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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-19 | Race and Ethnicity Collection System | SSA | SSA is updating this records system to clarify language, but it doesn't seem to contain any substantive changes. | ID Docs/Gov't Records |
| 2025-09-19 | J-1 Visa Waiver Recommendation Application | State | This form is used by J-1 visa holders to request a waiver of the two-year foreign residency requirement in several circumstances, including if return to the country of nationality or last residence would result in exceptional hardship to the visa holder's spouse or child who is a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident; or if the person cannot return to the country of his or her nationality or last residence because he or she would be subject to persecution on account of race, religion, or political opinion. The listing indicates that changes are being made to the form, but it's unclear from the listing what changes are being made. | Immigration |
| 2025-09-19 | Administrative Law Judge/Public Alleged Misconduct Complaints System | SSA | SSA is revising this records system to remove references to gender, create a carve out to clarify that tax return information will not be shared unless authorized, and align language with other records system notices. | ID Docs/Gov't Records |
| 2025-09-19 | Digital Identity File Record System | SSA | SSA is making changes to this record system to ensure consistency with other records system notices. The changes appear to be non-substantive. | ID Docs/Gov't Records |
| 2025-09-19 | Counterintelligence Investigations and Collection Activities (CICA) Privacy Act Exemption | DOD | DOD is proposing to exempt portions of its new Counterintelligence Investigations and Collection Activities (CICA) system of records from certain provisions of the Privacy Act to protect national security and law enforcement interests. | Privacy |
| 2025-09-19 | Provider Beliefs Regarding the Deadlift and their Effect on Patient Management | DOD | The Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) contains six events, including the maximum deadlift (MDL), which is a three-repetition maximum lift using a hex (or trap) style bar. Despite limited evidence of positive association for lumbopelvic injuries and deadlift, there are concerns about the deadlift being a part of the ACFT. The primary aim of the survey is to assess if provider beliefs regarding the deadlift exercise differ among various healthcare provider disciplines within the military healthcare system and assess if these differences are consistent with validated treatment orientations for lower back pain, and if differences in beliefs influence treatment behaviors for a patient presenting with a deadlift injury. | Military |
| 2025-09-19 | Childbirth and Breastfeeding Demonstration Survey | DOD | This survey will be used to evaluate the Childbirth and Breastfeeding Support Demonstration (CBSD), which is a project that will cover services of certain extra medical providers (certified labor doulas, certified lactation consultants, and certified lactation counselors) over a 5-year period. The survey will solicit information from TRICARE beneficiaries who have given birth in the specified reporting period. Results will be used to assist in evaluating the effectiveness of the CBSD project. | Military |
| 2025-09-19 | TRICARE Select Survey of Civilian Providers | DOD | This survey is designed to gather data on providers (physicians including primary care physicians, specialist, and mental health providers and non-physician behavioral health providers) to assess the extent to which they are aware of the overall TRICARE program, accept new TRICARE patients specifically, the extent to which these providers accept Medicare patients, and reasons if they are not. It's unclear from the listing whether any changes are being made. | Military |
| 2025-09-19 | Social Security Administration Forms | SSA | SSA is revising a number of its forms, including the Continuing Disability Review Report (used to assess whether a disbility payment claimant's disability continues to make them unable to work), Special Veterans Benefits forms, and SSN Verification Process forms. The listing indicates that changes are being made to these forms, but it's unclear what changes are being made. | Public Benefits |
| 2025-09-19 | Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey | Census | Census regularly changes questions in its Pulse survey to meet the needs of federal agency programs. In this announcement, Census is proposing to conduct the 2030 Census Planning Survey, which is designed to understand attitudes and behaviors that relate to 2030 census participation across demographic characteristics. Topics include census knowledge and trust in census data, intention to respond to the 2030 census, barriers to completing the 2030 census, and motivators to completing the 2030 census. | Data Collection |
| 2025-09-18 | National Outbreak Reporting System | HHS/CDC | NORS is used to report disease outbreaks to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC is revising the sex fields in the form to remove the words "identify as" so they now read "primary cases who are male/female." | Health and Safety |
