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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-21 | National Survey of the Use of Booster Seats | DOT | This survey collects data to support estimates of restraint use for all children under 13. The collection includes race/ethnicity breakouts of restraint use among all occupants in a vehicle as well as age, height, and weight of children. | Health and Safety |
| 2025-08-21 | 21st Century Community Learning Centers Annual Performance Report | ED | This form is used to assess how well community learning centers are providing academic enrichment opportunities for children, particularly students who attend high poverty and low-performing schools, meeting State and local student standards in core academic subjects, offering students a broad array of enrichment activities that can complement their regular academic programs, and offering literacy and other educational services to the families of participating children. The form collects race and ethnicity data, but ED has decided not to implement the new SPD15 standards at this time, saying they will implement SPD15 "at a time that states and funded projects have revised their student-level collections and reporting with the SPD 15 requirements to address the new federal statistical standard for race/ethnicity items." | Education |
| 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 |
| 2025-08-21 | Transmittal for Unemployment Insurance Materials | DOL | This form is used to provide DOL with sufficient information to determine if employers in a state qualify for tax credits under the FUTA; the state meets the requirements for obtaining administrative grants under Title III, SSA; and the state is fulfilling its obligations under Federal UC programs. | Labor/Employment |
| 2025-08-20 | DOD Counterintelligence Investigations and Collection Activities (CICA) | DOD | DOD is establishing a new records program that will hold information related to investigations to determine whether an individual is acting for or on behalf of foreign powers organizations, or persons, or their agents, or international terrorist organizations or activities, and to determine actions required to neutralize such acts. The records housed in this system will include personal information such as names, social security numbers, date and place of birth, addresses, contact information, biometric information, fingerprints and retinal data, medical/psychological information, travel identification information, biographic information, family and dependent information, sex, race/ethnicity, and property information; as well as employment information such as work address, email address, supervisor's name and contact information, military records, personnel security information, employment personnel files, financial information (to include tax identification information), financial reports and transaction data, and education and training records. | Criminal Justice |
| 2025-08-20 | DHS/ICE Intelligence Records Systems | DHS | DHS is modifying its records policies on raw intelligence and intelligence products collected to support its law enforcement intelligence, counterterrorism, and homeland security mission. Through this notice, ICE is documenting the decommissioning of two legacy IT systems, modifying categories of covered individuals to include informants, modifying categories of records to include social media and location data, and updating routine uses in a number of ways including law enforcement referrals. | Immigration |
| 2025-08-20 | VA-SSA Matching Program | VA | VA and SSA are entering into a data sharing agreement to match Social Security Administration (SSA) Master Beneficiary Records and the Master Files of Social Security Number (SSN) Holders and SSN Applications (Enumeration System) with VA pension, compensation, and dependency and indemnity compensation records. The goal of this match is to identify beneficiaries, who are receiving VA benefits and SSA benefits or earned income, and to reduce or terminate VA benefits, if appropriate. | Veterans |
| 2025-08-20 | National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 | DOL | The NLSY studies the transition from full-time schooling to the establishment of careers and families, tracing respondents' education, training, work experience, fertility, income, and program participation.Research based on the NLSY contributes to the formation of national policy in the areas of education, training, employment programs, and school-to-work transitions. In this iteration, the NLSY will add questions on retirement income and health, including new questions on disability using the American Community Survey model. | Labor/Employment |
| 2025-08-20 | DHS/ICE Search, Arrest, and Seizure Records (SAS) | DHS | DHS is modifying its records policies regarding information it uses to document searches of individuals and property, arrests of individuals, and detentions and seizures of property and goods. In this notice, DHS is (1) modifying the purpose of the system to include documentation of enforcement actions between ICE and the public via video and audio recording; (2) modifying categories of individuals to include witnesses, bystanders, and others captured by recording devices; (3) modifying categories of records to include biometric, geolocation, social media, commercial data, and IT and cryptocurrency data; and (4) modifying routine uses of the data to include sharing with any court, sharing for the purposes of implementing new technology solutions, sharing with state/local/tribal/territorial governments, and sharing with the Department of State. | Immigration |
| 2025-08-19 | Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership (HFPP): Data Sharing and Information Exchange | HHS/CMS | The Healthcare Fraud Prevention Partnership (HFPP) is a voluntary, public-private partnership between the federal government, state and local Medicaid agencies, law enforcement, private health insurance plans, and healthcare anti-fraud associations to identify and reduce fraud, waste, and abuse across the healthcare sector. Although the listing indicates that changes are being made to the HFPP forms, it's unclear from the listing what changes are being made. | Healthcare |
