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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-08 | Census of Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies (CTLEA) | DOJ/BJS | The CTLEA, last fielded in 2019, collects data on all tribal law enforcement agencies operating in the U.S. Data collected include the number of sworn staff by tribe and type of agency, arrests and call for service and functions performed by each agency. The listing indicates that changes are being made to the survey, but no supplemental materials are available to help us understand what changes are being made. | Policing |
| 2026-09-08 | ATUS Artificial Intelligence (AI) Questions | DOL/BLS | BLS is proposing a new two-minute module for the American Time Use Survey that would ask whether and how people use AI and link those responses to their 24-hour activity diaries. Beginning in 2027, the questions would produce nationally representative data on AI use across tasks, demographic and occupational groups, and work, education, household, and leisure activities. | Science and Technology |
| 2026-09-08 | FEMA and HUD Data Matching Program | HUD | HUD is re-establishing a data-sharing agreement with FEMA that allows HUD and participating disaster-recovery grantees to match disaster-assistance, flood-insurance, and housing records. The data include identifying information, household characteristics, income, disability and access needs, housing and damage information, insurance coverage, and assistance amounts, and will be used to calculate disaster-recovery funding, conduct outreach, prevent duplicate benefits, and enforce flood-insurance requirements. The renewed agreement also changes some of the data fields exchanged. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-09-04 | Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Program | HHS/CDC | CDC is proposing to revise reporting forms for its Rape Prevention and Education program to implement executive orders on gender identity and DEI. The changes replace references to "health equity" with "health for all and especially for those at greatest risk," eliminate questions about transgender and nonbinary people and undocumented status, remove gender identity from a nondiscrimination question, and revise other demographic and program-evaluation language. | Sexual Assault |
| 2026-09-04 | Current Mandatory Business Surveys | DOC/Census | In a somewhat unusual Federal Register notice, Census formally announces that three of its existing business surveys will be mandatory in 2026: the Annual Integrated Economic Survey, Annual Business Survey, and Business and Professional Classification Report. Together, the surveys collect detailed information on businesses and the economy, including employment, revenue and expenses, business-owner demographics, R&D and innovation, and business activities. The surveys and their data collections have already received OMB approval, and the notice does not appear to establish new requirements or change the information being collected; rather, Census is formally determining that the surveys are necessary and directing that they be conducted on a mandatory basis. | Economy |
| 2026-09-04 | Verification of Eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act through a Department of War Health Benefits Plan | HHS/CMS | CMS is re-establishing a data-sharing agreement with the Department of War/Defense to match Marketplace applicants and enrollees against TRICARE records. Defense will provide CMS with daily files containing Social Security numbers and coverage dates, which CMS and state Marketplace agencies will use to verify eligibility for ACA premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions and to determine benefit amounts. | Healthcare |
| 2026-09-04 | Environmental Public Health Tracking Network | HHS/CDC | CDC is proposing to revise data collection for the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network to implement Executive Order 14168 by replacing "gender" with "sex" and limiting sex response options to male and female. The proposal also removes the "unknown" option from birth defect, emergency department, and hospitalization reporting forms, eliminating a response option used when an infant's sex cannot yet be determined and potentially reducing the accuracy of surveillance for some congenital conditions. | Healthcare |
| 2026-09-04 | OneRD Loan Guarantee Program | USDA | USDA is revising its loan guarantee program forms to update the civil rights compliance language. The prior version specifically required collection of data on race, sex, and national origin; the current version requires a more generalized collection of demographics. | Rural |
| 2026-09-03 | Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) | HUD | HUD is renewing its data match with HHS to compare recipients of public housing, Housing Choice Vouchers, project-based Section 8, and other rental assistance with federal employment, wage, and unemployment records. HUD and housing administrators will use the results to verify reported income, determine rent and subsidy amounts, and identify possible improper payments or unreported income. | Housing |
| 2026-09-01 | Federal Ballot Mail | USPS | USPS is establishing a new federal system of records containing the names and addresses of people receiving mail ballots, the unique barcodes associated with their outgoing and return ballot envelopes, and the state or locality issuing each ballot. The database supports USPS’s new requirements for states using the mail for federal-election ballots and will allow individual ballot mailpieces to be linked to particular voters. USPS says it will not collect ballot contents or party affiliation, but the records may be disclosed to law-enforcement or other government agencies under authorized uses, including DHS when it has a "law-enforcement need" for the data. USPS rejected privacy, election-administration, and data-sharing concerns raised by commenters and made no changes to the system in response. | Voting Rights |
