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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. DataWatch — 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 | Summary | Main Issues | New/Renew | Agency | Respondents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-25 | The Impact and Potential of “Co-Production” in Addressing Climate Adaptation Across the Pacific Islands | PI-CASC aims to support a portfolio of research projects that foster long-lasting partnerships between researchers, natural and cultural resource stewards and managers, and community leaders. While building local capacities, PI-CASC endeavors to co-develop the science/knowledge bases informing our current understanding of climate change and its impacts, as well as how we might take steps to adapt to those impacts across the Pacific Islands. PI-CASC is seeking to conduct surveys and interviews with project leaders, collaborators, and community members to better understand the state of co-production across the portfolio and how such cooperative efforts may be improved moving forward. | Climate/Environment | New | USGS | Researchers |
| 2025-07-23 | Retaining Employment and Talent After Injury/Illness Network (RETAIN) Demonstration Projects and Evaluation | RETAIN projects will test the impact of early intervention strategies that improve stay-at-work/return-to-work outcomes of individuals who experience work-related disability while employed. | Labor/Employment | New | DOL | Individuals or households |
| 2025-07-23 | HRSA Uniform Data System | The HRSA Uniform Data System is used to collect information from grantess such as Health Center Program (HCP) awardees and Advanced Nursing Education program awardees. In addition to removing both sexual orientation and gender identity questions, HRSA is adding measures realated to tobacco use, opioid use, substance use, and Alzheimers. | Healthcare | Revision | HRSA | Grantees |
| 2025-07-23 | USDA Matching Program; Privacy Act of 1974 | USDA is creating a new "National Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Information Database," which will be used to verify SNAP recipient eligibility against federally maintained databases. This includes verifying eligibility based on immigration status, identifying and eliminating duplicate enrollments, assisting States in mitigating identity theft, and performing other eligibility and program integrity checks using internal and interagency data. This also includes sharing information with State agencies when necessary to investigate and rectify fraudulent or otherwise improper or illegal SNAP enrollments or transactions. | Food Access | New | USDA | N/A |
| 2025-07-21 | National Survey of Digital Health Companies | The Cures Act aimed to advance the exchange of electronic health information by promoting patient access through standardized application programming interfaces (APIs). Ongoing assessment of these technologies is crucial to examining the impacts of the Cures Act's health IT provisions and is critical to informing the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's (ASTP/ONC's) policy efforts. | Healthcare | New | HHS | Digital health companies |
| 2025-07-21 | Records Disposition | NARA publishes notice of certain Federal agency requests for records disposition authority (records schedules) for records schedules in which agencies propose to dispose of records they no longer need to conduct agency business. Through this notice, NARA invites comments on 18 disposition requests, including BOP inmate monitoring records, DOJ debt collection records, and records from HHS's National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses. | N/A | New | NARA | N/A |
| 2025-07-18 | ACF Matching Program; Privacy Act of 1974 | ACF is re-establishing a matching program between HHS/ACF/OCSS and state agencies administering the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The matching program compares state TANF agency records with new hire, quarterly wage, and unemployment insurance information maintained in the National Directory of New Hires (NDNH). The outcomes of the comparisons help state agencies to establish and verify eligibility for applicants and recipients of TANF benefits, reduce TANF benefit errors, and maintain program integrity. | Public Benefits | New | HHS/ACF | N/A |
| 2025-07-17 | ACF Matching Program; Privacy Act of 1974 | This notice announces a new data matching program under which ACF will compare name and Social Security number (SSN) combinations of unemployment compensation (UC) applicant and recipient records from each state workforce agency (SWA) to new hire and quarterly wage information maintained in the OCSS National Directory of New Hires (NDNH) system of records. Any match results from the comparison are returned to help the SWAs with establishing or verifying UC applicants' and recipients' eligibility for assistance, reducing payment errors, and maintaining program integrity, including determining whether duplicate participation exists or if an applicant or recipient resides in another state. The SWAs may also use the NDNH match information for secondary purposes, such as updating UC recipients' reported participation in work activities, updating recipients' and their employers' contact information, administering the SWAs' tax compliance function, and complying with DOL reporting requirements. | Public Benefits | New | ACF | N/A |
| 2025-07-17 | Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Work Requirements and Screening | This form incorporates changes to screening protocols to determine whether applicants are eligible for exemptions from the general work requirements and exceptions from the able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWD) time limit. All changes are being made pursuant to the December 2024 Final Rule on SNAP work requirements. | Food Access | Revision | USDA | States and individuals |
| 2025-07-16 | NIST's Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) | The ISPAB is tasked with identifying emerging managerial, technical, administrative, and physical safeguard issues relative to information security and privacy. Meetings on 7/16 + 7/17 will cover NIST IT Lab activities and updates on several NIST programs. | Privacy | N/A | DOC | N/A |
