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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.
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
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-13 | Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Performance Measurement Information System | HHS/HRSA | The MIECHV program is used by jurisdictions to identify target populations and select the home visiting service delivery model(s) that best meet their needs. HRSA is making significant changes to the MIECHV reporting requirements, including updating the race and ethnicity reporting to comply with SPD15, reducing response options for several questions (such as age and housing status), and adding new measures and definitions. | Health and Safety |
| 2026-04-13 | Distraction: Modern Voice Command Interfaces | DOT | This study is part of an effort to understand the effects of currently or near-to-deployed (modern) voice command interfaces (VCIs) in vehicles. The research compares multiple tasks across prominent VCI systems to identify both positive and negative effects on cognitive workload and distraction. | Health and Safety |
| 2026-04-13 | Contingent Work Supplement to the Current Population Survey | DOL | The CWS questions focus on people with contingent jobs—those that people do not expect to last or that are temporary—and workers in alternative employment arrangements, such as independent contractors, on-call workers, temporary help agency workers, and workers provided by contract firms. Proposed changes to the digital labor platform work portion of the survey will provide more information about digital platform work that might be of short duration or intermittent and will help to understand how many days per week and hours per day were typically spent on work obtained through an app or website and what type of work was done. | Labor/Employment |
| 2026-04-13 | Drive-Mode Design Best Practices | DOT | This study will examine how different drive mode implementations, which limit phone functionality and simplify the human-machine interface, affect driver attention and performance compared to standard interfaces. | Transportation |
| 2026-04-13 | National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife Watching | DOI | The FHWAR is a comprehensive survey of anglers, hunters, and wildlife watchers that provides up-to-date information on the uses and demands for wildlife-related recreation resources and a basis for developing and evaluating programs and projects to meet existing and future needs. DOI is making a number of changes to the survey, primarily adding in content including questions that were removed in the 2022 iteration. | Climate/Environment |
| 2026-04-13 | HHS and Treasury Data Sharing Agreement | HHS | HHS is modifying its Financial Management records system, which covers any records about individual payees and payors of HHS that are used to manage HHS payment, collection, and accounting functions. Under this agreement, HHS will disclose records to Treasury when disclosure of the information "is relevant to review payment and award eligibility through the Do Not Pay Working System for the purposes of identifying, preventing, or recouping improper payments to an applicant for, or recipient of, Federal funds, including funds disbursed by a state... in a state-administered, federally funded program." | Data Sharing |
| 2026-04-13 | FCC and HUD Data Sharing and Matching Agreement | FCC/HUD | Under this program, FCC and HUD will share data for the purposes of verifying the eligibility of Lifeline and ACP applicants and subscribers by determining whether they receive Federal Public Housing Assistance benefits. Under FCC rules, consumers receiving these benefits qualify for Lifeline discounts and also for ACP benefits. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-04-14 | 2024 Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) Data Match | HHS/ACF | Data collected through this program are used to study and report on the impact of LIHEAP on income eligible and recipient households. For the upcoming iteration of this program, ACF proposes to eliminate eight data fields compared to the prior data request, including Household name, household telephone number, date of heating assistance, date of cooling assistance, date of crisis assistance, other assistance awarded, amount of other assistance, and date of other assistance. | Energy |
| 2026-04-14 | 2027-2028 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) | ED | The FAFSA collects the data necessary to determine a student's eligibility to receive Title IV, HEA program assistance. The listing indicates that changes are being made to the form, but does not clarify what those changes will be. Notably, ED is reporting a burden decrease of over 4 million hours, indicating that changes to the form may be significant. | Education |
| 2026-04-14 | Housing Choice Voucher Program and Tribal HUD-VASH | HUD | These forms are used by public housing agencies to apply for funding to assist very low-income families to lease or purchase housing. They collect data on participant eligibility, unit acceptability, lease and housing assistance payments, and budget and payment documentation. HUD is making changes to nearly all the forms in this package, some of which implement changes to the law (such as integrating a utility flat fee option or allowing a waiver of owner responsibility for tenant-caused housing quality deficiencies), while others are changing the forms to align with Administration priorities like revised perspectives on who is covered by civil rights protections or whether certain classes of people (e.g., non-citizens) can qualify for housing programs. | Housing |
