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. 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 | Agency | Summary | Main Issues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-03 | FDA Food Safety and Nutrition Survey | FDA | FDA is reinstating its Food Safety Survey and Health and Diet Survey, to measure consumers' knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about food safety and nutrition issues. The proposed 2025 FSANS will contain many of the same questions and topics as the previous surveys to facilitate measuring trends in food safety and diet knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors over time. The proposed survey will also be updated to explore emerging consumer food safety and nutrition topics and to expand understanding of previously asked topics. | Food Access |
| 2025-10-02 | NTIA Internet Use Survey | DOC/NTIA | This survey, a supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS), asks roughly 60 questions about whether and how Americans use the Internet. NTIA has made several changes to the survey in this iteration; commenters to the 60-day notice supported most of the changes and suggested minor revisions - it doesn't appear that NTIA has changed anything in response to those comments. | Science and Technology |
| 2025-09-30 | Selective Service Systems of Record Notice | SSS | This notice amends all 7 Selective Service System's Systems of Records Notices' (SORNs) routine uses to allow for the disclosure of personally identifiable information to the appropriate parties in the course of responding to a breach or suspected breach of the agency's PII or to assist another agency in its response to a confirmed or suspected breach. | Data Sharing |
| 2025-09-30 | Direct Digital Data Feeds | Census | The Census Bureau is planning a new program which will allow businesses, state and local government and education agencies, and other entities normally reporting in private- and public-sector business surveys to provide us with Direct Digital Data Feeds. A data feed is an automated transmission of data from an organization's existing digital systems such as databases, accounting software, or administrative records directly to the Census Bureau, without requiring manual data entry or separate survey responses. Initially, the Census Bureau will focus on inviting large businesses, which are typically included in multiple surveys, to participate in the program. | Data Collection |
| 2025-09-29 | Defense Organizational Climate Survey (DEOCS) | DOD | This survey is used to assess the unit or organization climate as measured by 19 unique protective and risk factors associated with the six strategic target outcomes (STOs): sexual assault, sexual harassment, racial/ethnic discrimination, suicide, readiness, and retention. These data provide the DoD’s only official estimates of racial/ethnic harassment and discrimination. It's unclear from the listing what in the survey is being changed. | Military |
| 2025-09-29 | Medicare Quality of Care Complaint Form | HHS | This form, which is used by beneficiaries to submit a written complaint about the quality of care they received, is being revised to update demographic questions to align with the new standards in SPD-15. | Healthcare |
| 2025-09-29 | Understanding Service Member Experiences with Family Planning | DOD | This survey will help DOD understand how service members experience family planning both within the Military Health System and via community providers. These focus groups will also gather information on service members' experiences with any new policies related to reproductive health. | Reproductive Justice |
| 2025-09-29 | Privacy Act Rulemaking: Adjudication and Appeal Records | DOJ | DOJ is proposing to revise its Privacy Act regulations to allow for additional sharing of its adjudicaiton and appeals records. | Immigration |
| 2025-09-29 | Understanding Participant Experiences in SNAP E&T | USDA | This evaluation will help FNS develop a comprehensive understanding of how SNAP participants experience the SNAP Employment and Training program and to identify actionable recommendations to help programs improve their customer service and efficiently connect participants with training and services that meet their needs. | Food Access |
| 2025-09-29 | Adjudication and Appeal Records | DOJ | DOJ is significantly changing its adjudication and appeals records sharing to, among other things, increase sharing with the Dept of State to get their opinion on cases or claims, sharing with other agencies to aid them in benefit eligibility determinations (according to the listing, "The fact that an individual is in proceedings before EOIR, and the outcome of such proceedings, may constitute evidence necessary to determine eligibility for certain federal benefits."), and sharing "aggregate statistical information with the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom for the purpose of preparing a variety of reports advising on the status of religious freedom abroad." | Immigration |
| 2025-09-29 | Federal-State Unemployment Compensation (UC) Program; Data Availability | DOL | DOL is proposing to revise its regulation on unemployment compensation data to require - rather than to permit - the disclosure of confidential UC information to Federal officials for the purposes of UC program oversight and audits. According to the proposal, mandatory collection of this data is essential to ensure the UC program is being administered consistent with Federal law and to identify and prevent fraud. | Labor/Employment |
| 2025-09-29 | Nurse Corps Scholarship Program | HRSA | This form is used by HRSA to determine applicant eligibility for scholarships to nursing students in exchange for a minimum 2-year full-time service commitment (or part-time equivalent), at an eligible health care facility with a critical shortage of nurses. HRSA is making minor changes to the form, including replacing “gender” with “sex” and a discontinuing the collection of resumes within the application as they are not used to determine eligibility. | Healthcare |
| 2025-09-26 | Regulation C-Home Mortgage Disclosure | Treasury | HMDA data collected using this set of forms helps Treasury to determine whether depository institutions are filling their obligations to serve the housing needs of the communities and neighborhoods in which they are located and to assist public officials in distributing public-sector investments in a manner designed to improve the private investment environment. It does not appear from the listing that any changes are being made to the collection at this time. | Housing |
| 2025-09-26 | National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses | Census | This survey collects data on the evolving demographics, educational qualifications, and career employment patterns of RNs. The survey has been fully redesigned for 2026; changes include removing items, modifying existing items, and adding new content. | Healthcare |
| 2025-09-26 | Perkins V State Plan Guide | ED | In 2024, ED revised its reporting requirements for the Perkins V program to require data disaggregated by gender, race, and ethnicity so performance could be tracked across those characteristics. Through this notice, ED is announcing its decision to revert to an earlier version of the reporting requirements that did not require disaggregated reporting despite public comments encouraging ED to retain the more detailed requirements. | Education |
| 2025-09-26 | National Disease Surveillance Program | CDC | Generally, the NDSP monitors communicable diseases. This portion of the NDSPcovers surveillance activities associated with four, rare diseases: 1. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD); 2. Reye Syndrome; 3. Kawasaki Syndrome; and 4. Acute Flaccid Myelitis. Changes are being requested only to the Acute Flaccid Myelitis form's race and ethnicity responses, though it's unclear from the listing exactly what changes are being made. | Health and Safety |
| 2025-09-26 | Consolidated Annual Report (CAR) for Perkins V | ED | In 2024, ED revised its reporting requirements for the Perkins V program to require data disaggregated by gender, race, and ethnicity so performance could be tracked across those characteristics. Through this notice, ED is announcing its decision to revert to an earlier version of the reporting requirements that did not require disaggregated reporting despite public comments encouraging ED to retain the more detailed requirements. | Education |
| 2025-09-25 | Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications | NIH | Through this notice, NIH is setting a policy thatit will not consider applications that are either substantially developed by AI, or contain sections substantially developed by AI, to be original ideas of applicants. Further, it will only accept six new, renewal, resubmission, or revision applications from an individual Principal Investigator/Program Director or Multiple Principal Investigator for all council rounds in a calendar year. | Science and Technology |
| 2025-09-25 | Appeals and Case Records | MSPB | The Merit Systems Protection Board rescinded their appeals and case records system and replaced it with a substantially similar system. It's unclear from the listing what changes were made in the new system. | Labor/Employment |
| 2025-09-23 | CPS Displaced Worker, Job Tenure, and Occupational Mobility supplement | BLS | This supplement is used to assess the size and nature of the population affected by job displacements and the needs and scope of programs serving adult displaced workers. It is also used to assess employment stability by determining the length of time workers have been with their current employer and estimating the incidence of occupational change over the course of a year. No changes are being made to the supplement at this time. | Labor/Employment |