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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-02 | Recission of Final Rule: Improving Protections for Workers in Temporary Agricultural Employment in the United States | DOL is proposing to rescind provisions of regulations that provide protections for temporary foreign (H-2A visa) agricultural workers. The provisions DOL is proposing to rescind enhanced information collection requirements that would allow DOL to gain a more accurate and detailed understanding of the scope and structure of the employer's agricultural operation and thereby assist the Department in program administration and enforcement, including in determinations of whether an employer has demonstrated a bona fide temporary or seasonal need, or, conversely, whether an employer has, through multiple related entities, sought to obtain year-round H-2A labor. In support of the recission, DOL suggests that the information collection requirement "presents legal risks and places extensive burdens on filers while providing limited utility in the stated goals, such as single employer test determinations." | Immigration | N/A | DOL | N/A |
| 2025-09-02 | Suicide Prevention 2.0 Program-Community Opinion Survey | This revised survey will collect baseline data on the knowledge and attitudes of adults living in specified communities about Veterans, Veteran suicide, and resources available to Veterans to reduce suicide, prior to the implementation of suicide prevention programs; collect follow-up data to assess whether knowledge and attitudes have changed over time; and determine whether the programs and policies implemented by a community resulted in positive change in knowledge and attitudes. | Mental Health | Revision | VA | Individuals and households |
| 2025-09-05 | Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) | JOLTS collects data on job vacancies, labor hires, and labor separations. This survey helps people understand the complex relationship between job openings and unemployment, know which aggregate industries face the tightest labor markets, and provides clues about workers' views of the labor market or their success in finding better jobs. According to the listing, no major changes are being made to the forms, procedures, data collection methodology, or other aspects of the survey. | Labor/Employment | Renewal | DOL | Businesses |
| 2025-09-05 | Complaint Involving Employment Discrimination by a Federal Contractor or Subcontractor | Because EO 11246, which prohibited Federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating in employment based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and national origin was revoked, OFCCP is revising its discrimination complaint forms to remove references to discrimination on these bases. Of note, because there is no opportunity for public feedback on Executive Orders, this is the only conduit for public comment to weigh in on the impact of that Exectuive Order. | Non-Discrimination | Revision | DOL/OFCCP | Individuals |
| 2025-09-05 | Application for Permanent Employment Certification, and Appendices | These forms are used by employers to certify that to certify that foreign workers seeking to enter the United States for the purpose of performing skilled or unskilled labor will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers “able, willing, qualified, and available” to perform such labor. The listing indicates that no changes are being made to this set of forms. | Immigration | Renewal | DOL/ETA | Businesses |
| 2025-09-05 | NIFA Application Kit | The forms in the NIFA application kit are used to make award determinations for agricultural research. NIFA is proposing to revise the collection by adding a new “NIFA Disclosure of Foreign Relationships” form. This form will allow NIFA to perform legislatively mandated Due Diligence of Foreign Influence review of USDA's SBIR and STTR applicants. | Food Access | Revision | NIFA | Grantees |
| 2025-09-06 | Web Interface and Forms To Support Genomic Data Sharing for Research Purposes | All investigators who receive NIH funding to conduct large-scale genomic research are expected to register studies with human genomic data in NIH's shared database. As part of the study registration process, investigators must provide basic study information, such as the types of data that will be submitted to dbGaP and a description of the study, via a form provided by the funding NIH institute. The related forms are being revised to clarify that requesters are expected to attest that their systems secure the data according to standards set for in the NIH Security Best Practices for Users of Controlled-Access Data. | Science and Technology | Revision | NIH | Grantees |
| 2025-09-08 | Annual Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States | This survey collects data on the financial structure and operations of foreign-owned U.S. business enterprises, which are used to provide reliable measures of foreign direct investment in the United States to assess its impact on the U.S. economy. BEA is proposing to discontinue collection of data on minority-owned U.S. affiliates, which are U.S. affiliates for which the voting interest of all foreign parents of the U.S. affiliate is 50 percent or less. | Economic Development | Revision | BEA | Businesses |
| 2025-09-08 | Healthcare Competition Complaint Form | This form facilitates reporting by members of the public of complaints, concerns, or information regarding potential healthcare or drug company antitrust violations. | Healthcare | Revision | HHS | Individuals |
| 2025-09-08 | Notification of Intention To Strike or Picket at Any Health Care Institution | Under the NRLA, labor organizations must notify FMCS before engaging in any strike, picketing, or other concerted refusal to work at any health care institution. This form creates a formalized process for submitting that notification. | Labor/Employment | New | FMCS | Unions |
