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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket ID ED–2023–OPE–0030]
Announcement of Listening Sessions
Office of Postsecondary
Education, U.S. Department of
Education.
ACTION: Announcement of listening
sessions.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Department of
Education’s (Department’s) Office of
Postsecondary Education (OPE)
announces virtual listening sessions to
receive public comments,
recommendations, and suggestions to
improve guidance on the incentive
compensation prohibition under title IV
of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as
amended (HEA), particularly with
respect to bundled services. This notice
sets forth the dates and times, agenda,
and instructions for attending and
providing live comments at the virtual
listening sessions, as well as
instructions for submitting written
comments.
DATES: The virtual listening sessions
will be held on:
March 8, 2023, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.,
Eastern time
March 9, 2023, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.,
Eastern time
The Department will accept written
comments via the Federal eRulemaking
portal until March 16, 2023. See the
ADDRESSES section of this document for
submission information.
ADDRESSES: The listening sessions will
be held virtually. See the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for
information on how to register to attend
or to provide live comments during a
session. Written comments must be
submitted via the Federal eRulemaking
Portal at regulations.gov. If you require
an accommodation or cannot otherwise
submit your comments via
regulations.gov, however, please contact
the person listed under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT. The Department
will not accept comments submitted by
fax or by email or comments submitted
after the comment period closes. To
ensure that the Department does not
receive duplicate copies, please submit
your comments only once. Additionally,
please include the Docket ID at the top
of your comments.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Please go
to www.regulations.gov to submit your
comments electronically. Information
on using regulations.gov, including
instructions for accessing agency
documents, submitting comments, and
viewing the docket, is available on the
site under ‘‘FAQ.’’
SUMMARY:
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Privacy Note: The Department’s
policy is to make all comments received
from members of the public available for
public viewing on the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at
www.regulations.gov. Therefore,
commenters should be careful to
include in their comments only
information that they wish to make
publicly available.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ashley Clark, U.S. Department of
Education. Telephone: (202) 453–7977.
Email: ashley.clark@ed.gov.
If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or
have a speech disability and wish to
access telecommunications relay
services, please dial 7–1–1.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: Since 1992, section
487(a)(20) of the HEA has prohibited
institutions of higher education
(institutions) from providing any
commission, bonus, or other incentive
payment to individuals or entities
based, directly or indirectly, on success
in securing enrollments or financial aid
to any persons or entities engaged in
any student recruiting or admission
activities or in making decisions
regarding the award of student financial
assistance, subject to certain exceptions.
In 2011, the Department issued DCL
GEN–11–05 to provide guidance on the
Department’s interpretation of newly
issued regulations (75 FR 66831)
relating to the prohibition on incentive
compensation and other title IV program
integrity issues in § 668.14(b).
As noted in that guidance, the
prohibition on incentive compensation
applies to both individuals and entities.
The Department’s guidance also sets
forth examples of activities that the
Department believes would violate the
prohibition and examples of allowed
activities. Under that guidance, direct
payments to recruiters based on tuition
generation are considered prohibited
incentive compensation. However, in
the case of a third-party entity that is
not affiliated with the institution it
serves and is not affiliated with any
other institution that provides
educational services, the guidance
specifies that providing a set of services
that includes recruitment (known as
bundled services) does not violate the
prohibition on incentive compensation
as long as the entity does not make
prohibited compensation payments to
its employees, and the institution does
not pay the entity separately for student
recruitment services.
Since issuing that guidance, the
number of students who were recruited
to institutions by entities operating
under this bundled services exception
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has increased significantly, particularly
through online programs operated by
third-party entities, including Online
Program Managers (OPMs). These
online programs are not subject to the
same enrollment constraints, such as
physical classroom space or the amount
of potential students in the surrounding
area, as in-person programs. As a result,
the Department is seeking to better
understand the impact of the bundled
services exception in the context of
growing online enrollment and
associated Federal student loan debt.
The Department is currently
reviewing the incentive compensation
guidance to determine what, if any,
changes to the incentive compensation
guidance might be appropriate,
particularly regarding the exception for
bundled services. To assist in that effort
and ensure the Department is hearing
from a wide range of stakeholders, we
are convening virtual listening sessions
and accepting written public comment
on this topic. Specifically, the
Department invites comment from
institutions, faculty, OPMs and other
third-party contractors, scholars,
advocates, and students on the
following specific questions:
1. What are the benefits and
disadvantages of the current incentive
compensation exception for bundled
services for institutions and students?
