by Meghan Maury
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. The Take Action! newsletter highlights surveys or forms the government is changing, renewing, or introducing. Click the links to tell the government what you think about the changes they are making.
Note: The Take Action tab of DataIndex.us provides information about even more surveys, forms, evaluations, and records notices than are listed in your weekly newsletter.
Surveys
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).
Comments due 7/4/25.
Evaluations
Moving to Work (MTW), Asset Building Cohort Evaluation. This survey will ask HUD-assisted households at PHAs implementing the opt-out savings account program about financial goals and aspirations, and experiences with banking, savings, and credit to support Phase 2 of HUD’s Asset Building Cohort evaluation.
Comments due 8/1/25.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.
Comments due 7/7/25.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 tele-behavioral health services into primary care settings and establishing an evidence-based model that can assist health care providers.
Comments due 7/3/25.
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Removals
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.
Comments due 8/1/25.Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD); Supporting Contracts and Processing Requirements. This listing covers a series of forms used by grantees to apply for Rental Assistance Demonstration project funding. Through this listing, HUD is removing references to DEIA generally and is removing references to HUD’s “Equal Access Rule” which provides non-discrimination protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in HUD programs.
Comments due 8/1/25.
Program Collections
Statutorily-Mandated Collection of Information for Tenants in LIHTC Properties.
As required by law, this form collects information annually from state agencies that administer Low Income Housing Tax Credits. The form collects information on race, ethnicity, family composition, age, income, use of rental assistance, disability status, and monthly rental payments of households residing in each property receiving such credits through such agency. It is unclear from the listing what revisions are being made to this form.
Comments due 8/1/25.
Changes to Federal Records
Records Disposition. The National Archives 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.
Comments due 7/21/25.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 under the 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.
Comments due 7/3/25.DOJ Systems of Records Notice. This notice 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.
Comments due 7/2/25.
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