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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-31 | Shaping the Future of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics | DOT | BTS is seeking public input on how to modernize its data products, fill gaps in national transportation data, and make its tools easier to use, including through more timely indicators, new data sources, more geographic or demographic detail, APIs, and machine-readable formats. | Transportation |
| 2026-07-30 | Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) | HHS/ACF | This listing implements a 2024 rule change expanding state reporting on the Indian Child Welfare Act. Beginning with children entering foster care in 2028, states will collect more detailed information about whether ICWA protections were followed, including inquiries into a child’s Tribal status, notice to Tribes and parents, transfers to Tribal court, efforts to prevent family separation, and compliance with foster-care and adoptive-placement preferences. | Child Welfare |
| 2026-07-29 | Rural Health Care Coordination Program Performance Improvement Measures | HHS/HRSA | HRSA is revising the performance measures for the Rural Health Care Coordination Program, which supports rural care-coordination strategies focused on heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, stroke, and maternal health. The changes are fairly limited. Commenters asked HRSA to add stronger measures on behavioral health, substance use disorder services, demographic detail, workforce characteristics, upstream drivers of health, and EHR interoperability; HRSA did not appear to add those changes now, saying instead that it will consider them in future measure development. In the supplemental materials, HRSA justifies collecting race/ethnicity data by saying it needs the data to assess whether projects are meeting the needs of the populations served. | Healthcare |
| 2026-07-28 | Health Benefits Election Form | OPM | Federal employees use this form to enroll in or change enrollment in federal health insurance. Through this listing, OPM is formalizing changes to questions about gender and swapping out the phrase "biological child" for "natural child." They also indicate that additional changes to the form may be made "to facilitate verification of eligibility or to provide revised instructions" in response to a forthcoming regulation on verification requirements for family member coverage. | Healthcare |
| 2026-07-27 | Consolidated State Performance Report Renewal | ED | This reporting tool collects information from states related to the performance and monitoring activities of programs under ESSA and the McKinney-Vento Act. ED is making significant changes to the collection, including eliminating questions on Assessment waivers, Title III, Part A allocation timeline, McKinney-Vento and ARP Homeless, Certification requirement for OME, Postsecondary URLs, Title I, Part D, and Funding Transferability for State and Local Education Agencies; and combining the CSPR I and II into a single CSPR collection. | Education |
| 2026-07-27 | Client Assistance Program Performance Report | ED | The CAP program provides advocacy and legal representation to individuals receiving services under the Rehabilitation Act to resolve disputes with programs providing such services, including vocational rehabilitation services. This form collects information on people served by CAP grantees. This listing is formalizing the removal of questions and response options related to gender identity from the reporting form. | Disability |
| 2026-07-27 | Health Professions Student Loan Program, Loans for Disadvantaged Students Program | HHS/HRSA | These forms are used to determine the eligibility of students who are applying for loans for various health education programs. Throught this listing, HRSA is formalizing changes to gender questions made last year and may be making other changes, though it is difficult to tell from the supplemental materials that are available. | Education |
| 2026-07-27 | Direct Loan Program Promissory Notes and related forms | ED | ED is revising these forms to reflect new student-loan rules, including new annual, aggregate, and lifetime borrowing limits; reduced loan limits for students enrolled less than full time; the phase-out of Grad PLUS loans; new repayment plan options; and the removal of SAVE-related provisions. Public comment feedback was incorporated: the Department added clearer language on IBR interest capitalization, lifetime loan limits, enrollment-based limits, PLUS loan cross-references, and the fact that payments in the Tiered Standard Plan do not count toward PSLF or TEPSLF. | Education |
| 2026-07-24 | Military Experiences, Risk and Protective Factors, and Adolescent Health and Well-Being Survey | DOD | This survey is designed to assess adolescents' psychosocial adjustment and physical health, academic achievement, and educational and career aspirations to identify risk and protective factors that may promote or inhibit positive outcomes among military-connected adolescents and their families. DOD is revising the survey to add new measures on topics like military family experiences, mental health and self-harm, caregiving, counseling and support, virtual learning, and social media; they are removing questions on topics like race/ethnicity, gender, masculinity and femininity, family sociopolitical discussions, some parent-relationship and caregiving follow-ups, and monitoring/supervision. | Military |