| 2025-09-17 | Annual Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad | DOC/BEA | This survey collects data on the financial structure and operations of U.S. parents and their foreign affiliates. The data are needed to provide reliable, useful, and timely measures of U.S. direct investment abroad to assess its impact on the U.S. and foreign economies. The previous listing for this survey indicated that BEA was discontinuing collection on minority-owned foreign affiliates; it's unclear from this listing whether BEA is moving forward with that change or not. | Economy |
| 2025-09-16 | School-Level Finance Survey (SLFS) | ED | SLFS is a comprehensive source of school-level finance data for public education including salaries, benefits, and total current expenditures broken out by activity (function) for all publicly funded schools serving students in prekindergarten through 12th grade. Data on school-level spending patterns is helpful for parents to make choices for the education of their child. Uniform and comparable data helps states measure the effectiveness of resource allocation. Collecting this data at the national level addresses the need for reliable and unbiased measures that can be utilized to compare how resources are distributed among schools within local districts. Education finance statistics provided by this collection allow for comparisons of how public elementary-secondary schools are spending their funds. No changes are being made to this survey. | Education |
| 2025-09-16 | National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS) 2025-2027 | ED | NPEFS is a comprehensive source of state-level finance data for public education including revenues, expenditures, and average daily attendance of all publicly funded schools and elementary-secondary local education agencies (LEAs), state payments on behalf of LEAs, and state support for a free public education for students in prekindergarten through 12th grade. NPEFS data are used to calculate a state's “average per-pupil expenditure” (SPPE) for elementary and secondary education and in calculating allocations for certain formula grant programs. No changes are being made to the survey. | Education |
| 2025-09-16 | NASA Assurance of Civil Rights Compliance | NASA | NASA grantees use this form to submit an assurance of non-discrimination as part of their initial grant application package. In the current iteration, NASA is including a clarifying statement that reads "Title VI’s protections against discrimination based on race, color, and national origin include antisemitism and other forms of discrimination when based on shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics." | Non-Discrimination |
| 2025-09-16 | Unaccompanied Alien Children Sponsor Application Packet | HHS/ACF | This packet of forms is used by the Office of Refugee Resettlement to assess the suitability of potential sponsors for unaccompanied immigrant children. ORR is making many changes to this form packet, including adding new forms on financial support and DNA testing, changing language throughout to insert the word "alien," requiring addresses from age 18 to present, adding attestations on false statements and ability to provide for the child, requiring additional documentation, and more. | Immigration |
| 2025-09-15 | American Indian and Alaska Natives Facility Condition, Location, and Ownership Survey | HHS/ACF | This survey, conducted every five years, collects data on the condition, location, and ownership of facilities used by AIAN Head Start programs. Changes to the survey in this cycle include more detailed questions on facility safety (e.g., lead testing, pest control, disaster impact), clearer definitions of facility conditions, and expanded items on funding sources and barriers. These revisions aim to strengthen data on infrastructure challenges and needs across AIAN programs. | Education |
| 2025-09-15 | National Compensation Survey | DOL/BLS | The NCS collects data on employer costs for employee compensation, including wages and salaries, and benefits; compensation trends; and the incidence of employer-sponsored benefits among workers. These data are used to calculate statistics like change in labor costs over time, details of employer-provided health and retirement benefit plans, and wage data by occupation. BLS intends to eliminate several questions, including on sick leave carryover, non-medical premiums, the provision of other benefits, and workers compensation. | Labor/Employment |
| 2025-09-15 | Evaluation of the National Human Trafficking Hotline: Understanding Engagement With the Community, Law Enforcement, and Other Hotlines | HHS/ACF | This collection will examine how the NHTH processes contacts, interacts with law enforcement and other hotline providers, and advertises its services to potential contactors. | Criminal Justice |
| 2025-09-14 | VA National Patient Database | VA | VA is updating what is included in its National Patient Database - which includes information about VHA patients and providers as well as about people who receive services through HUD's homeless veterans programs - and how that database is used. VA is expanding the system to collect "disease registries including Veteran demographics (e.g.,name, age), military information, and screening responses" and adding data uses including sharing with other federal health care providers - including DOD - and to non-VA entities to conduct outreach to veterans on health care benefit entitlements. | Veterans |