| 2026-08-31 | Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey | OPM | OPM is proposing to redesign the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey following its cancellation of the survey in 2025. Under the new model, OPM would stop centrally administering the government-wide survey; each agency would conduct its own annual survey using 10 required questions rather than 16 and submit the core results to OPM and OMB. A companion proposed rule would also let agencies decide what information to publish, removing current requirements to disclose details such as survey methodology, response rates, and question-level results. OPM says the changes will give agencies greater flexibility and more useful management information, but the decentralization, reduced set of common questions, and weaker disclosure requirements could make results less consistent across agencies and over time while limiting public accountability. | Federal Government |
| 2026-08-31 | National Marrow Donor Program Patient Support Center Survey | HHS/HRSA | This survey collects feedback from all HCT patients, caregivers, and family members who had contact with the NMDP/Be The Match Patient Support Center (PSC) for service and support. Survey results will be used to inform program development and resource allocation decisions. Last year, to comply with EO 14168, HRSA removed the survey's question about gender. Notably, the survey now collects no information on sex or gender; this is the first opportunity the public has had to comment on that change. | Healthcare |
| 2026-08-29 | Non-Infrastructure Metrics | DOC/EDA | EDA is consolidating three performance reports for non-infrastructure grants into a single revised ED-916 and eliminating the ED-917 and ED-918 outcome questionnaires. The change reduces reporting burden and prioritizes measures of return on investment, but eliminates the standalone forms used to track broader, longer-term outcomes such as innovation, business networks, workforce development, and organizational capacity, potentially narrowing EDA’s picture of benefits that are difficult to express in dollars. | Economic Development |
| 2026-08-28 | CMS and OPM Data Sharing and Matching Program | CMS | CMS is re-establishing a data match that compares ACA Marketplace applicants and enrollees with OPM records on active federal employees to determine eligibility for Marketplace coverage, financial assistance, exemptions, renewals, and appeals. OPM will provide monthly files containing identifiers and federal health-plan information, but match results must be independently verified before coverage or assistance is denied or reduced. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-08-28 | Census of Tribal Court Systems (CTCS) | DOJ/BJS | Last fielded in 2014, BJS is reinstating the CTCS, a voluntary survey of tribal courts about staffing, court functions, caseloads, civil and juvenile justice matters, and court operations. The census is intended to update national data on tribal court systems, identify emerging challenges, and create a time series that can inform Congress, federal agencies, tribal justice practitioners, researchers, and the public. | Criminal Justice |
| 2026-08-26 | National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) | HHS/CDC | CDC is seeking three-year approval to continue the National Survey of Family Growth, which collects nationally representative data from people ages 15–49 on fertility, contraception, pregnancy, infertility, relationships, sexual behavior, and related health care. The questionnaires would remain unchanged from those used since January 2026, while CDC would conduct small methodological studies to improve survey efficiency and data quality. | Adoption/Families |
| 2026-08-24 | Current Population Survey-Basic Labor Force | DOL/BLS | BLS is seeking to continue the monthly Current Population Survey, which produces national employment and unemployment statistics and allows labor-force outcomes to be analyzed by characteristics including age, sex, race and ethnicity, education, disability, and family composition. The survey also measures people who have stopped looking for work because they believe no jobs are available. BLS doesn't seem to be making any substantive changes to the survey at this time. | Labor/Employment |
| 2026-08-24 | Removal of Reporting Requirements | EEOC | EEOC is proposing to abolish all six federal EEO workforce reports and their related recordkeeping requirements, ending the annual EEO-1 collection from large private employers and covered federal contractors as well as reporting by apprenticeship programs, unions, state and local governments, public schools, and colleges. The government would lose standardized data showing how workers are distributed by race and ethnicity, sex, occupation, salary level, and other employment categories. Although EEOC argues that the reports are burdensome, potentially unconstitutional, and may encourage discrimination, the data have long supported enforcement, employer self-assessment, research, and public accountability; eliminating them would leave the agency more dependent on individual complaints and case-specific requests, making systemic discrimination substantially harder to identify and document. | Civil Rights |
| 2026-08-24 | Distraction: Modern Voice Command Interfaces | DOT | NHTSA is planning a driving-simulator study of six modern vehicle voice-command systems, comparing common tasks performed by voice and touchscreen. Using 144 drivers, the agency will measure lane control, speed, eye movements, reaction to a sudden road obstruction, and indicators of cognitive workload to assess whether voice interfaces reduce or contribute to distracted driving. | Transportation |
| 2026-08-24 | Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey | HHS/CMS | CMS is extensively revising the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey beginning in 2027, replacing much of its broad access-to-care section with expanded questions on care coordination, trust in providers, and prior authorization, and adding questions on prescription-drug discount programs, nutrition, and hypertension management. It will remove or streamline questions on vaccine costs, religious affiliation, satisfaction with care, preventive screening, diabetes and incontinence management, and facility residents’ health, functioning, and billing, potentially ending some useful trend data even as it reduces duplication and overall survey burden. CMS will also introduce a web-based survey option for facilities. | Healthcare |