Change Request Memo 18MAR2025

The National Firefighter Registry for Cancer

(0920-1348, exp. 04/30/2026)

March 10, 2025

Request for Non-Substantive Change

This collection is revised to include an update to a demographic question in the Enrollment Questionnaire. This revision reflects OMB’s guidance for best practices in asking race and/or ethnicity, as established in Statistical Policy Directive 15. This change can be found in the NFR Enrollment Questionnaire, Question 5. Additionally, 3 questions have been removed from the Enrollment Questionnaire and are being asked exclusively in the User Profile. These edits are requested based on user feedback and intended to simplify the enrollment process and eliminate redundancies.

Revisions to the NFR Enrollment Questionnaire:

• Question 5 (previously question 8-9) now reads:

  • What is your race and/or ethnicity? Select all that apply.

    • American Indian or Alaska Native (for example, Navajo Nation, Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana, Native Village of Barrow Inupiat Traditional Government, Nome Eskimo Community, Aztec, Maya, etc.)

    • Asian (for example, Chinese, Asian Indian, Filipino, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, etc.)

    • Black or African American (for example, African American, Jamaican, Haitian, Nigerian, Ethiopian, Somali, etc.)

    • Hispanic or Latino (for example, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Salvadoran, Cuban, Dominican, Guatemalan, etc.)

    • Middle Eastern or North African (for example, Lebanese, Iranian, Egyptian, Syrian, Iraqi, Israeli, etc.)

    • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander (for example, Native Hawaiian, Samoan, Chamorro, Tongan, Fijian, Marshallese, etc.)

    • White (for example, English, German, Irish, Italian, Polish, Scottish, etc.)

• Question 5 (from originally approved document) requesting country, state, and city of birth have been removed and are now exclusively asked in the User Profile (bullet 3).

• Question 6 (from originally approved document) requesting month, date, and year of birth has been removed and now exclusively asked in the User Profile (bullet 4).

• Question 14 (from originally approved document) requesting social security number or last four digits of the social security number have been removed and is exclusively asked in the User Profile (bullet 6).

• Question 18 (from originally approved document) requesting name of current fire department, location, and type of department has been added to the User Profile (bullet 11). This question also remains in the Enrollment Questionnaire to collect additional work history.

This collection is further revised to update sex questions used in the User Profile and Enrollment Questionnaire to be in accordance with EO 14168 Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government. This change can be found in the NFR User Profile, Bullet 5.

Revisions to the NFR User Profile:

• Bullet 5 now reads:

  • What is your sex?

    • Male

    • Female