Federal brief
Submission for OMB Review; 30-Day Comment Request; Generic Clearance for NIH Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing Projects (Office of the Director)
Publisher-desk brief on National Institutes of Health FR 2026-19804 (2026-09-28). Use the filing for dates and comment paths.
NIH asked OMB for another paperwork pass on how citizen-science projects collect data.
Generic clearances sound dull until a university lab or patient group hits the wrong form — then the whole study timeline slips.
Filing abstract (agency text): In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review and approval of the information collection listed below.
If you run a citizen-science or NIH-partnered survey, open the filing for the 30-day comment window and the ICR package ID.
Federal Register filing: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/28/2026-19804/submission-for-omb-review-30-day-comment-request-generic-clearance-for-nih-citizen-science-and
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Source: the official public federal record 2026-19804 · Federal Register · 2026-19804 · FR-2026-19804.
This is a Notice Nearby publisher-desk Federal brief — a short in-house summary of a public federal filing. It is not official agency minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication. It does not satisfy a statutory notice requirement.