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On March 20, FASEB submitted comments to the Office of Management and Budget in response to the initial proposals for updating Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (SPD 15). FASEB’s comments expressed support for the effort to update SPD 15 to better reflect the diversity of the nation and improve understanding of the racial and ethnic identities of survey respondents. This included support for collecting race and ethnicity as a combined, multi-selection question, adding “Middle Eastern or North African” as a new minimum category, and collecting detailed race and ethnicity by default.

On March 16, FASEB submitted comments to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) in response to an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) regarding environmental enrichment standards for USDA-regulated species. In its comments, FASEB emphasized the importance of ensuring that new requirements result in concrete benefits to animal welfare and do not pose an administrative or financial burden for regulated entities, particularly small and under-resourced institutions. Given the breadth and complexity of environmental enrichment plans across institutions, FASEB's comments also stressed the value of engaging with the stakeholder community—researchers, veterinarians, farm managers, and animal care staff—to appreciate species differences and optimize animal welfare fully.

On March 3, FASEB submitted comments to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in response to its recommendations to broaden public engagement in the federal regulatory process. FASEB’s comments echoed those made in response to previous requests for information issued by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in 2021 and 2022 regarding communication of proposed regulatory actions.

On March 9, FASEB sent comments to National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) that emphasized the importance of transparent information from NCSES on the scientific workforce and progress of STEM education, including the Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities (WMPD) report and data tables. FASEB recognized COVID-19 disruptions may have created barriers for robust data collection but urged NCSES to return to robust data tables in the next release of the WMPD.