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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
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-14 | FEMA Reasonable Accommodation Medical Request Form | DHS/FEMA | Managers at FEMA will use the information gathered on this form to inform decisions about whether to grant an accommodation and determine together with the employee in an interactive process what accommodations would most appropriately address the requestor's functional limitations. | Disability |
| 2025-10-14 | Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) | ED | ED is proposing to add a new “Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement” (ACTS) to IPEDS. This component will be applicable to all four-year institutions who utilize selective college admissions, because according to the listing "these institutions have an elevated risk of noncompliance with the civil rights laws." Generally, data collected will include race and sex information about students who applied, were admitted, and enrolled, their GPA and admission test scores, and information about financial assistance provided to those students. In the first year, ED proposes to collect that data not only from the 25-26 academic year, but also from the five prior academic years. | Education |
| 2025-10-14 | Caseload Reduction Documentation Process | HHS/ACF | The TANF caseload reduction credit gives a state credit for reducing its caseload between a base year and a comparison year; ACF reduces a state's required work participation rate for a fiscal year by the state's caseload reduction credit. In addition to removing non-binary response options from gender fields, ACF is adding clarifying language about family eligibility, citizenship status, and education level. | Economic Justice |
| 2025-10-14 | Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey | Census | The MWTS provides measures of monthly sales, end-of-month inventories, and inventories/sales ratios in the United States by selected kinds of business for merchant wholesalers, excluding manufacturers' sales branches and offices. Data are used by BEA as part of the GDP calculation and by BLS as an input to Producer Price Indexes and productivity measurements. No changes are being made to the survey at this time. | Economic Development |
| 2025-10-14 | NFA Responsible Person Questionnaire | ATF | This form is used when a trust or other legal entity is applying to make or register a NFA firearm to identify a responsible individual and to provide sufficient information to conduct a background check on that person. NFA is making several changes to the form, including combining race and ethnicity questions in alignment with SPD15 and to add instructions for married couples jointly filing an application to be treated as an "other legal entity." | Gun Violence |
| 2025-10-10 | Healthcare Competition Complaint Form | DOJ | DOJ is proposing to introduce a new form that would allow reporting by members of the public of complaints, concerns, or information regarding potential antitrust violations. | Healthcare |
| 2025-10-09 | Notice of Appeal From a Decision of an Immigration Judge | DOJ/EOIR | EOIR is making several minor revisions to this form, including increasing the filing fee from $0 to over $1,000 pursuant to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. | Immigration |
| 2025-10-09 | Immigration Practitioner/Organization Complaint Form | DOJ/EOIR | This form is used to file a complaint regarding a practitioner's behavior in proceedings before EOIR. According to the listing, EOIR has revised the Privacy Act Notice on the form to update citations to legal authority and clarify how EOIR uses the collected information. | Immigration |
| 2025-10-07 | Application To Transfer and Register NFA Firearm (Tax Paid) | ATF | This form is used by people with an NFA firearm to apply to ATF for approval to transfer and register the firearm. In addition to reducing transfer fees to $0, ATF is making a number of small technical revisions and combining the race and ethnicity questions to align with new SPD15 guidance. | Gun Violence |
| 2025-10-07 | Application To Make and Register NFA Firearm | ATF | This form is used by any person other than a qualified manufacturer who wishes to make and register an NFA firearm. In addition to several technical changes, ATF is revising this form to combine the race and ethnicity questions in alignment with the new SPD15 standards. | Gun Violence |
| 2025-10-06 | Selective Service System Registration Form 1 | SSS | This form is used by 18-year-old citizens and immigrants living in the US to register for military service. The listing indicates that SSS is making changes to the Privacy Act statement on the form - the list of entities that SSS will share registration information with - but it's unclear from the listing what changes are being made. | Military |
| 2025-10-06 | Data Resource Toolkit Protocol for the Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program | SAMHSA | This suite of forms are is used to record information about mental and behavioral health services provided to people and communities in the wake of a presidentially-declared major emergency. Forms are being revised to update race and ethnicity questions to align with SPD15, to remove gender options other than male or female, to remove questions about recent immigration, to add a question about primary languages spoken during encounters, and to implement several other technical changes. | Emergency Management |
| 2025-10-06 | Application To Transfer and Register NFA Firearm (Tax Exempt) | ATF | This form is used to apply for permission to transfer and register a National Firearms Act (NFA) firearm. In addition to several other technical changes, ATF is revising this form to combine the race and ethnicity questions in alignment with SPD15. | Gun Violence |
| 2025-10-06 | Monthly Retail Surveys | Census | The Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MRTS) provides estimates of monthly retail sales, end-of-month merchandise inventories, and quarterly e-commerce sales; the Advance Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MARTS) provides an early indication of monthly sales for retail trade and food services firms. The Census Bureau is planning to extend both of these surveys without changes. | Trade |
| 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 | 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 |
| 2025-09-30 | 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 |
| 2025-09-29 | 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 | 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 |