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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-04 | Verification of Eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act through a Department of War Health Benefits Plan | HHS/CMS | CMS is re-establishing a data-sharing agreement with the Department of War/Defense to match Marketplace applicants and enrollees against TRICARE records. Defense will provide CMS with daily files containing Social Security numbers and coverage dates, which CMS and state Marketplace agencies will use to verify eligibility for ACA premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions and to determine benefit amounts. | Healthcare |
| 2026-09-04 | Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Program | HHS/CDC | CDC is proposing to revise reporting forms for its Rape Prevention and Education program to implement executive orders on gender identity and DEI. The changes replace references to "health equity" with "health for all and especially for those at greatest risk," eliminate questions about transgender and nonbinary people and undocumented status, remove gender identity from a nondiscrimination question, and revise other demographic and program-evaluation language. | Sexual Assault |
| 2026-09-04 | Environmental Public Health Tracking Network | HHS/CDC | CDC is proposing to revise data collection for the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network to implement Executive Order 14168 by replacing "gender" with "sex" and limiting sex response options to male and female. The proposal also removes the "unknown" option from birth defect, emergency department, and hospitalization reporting forms, eliminating a response option used when an infant's sex cannot yet be determined and potentially reducing the accuracy of surveillance for some congenital conditions. | Healthcare |
| 2026-09-04 | OneRD Loan Guarantee Program | USDA | USDA is revising its loan guarantee program forms to update the civil rights compliance language. The prior version specifically required collection of data on race, sex, and national origin; the current version requires a more generalized collection of demographics. | Rural |
| 2026-09-08 | Questionnaire for National Security Positions | OPM | OPM is renewing the SF-86 national-security background questionnaire after making earlier changes to align personnel vetting with the administration’s gender policy. Related revisions remove an optional pronoun question and delete explicit references to sexual orientation and gender identity from the nondiscrimination statement and from questions asking whether applicants targeted people or advocated unlawful violence based on protected characteristics. | Federal Government |
| 2026-09-08 | 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 |
| 2026-09-08 | Extra Help with Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Costs program | SSA | SSA is re-establishing a data-sharing agreement with OPM to match civil service annuity records against Medicare data. SSA will use the match to verify eligibility for Medicare Part D “Extra Help” subsidies and to identify people who may qualify for the benefit for outreach. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-09-08 | FEMA and HUD Data Matching Program | HUD | HUD is re-establishing a data-sharing agreement with FEMA that allows HUD and participating disaster-recovery grantees to match disaster-assistance, flood-insurance, and housing records. The data include identifying information, household characteristics, income, disability and access needs, housing and damage information, insurance coverage, and assistance amounts, and will be used to calculate disaster-recovery funding, conduct outreach, prevent duplicate benefits, and enforce flood-insurance requirements. The renewed agreement also changes some of the data fields exchanged. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-09-08 | ATUS Artificial Intelligence (AI) Questions | DOL/BLS | BLS is proposing a new two-minute module for the American Time Use Survey that would ask whether and how people use AI and link those responses to their 24-hour activity diaries. Beginning in 2027, the questions would produce nationally representative data on AI use across tasks, demographic and occupational groups, and work, education, household, and leisure activities. | Science and Technology |
| 2026-09-08 | Healthy Start Evaluation and Quality Improvement | HHS/HRSA | HRSA is revising the participant-level forms used to evaluate the Healthy Start maternal and infant health program by clarifying instructions, updating and separating unspecified response options, and adding fields for the month of an infant’s birth or death. The notice does not provide draft forms or identify the affected categories, making the full extent of the changes unclear, but at a minimum this revision will formalize the removal of gender identity questions from the forms. | Healthcare |
| 2026-09-09 | Lifeline Eligibility | FCC | FCC is establishing a new data-sharing agreement with Iowa to verify Lifeline eligibility by matching applicants and subscribers against state SNAP records. FCC and USAC will send names, dates of birth, and the last four digits of Social Security numbers, and Iowa will return whether the person is enrolled in SNAP. The match may also be used for other federal programs that rely on Lifeline eligibility. | Data Sharing |
