| 2026-10-15 | State and Treasury Data Matching Program | DOD | DOD is updating its Privacy Act system covering civilian employee workplace-injury and workers’ compensation records. The changes expand and clarify the types of information maintained, including medical, injury, employment, benefits, and claims information, and update how records may be shared with agencies and other entities involved in administering or investigating workers’ compensation claims. | Waste, Fraud, and Abuse (WFA) |
| 2026-10-19 | Voluntary Partner Survey on HRSA Customer Service | HHS/HRSA | HRSA is seeking continued approval for voluntary surveys measuring partner organizations’ satisfaction with agency programs and services. As part of the renewal, HRSA is removing gender-identity questions and pronoun language from the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline partner survey and phone script to comply with the administration’s executive order on sex and gender. | Healthcare |
| 2026-10-19 | Annual Employee Survey | OPM | OPM is seeking approval for the new Annual Employee Survey (AES) that will replace the government-wide Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) structure. Under OPM's earlier proposal, agencies will now administer their own employee surveys rather than participate in one centrally administered FEVS, while reporting results from just 10 required questions to OPM for government-wide comparison. Agencies can ask additional questions, but those collections will be agency-specific, reducing the standardized data available to compare employee experiences across agencies and over time. The change follows OPM's cancellation of the 2025 FEVS and criticism that decentralizing and shrinking the common survey will make it harder to assess government-wide workplace conditions and hold agencies accountable. | Federal Government |
| 2026-10-19 | Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies Program Data Collection | HHS/HRSA | HRSA is substantially revising data collection for its Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies (RMOMS) grant program, which supports maternal and obstetric care in rural communities. The revised collection would shift from annual aggregate reporting to twice-yearly patient-level data, while reducing the number of measures from 34 to about 25 and reorganizing them around demographics, prenatal care and pregnancy, labor and delivery, postpartum care, health conditions and behaviors, and support services. | Healthcare |
| 2026-10-19 | Application for Cancellation of Removal for Certain Permanent Residents (Form EOIR-42A); and Application for Cancellation of Removal and Adjustment of Status for Certain Nonpermanent Residents (Form EOIR-42B) | DOJ/EOIR | DOJ's immigration courts are revising the forms used by people in removal proceedings to seek cancellation of removal, eliminating some information EOIR says is not relevant to judges’ eligibility or discretionary decisions. The revisions also broaden a question about how applicants entered the U.S., require applicants to sign and affirm the application when filing rather than later before an immigration judge, and revise instructions and questions to more closely track statutory language. | Immigration |
| 2026-10-19 | Benefit Timeliness and Quality | DOL | DOL is revising an unemployment-insurance quality-review report to add and clarify codes used to categorize nonmonetary eligibility decisions, including separate codes for noncitizen eligibility and availability issues. The changes are intended to align the quality-review data with separate revisions to states’ unemployment-insurance reporting and do not add the demographic data collection proposed for that related reporting system. | Labor/Employment |
| 2026-10-19 | Linked Open Data on Credentials | DOL | DOL is proposing a new open-data requirement for Strengthening Community Colleges grantees, requiring them to publicly share standardized information about federally funded credentials and competencies using the Credential Transparency Description Language. The data could include credential requirements, skills, costs, delivery methods, occupations and industries served, quality assurances, and outcomes, making credential information easier to find, compare, and reuse. | Education |
| 2026-10-19 | State and Local Government Finance Collections, and Public Employment & Payroll Collections | DOC/Census | Census is proposing revisions to its annual state and local government finance and public employment/payroll collections. The changes would restore selected criminal-justice intergovernmental expenditure questions to support Bureau of Justice Statistics needs, add a clarification on payments to retirement systems, and simplify the public-pensions survey by combining several contribution, membership, and investment items and dropping 16 actuarial items that are currently only published in individual-unit files. | Economy |
| 2026-10-19 | National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) | HHS/CDC | CDC is seeking approval to continue the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) in 2027 and begin a major redesign in 2028. The redesigned survey would shift from primarily interviewer-administered collection to a mixed-mode approach that asks households to respond online or by mail first, with in-person follow-up for some nonresponders, while substantially shortening and simplifying the questionnaires. The change would eliminate many detailed health questions currently collected annually and end the fixed schedule for rotating questions, while retaining core measures of health, disability, insurance coverage and access to care. | Healthcare |
| 2026-10-20 | Faculty Loan Repayment Program | HHS/HRSA | HRSA is revising its Faculty Loan Repayment Program, which provides loan repayment to health professionals from disadvantaged backgrounds who serve as faculty at health-professions schools. HRSA would replace its “disadvantaged background” assessment with a “vulnerable background” assessment focused specifically on geographic/educational and economic disadvantage. Indicators would include attending under-resourced schools, being a first-generation college student, experiencing educational language barriers, low family income, Pell Grant eligibility, or family receipt of public benefits. The revision also adds forms for employer loan-repayment obligations and twice-yearly verification of participants’ employment. | Education |
| 2026-10-20 | OPM and SSA Data Matching Program | OPM | OPM is re-establishing a data-matching program with the Social Security Administration to check whether certain federal retirees and survivors remain eligible for benefits that are subject to earnings limits. OPM will send identifying information, including names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth, to SSA, which will return wage and self-employment income, employer information, and a death indicator when applicable. The match covers certain disability retirees, disabled adult-child survivors, FERS annuity-supplement recipients, and CSRS discontinued-service retirees. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-10-20 | Consolidated Annual Report (CAR) | ED | ED is proposing additional revisions to states’ annual reporting under the Perkins career and technical education program, including changes to financial reporting and updates to align performance data with the new National Career Clusters Framework. The new framework reorganizes CTE programs from 16 to 14 career clusters, which could affect how program outcomes are classified and compared over time. ED also proposes to simplify financial reporting, although the notice does not clearly identify what information would no longer be collected, making it difficult to assess whether the change would reduce transparency or program oversight. | Education |
| 2026-10-20 | HEA Title II Report Cards on State Teacher Credentialing and Preparation | ED | ED is revising the annual Title II reports used to collect and publish information about teacher preparation programs and state teacher credentialing systems. The reports collect information including teacher-preparation enrollment and demographics, completion rates, credentialing requirements and assessment pass rates, teacher shortages, and programs identified as low-performing. ED says the revision will remove several items it considers “no longer needed” and update reporting instructions to reflect the Department’s current organizational structure, but the notice does not identify which data elements are being eliminated. | Education |
| 2026-10-20 | Understanding Participant Experiences in SNAP E&T | USDA | USDA is proposing a new qualitative study of how SNAP participants experience work requirements and Employment and Training (E&T) programs. Researchers will conduct in-depth and participant-led “photovoice” interviews in four states, including two with mandatory E&T and two with voluntary programs, examining whether participants understand work requirements, their experiences accessing training and services, and barriers they encounter while navigating SNAP E&T. USDA says the findings will inform recommendations for improving customer service and connecting participants with employment and training services. | Food Access |