2. How can the Department better
identify, define, and address the
activities that may raise concerns under
the current incentive compensation
guidance?
3. How much of an institution’s
spending on a bundle of services
provided by a third-party entity is
typically allocated to recruitment and
related expenses? This will help the
Department understand the proportion
of the spending in the bundle that goes
to recruitment versus a range of
services.
4. How has contracting with a thirdparty providing services under the
bundled services exception impacted
enrollment, tuition and fees, the types of
programs offered, the modality through
which programs are provided, student
outcomes, revenues, and expenditures
at institutions? How do these results
compare to programs not supported by
an OPM or students attending in-person
at a program that is also supported by
an OPM?
5. How would changing third-party
servicer contracts from a revenuesharing model to a fee-for-service model
impact the services, such as
recruitment, currently provided to an
institution under the bundled services
exception?
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6. How do tuition and fees of
programs supported by third-party
services differ when provided under a
revenue-sharing model as compared to a
fee-for-service model?
7. To what extent does the bundled
services exception impact institutions’
ability to create or expand online
education offerings? To what extent
would fee-for-service models impact
institutions’ ability to create or expand
online education offerings?
8. How might the Department more
clearly define what it means to be an
unaffiliated third-party for purposes of
the incentive compensation guidance to
ensure there is no affiliation between
the institution and the entity providing
services?
9. What steps can the Department take
to better ensure compliance with the
prohibition on incentive compensation?
Registration: Individuals who would
like to present comments at the virtual
listening sessions must register by
sending an email message to
margo.schroeder@ed.gov no later than
12:00 p.m., Eastern time, on the
business day prior to the listening
session at which they want to speak.
The message should include the name
of the speaker, the email address of the
speaker, and one or more dates and
times during which the individual
would be available to speak. We will
attempt to accommodate each speaker’s
preference for date and time; however,
if we are unable to do so, we will make
the determination on a first-come, firstserved basis, based on the time and date
we received the message. We will limit
each participant’s comments to 3
minutes.
The Department will notify speakers
of their reserved time slot and provide
information on how to log in to the
session as a speaker. An individual may
make only one presentation at the
listening sessions. If we receive more
registrations than we can accommodate,
the Department reserves the right to
reject the registration of an entity or
individual affiliated with an entity
already scheduled to present comments,
to ensure that a broad range of entities
and individuals are able to present.
Speakers will access the meetings
through a link separate from those who
wish to listen to the sessions.
Individuals who want to observe the
listening sessions, but who do not want
to present comments, also are required
to register. We will post registration
links for attendees who wish to observe
on our website at: www2.ed.gov/about/
offices/list/ope/policy.html. There will
be a unique link each day for attendees
who wish to observe. Non-speaking
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attendees will be muted for the duration
of each listening session.
Reasonable Accommodations: The
sessions will be accessible to
individuals with disabilities. If you will
need an auxiliary aid or service to
attend or to provide a live comment,
please notify the person listed under
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT at
least 1 week before the scheduled
meeting date. Although we will attempt
to meet a request received after that
date, we may not be able to make
available the requested auxiliary aid or
service because of insufficient time to
arrange it. Further information about
requesting auxiliary aids and services
will be available during the session
registration process. To provide written
comments, see the ADDRESSES section
above.
Accessible Format: On request to the
program contact person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT,
individuals with disabilities can obtain
this document in an accessible format.
The Department will provide the
requestor with an accessible format that
may include Rich Text Format (RTF) or
text format (txt), a thumb drive, an MP3
file, braille, large print, audiotape, or
compact disc, or other accessible format.
Electronic Access to This Document:
The official version of this document is
the document published in the Federal
Register. You may access the official
edition of the Federal Register and the
Code of Federal Regulations at
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view this document, as well as all other
documents of this Department
published in the Federal Register, in
text or Adobe Portable Document
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have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is
available free at the site.
You also may access documents of the
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Nasser Paydar,
Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary
Education.