| 2025-09-08 | Application for Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration | This form collects the information needed to fulfill the legal requirements for the issuance of an immigrant visa (IV). The information required on the form is limited to what is necessary for consular officers to determine the eligibility and classification of an individual seeking an IV to the United States. The listing indicates that the form is being revised, but it's unclear what revisions are being made. | Immigration | Revision | State | Individuals |
| 2025-09-09 | Special Census Program | This program allows local officials to request a Special Census when there has been a significant population change in their community due to annexation, growth, or the addition of new group quarters facilities. Many states use Special Census population statistics to determine the distribution of state funds to local jurisdictions. The Census Bureau is proposing to extend this program in its current form without any changes. | Data Collection | Renewal | Census | State and local governments |
| 2025-09-12 | The Real Cost Campaign Outcomes Evaluation Study | FDA is proposing further evaluation of its Real Cost Campaign, an effort which uses evidence-based messaging distributed through multiple channels, including paid media advertising, to highlight the negative health consequences of tobacco use to U.S. youth. The purpose of this study is to provide credible evidence that changes in key outcomes can be attributed to exposure to the campaign. | Health and Safety | New | FDA | N/A |
| 2025-09-12 | Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) | The provides a holistic view of Medicare beneficiaries' social and medical risk factors and rich information on the relationship between these risk factors, healthcare utilization, and health outcomes, at a point in time and over time. CMS is revising the survey to change the question on sexual orientation, remove the question on gender identity, and remove the question on perceived discrimination, which was used to measure perceived discrimination from health care providers due to certain personal attributes, including race or ethnicity, language or accent, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, age, culture or religion, disability, or medical history. | Healthcare | Revision | HHS/CMS | Individuals and households |
| 2025-09-15 | Evaluation of the National Human Trafficking Hotline: Understanding Engagement With the Community, Law Enforcement, and Other Hotlines | This collection will examine how the NHTH processes contacts, interacts with law enforcement and other hotline providers, and advertises its services to potential contactors. | Criminal Justice | New | HHS/ACF | Hotline staff and law enforcement |
| 2025-09-15 | American Indian and Alaska Natives Facility Condition, Location, and Ownership Survey | This survey, conducted every five years, collects data on the condition, location, and ownership of facilities used by AIAN Head Start programs. Changes to the survey in this cycle include more detailed questions on facility safety (e.g., lead testing, pest control, disaster impact), clearer definitions of facility conditions, and expanded items on funding sources and barriers. These revisions aim to strengthen data on infrastructure challenges and needs across AIAN programs. | Education | Revision | HHS/ACF | AIAN Head Start grantees |
| 2025-09-15 | National Compensation Survey | The NCS collects data on employer costs for employee compensation, including wages and salaries, and benefits; compensation trends; and the incidence of employer-sponsored benefits among workers. These data are used to calculate statistics like change in labor costs over time, details of employer-provided health and retirement benefit plans, and wage data by occupation. BLS intends to eliminate several questions, including on sick leave carryover, non-medical premiums, the provision of other benefits, and workers compensation. | Labor/Employment | Revision | DOL/BLS | businesses and state and local governments |
| 2025-09-16 | School-Level Finance Survey (SLFS) | SLFS is a comprehensive source of school-level finance data for public education including salaries, benefits, and total current expenditures broken out by activity (function) for all publicly funded schools serving students in prekindergarten through 12th grade. Data on school-level spending patterns is helpful for parents to make choices for the education of their child. Uniform and comparable data helps states measure the effectiveness of resource allocation. Collecting this data at the national level addresses the need for reliable and unbiased measures that can be utilized to compare how resources are distributed among schools within local districts. Education finance statistics provided by this collection allow for comparisons of how public elementary-secondary schools are spending their funds. No changes are being made to this survey. | Education | Renewal | ED | SLT governments |
| 2025-09-16 | NASA Assurance of Civil Rights Compliance | NASA grantees use this form to submit an assurance of non-discrimination as part of their initial grant application package. In the current iteration, NASA is including a clarifying statement that reads "Title VI’s protections against discrimination based on race, color, and national origin include antisemitism and other forms of discrimination when based on shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics." | Non-Discrimination | Revision | NASA | Grantees |
| 2025-09-16 | National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS) 2025-2027 | NPEFS is a comprehensive source of state-level finance data for public education including revenues, expenditures, and average daily attendance of all publicly funded schools and elementary-secondary local education agencies (LEAs), state payments on behalf of LEAs, and state support for a free public education for students in prekindergarten through 12th grade. NPEFS data are used to calculate a state's “average per-pupil expenditure” (SPPE) for elementary and secondary education and in calculating allocations for certain formula grant programs. No changes are being made to the survey. | Education | Renewal | ED | SLT governments |