by Meghan Maury
Form of the Week: Public Health/Public Safety Strategies to Reduce Drug Overdose Data Collection. These forms collect data to improve overdose prevention efforts that involve PH/PS sectors or address populations at increased risk of overdose in the public safety setting. Through this listing, the NCIPC is proposing to revise the collection to remove objective C: "Identify disparities in access to, or the effectiveness of, strategies," which CDC argues "is no longer needed." Comments due June 8.
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Health
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). Health care providers, medical labs, and other entities use the forms to submit health-related data on reportable conditions to public health departments. In this listing, CDC is designating new conditions that require standardized surveillance, adding new data elements, and formalizing changes to sexual orientation and gender identity questions made informally in 2025.
Comments due June 8.Rural Health Care Services Outreach Program Measures. This package of forms is used to track the work of and assess the efficacy of funds allocated for rural health care services and outreach. HRSA is making a number of changes to these forms, including combining sections on recipient entity and population served, adding several new maternal health measures, and adding a question on sustainability. This listing also formalizes changes made in 2025 to remove language on culturally competent care, migrant health centers, and LGBTQ organizations.
Comments due June 8.Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) Performance Measures. The PREP program provides grants to states, tribes and tribal communities, and community organizations to support evidence-based programs to reduce teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. The forms in this collection were used to assess overall program performance and to better understand the characteristics of youth involved in programming; youth sexual risk behaviors and behaviors related to adulthood preparation prior to program participation; and youth behavior intentions at program exit. ACF seems to be making significant changes to the collection that would result in 40% less questions, but they have not made any supplemental materials available describing the changes. Historically, these forms have asked about things like sexual orientation, sexual activity, pregnancy, and contraceptive use.
Comments due June 16.
Disability
PAIMI Program Reporting. The PAIMI program provides protection and advocacy supports for people with developmental disabilities. The forms covered by this listing collect information about grantee programs and services. SAMHSA is updating the reporting forms to remove gender identity and sexual orientation questions and language and to remove the words "culture, cultural barriers, diversity, disadvantaged individuals, individuals with limited English proficiency, and underserved and unserved populations."
Comments due June 15.
Families
Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Performance Measures. This suite of forms collects information on programs that strengthen families through healthy marriage and relationship education and responsible fatherhood programming. ACF is making a number of changes to the forms in the package, including eliminating the applicant characteristics form, updating the client characteristics form to partially comply with updated SPD15 standards, and adding language to translated materials indicating that English is the official language.
Comments due June 3.
Privacy
Privacy Act Exemption. Through this proposed rule, DOD is planning to exempt portions of the “Inspector General Criminal Investigation Records,” from certain provisions of the Privacy Act because of national security and law enforcement requirements and to avoid interference during the conduct of criminal investigations.
Comments due June 9.
Environment
National Woodland Owner Survey. This survey collects data from a sample of the owners of 704 million acres of forestland across the United States about who owns and manages the forestland, why they own/manage it, how they have used it, and how they intend to use it. The information is used by policy analysts, foresters, educators, and researchers to facilitate the planning and implementation of forest policies and programs and to provide landowners, managers, and the general public a better understanding of the social context of forests.
Comments due June 12.State Forest Law and Policy. This new collection will generate information including about how laws, public policies, regulations, and other factors influence and affect the use, ownership, and management of forest lands.
Comments due June 12.
Education
Private School Universe Survey (PSS). The PSS is designed to collect biennial data on the total number of private schools, teachers, and students; and to create an NCES universe frame of private schools that serve as a sampling frame for NCES surveys. NCES appears to be making changes to the questionnaire but doesn't explain what changes are being made. Notably, this listing indicates that NCES "has removed... CIPSEA as a confidentiality assurance..." though "ESRA remains in effect."
Comments due June 15.
Also of Note
Small Business Lending Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (Regulation B). In this final rule, CFPB is making several changes to the ECOA data collection requirements applicable to banking institutions, including making collection of race/ethnicity and sex of principle owners optional, removing collection of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) information, and halting the collection of disaggregated race and ethnicity information. In the text of the rule, CFPB argues that the underlying statute does not support collection of disaggregated race/ethnicity data or collection of data on SOGI.
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