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Background
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[DOE Docket No. 202–22–4]
Emergency Order Issued to PJM
Interconnection, L.L.C. To Operate
Power Generating Facilities Under
Limited Circumstances in the PJM
Region as a Result of Extreme Weather
Office of Cybersecurity, Energy
Security, and Emergency Response,
Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of emergency action.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE or the Department) is
issuing this Notice to document
emergency actions that it has taken
pursuant to the Federal Power Act. DOE
issued an emergency order to PJM
Interconnection, L.L.C. (PJM) to operate
certain power generating facilities under
limited circumstances as described
further below. PJM is the regional
transmission operator for 65 million
people in thirteen states and the District
of Columbia (PJM Region). The PJM
Region experienced a significant drop in
temperatures and high winds due to a
severe winter weather system. As a
consequence of the impact of wind and
decreasing temperatures, the demand
for electricity in the PJM Region rose to
an unusually high peak load. While the
vast majority of generating units in the
PJM Region continued to function
adequately under these stressed
conditions, some units experienced
operating difficulties due to cold
weather or fuel limitations, primarily
gas. Because the additional generation
required to serve the PJM Region was
anticipated to result in a conflict with
environmental standards and
requirements, DOE authorized only the
necessary additional generation for PJM
to sufficiently supply the amount of
energy needed to prevent electrical
disruption.
SUMMARY:
Requests for more
information should be addressed by
electronic mail to AskCR@hq.doe.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information on this Notice, or for
information on the emergency activities
described herein, contact Kenneth
Buell, (202) 586–3362, Kenneth.Buell@
hq.doe.gov, or by mail to the attention
of Kenneth Buell, CR–30, 1000
Independence Ave. SW, Washington,
DC 20585.
The Order and all related information
are available here: https://
www.energy.gov/ceser/federal-poweract-section-202c-pjm-december-2022.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ADDRESSES:
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Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act
The Department is issuing this Notice
pursuant to 10 CFR 1021.343(a) to
document emergency actions taken in
accordance with section 202(c) of the
Federal Power Act (FPA) (16 U.S.C.
824a(c)). FPA section 202(c) provides
that ‘‘[d]uring the continuance of any
war in which the United States is
engaged, or whenever the [Secretary of
Energy] determines that an emergency
exists by reason of a sudden increase in
the demand for electric energy, or a
shortage of electric energy or of facilities
for the generation or transmission of
electric energy, or of fuel or water for
generating facilities, or other causes, the
[Secretary of Energy] shall have
authority, either upon [her] own motion
or upon complaint, with or without
notice, hearing or report, to require by
order such temporary connections of
facilities and generation, delivery,
interchange, or transmission of electric
energy as in [her] judgment will best
meet the emergency and serve the
public interest.
1. Request for Emergency Order From
PJM
On December 24, 2022, PJM
submitted to the Department a Request
for Emergency Order Under section
202(c) of the Federal Power Act
(Application) to maintain the security
and reliability of the PJM system. In its
Application, PJM cited a severe winter
weather system and forecasted a supply
deficiency to meet firm load on
December 24, December 25, and
December 26, 2022. PJM requested the
authority to direct the operation of
electric generating units identified in
Exhibit A of its Application, as well as
any other generating units subject to
emissions or other permit limitations in
the PJM Region set forth in the Order
(‘‘Specified Resources’’), to operate up
to their maximum generation output
levels under the limited circumstances
described in the Order. PJM stated that
the emergency order it was requesting
could result in exceedances of National
Ambient Air Quality Standards under
the Clean Air Act and other permit
limitations. Given the permit limits of
the Specified Resources, PJM
anticipated that the additional capacity
may not be made available absent an
order under FPA section 202(c).
2. PJM Order
On December 24, 2022, the Under
Secretary of Energy for Infrastructure,
acting pursuant to delegated authority,
issued Order No. 2022–22–4 (the Order).
As set forth in the Order, the Under
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket ID ED-2023-OPE-0030]
Announcement of Listening Sessions
AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of
Education.
ACTION: Announcement of listening sessions.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Education's (Department's) Office of
Postsecondary Education (OPE) announces virtual listening sessions to
receive public comments, recommendations, and suggestions to improve
guidance on the incentive compensation prohibition under title IV of
the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), particularly with
respect to bundled services. This notice sets forth the dates and
times, agenda, and instructions for attending and providing live
comments at the virtual listening sessions, as well as instructions for
submitting written comments.
DATES: The virtual listening sessions will be held on:
March 8, 2023, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Eastern time
March 9, 2023, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Eastern time
The Department will accept written comments via the Federal
eRulemaking portal until March 16, 2023. See the ADDRESSES section of
this document for submission information.
