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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-22 | Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA) | DOJ/BJS | The CSLLEA collects national data on law enforcement agencies’ staffing, budgets, functions, demographics, and school-based personnel. BJS is revising the CSLLEA to include private campus law enforcement agencies and ask whether agencies perform three additional functions: executing search warrants, operating real-time crime centers, and using drones. | Criminal Justice |
| 2026-07-27 | Client Assistance Program Performance Report | ED | The CAP program provides advocacy and legal representation to individuals receiving services under the Rehabilitation Act to resolve disputes with programs providing such services, including vocational rehabilitation services. This form collects information on people served by CAP grantees. This listing is formalizing the removal of questions and response options related to gender identity from the reporting form. | Disability |
| 2026-07-27 | Health Professions Student Loan Program, Loans for Disadvantaged Students Program | HHS/HRSA | These forms are used to determine the eligibility of students who are applying for loans for various health education programs. Throught this listing, HRSA is formalizing changes to gender questions made last year and may be making other changes, though it is difficult to tell from the supplemental materials that are available. | Education |
| 2026-07-27 | Consolidated State Performance Report Renewal | ED | This reporting tool collects information from states related to the performance and monitoring activities of programs under ESSA and the McKinney-Vento Act. ED is making significant changes to the collection, including eliminating questions on Assessment waivers, Title III, Part A allocation timeline, McKinney-Vento and ARP Homeless, Certification requirement for OME, Postsecondary URLs, Title I, Part D, and Funding Transferability for State and Local Education Agencies; and combining the CSPR I and II into a single CSPR collection. | Education |
| 2026-07-28 | Health Benefits Election Form | OPM | Federal employees use this form to enroll in or change enrollment in federal health insurance. Through this listing, OPM is formalizing changes to questions about gender and swapping out the phrase "biological child" for "natural child." They also indicate that additional changes to the form may be made "to facilitate verification of eligibility or to provide revised instructions" in response to a forthcoming regulation on verification requirements for family member coverage. | Healthcare |
| 2026-08-03 | 2026 Mandatory Data Collection for Incarcerated People's Communications Services | FCC | FCC is proposing to revise their mandatory data collection from prison and jail communications providers, which the agency will use to set permanent rate caps for phone and video calls by incarcerated people. The proposal would streamline earlier reporting. Notably, it makes changes to how it treats provider “safety and security” costs, facility payments, payment-processing costs, and other expenses. Historically, including more of those costs in rate-setting ultimately makes communication more expensive for incarcerated people and their families. | Criminal Justice |
| 2026-08-03 | GSAR: Acquisition of Information and Communication Technology | GSA | GSA is proposing a new contract clause for federal purchases of large language model AI systems, focused on safeguarding government data, clarifying data ownership, requiring privacy and security controls, and flowing those requirements down to AI developers, operators, integrators, and service providers. Of note, the clause would require contractors to follow “unbiased AI principles,” including truthfulness, neutrality, and avoiding “partisan or ideological judgments." | Science and Technology |
| 2026-08-03 | RFI on Family Friendly Transit | DOT | In this RFI, DOT asks a number of questions about data that is available for (or that should be available for) better understanding the availability and accessibility of public transportation. For example, the RFI asks for input on "the extent to which transit agencies collect and use data regarding accessibility of transit systems beyond the minimum ADA requirements;" as well as on "the extent to which agencies make real-time service data available to customers to support trip planning, including service disruptions." | Transportation |
| 2026-08-03 | Autism CARES Initiative Evaluation | HHS/HRSA | This evaluation measures outputs and outcomes across program components, identifies promising practices and implementation facilitators; assesses how investments function as a system to advance shared outcomes; and provides annual, decision-ready findings for HRSA leadership and project officers. HRSA is revising the evaluation by eliminating one-time, grantee-specific, semi-structured interviews and replacing them with semi-structured, time-limited virtual focus groups designed to elicit cross-program and systems-level insights. | Health and Safety |
| 2026-08-03 | Census of Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies (CTLEA) | DOJ/BJS | The CTLEA, last fielded in 2019, collects data on all tribal law enforcement agencies operating in the U.S. Data collected include the number of sworn staff by tribe and type of agency, arrests and call for service and functions performed by each agency. The listing indicates that changes are being made to the survey, but no supplemental materials are available to help us understand what changes are being made. | Policing |
| 2026-08-03 | National Survey of Syringe Services Programs (NSSSP) | CDC | This survey asks SSPs about operational characteristics and services, funding resources, community relations, and key operational successes and challenges. The listing indicates that the survey is being revised, but no supplemental materials are available to help us identify what changes are being made. | Drug Use |
| 2026-08-07 | Juvenile Facility Census Program (JFCP) | DOJ/OJP | The JFCP consists of two separate survey modules: the Youth Population module collects detailed information on individual youth housed in facilities, including demographic details, placement characteristics, and length of stay; the Facility Operations module collects information on resident services, facility features, and operations. DOJ is making changes to both modules, including formalizing changes to gender questions, removing questions on several services, reformatting population total questions, and streamlining questions on mental health. | Criminal Justice |
| 2026-08-10 | Stronger Connections Grant Program Annual Performance Report | ED | The Stronger Connections program provides funds to school departments with "high needs" - those with high concentrations of poverty and one or more of the following: need for additional mental health staff, high rates of chronic absenteeism, exclusionary discipline, referrals to the juvenile justice system, bullying/harassment, community and school violence, students experiencing homelessness, students in foster care, or substance use, or where a disaster or traumatic event has occurred. ED is discontinuing the annual reporting requirement for these grants and replacing it with only a final report. | Education |
| 2026-08-10 | RFI on Online Career Tools and the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) Program | DOL | DOL is seeking input from workforce development experts, workers, and employers on how to improve ETA's online career tools and the O*NET program. Among many other questions, DOL is looking for input on barriers to accessing public workforce data and about improvements that could be made to taxonomies, metadata, filters, etc. | Labor/Employment |
| 2026-08-10 | Medical Examination for Visa or Immigration Benefit | State | Physicians use this form to record information about non-US citizens seeking entry into the US. Through this listing, State is expanding the scope of the collection to allow eMedical processing for all people subject to a medical examination under the INA, including not only immigrant visa applicants but also certain nonimmigrant, follow-to-join refugee, diversity visa, asylum, parole, and K-visa applicants. | Immigration |
| 2026-08-11 | Race and Ethnic Data Reporting Form | HUD | HUD uses this form for collecting information concerning the race, ethnicity, and other protected class data of the populations intended to benefit from HUD funding. The listing does not indicate that any changes to the form are being made at this time. However, the last time this form was renewed HUD indicated that in this renewal they would be updating the form to reflect the 2024 SPD15 standards on race and ethnicity data collection. | Housing |
| 2026-08-11 | DOC-Census Workforce Development Collection | DOC/NIST | This new form will collect data on individuals who participate in workforce development training programs sponsored by the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Economic Development Administration (EDA). The collected data will be linked to Census Bureau data sets—including demographic, household, and jobs data—to produce measurable metrics that inform workforce training program outcomes and support evidence-based decision-making for future investments. | Labor/Employment |
| 2026-08-11 | AmeriCorps State and National Application Instructions | CNCS | Americorps is proposing a number of changes to its grant application instructions, including addressing how unexpended funds are handled; removing the fixed percentage rate method as an option for calculating administrative/indirect costs for cost-reimbursement grants; updating the de minimis indirect cost rate; adding a new Attachment; adding clarifying language; and reflecting regulatory changes since the last renewal, including, for example, updating the match requirements and updating terminology. | Federal Funding |
| 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 | 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 |