| 2025-08-19 | U.S. Elections Survey - Election Office Staffing | EAC | This survey will collect information on election office staff composition, hiring capabilities, and perceived staffing needs. The EAC is fielding this survey to meet its obligations under the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) to serve as a national clearinghouse and resource for the compilation of information with respect to the administration of Federal elections. Section 241 of HAVA gives the EAC authority to periodically conduct studies on election administration issues. | Democracy |
| 2025-08-18 | Agricultural Resource Management Phases 3 Economic Surveys | USDA | The ARMS are the primary source of information for the USDA on a broad range of issues related to agricultural resource use, cost of production, and farm sector financial conditions. USDA is proposing to update its questions on race and ethnicity to comply with new SPD15 standards but is requesting an exception from OMB to use the minimal category version that does not include examples for each of the seven main race/ethnicity categories. According to their supporting statement, "Additional questions on detailed race/ethnicity would require more time and effort from respondents, many of whom may already face time constraints." | Agriculture |
| 2025-08-18 | Internet Use Survey | DOC/NTIA | The Internet Use Survey, a supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS), asks roughly 60 questions about whether and how Americans use the Internet. The listing indicates that the survey is being revised, but it's unclear from the listing what changes are being made. | Science and Technology |
| 2025-08-18 | SSA Matching Program | SSA | Under this program, OPM will share civil service benefit and payment data with SSA. SSA will use that data to calculate civil service benefit offset obligations. SSA is legally required to offset Disability Insurance benefits under the Old-Age, Survivors, Disability Insurance (OASDI) program, and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits and Special Veterans' Benefits (SVB), by a percentage of the benefit recipients' Federal Government retirement or disability benefits. | Disability |
| 2025-08-18 | BLS Wage Records Data Application | DOL/BLS | This new form will allow states participating in the BLS Unemployment Insurance Wage Records Data Sharing Program to request data from other participating states for statistical research. | Labor/Employment |
| 2025-08-15 | Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program Performance Analysis Study | HHS/ACF | The SRAE PAS collects information on program structure, cost, and support for implementation; program attendance, reach, and dosage; the characteristics of youth involved in programming; youth sexual and other risky behavior prior to program participation; and youth sexual and other risky behavior intentions at program exit. In addition to removing questions about gender identity from these studies, ACS is proposing revisions to the current performance measures to address feedback from grant recipients to simplify and clarify participant surveys, and to ensure the measures meet FYSB data needs. | Sex Education |
| 2025-08-15 | Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services Activity and Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services Outcomes Reports | DOL | The Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) program identifies and ranks unemployment insurance (UI) claimants by their potential for exhausting UI benefits before returning to work and refers these claimants to appropriate reemployment services. The ETA 9048 report describes the number of claimants at various points in the WPRS system from initial profiling through the completion of specific reemployment services. The ETA 9049 report describes the reemployment experience of profiled claimants selected for referral to services by examining the state's existing wage record files to capture which quarter the individuals who received reemployment services became employed, the amount of wages they earned, and whether the individuals receiving services changed industries. | Labor/Employment |
| 2025-08-15 | National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Program | NSF | The NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Program was started in 2011 to develop and nurture a national innovation ecosystem built upon fundamental research that guides the output of scientific and engineering discoveries closer to the development of technologies, products, and services that benefit society. This clearance would allow the NSF I-Corps program to collect characteristics, inputs, outputs, and outcomes information from the I-Corps teams funded by the program. This collection will enable the evaluation of the impacts on program themes of Training an Entrepreneurial Workforce, Translating Technologies, Nurturing an Innovation Ecosystem, and Enabling Economic Impact. | Science and Technology |
| 2025-08-15 | Standard Application Process Common Form | NSF | The Evidence Act required OMB to establish a Standard Application Process (SAP) for requesting access to certain confidential data assets. The SAP Portal is an online interface connecting applicants seeking data with a catalog of data assets owned by the federal statistical agencies and units as well as an application to apply for those assets. The SAP Portal is not a data repository or warehouse; confidential data assets continue to be stored in secure data access facilities owned and hosted by the federal statistical agencies and units. This form is used by researchers and other data users to apply to access confidential data assets held by 15 federal statistical agencies or units for the purposes of developing evidence. | Data Collection |
| 2025-08-15 | Regional Economic Development Data Collection Instrument | DOC/EDA | This listing authorizes a one-time questionnaire that will be sent to EDA Tech Hubs consortium leads to gather data and stories to inform regional impact evaluations, resources, and tools for regional economic development decision-makers. | Economic Development |