| 2026-04-15 | Required Information for Annual Improper Payment Estimation | ED | This new form would be used by institutions of higher education to have a mechanism to report to the Department information required to carry out the S&EMP and publish payment integrity information on an annual basis. Generally, the Sampling and Estimation Methodology Plan (S&EMP) that is based in part on the results of compliance audits estimates improper and unknown payments. | Education |
| 2026-04-15 | Agricultural Surveys Program | USDA | These surveys provide the basis for estimates of the current season's crop and livestock production and supplies of grain in storage. In this iteration of the surveys, NASS is proposing to increase the sample size for the Quarterly Agricultural Surveys, reinstate the Agricultural Coverage Evaluation Survey (ACES), and update the June Area Survey questionnaire to be fully compliant with SPD15. | Agriculture |
| 2026-04-20 | Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) Operation | Census | Census's LUCA operation is designed to enable tribal, state, and general-purpose local governments to review and comment on the Census Address List for their respective jurisdictions prior to the decennial census. This notice describes the design of the 2030 LUCA operation, which will be conducted between May 2027 and Sept. 2029. Modifications from the 2020 LUCA operation include an address matching service, web-based tools that eliminate the need for the download of software, and a secure portal to facilitate communication and registration. | Census |
| 2026-04-21 | Application for DEERS Enrollment/ID Card Issuance | DOD | These forms are used to determine an individual's eligibility for benefits and privileges, to provide a proper identification card reflecting those benefits and privileges, and to maintain a centralized database of the eligible population. The listing doesn't describe any changes to the forms at this time, but in August 2025 DOD revised these forms to remove fields and revise questions related to gender - without providing an opportunity for public comment. | Military |
| 2026-04-21 | Military Experiences, Risk and Protective Factors, and Adolescent Health and Well-Being Survey | DOD | This study is designed to assess the direct and indirect association of military experiences with adolescents' psychosocial adjustment and physical health, academic achievement, and educational and career aspirations to identify risk and protective factors that may promote or inhibit positive outcomes among military-connected adolescents and their families. | Military |
| 2026-04-24 | SBA 7(a) Borrower Information Form | SBA | This form is used to apply for SBA lending programs. SBA is making several changes to the form, including adding questions to the demographic data collection section including the owner's date of birth (or date of formation for an entity owner); the owner's citizenship status; for entity owners, the type of entity; and the spouse's legal name if the spouse is also a direct or indirect owner of the Applicant or Operating Company (OC). | Economic Development |
| 2026-04-24 | Age Search Service Fee Structure | Census | In this proposed rule, the Census Bureau is proposing to increase the fee for conducting an Age Search from $65.00 to $155.00. The Census Bureau is also proposing to increase the additional charge for expedited requests requiring search results within one day from $20.00 per case to $50.00 per case. These changes are needed to reflect the actual operating costs associated with processing an Age Search request which were last revised in 2004. | Census |
| 2026-04-27 | Energy and Jobs Survey | DOE | This survey collects data from relevant industries and quantifies employment in energy activities with data on workforce demographics and employer perceptions by geography. This revision to the survey will collect data on additional priority industries including the critical materials and data center supply chains, study the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the energy sector, and promote technology neutrality throughout the survey. | Energy |
| 2026-04-27 | Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (Regulation C) | CFPB | Under HMDA, depository institutions and for-profit, non-depository institutions are required to collect, report, and disclose data about originations and purchases of mortgage loans. Additionally, these institutions must report mortgage loan applications that do not result in originations (for example, applications that are denied or withdrawn). These data are used to identify discriminatory lending practices. When originially listed, several public commenters argued that the data collection was overly burdensome, saying the expansion of data collected over time "raises serious questions about marginal utility relative to compliance burden." However, CFPB is not making any changes to the collection at this time. | Non-Discrimination |
| 2026-04-27 | Program Services Evaluation Surveys and Leadership Assessment Surveys | OPM | OPM fields several surveys under this generic clearance to collect information on Federal agency and program performance, climate, employee attitudes and leadership effectiveness, and to give OPM the ability to customize each Program Services Evaluation survey based on customer requirements. This collection package seems to include the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS). | Federal Government |