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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
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| Due Date | Collection | Agency | Summary | Main Issues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-24 | Addressing DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors (E.O. 14398) for Contract-Like Instruments | GSA | GSA is seeking approval for a new information collection to enforce Executive Order 14398, which bars federal contractors from engaging in what the order calls “racially discriminatory” DEI activities. The collection would extend the anti-DEI contract clause to GSA’s non-FAR contract-like instruments, including leases, concession contracts, and outleases, and would require contractors to provide records on request, report known or “reasonably knowable” subcontractor conduct that may violate the clause, and notify GSA if a subcontractor lawsuit challenges it. As a result of this form's requirements, prime contractors will need to monitor and report on subcontractors, which could discourage contractors and subcontractors from maintaining even lawful DEI or supplier-diversity work if they fear federal scrutiny, contract remedies, or being reported by a business partner. | Non-Discrimination |
| 2026-08-24 | Application for Disability Compensation Benefits | VA | VA is revising its main disability compensation application to make it shorter and easier to use, reducing the form from 15 pages to 5 pages and lowering the estimated time to complete it from 25 minutes to 15 minutes. This appears intended to reduce administrative burden for disabled veterans applying for benefits, which could be especially important for veterans with disabilities, limited time or support, lower literacy, or less reliable access to legal or claims assistance. | Veterans |
| 2026-08-22 | National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2027 Amendment 1 | ED | NCES is finalizing materials for the 2027 NAEP grade 8 science pilot, which will be administered primarily on school devices and will not produce publicly reported achievement results. NAEP will continue using the 1997 SPD 15 race and ethnicity standards for 2027 while developing plans for the 2024 standards, and has replaced references to gender with binary sex categories of male and female. | Education |
| 2026-08-21 | Reporting Portal for Civil Rights Violations | DOJ | In this notice, DOJ is seeking continued approval for its Civil Rights Reporting Portal, the public online form people use to report potential civil rights violations to the Civil Rights Division. The notice does not disclose the changes in detail, but the supplemental materials show that DOJ is adding "gun ownership" as a discrimination type and removed “gender identity” as a selectable personal characteristic and changed “gender” references to “sex” in the hate-crime portions of the portal, even though federal hate-crimes law still expressly covers crimes motivated by actual or perceived gender identity. | Civil Rights |
| 2026-08-21 | ACF and VA Data Sharing and Matching Program | ACF | ACF is re-establishing a quarterly data match in which Treasury’s Do Not Pay system will compare state records for Medicaid, TANF, SNAP, and general-assistance applicants and recipients with detailed VA compensation and pension records. States may use the matches to verify eligibility and identify potentially unreported income, although findings must be independently verified before benefits are denied, reduced, or terminated. | Public Benefits |
| 2026-08-21 | Modifications to the Regulations Implementing Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 | DOL | DOL is eliminating major disability data and measurement requirements for federal contractors under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. Contractors will no longer be required to invite applicants and employees to voluntarily self-identify as having a disability, maintain data on applicants and hires with disabilities, or measure their workforce against the 7% disability utilization goal. The rule leaves contractors’ statutory affirmative-action obligation in place while eliminating much of the data and benchmarking previously used to determine whether those efforts are actually working. | Disability |
| 2026-08-20 | NASA Assurance of Civil Rights Compliance | NASA | NASA is revising the civil-rights compliance form required from grant and cooperative-agreement applicants by removing references to DEI, gender identity, and the revoked federal language-access order, while adding shared-ancestry protections, including antisemitism, and a new requirement to report harassment allegations. The form will continue to collect information about discrimination complaints and compliance reviews, but the changes narrow its explicit recognition of LGBTQ and language-access protections; NASA is also removing a section linking recipients to civil-rights guidance because it no longer maintains that website. | Civil Rights |
| 2026-08-19 | Disaster Business Loan Application | SBA | SBA is revising the disaster business loan application used by businesses and nonprofits after declared disasters. The changes replace the voluntary gender question with a binary sex question and remove “Other;" revise criminal-history screening to ask about incarceration following a conviction or an indictment for a felony or crime involving financial misconduct or false statements; and add consent for SBA to verify applicants’ information against Social Security Administration records. SBA is also standardizing the form’s required fields and instructions and updating website links. | Emergency Management |
| 2026-08-19 | HHS Registration of an Institutional Review Board Form | HHS | HHS is simplifying the registration form for institutional review boards by eliminating the requirement to submit a roster listing each member’s sex, degrees, scientific role, expertise, and institutional affiliation. IRBs will still be legally required to maintain current rosters and meet federal standards for expertise, independence, and diverse membership, but HHS and FDA will no longer receive the information routinely through registration, reducing the agencies’ ability to monitor whether boards overseeing human-subject research are appropriately constituted and representative. | Healthcare |
| 2026-08-19 | Disaster Home Loan Application | SBA | SBA is revising the disaster home loan application used by homeowners and renters after declared disasters. The changes replace the voluntary gender question with a binary sex question and remove “Other;" revise criminal-history screening to ask about incarceration following a conviction or an indictment for a felony or crime involving financial misconduct or false statements; and add consent for SBA to verify applicants’ information against Social Security Administration records. SBA is also standardizing required fields and instructions and updating electronic-communications language and website links. | Emergency Management |
