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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.
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
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| Due Date | Collection | Agency | Summary | Main Issues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-17 | Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Survey | HHS/CMS | CMS is revising administration of the CAHPS for MIPS survey, which measures Medicare patients’ experiences with clinicians, by adding web as the first response mode and requiring survey vendors to report costs and information about their web-survey capabilities; the beneficiary questionnaire is otherwise unchanged. CMS plans to implement the 2024 SPD 15 combined race and ethnicity question for the 2028 performance year, using only the minimum categories rather than detailed groups, citing implementation needs and concerns about respondent confusion and already-low response rates. | Healthcare |
| 2026-08-17 | Reporting of the Essentials for Childhood (EfC): Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences through Data to Action Program | HHS/CDC | CDC is revising reporting by Essentials for Childhood grantees, a program focused on preventing adverse childhood experiences through surveillance, prevention strategies, evaluation, and data-to-action work. The notice appears to formalize earlier EO-driven changes that remove or soften references to health equity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender/sex discrimination, and undocumented status. | Health and Safety |
| 2026-08-17 | Modernizing Suspension and Debarment Rules | FCC | In this notice, FCC is creating new disclosure and certification requirements tied to its modernized suspension and debarment rules, so participants in programs like Lifeline, E-Rate, Rural Health Care, High-Cost, and TRS have to certify compliance and disclose certain prior misconduct or exclusions. The stated purpose is to prevent “bad actors” from receiving federal communications funding; the compliance requirements attach to programs that support low-income people, schools and libraries, rural health providers, rural broadband, and people with disabilities. | Federal Benefits |
| 2026-08-17 | Requests for DOJ Certification Letters for T Visa Holders | DOJ | In this notice, DOJ is proposing a new process for T visa holders — survivors of human trafficking — to request certification letters needed to support an early application for lawful permanent residence. The notice does not itself change T visa or green card eligibility, but the process matters because delays, new documentation burdens, or added discretion could make it harder for trafficking survivors to obtain permanent status before the usual three-year mark. | Immigration |
| 2026-08-17 | Fraud.gov Federal Program Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Tip Intake and Referral System | Treasury | This new form will act as a government-wide intake and referral portal for members of the public to report suspected waste, fraud, abuse, improper payments, misuse of Federal funds, and related misconduct affecting Federal programs. | Federal Benefits |
| 2026-08-17 | SAM Quarterly Certification of Compliance With Executive Order 14400, Urgent National Action To Save College Sports | GSA | In this notice, GSA is proposing a new SAM.gov reporting requirement for colleges and universities with at least $20 million in annual intercollegiate athletics revenue to certify quarterly that they are complying with Executive Order 14400. The certification is meant to help federal contracting and grantmaking agencies assess compliance with the EO’s rules on college athletics, including eligibility, transfers, revenue sharing, NIL/pay-for-play arrangements, and use of federal funds for athletics-related payments. | Sports |
| 2026-08-16 | Domestic Mail Manual | USPS | USPS is proposing a new federal database linking people who receive mail or absentee ballots to their addresses and the unique barcodes on their outgoing and return ballot envelopes. The records would be retained for five years and used by election officials and for law-enforcement purposes, allowing named voters’ ballot mail to be tracked even though their voting choices would not be collected. The system would take effect only if USPS finalizes its currently enjoined ballot-mail rule. | Voting Rights |
| 2026-08-15 | Application for the Reviewer Contact Information Form | SAMHSA | SAMHSA is revising its application for grant peer reviewers to replace gender with a binary sex question; remove transgender and “prefer not to answer” options; implementing new SPD15 standards by adopting a combined race and ethnicity question that adds Middle Eastern or North African and removes “Mixed Race”; and eliminate LGBTQ and racial or ethnic minority expertise categories. It also removes SAMHSA’s statement of values promoting positive behavioral health. | Civil Rights |
| 2026-08-14 | ORR Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Program Application | HHS/ACF | ORR is revising the Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Program application by cutting open-ended questions and using more structured questions on sponsors, placement preferences, and minors’ medical, mental-health, behavioral, and accommodation needs. Despite public comments, the form limits sex responses to male or female and continues using the term “unaccompanied alien child.” However, in response to public comments, ORR restored an optional upload for child advocates’ best-interest determinations and added language allowing minors, providers, advocates, and legal services providers to identify placement and support needs. | Immigration |