| 2026-09-09 | Shaping the Future of Loan Repayment | ED | ED is launching a new study of how federal student-loan borrowers understand and choose repayment plans, including income-driven repayment. Interviews with borrowers will examine how they weigh monthly payments, repayment length, forgiveness, interest subsidies, and other plan features, as well as why borrowers enter or leave IDR and how repayment affects household finances and life decisions. | Education |
| 2026-09-11 | Maternal and Child Health Bureau Performance Measures for Discretionary Grant Information System | HHS/HRSA | HRSA is revising the reporting system used by Maternal and Child Health Bureau grantees, formalizing earlier changes that removed gender questions and LGBTQ+ response options; replaced “pregnant/postpartum persons” with “women”; eliminated a health-equity form and many references to DEI, disparities, underrepresented or marginalized groups, social determinants of health, and people with lived experience; and added “Child Health” and “Women’s Health” topic categories. The current notice also changes five forms to use “medically underserved” terminology and removes two training forms because the information is now collected elsewhere. | Healthcare |
| 2026-09-11 | Medical Monitoring Project (MMP) | HHS/CDC | CDC is revising the Medical Monitoring Project, its nationally representative study of adults diagnosed with HIV, after removing questions that identify transgender respondents and transgender sexual partners. The collection replaces sex assigned at birth, including an intersex option, with a binary male-or-female question; deletes gender identity questions; and limits questions about recent sexual partners to male or female, reducing CDC’s ability to measure HIV care, service needs, and outcomes among transgender people. | HIV/AIDS |
| 2026-09-11 | Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) & Temporary Expanded PSLF (TEPSLF) Certification and Application | ED | ED is removing a new PSLF attestation that would have required nonprofits and other public-service employers to certify under penalty of perjury that they had not engaged in activities the administration deemed to have a “substantial illegal purpose.” The Department is withdrawing the language after a federal court vacated the underlying rule one day before it was to take effect, preserving PSLF eligibility for workers at organizations the administration might otherwise have disqualified. No other changes are being made to the form. | Education |
| 2026-09-14 | Alaska Big Game Guide Use Survey | DOI/FWS | FWS is renaming the Alaska Guide Service Evaluation as the Alaska Big Game Guide Use Survey and removing questions identifying the outfitter and guide. It would also eliminate the entire demographic section, including questions about sex, race and ethnicity, age, residence, education, and household income, reducing the agency’s ability to assess who uses guided refuge services or whether experiences vary across groups. | Civil Rights |
| 2026-09-14 | Campus Safety and Security Survey | ED | ED is revising the annual Campus Safety and Security Survey to collect statistics on hazing incidents reported to campus authorities or local police, as required by the Stop Campus Hazing Act. The data will be published alongside other campus crime and safety information. | Education |
| 2026-09-14 | Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Formula | HUD | HUD is seeking comment on possible changes to the formula used to allocate Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding, including proposals to rely less on SBA and FEMA data, base economic-development and infrastructure needs partly on housing damage, and establish different thresholds for metropolitan, rural, and Tribal areas. HUD will continue using its 2025 formula for 2023 and 2024 disasters while it develops a final rule. | Housing |
| 2026-09-18 | Survey of Housing Starts, Sales, and Completions | DOC/Census | The Census Bureau is seeking to continue, without changes, its monthly Survey of Housing Starts, Sales, and Completions, which collects information from builders and property owners on the timing, characteristics, sale, price, and financing of new residential construction. The survey produces federal statistics on housing starts, completions, and new-home sales; estimated reporting burden is increasing modestly because construction projects are taking longer to start, complete, and sell. | Housing |
| 2026-09-18 | Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories and Orders (M3) Survey | DOC/Census | The Census Bureau is seeking to continue, without changes, its monthly Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories and Orders Survey, which collects data from about 5,000 manufacturers on shipments, new and unfilled orders, and inventories to measure current industrial activity and future production. Paper reporting was phased out in January 2026, with responses now submitted online or by email. | Economy |