Take Action!
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. Take Action! highlights surveys or forms the government is changing, renewing, or introducing. 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, or
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-20 | Factors that Influence the Effectiveness of Hazard Anticipation and Attention Maintenance Training | DOT | DOT is proposing a one-time study on novice driver training among 168 18- and 19-year olds who do not yet have driver's licenses. DOT intends to develop and test a novice driver training program on a smartphone-like platform and determining whether the effectiveness of the training differs for participants of different sexes, socioeconomic status (SES) strata, and trait levels of sensation seeking and aggressiveness. | Transportation |
| 2025-10-20 | Post Separation Data Collection for Job Corps Participants | DOL | Job Corps is testing some new methologies for its participant post-separation data collection, including new incentive fee structures. Though not technically part of this change request, Job Corps submitted a "non-substantive" change request for this survey in March to remove response options to job satisfaction question that read, "I experienced discrimination because of my gender at my job," ostensibly in response to EO 14168. Because the public was denied an opportunity to comment on that change, it would be appropriate to include a response to that change in a public comment on the current changes. | Labor/Employment |
| 2025-10-20 | Agricultural Recruitment System Forms Affecting Migratory Farm Workers | DOL | DOL is making changes to the forms farm owners use to verify compliance with migrant farmworker protections contained in the 2024 final rule on "Improving Protections for Workers in Temporary Agricultural Employment in the United States." That final rule was rescinded in July, necessitating changes to the related information collection. | Immigration |
| 2025-10-19 | Breakthrough Innovations Initiative Application | NSF | NSF is launching an effort to enable researchers, innovators, and entrepreneurs to apply unconventional approaches to create game-changing technologies and translate discoveries into tangible applications and products. This form is used to apply for funding through that program. | Science and Technology |
| 2025-10-17 | Suicide Prevention 2.0 Program-Community Opinion Survey | VA | This survey will collect baseline data on the knowledge and attitudes of adult US citizens living in specified communities about Veterans, Veteran suicide, and resources available to Veterans to reduce suicide, prior to the implementation of suicide prevention programs; collect follow-up data in the same communities to assess whether knowledge and attitudes have changed over time; and determine whether the programs and policies implemented by a community resulted in positive change in knowledge and attitudes. | Mental Health |
| 2025-10-16 | Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted | DOJ | DOJ is renewing its LEOKA form, which collects LEOKA data from law enforcement agencies in order for the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program to serve as the national clearinghouse for the collection and dissemination of crime data and to publish Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted statistics annually. It doesn't appear that any changes are being made to the form at this time. | Criminal Justice |
| 2025-10-16 | Collection of Social Media Identifier(s) on Immigration Forms | DHS | Through this listing, DHS is announcing its intention to collect social media identifiers on nine of its forms, including applications for naturalization, travel documents, asylum, and other status changes. DHS argues that collection of this information is "necessary for a rigorous vetting and screening of all grounds of inadmissibility or bases for the denial of immigration-related benefits." | Immigration |
| 2025-10-16 | DFC-Treasury Data Sharing Agreement | DFC | The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation is announcing its intention to share data with the Department of Treasury "when disclosure of the information is relevant to review payment and award eligibility through the Do Not Pay Working System for the purposes of identifying, preventing, or recouping improper payments to an applicant for, or recipient of, Federal funds, including funds disbursed by a state... in a state-administered, federally funded program." | Public Benefits |
| 2025-10-15 | VHA Corporate Data Warehouses | VA | VA is updated the system they use to hold records for clinical decision support, mobile applications presenting patient data, and statistical analysis to produce various management, workload tracking, and follow-up reports. It is also used to track and evaluate the ordering and delivery of equipment, services, and patient care; track the planning, distribution, and utilization of resources; monitor the performance of Veterans Integrated Service Networks; and allocate clinical and administrative support to patient medical care. New uses of the data include sharing with the CDC and National Cancer Institute to monitor health trends and with 3rd party applications to comply with Qualified Health Provider requirements in regulations designed to facilitate ccess to and exchange of health data and plan information. | Healthcare |
| 2025-10-15 | VA Health Care Claims Files | VA | VA is updating its Health Care Claims record sharing system in a number of ways, including removing exceptions from its law enforcement sharing provisions, increasing sharing with federal agencies for the purposes of claim reviews, and introducing new sharing permissions with sharing with EEOC "in connection with investigations of alleged or possible discriminatory practices, examination of Federal affirmative employment programs, or other functions of the Commission as authorized by law.” | Healthcare |
| 2025-10-15 | Owner's Certification With HUD Tenant Eligibility and Rent Procedures | HUD | HUD uses this set of forms to determine tenant eligibility for subsidized housing, establish priority among eligible applicants, and ensure compliance with fair housing laws, including the prohibition of racial discrimination in tenant selection and unit assignments. Among other changes, HUD is updating these forms to align with the new SPD-15 standards for race and ethnicity data collection. | Housing |
| 2025-10-15 | Feedback on Redesigning the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) | ED | ED is requesting feedback to inform its comprehensive reexamination of IES to ensure that its core functions—research, statistics, evaluation, and dissemination—are carried out in ways that maximize relevance, timeliness, and usability for the education stakeholders who rely on them. Specifically, the goal is to ensure that IES' high-quality work is translated in ways that inform teacher and practitioner practice and has a meaningful, positive impact on students' academic achievement and other outcomes. | Education |
| 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 | 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 |
| 2025-10-14 | 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 |
| 2025-10-10 | 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 | 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 |
| 2025-10-09 | 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 |