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. DataWatch — 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 | Summary | Main Issues | New/Renew | Agency | Respondents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-24 | Unaccompanied Alien Children Sponsor Application Packet | These forms allow ORR to assess the suitability of potential sponsors for unaccompanied undocumented children. (Note: Previously titled Family Reunification Application for Sponsors of Unaccompanied Alien Children.) Primary changes are the removal of "family reunification" language and the current Administration has requested more comprehensive information on sponsor income to support suitability assessments as part of the sponsorship application. In addition to the information already collected in form SAP-3, ORR is planning to prepare an Affidavit of Support that will be completed by the sponsor and provide certification that the sponsor has the financial means to provide for the child's physical and mental well-being. | Immigration | Revision | HHS | Potential sponsors of unaccompanied alien children, their adult household members, and alternate adult caregivers |
| 2025-06-26 | Unaccompanied Alien Children Bureau Incident Reporting | This listing makes dozens of changes to the forms used to report an incident involving an unaccompanied immigrant child. Most of the changes seem to improve the form, though notably: in one form, "gang affiliation reported" is added to a list of "External Threats to a UAC," and the gender question is revised to be called sex and to include only male/female response options. | Immigration | Revision | HHS/ORR | UAC Bureaus |
| 2025-06-26 | Unaccompanied Alien Children Bureau Assessments for Children and Sponsors | This collection includes more than a dozen forms used in assessing unaccompanied children and their potential sponsors. Makes several global changes to the forms, including replacing "gender" with "sex" and limiting the response options to those questions and inserting "Alien" throughout. Removes sexual orientation as well as gender identity. Adds language on gang affiliation. | Immigration | Revision | HHS/ORR | UAC Bureaus |
| 2025-06-26 | Home Study and Post Release Services Provided to Unaccompanied Alien Children | This collection includes a half dozen forms associated with provision of care to unaccompanied children. The listing makes global changes to all of the forms, including adding questions about gang affiliation, revising gender questions to limit response options to M/F, and adding the term "Alien" wherever the forms discuss unaccompanied children. | Immigration | Revision | HHS/ORR | UAC Bureaus |
| 2025-06-27 | Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program | The purpose of this matching program is to verify the eligibility of Lifeline and ACP applicants and subscribers by determining whether they receive SNAP and Tribal TANF benefits administered by the Arizona Department of Economic Security. | Public Benefits | New | FCC | N/A |
| 2025-07-02 | DOJ Systems of Records Notice | This SORN modifies the records systems associated with DOJ's Security Monitoring and Analytics Service (SMAS), which provides DOJ-managed information technology (IT) service offerings to other federal agencies wishing to leverage DOJ's cybersecurity services. The listing includes a number of changes, primarily to the Users and Purposes section of the SORN, expanding routine uses to include several kinds of law enforcement investigations. | Criminal Justice | Revision | DOJ | N/A |
| 2025-07-03 | Behavioral Health Integration Evidence Based Telehealth Network Program Outcome Measures | This program supports evidence-based projects that use telehealth technologies through telehealth networks in rural and underserved areas to: (1) improve access to integrated behavioral health services in primary care settings, and (2) expand and improve the quality of health information available to health care providers by evaluating the effectiveness of integrating telebehavioral health services into primary care settings and establishing an evidence-based model that can assist health care providers. | Mental Health | New | HHS | Grantees |
| 2025-07-03 | Selective Service Systems of Record Notice | The Selective Service System is modifying its system for Reasonable Accommodation, Religious Exception, and Medical Exception Health Records, which is designed to collect records related to the processing of requests from employees and applicants for employment who are seeking a reasonable accommodation based upon disability under the Rehabilitation Act or for a religious belief, observance, or practice underthe Civil Rights Act or the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993; or other applicable law. It is unclear from the listing what changes are being made. | Religious Liberty/Exemptions | Revision | SSS | N/A |