| 2025-07-14 | Telehealth Resource Center Performance Measurement | In order to evaluate existing programs, recipients of the NTRC and RTRC cooperative agreements submit data to HRSA through HRSA's DCP. The data are used to measure the effectiveness of the technical assistance. | Evaluation | Revision | HRSA | Grantees |
| 2025-07-14 | Regional Partnership Grants National Cross-Site Evaluation and Evaluation Technical Assistance | RPG grants develop interagency collaborations and integration of programs, activities, and services designed to increase well-being, improve permanency, and enhance the safety of children who are in an out-of-home placement or at risk of being placed in out-of-home care as a result of a parent's or caretaker's substance misuse. This evaluation will extend the understanding about how RPG programs and services may improve outcomes for children and families. | Child Welfare | Renewal | HHS/ACF | Grantees |
| 2025-07-14 | Evaluation of the Center for Legal and Judicial Innovation and Advancement (CLJIA) | This notice announces a revision to what was originally related to a larger project, the Evaluation of the Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative, focused on studying outcomes of TA to child welfare agencies and courts, for both states and tribes. This request will remove most of the prior instruments approved for this project. The larger project was successful in getting information about the broad array of TA. It also showed therein that there was more variation among the professional audiences being served than anticipated and thus CB had opted to pursue evaluation individually by Center going forward. | Child Welfare | Revision | HHS/ACF | Individuals |
| 2025-07-12 | Overdose Response Strategy Data Collection | This collection focuses on a survey and a reporting tool that ORS teams and their partners will complete to provide critical data to CDC for program monitoring, to inform technical assistance and guidance documents produced by CDC or other partners, and to assess the extent to which the ORS program is achieving the goal of supporting public health and public safety partnerships to reduce drug overdose. | Drug Use | New | HHS | Individuals and grantees |
| 2025-07-12 | National Violent Death Reporting System | NVDRS is a state-based surveillance system developed to monitor the occurrence of violent deaths (i.e., homicide, suicide, undetermined deaths, and unintentional firearm deaths) in the United States (U.S.) by collecting comprehensive, detailed, useful, and timely data from multiple sources (e.g., death certificates, coroner/medical examiner reports, law enforcement reports) into a useable, anonymous database. In this revision, CDC is changing the gender variable to "sex" and allowing for only male and female responses as well as removing gender and gender identity from the hate crime reporting section. | LGBTQI+ | Revision | HHS | States |
| 2025-07-11 | National HIV Surveillance System | The National HIV Surveillance System (NHSS) data are the primary data used to monitor the extent and characteristics of the HIV burden in the United States. Revisions were made to simplify data collection and entry for health departments, to collect more relevant data that would help health departments track progress in responding to HIV clusters, and to help health departments better communicate their progress and challenges to CDC so that CDC can provide more effective technical assistance and other support for responding to clusters and outbreaks. | HIV/AIDS | Revision | CDC | Health departments |
| 2025-07-11 | WISEWOMAN: Well-Integrated Screening and Evaluation for Women Across the Nation | The WISEWOMAN program sponsored by the CDC, provides services to low income, uninsured, or underinsured women aged 35-64. The program collects data on cardiovascular disease risk factors and types of healthy behavior support services for participants served by the program. Among other changes, this notice announces the implementation of new SPD15 race/ethnicity collection standards. | Healthcare | Revision | CDC | Grantees |
| 2025-07-11 | WIC & FMNP Outreach, Innovation, and Modernization Evaluation | WIC provides supplemental food, nutrition education, and referrals to health and social services to pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and children up to age 5 who are living in households with low incomes and are at nutritional risk. This evaluation includes 3 components. An implementation study will provide a comprehensive understanding of project implementation while accommodating variations in the timing of projects within different program areas, implementation within and between State agencies, and innovative approaches. A waiver study will provide an understanding of waiver issuance and use. An impact study will measure the impact of the WIC and FMNP modernization projects on participants through key short-term and intermediate-term outcome measures | Food Access | New | USDA | Governments, businesses, and households |
| 2025-07-11 | NCHS Rapid Surveys System (RSS) Round 7 | The RSS has three major goals: (1) to provide CDC and other partners with time-sensitive data of known quality about emerging and priority health concerns; (2) to use these data collections to continue NCHS's evaluation of the quality of public health estimates generated from commercial online panels; and (3) to improve methods to communicate the appropriateness of public health estimates generated from commercial online panels. Among other topics, panelists in the RSS will be asked about health status, life satisfaction, chronic conditions, diabetes, veteran status, health care access and utilization, mental health, and body mass index. Female panelists will be asked about their pregnancy history and family planning. | Health and Safety | Revision | CDC | Individuals |
| 2025-07-10 | FCC Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program | This document announces a new computer matching program the FCC and the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) will conduct with the Minnesota Department of Human Services (MDHS). The purpose of this matching program is to verify the eligibility of applicants to and subscribers of Lifeline, and the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). Under this program, FCC will transfer Social Security Number, date of birth, first and last name to MDHS, which will respond either “yes” or “no” that the individual is enrolled in SNAP or Medicaid. | Public Benefits | New | FCC | N/A |