| 2026-08-14 | Regulatory Agendas | Various | The 2026 Unified Regulatory Agenda previews a broad wave of rules that could change what data the federal government collects, how it verifies eligibility, and what civil-rights information remains available. Across agencies, planned actions would eliminate or narrow some race, disability, language-access, and disparate-impact requirements; expand immigration-status verification, biometrics, and public-benefit eligibility checks; increase fraud, waste, abuse, and program-integrity data collection; and revise demographic fields, including new requirements to collect “biological sex” in some settings. Other planned rules could affect SNAP and WIC participant and retailer data, ACA eligibility documentation, federal-contractor disability reporting, and data used to enforce discrimination protections. Several of these actions were scheduled for July or August 2026, suggesting a substantial number of data-related rules may be forthcoming soon. | Data Collection |
| 2026-08-13 | State Exchange Improper Payment Measurement (SEIPM) | HHS/CMS | CMS is creating a new program requiring state-based Health Insurance Marketplaces to submit annual samples of households receiving advance premium tax credits so CMS can assess whether subsidies were calculated correctly. CMS will report an aggregate improper-payment rate across state Exchanges; an improper payment does not necessarily indicate fraud. | Waste, Fraud, and Abuse (WFA) |
| 2026-08-13 | Consumer Experience Survey Data Collection | HHS/CMS | CMS is revising its survey of Marketplace plan enrollees to remove four tobacco-use questions, combine race and ethnicity into one question aligned with the 2024 SPD15 federal standards, and update questions about telehealth. The revisions also add screening questions to reduce unnecessary follow-up questions and make several changes intended to improve response rates. | Healthcare |
| 2026-08-12 | SPD 8: North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) | OMB/OIRA | OMB is seeking comment on proposed 2027 updates to NAICS, the government-wide system for classifying businesses by industry. The changes would separate streaming services from social networks, recognize spaceport operations and electric-vehicle motor manufacturing, and combine several related manufacturing, transit, training, and other industries. OMB is not proposing requested new classifications for the bioeconomy. If finalized, federal statistical agencies would use the revised categories for data covering 2027 and later. | Economy |
| 2026-08-12 | NSF and Treasury Data Matching Program | NSF | NSF is establishing an agency-wide match between records for applicants and recipients of grants, fellowships, and other federal funds and Treasury’s Do Not Pay system to screen eligibility and identify or recover alleged improper payments. NSF may share identifying, contact, and bank-account information; potential matches must be reviewed and verified before adverse action. | Waste, Fraud, and Abuse (WFA) |
| 2026-08-12 | Insider Threat Incident Reporting Tool | DHS/TSA | TSA is seeking approval for a new online tool that allows current or former people with authorized access to DHS facilities, systems, or information to report suspected insider threats. Reports may include personal information about the person accused and details of the incident; TSA also wants the tool approved as a common form that other federal agencies could adopt. | Federal Government |
| 2026-08-11 | DOC-Census Workforce Development Collection | DOC/NIST | This new form will collect data on individuals who participate in workforce development training programs sponsored by the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Economic Development Administration (EDA). The collected data will be linked to Census Bureau data sets—including demographic, household, and jobs data—to produce measurable metrics that inform workforce training program outcomes and support evidence-based decision-making for future investments. | Labor/Employment |
| 2026-08-11 | AmeriCorps State and National Application Instructions | CNCS | Americorps is proposing a number of changes to its grant application instructions, including addressing how unexpended funds are handled; removing the fixed percentage rate method as an option for calculating administrative/indirect costs for cost-reimbursement grants; updating the de minimis indirect cost rate; adding a new Attachment; adding clarifying language; and reflecting regulatory changes since the last renewal, including, for example, updating the match requirements and updating terminology. | Federal Funding |
| 2026-08-11 | Race and Ethnic Data Reporting Form | HUD | HUD uses this form for collecting information concerning the race, ethnicity, and other protected class data of the populations intended to benefit from HUD funding. The listing does not indicate that any changes to the form are being made at this time. However, the last time this form was renewed HUD indicated that in this renewal they would be updating the form to reflect the 2024 SPD15 standards on race and ethnicity data collection. | Housing |
| 2026-08-10 | Medical Examination for Visa or Immigration Benefit | State | Physicians use this form to record information about non-US citizens seeking entry into the US. Through this listing, State is expanding the scope of the collection to allow eMedical processing for all people subject to a medical examination under the INA, including not only immigrant visa applicants but also certain nonimmigrant, follow-to-join refugee, diversity visa, asylum, parole, and K-visa applicants. | Immigration |
| 2026-08-10 | RFI on Online Career Tools and the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) Program | DOL | DOL is seeking input from workforce development experts, workers, and employers on how to improve ETA's online career tools and the O*NET program. Among many other questions, DOL is looking for input on barriers to accessing public workforce data and about improvements that could be made to taxonomies, metadata, filters, etc. | Labor/Employment |