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| Due Date | Collection | Agency | Summary | Main Issues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-06 | Civil Rights and Conscience Complaint and Health Information Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Complaint | HHS | People use these forms to file civil rights complaints with HHS's Office of Civil Rights. Among other changes, OCR is modifying the forms to remove references to sexual orientation and gender identity. | Non-Discrimination |
| 2026-04-06 | Interior and Treasury Data Sharing Agreement | Interior | Under this listing, the Dept of Interior is modifying 35 of its records systems to allow it to share data with the Treasury Department for purposes of reviewing payment and award eligibility through the Do Not Pay Working System to identify, prevent, or recoup improper payments. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-04-06 | OGE Form 201 Request an Individual's Ethics Documents | OGE | This form collects information from, and provides certain information to, persons who seek access to OGE Form 278 Public Financial Disclosure Reports, including OGE Form 278-T Periodic Transaction Reports, and other covered records. In addition to making edits to the language on the form, OGE is proposing to to remove the Arabic, Chinese, French and Spanish language versions of its Form 201 online application. | Language Access |
| 2026-04-07 | Report of Terms of Credit Card Plans | CFPB | The forms in this package collect data on credit card pricing and availability. CFPB is making a number of changes to the methodology of the survey component of this collection, including expanding the sampling frame beyond the approximately 700 credit card issuers already in its Collect system to about 2,200 banks and credit unions with credit card balances exceeding $1 million. CFPB is considering a number of other methodological changes that are outlined in the listing. | Economic Justice |
| 2026-04-09 | RFI on Opportunities, Challenges, and Emerging Areas in Statistical Data, Analysis, and Research at the USDA | USDA | The USDA is requesting input on opportunities, challenges, and emerging areas in statistical data, analysis, and research produced by the Economic Research Service (ERS), the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), and the Office of the Chief Economist's World Agricultural Outlook Board (OCE-WAOB). This information will help inform USDA as they consider future program direction, new initiatives, and potential funding opportunities. | Data Collection |
| 2026-04-10 | Annual Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey | DOE | EIA has fielded the Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey since 1988, but because of the rapidly evolving energy-intensive economic landscape, EIA is proposing to initiate a narrower but more frequent data collection. The new survey narrows information collected from 250 to 60 items, but is fielded yearly. Information collected will be used to produce aggregate statistics on the energy consumption of the manufacturing sector, including energy purchases, expenditures, transfers in and shipments out, onsite generation and both fuel and nonfuel use of five widely used energy sources. | Energy |
| 2026-04-10 | Workforce Recruitment Program (WRP) | DOL | The WRP is a recruitment and referral program that connects students with disabilities to opportunities for federal employment. The listing indicates that DOL is making substantive changes to this collection, but it's unclear from the listing what those changes are. | Disability |
| 2026-04-10 | Rural Health Network Development Planning Program Performance Improvement and Measurement System | HHS/HRSA | The Network Planning Program supports 1 year of planning and brings together key parts of a rural health care delivery system, particularly those entities that may not have collaborated in the past, to establish and/or improve local capacity to strengthen rural community health interventions and enhance care coordination. HRSA uses the data collected on this form to support program compliance, inform rural needs, guide the delivery of technical assistance, and shape federal program decisions. HRSA is making several changes to this reporting form, including removing questions on infrastructure, collaboration, and sustainability. | Healthcare |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 2026-04-14 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 2026-04-20 | 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 | 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 |
| 2026-04-24 | 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 |