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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
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2026-08-20 | 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 |
| 2026-08-21 | 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 | 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 |
| 2026-08-22 | 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 |
| 2026-08-24 | Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey | HHS/CMS | CMS is extensively revising the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey beginning in 2027, replacing much of its broad access-to-care section with expanded questions on care coordination, trust in providers, and prior authorization, and adding questions on prescription-drug discount programs, nutrition, and hypertension management. It will remove or streamline questions on vaccine costs, religious affiliation, satisfaction with care, preventive screening, diabetes and incontinence management, and facility residents’ health, functioning, and billing, potentially ending some useful trend data even as it reduces duplication and overall survey burden. CMS will also introduce a web-based survey option for facilities. | Healthcare |
| 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 |
| 2026-08-24 | Current Population Survey-Basic Labor Force | DOL/BLS | BLS is seeking to continue the monthly Current Population Survey, which produces national employment and unemployment statistics and allows labor-force outcomes to be analyzed by characteristics including age, sex, race and ethnicity, education, disability, and family composition. The survey also measures people who have stopped looking for work because they believe no jobs are available. BLS doesn't seem to be making any substantive changes to the survey at this time. | Labor/Employment |
| 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 | Removal of Reporting Requirements | EEOC | EEOC is proposing to abolish all six federal EEO workforce reports and their related recordkeeping requirements, ending the annual EEO-1 collection from large private employers and covered federal contractors as well as reporting by apprenticeship programs, unions, state and local governments, public schools, and colleges. The government would lose standardized data showing how workers are distributed by race and ethnicity, sex, occupation, salary level, and other employment categories. Although EEOC argues that the reports are burdensome, potentially unconstitutional, and may encourage discrimination, the data have long supported enforcement, employer self-assessment, research, and public accountability; eliminating them would leave the agency more dependent on individual complaints and case-specific requests, making systemic discrimination substantially harder to identify and document. | Civil Rights |
| 2026-08-24 | Distraction: Modern Voice Command Interfaces | DOT | NHTSA is planning a driving-simulator study of six modern vehicle voice-command systems, comparing common tasks performed by voice and touchscreen. Using 144 drivers, the agency will measure lane control, speed, eye movements, reaction to a sudden road obstruction, and indicators of cognitive workload to assess whether voice interfaces reduce or contribute to distracted driving. | Transportation |
| 2026-08-26 | National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) | HHS/CDC | CDC is seeking three-year approval to continue the National Survey of Family Growth, which collects nationally representative data from people ages 15–49 on fertility, contraception, pregnancy, infertility, relationships, sexual behavior, and related health care. The questionnaires would remain unchanged from those used since January 2026, while CDC would conduct small methodological studies to improve survey efficiency and data quality. | Adoption/Families |
| 2026-08-28 | CMS and OPM Data Sharing and Matching Program | CMS | CMS is re-establishing a data match that compares ACA Marketplace applicants and enrollees with OPM records on active federal employees to determine eligibility for Marketplace coverage, financial assistance, exemptions, renewals, and appeals. OPM will provide monthly files containing identifiers and federal health-plan information, but match results must be independently verified before coverage or assistance is denied or reduced. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-08-28 | Census of Tribal Court Systems (CTCS) | DOJ/BJS | Last fielded in 2014, BJS is reinstating the CTCS, a voluntary survey of tribal courts about staffing, court functions, caseloads, civil and juvenile justice matters, and court operations. The census is intended to update national data on tribal court systems, identify emerging challenges, and create a time series that can inform Congress, federal agencies, tribal justice practitioners, researchers, and the public. | Criminal Justice |
| 2026-08-29 | Non-Infrastructure Metrics | DOC/EDA | EDA is consolidating three performance reports for non-infrastructure grants into a single revised ED-916 and eliminating the ED-917 and ED-918 outcome questionnaires. The change reduces reporting burden and prioritizes measures of return on investment, but eliminates the standalone forms used to track broader, longer-term outcomes such as innovation, business networks, workforce development, and organizational capacity, potentially narrowing EDA’s picture of benefits that are difficult to express in dollars. | Economic Development |
| 2026-08-31 | Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey | OPM | OPM is proposing to redesign the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey following its cancellation of the survey in 2025. Under the new model, OPM would stop centrally administering the government-wide survey; each agency would conduct its own annual survey using 10 required questions rather than 16 and submit the core results to OPM and OMB. A companion proposed rule would also let agencies decide what information to publish, removing current requirements to disclose details such as survey methodology, response rates, and question-level results. OPM says the changes will give agencies greater flexibility and more useful management information, but the decentralization, reduced set of common questions, and weaker disclosure requirements could make results less consistent across agencies and over time while limiting public accountability. | Federal Government |
| 2026-08-31 | National Marrow Donor Program Patient Support Center Survey | HHS/HRSA | This survey collects feedback from all HCT patients, caregivers, and family members who had contact with the NMDP/Be The Match Patient Support Center (PSC) for service and support. Survey results will be used to inform program development and resource allocation decisions. Last year, to comply with EO 14168, HRSA removed the survey's question about gender. Notably, the survey now collects no information on sex or gender; this is the first opportunity the public has had to comment on that change. | Healthcare |
| 2026-09-03 | Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) | HUD | HUD is renewing its data match with HHS to compare recipients of public housing, Housing Choice Vouchers, project-based Section 8, and other rental assistance with federal employment, wage, and unemployment records. HUD and housing administrators will use the results to verify reported income, determine rent and subsidy amounts, and identify possible improper payments or unreported income. | Housing |