| 2026-07-24 | Understanding Participant Experiences in SNAP E&T | USDA | USDA is proposaing a new study on how SNAP participants understand work requirements, navigate eligibility rules, access SNAP Employment and Training programs, and find services that meet their needs. | Food Access |
| 2026-07-23 | Health Benefits Claims and Cost Records | OPM | OPM is modifying its health claims data system for the Federal Employees Health Benefits and Postal Service Health Benefits programs to include Postal Service records, add more detailed claims and payment fields, and authorize additional routine data-sharing for health benefits administration, oversight, fraud prevention, payment integrity, litigation, and related purposes. The system includes diagnosis, procedure, drug, provider, and date-of-service information, so the expanded uses and sharing authorities could raise privacy concerns for people who receive sensitive forms of care through federal or postal employee health plans. | Healthcare |
| 2026-07-23 | Notice of Public Data Asset Release Under the Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act | HHS/CMS | CMS will publicly release provider-level Medicaid prescription-drug spending and enrollment data from 2018–2024, including billing and prescribing providers, drugs, claim counts, payments, and enrollment status. The data are aggregated and de-identified, with small cells suppressed, and could support useful research and accountability; however, CMS explicitly frames the release as helping the public identify fraud, waste, and abuse even though the files may include denied claims, missing-value codes, and state-level coding differences that could be mistaken for evidence of wrongdoing. | Waste, Fraud, and Abuse (WFA) |
| 2026-07-23 | Change of Address/Contact Information Form | DOJ | DOJ is revising the immigration court change-of-address form to remove the “in care of” fields that allowed people in immigration proceedings to have notices sent through another person. DOJ describes the change as a way to prevent “fraud” and protect personal information, but it could also make it harder for people with unstable housing, unreliable mail, or safety concerns to reliably receive immigration court notices. | Immigration |
| 2026-07-23 | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Data | HHS | HHS is updating the records system for TANF data to make clearer that ACF can use information from TANF agencies, other HHS records, and other federal or state agencies — including DHS and SSA — for “program integrity” reviews, audits, monitoring, and citizenship or immigration-status verification. The change also adds a new routine use allowing TANF records to be shared with agencies or entities helping ACF conduct those reviews, which could raise privacy and chilling-effect concerns for low-income families, especially households with immigrant members. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-07-22 | Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA) | DOJ/BJS | The CSLLEA collects national data on law enforcement agencies’ staffing, budgets, functions, demographics, and school-based personnel. BJS is revising the CSLLEA to include private campus law enforcement agencies and ask whether agencies perform three additional functions: executing search warrants, operating real-time crime centers, and using drones. | Criminal Justice |
| 2026-07-20 | Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) | Census | This survey collects data on the volume and pattern of goods movements in the United States. Census is making a number of changes to the survey, including removing a subset of hazardous materials packaging respondents and their corresponding survey questions. | Economy |
| 2026-07-20 | Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) Performance Measures | HHS | The PREP Program supports evidence-based programs to reduce teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.This form collects performance measures data from PREP grant recipients, program providers, and participants. HHS is making various changes to simplify and clarify the performance measures, including noting particular questions in the participant surveys that youth have difficulty understanding and responding to. | Sex Education |
| 2026-07-20 | Case Service Report (RSA-911) | ED | The RSA-911 is considered to be one of the most robust databases in describing the demographics of the disabled population in the country and as such is used widely in researchers' disability-related analyses and reports. This listing is finalizing earlier changes to question about gender - removing nonbinary and "another gender" response options. ED may be making additional changes to this collection; the supplemental materials are unclear. | Disability |
| 2026-07-18 | DELTA Cooperative Agreement Evaluation | HHS/CDC | CDC is revising DELTA program reporting by state domestic violence coalitions, which it uses to monitor intimate partner violence prevention work, implementation, evaluation, and technical assistance needs. The notice appears to carry forward earlier EO-driven changes that removed or softened references to health equity, gender, transgender and nonbinary people, undocumented status, and social determinants of health. | Violence |
| 2026-07-17 | Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering | NSF | The GSS collects information on the characteristics of academic graduate enrollments in science, engineering and health fields. NSF is not making any changes to the survey at this time. | Education |