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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-05 | Application for Permanent Employment Certification, and Appendices | DOL/ETA | These forms are used by employers to certify that to certify that foreign workers seeking to enter the United States for the purpose of performing skilled or unskilled labor will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers “able, willing, qualified, and available” to perform such labor. The listing indicates that no changes are being made to this set of forms. | Immigration |
| 2025-09-05 | NIFA Application Kit | NIFA | The forms in the NIFA application kit are used to make award determinations for agricultural research. NIFA is proposing to revise the collection by adding a new “NIFA Disclosure of Foreign Relationships” form. This form will allow NIFA to perform legislatively mandated Due Diligence of Foreign Influence review of USDA's SBIR and STTR applicants. | Food Access |
| 2025-09-05 | Department of Education and SSA Data Sharing | ED | This notice announces a matching program between the Department of Education and the Social Security Administration (SSA) to assist ED in the verification of Social Security numbers (SSNs), confirmation of citizenship status as recorded in SSA records, and death indicators (when applicable) of individuals who initiate the steps associated with accessing programs authorized by title IV of the Higher Education Act. | Education |
| 2025-09-05 | Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) | DOL | JOLTS collects data on job vacancies, labor hires, and labor separations. This survey helps people understand the complex relationship between job openings and unemployment, know which aggregate industries face the tightest labor markets, and provides clues about workers' views of the labor market or their success in finding better jobs. According to the listing, no major changes are being made to the forms, procedures, data collection methodology, or other aspects of the survey. | Labor/Employment |
| 2025-09-04 | Affidavit of Identifying Witness | State | This form is used by the identifying witness when the applicant is unable to establish his/her identity to the satisfaction of a person authorized to accept passport applications. The listing indicates that the form is being changed, but it is unclear from the lsiting what changes are being made. | Immigration |
| 2025-09-03 | Discontinuation: Agricultural Labor Survey | USDA | USDA is discontinuing this survey, arguing that "Although USDA has used FLS data for various actions in the past, those purposes can be fulfilled by relying on other available sources of data, such as the OEWS program." Experts on this data suggest that OEWS is not a reasonable substitute for the FLS. | Labor/Employment |
| 2025-09-03 | National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2026 Amendment #1 | ED | The NAEP is a survey of student achievement at grades 4, 8, and 12 in various subject areas, such as mathematics, reading, writing, science, U.S. history, and civics; the survey also collects data on specified student groups and characteristics, including information organized by race/ethnicity, sex, socio-economic status, disability, and limited English proficiency. This Amendment reduces the scope of the NAEP due to reduced agency capacity. | Education |
| 2025-09-02 | Notice of Appeal From a Decision of an Immigration Judge | DOJ | This form is being revised to reflect new filing fees required under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Under that law, filing fees increase by $1,000. | Immigration |
| 2025-09-02 | Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants Program Round 4 (SCC4) Evaluation | DOL | The SCC4 evaluation will shed light on the impact on participants of receiving comprehensive support through the evaluation, which services are effective for which types of students, why they are effective, and the core components of the SCC4 programs that support success. In addition, SCC4 will build on existing evidence regarding successful programs in community college settings and advance the understanding of how career pathways programs promote economic mobility. | Education |
| 2025-09-02 | Notice of Appeal From a Decision of an Immigration Judge | DOJ | This form collects information necessary for the Board to process an appeal of an Immigration Judge decision, such as the Respondent's/Applicant's name and alien registration number (A-number), the mailing addresses for parties and the attorney or representative of record, the basis for the appeal, and proof of service of the notice of appeal. EOIR is revising this form to implement several changes; from the listing the changes appear to be innocuous. | Immigration |
| 2025-09-02 | Recission of Final Rule: Improving Protections for Workers in Temporary Agricultural Employment in the United States | DOL | DOL is proposing to rescind provisions of regulations that provide protections for temporary foreign (H-2A visa) agricultural workers. The provisions DOL is proposing to rescind enhanced information collection requirements that would allow DOL to gain a more accurate and detailed understanding of the scope and structure of the employer's agricultural operation and thereby assist the Department in program administration and enforcement, including in determinations of whether an employer has demonstrated a bona fide temporary or seasonal need, or, conversely, whether an employer has, through multiple related entities, sought to obtain year-round H-2A labor. In support of the recission, DOL suggests that the information collection requirement "presents legal risks and places extensive burdens on filers while providing limited utility in the stated goals, such as single employer test determinations." | Immigration |
| 2025-09-02 | Suicide Prevention 2.0 Program-Community Opinion Survey | VA | This revised survey will collect baseline data on the knowledge and attitudes of adults 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 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 |
| 2025-08-31 | 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and Crisis Services Program Evaluation | HHS/SAMHSA | SAMHSA is proposing an evaluation of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and Crisis Services, to ensure individuals in suicidal, mental health, and/or substance use crisis can contact 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and are connected to crisis centers providing evidence-based care and receiving critical resource referral and linkage, including opportunities for mobile crisis support, crisis receiving and stabilizing facilities, peer respite centers, and withdrawal management services. | Mental Health |
| 2025-08-30 | U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) Alumni Survey | DOT | This survey, which is used to assess USMMA's educational outcomes and report those findings to its regional and programmatic accreditation authorities, is being revised to remove gender-related questions. | Military |
| 2025-08-29 | Phase 1 of the 2030 Census Redistricting Data Program: The Block Boundary Suggestion Project | DOC/Census | Phase 1 of this project provides states the opportunity to supply the Census Bureau with their suggestions for the 2030 Census tabulation block inventory. | Data Collection |
| 2025-08-26 | Current Population Survey (CPS) Basic Demographic Items | DOL | This portion of the CPS - which produces federal statistics on employment and unemployment - collects demographic data on topics like age, marital status, sex, Armed Forces status, education, race, origin, and family income. This year, BLS is conducting an experimental collection of Race and Ethnicity information using the new SPD15 standard. The main goal of the study is to assess the effect of the new race and ethnicity standard on estimates obtained from the CPS. The study will also aid in the implementation of the new standard for interviewer-administered data collections (both in-person and by phone). The study will examine the impact of differences in reporting using the new 2024 standard and the 1997 standard (which CPS currently is using) on race distributions, labor force estimates, weighting, and missing data. | Racial Justice |
| 2025-08-25 | Application for Veterans Pension | VA | The Application for Pension is the prescribed form for veterans applying for pension benefits. The notice indicates that the form is being revised, but it's unclear from the listing what changes are being made. | Veterans |
| 2025-08-25 | CAHPS Enrollee Survey | OPM | CAHPS surveys ask consumers and patients to report on and evaluate their experiences with health care. These surveys cover topics that are important to consumers and focus on aspects of quality that consumers are best qualified to assess, such as the communication skills of providers and ease of access to health care services. The notice indicates that the surveys are being changed, but it's unclear from the listing what changes are being made. | Healthcare |
| 2025-08-25 | Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project (STEW-MAP) | USDA | The purpose of this research is to gather information on civic stewardship groups and their efforts such as where they work, the types of projects they focus on, and how they are organized. This information will be summarized and, for the groups agreeing to be represented on a public map, made publicly available online for use by decision-makers, land managers, environmental professionals, the general public, the stewards themselves, and other natural resource management stakeholders. | Climate/Environment |
| 2025-08-21 | Improving Our Nation Through Better Design | EOP | Establishes a National Design Studio within the EOP tasked with comprehensively improving the visual presentation and usability of Federal services provided to the public in both digital and physical spaces. Requires agencies to "produce initial results" by July 4, 2026. | Federal Government |