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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-07 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 2025-07-09 | Sterilization of Persons in Federally Assisted Family Planning Projects | This consent form solicits information to assure voluntary and informed consent to persons undergoing sterilization in programs of health services which are supported by federal financial assistance administered by the United States Public Health Service (PHS). | Reproductive Justice | Renewal | HHS | Individuals |
| 2025-07-09 | Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network Community Arts Engagement Subgranting Program Evaluation Forms | The Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network seeks to improve the health, well-being, and quality of life for military and veteran populations exposed to trauma, and for their families and caregivers through clinical and non-clinical programs. The forms associated with this listing include a pre-post Participant Survey, an Arts Engagement Facilitator Survey, and interviews with grantees, partners, arts engagement facilitators, and program participants. Evaluation results will provide actionable evidence to support current and future iterations of the grant program and Creative Forces Community Engagement grantees. | Evaluation | New | NEA | Grantees |
| 2025-07-09 | U.S. Election Assistance Commission 2025 Data Summit: Election Administration by the Numbers | During the meeting, election officials, academics, and other key stakeholders will participate in panel discussions on election administration and related innovative and groundbreaking data and research. Topics will include the results of the 2024 Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS), election funding, voter list maintenance, workforce development, and more. | Voting Rights | N/A | EAC | N/A |
| 2025-07-10 | FCC Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program | This document announces a new computer matching program the FCC and the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) will conduct with the Minnesota Department of Human Services (MDHS). The purpose of this matching program is to verify the eligibility of applicants to and subscribers of Lifeline, and the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). Under this program, FCC will transfer Social Security Number, date of birth, first and last name to MDHS, which will respond either “yes” or “no” that the individual is enrolled in SNAP or Medicaid. | Public Benefits | New | FCC | N/A |
| 2025-07-11 | National HIV Surveillance System | The National HIV Surveillance System (NHSS) data are the primary data used to monitor the extent and characteristics of the HIV burden in the United States. Revisions were made to simplify data collection and entry for health departments, to collect more relevant data that would help health departments track progress in responding to HIV clusters, and to help health departments better communicate their progress and challenges to CDC so that CDC can provide more effective technical assistance and other support for responding to clusters and outbreaks. | HIV/AIDS | Revision | CDC | Health departments |
| 2025-07-11 | WIC & FMNP Outreach, Innovation, and Modernization Evaluation | WIC provides supplemental food, nutrition education, and referrals to health and social services to pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and children up to age 5 who are living in households with low incomes and are at nutritional risk. This evaluation includes 3 components. An implementation study will provide a comprehensive understanding of project implementation while accommodating variations in the timing of projects within different program areas, implementation within and between State agencies, and innovative approaches. A waiver study will provide an understanding of waiver issuance and use. An impact study will measure the impact of the WIC and FMNP modernization projects on participants through key short-term and intermediate-term outcome measures | Food Access | New | USDA | Governments, businesses, and households |
| 2025-07-11 | WISEWOMAN: Well-Integrated Screening and Evaluation for Women Across the Nation | The WISEWOMAN program sponsored by the CDC, provides services to low income, uninsured, or underinsured women aged 35-64. The program collects data on cardiovascular disease risk factors and types of healthy behavior support services for participants served by the program. Among other changes, this notice announces the implementation of new SPD15 race/ethnicity collection standards. | Healthcare | Revision | CDC | Grantees |
| 2025-07-11 | NCHS Rapid Surveys System (RSS) Round 7 | The RSS has three major goals: (1) to provide CDC and other partners with time-sensitive data of known quality about emerging and priority health concerns; (2) to use these data collections to continue NCHS's evaluation of the quality of public health estimates generated from commercial online panels; and (3) to improve methods to communicate the appropriateness of public health estimates generated from commercial online panels. Among other topics, panelists in the RSS will be asked about health status, life satisfaction, chronic conditions, diabetes, veteran status, health care access and utilization, mental health, and body mass index. Female panelists will be asked about their pregnancy history and family planning. | Health and Safety | Revision | CDC | Individuals |
| 2025-07-12 | National Violent Death Reporting System | NVDRS is a state-based surveillance system developed to monitor the occurrence of violent deaths (i.e., homicide, suicide, undetermined deaths, and unintentional firearm deaths) in the United States (U.S.) by collecting comprehensive, detailed, useful, and timely data from multiple sources (e.g., death certificates, coroner/medical examiner reports, law enforcement reports) into a useable, anonymous database. In this revision, CDC is changing the gender variable to "sex" and allowing for only male and female responses as well as removing gender and gender identity from the hate crime reporting section. | LGBTQI+ | Revision | HHS | States |
| 2025-07-12 | Overdose Response Strategy Data Collection | This collection focuses on a survey and a reporting tool that ORS teams and their partners will complete to provide critical data to CDC for program monitoring, to inform technical assistance and guidance documents produced by CDC or other partners, and to assess the extent to which the ORS program is achieving the goal of supporting public health and public safety partnerships to reduce drug overdose. | Drug Use | New | HHS | Individuals and grantees |
| 2025-07-14 | Evaluation of the Center for Legal and Judicial Innovation and Advancement (CLJIA) | This notice announces a revision to what was originally related to a larger project, the Evaluation of the Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative, focused on studying outcomes of TA to child welfare agencies and courts, for both states and tribes. This request will remove most of the prior instruments approved for this project. The larger project was successful in getting information about the broad array of TA. It also showed therein that there was more variation among the professional audiences being served than anticipated and thus CB had opted to pursue evaluation individually by Center going forward. | Child Welfare | Revision | HHS/ACF | Individuals |
| 2025-07-14 | Regional Partnership Grants National Cross-Site Evaluation and Evaluation Technical Assistance | RPG grants develop interagency collaborations and integration of programs, activities, and services designed to increase well-being, improve permanency, and enhance the safety of children who are in an out-of-home placement or at risk of being placed in out-of-home care as a result of a parent's or caretaker's substance misuse. This evaluation will extend the understanding about how RPG programs and services may improve outcomes for children and families. | Child Welfare | Renewal | HHS/ACF | Grantees |
| 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 |
| 2025-07-16 | NIST's Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) | The ISPAB is tasked with identifying emerging managerial, technical, administrative, and physical safeguard issues relative to information security and privacy. Meetings on 7/16 + 7/17 will cover NIST IT Lab activities and updates on several NIST programs. | Privacy | N/A | DOC | N/A |