| 2025-07-04 | Higher Education Research and Development Survey | This survey is used to produce statistics on R&D expenditures by source of funding, type of R&D (basic research, applied research, or development), and field of research, with separate data requested on research equipment by field. Further breakdowns are collected on funds passed through to subrecipients and funds received as a subrecipient, and on R&D expenditures by field from specific federal agency sources. The survey also requests total R&D expenditures funded from foreign sources, R&D within an institution's medical school, clinical trial expenditures, R&D by type of funding mechanism (contracts vs. grants), and R&D by cost category (salaries, equipment, software, etc.). In addition, the survey requests headcounts and full-time equivalents of R&D personnel (researchers, R&D technicians, and R&D support staff). | Education | Extension | NSF | Higher Education institutions |
| 2025-07-07 | National Directory of New Hires | State child support agencies use the NDNH information to locate a parent living or working in a different State and to take appropriate interstate actions to establish, modify, or enforce a child support order. Specific State and Federal agencies also use NDNH information for authorized purposes to help administer certain programs, prevent overpayments, detect fraud, assess benefits, and recover funds. Revisions seem technical. | Labor/Employment | Revision | HHS | Employers, SLT governments |
| 2025-07-07 | Veterans Engagement Action Center (VEAC) Surveys | The VEAC gathers feedback from Veterans, Active Military, Guard/Reservist, Family members, caregivers, providers, and survivors. The VEAC then provides that feedback to VA leaders to measure the success of the outreach event and measure the ease, effectiveness, emotion, and trust from the participants as they exit. | Veterans | Revision | VA | Individuals |
| 2025-07-07 | BLS Wage Records Data Application | BLS has started a program to exchange data about the employment and wages of individuals that was not previously provided from employers or State UI programs under the QCEW. The program promotes the interchange of information, from participating States who have entered into MOUs with the BLS. The additional wage records data will be compiled into a multi-state longitudinal database and the data will be used to improve existing BLS data products and to explore the creation of new ones. | Labor/Employment | New | DOL | SLT governments |
| 2025-07-07 | Formative Data Collections for Evaluation, Research, and Evidence-Building | SBA intends to design and conduct evidence-building activities of SBA programs. SBA's evidence-building activities include formative evaluations of existing programs, process, and new initiatives; logic model development and testing; process or journey mapping; research syntheses; survey, questionnaire, and metric development; analysis; and foundational fact-finding through descriptive and exploratory studies. | Evaluation | New | SBA | Various |
| 2025-07-07 | Annual Survey of School System Finances | The Annual Survey of School System Finances is a comprehensive source of prekindergarten through 12th grade public elementary-secondary school system finance data collected on a nationwide scale using uniform definitions, concepts, and procedures. The collection covers the revenues, expenditures, debt, and assets of all public elementary-secondary school systems. | Education | Extension | Census | SLT governments |
| 2025-07-07 | Stepped and Tiered Rent Demonstration Evaluation, Phase 2 | HUD has selected 10 Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) to participate in the second cohort of the Moving to Work (MTW) Expansion, Stepped and Tiered Rent Demonstration (STRD). Five PHAs are implementing a stepped rent and five PHAs are implementing a tiered rent. HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) is evaluating the impacts of those alternative rent policies, using a randomized controlled trial. | Housing | New | HUD | PHAs |
| 2025-07-14 | Telehealth Resource Center Performance Measurement | 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 | Revision | HRSA | Grantees |
| 2025-07-21 | National Survey of Digital Health Companies | 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 | New | HHS | Digital health companies |
| 2025-07-21 | Records Disposition | 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 | New | NARA | N/A |
| 2025-07-28 | Generic Clearance for the Collection of Certain Biographic and Employment Identifiers on Immigration Forms | This listing adds six new questions to several immigration forms, including petitioner SSN, family member information, and employer information. | Immigration | New | DHS | Individuals and households |
| 2025-08-01 | Attorney General's Honors Program and the Summer Law Intern Program (HP/SLIP) | This form, which candidates use to apply for the AG's Honors Program or Summer Law Intern Program, is being revised to remove references to sexual orientation and gender identity. | LGBTQI+ | Revision | DOJ | Individuals |