| 2026-08-17 | Reporting of the Essentials for Childhood (EfC): Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences through Data to Action Program | HHS/CDC | CDC is revising reporting by Essentials for Childhood grantees, a program focused on preventing adverse childhood experiences through surveillance, prevention strategies, evaluation, and data-to-action work. The notice appears to formalize earlier EO-driven changes that remove or soften references to health equity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender/sex discrimination, and undocumented status. | Health and Safety |
| 2026-08-17 | Fraud.gov Federal Program Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Tip Intake and Referral System | Treasury | This new form will act as a government-wide intake and referral portal for members of the public to report suspected waste, fraud, abuse, improper payments, misuse of Federal funds, and related misconduct affecting Federal programs. | Federal Benefits |
| 2026-08-17 | SAM Quarterly Certification of Compliance With Executive Order 14400, Urgent National Action To Save College Sports | GSA | In this notice, GSA is proposing a new SAM.gov reporting requirement for colleges and universities with at least $20 million in annual intercollegiate athletics revenue to certify quarterly that they are complying with Executive Order 14400. The certification is meant to help federal contracting and grantmaking agencies assess compliance with the EO’s rules on college athletics, including eligibility, transfers, revenue sharing, NIL/pay-for-play arrangements, and use of federal funds for athletics-related payments. | Sports |
| 2026-08-17 | Modernizing Suspension and Debarment Rules | FCC | In this notice, FCC is creating new disclosure and certification requirements tied to its modernized suspension and debarment rules, so participants in programs like Lifeline, E-Rate, Rural Health Care, High-Cost, and TRS have to certify compliance and disclose certain prior misconduct or exclusions. The stated purpose is to prevent “bad actors” from receiving federal communications funding; the compliance requirements attach to programs that support low-income people, schools and libraries, rural health providers, rural broadband, and people with disabilities. | Federal Benefits |
| 2026-08-17 | Requests for DOJ Certification Letters for T Visa Holders | DOJ | In this notice, DOJ is proposing a new process for T visa holders — survivors of human trafficking — to request certification letters needed to support an early application for lawful permanent residence. The notice does not itself change T visa or green card eligibility, but the process matters because delays, new documentation burdens, or added discretion could make it harder for trafficking survivors to obtain permanent status before the usual three-year mark. | Immigration |
| 2026-08-17 | Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Survey | HHS/CMS | CMS is revising administration of the CAHPS for MIPS survey, which measures Medicare patients’ experiences with clinicians, by adding web as the first response mode and requiring survey vendors to report costs and information about their web-survey capabilities; the beneficiary questionnaire is otherwise unchanged. CMS plans to implement the 2024 SPD 15 combined race and ethnicity question for the 2028 performance year, using only the minimum categories rather than detailed groups, citing implementation needs and concerns about respondent confusion and already-low response rates. | Healthcare |
| 2026-08-16 | Domestic Mail Manual | USPS | USPS is proposing a new federal database linking people who receive mail or absentee ballots to their addresses and the unique barcodes on their outgoing and return ballot envelopes. The records would be retained for five years and used by election officials and for law-enforcement purposes, allowing named voters’ ballot mail to be tracked even though their voting choices would not be collected. The system would take effect only if USPS finalizes its currently enjoined ballot-mail rule. | Voting Rights |
| 2026-08-15 | Application for the Reviewer Contact Information Form | SAMHSA | SAMHSA is revising its application for grant peer reviewers to replace gender with a binary sex question; remove transgender and “prefer not to answer” options; implementing new SPD15 standards by adopting a combined race and ethnicity question that adds Middle Eastern or North African and removes “Mixed Race”; and eliminate LGBTQ and racial or ethnic minority expertise categories. It also removes SAMHSA’s statement of values promoting positive behavioral health. | Civil Rights |
| 2026-08-14 | Regulatory Agendas | Various | The 2026 Unified Regulatory Agenda previews a broad wave of rules that could change what data the federal government collects, how it verifies eligibility, and what civil-rights information remains available. Across agencies, planned actions would eliminate or narrow some race, disability, language-access, and disparate-impact requirements; expand immigration-status verification, biometrics, and public-benefit eligibility checks; increase fraud, waste, abuse, and program-integrity data collection; and revise demographic fields, including new requirements to collect “biological sex” in some settings. Other planned rules could affect SNAP and WIC participant and retailer data, ACA eligibility documentation, federal-contractor disability reporting, and data used to enforce discrimination protections. Several of these actions were scheduled for July or August 2026, suggesting a substantial number of data-related rules may be forthcoming soon. | Data Collection |
| 2026-08-14 | ORR Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Program Application | HHS/ACF | ORR is revising the Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Program application by cutting open-ended questions and using more structured questions on sponsors, placement preferences, and minors’ medical, mental-health, behavioral, and accommodation needs. Despite public comments, the form limits sex responses to male or female and continues using the term “unaccompanied alien child.” However, in response to public comments, ORR restored an optional upload for child advocates’ best-interest determinations and added language allowing minors, providers, advocates, and legal services providers to identify placement and support needs. | Immigration |