ADDRESSES: The listening sessions will be held virtually. See the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for information on how to register to
attend or to provide live comments during a session. Written comments
must be submitted via the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
regulations.gov. If you require an accommodation or cannot otherwise
submit your comments via regulations.gov, however, please contact the
person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. The Department
will not accept comments submitted by fax or by email or comments
submitted after the comment period closes. To ensure that the
Department does not receive duplicate copies, please submit your
comments only once. Additionally, please include the Docket ID at the
top of your comments.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Please go to www.regulations.gov to
submit your comments electronically. Information on using
regulations.gov, including instructions for accessing agency documents,
submitting comments, and viewing the docket, is available on the site
under ``FAQ.''
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Privacy Note: The Department's policy is to make all comments
received from members of the public available for public viewing on the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at www.regulations.gov. Therefore,
commenters should be careful to include in their comments only
information that they wish to make publicly available.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ashley Clark, U.S. Department of
Education. Telephone: (202) 453-7977. Email: [email protected].
If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability and
wish to access telecommunications relay services, please dial 7-1-1.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: Since 1992, section 487(a)(20) of the HEA has
prohibited institutions of higher education (institutions) from
providing any commission, bonus, or other incentive payment to
individuals or entities based, directly or indirectly, on success in
securing enrollments or financial aid to any persons or entities
engaged in any student recruiting or admission activities or in making
decisions regarding the award of student financial assistance, subject
to certain exceptions. In 2011, the Department issued DCL GEN-11-05 to
provide guidance on the Department's interpretation of newly issued
regulations (75 FR 66831) relating to the prohibition on incentive
compensation and other title IV program integrity issues in Sec.
668.14(b).
As noted in that guidance, the prohibition on incentive
compensation applies to both individuals and entities. The Department's
guidance also sets forth examples of activities that the Department
believes would violate the prohibition and examples of allowed
activities. Under that guidance, direct payments to recruiters based on
tuition generation are considered prohibited incentive compensation.
However, in the case of a third-party entity that is not affiliated
with the institution it serves and is not affiliated with any other
institution that provides educational services, the guidance specifies
that providing a set of services that includes recruitment (known as
bundled services) does not violate the prohibition on incentive
compensation as long as the entity does not make prohibited
compensation payments to its employees, and the institution does not
pay the entity separately for student recruitment services.
Since issuing that guidance, the number of students who were
recruited to institutions by entities operating under this bundled
services exception has increased significantly, particularly through
online programs operated by third-party entities, including Online
Program Managers (OPMs). These online programs are not subject to the
same enrollment constraints, such as physical classroom space or the
amount of potential students in the surrounding area, as in-person
programs. As a result, the Department is seeking to better understand
the impact of the bundled services exception in the context of growing
online enrollment and associated Federal student loan debt.
The Department is currently reviewing the incentive compensation
guidance to determine what, if any, changes to the incentive
compensation guidance might be appropriate, particularly regarding the
exception for bundled services. To assist in that effort and ensure the
Department is hearing from a wide range of stakeholders, we are
convening virtual listening sessions and accepting written public
comment on this topic. Specifically, the Department invites comment
from institutions, faculty, OPMs and other third-party contractors,
scholars, advocates, and students on the following specific questions:
1. What are the benefits and disadvantages of the current incentive
compensation exception for bundled services for institutions and
students?
2. How can the Department better identify, define, and address the
activities that may raise concerns under the current incentive
compensation guidance?
3. How much of an institution's spending on a bundle of services
provided by a third-party entity is typically allocated to recruitment
and related expenses? This will help the Department understand the
proportion of the spending in the bundle that goes to recruitment
versus a range of services.
4. How has contracting with a third-party providing services under
the bundled services exception impacted enrollment, tuition and fees,
the types of programs offered, the modality through which programs are
provided, student outcomes, revenues, and expenditures at institutions?
How do these results compare to programs not supported by an OPM or
students attending in-person at a program that is also supported by an
OPM?
5. How would changing third-party servicer contracts from a
revenue-sharing model to a fee-for-service model impact the services,
such as recruitment, currently provided to an institution under the
bundled services exception?
6. How do tuition and fees of programs supported by third-party
services differ when provided under a revenue-sharing model as compared
to a fee-for-service model?
7. To what extent does the bundled services exception impact
institutions' ability to create or expand online education offerings?
To what extent would fee-for-service models impact institutions'
ability to create or expand online education offerings?
8. How might the Department more clearly define what it means to be
an unaffiliated third-party for purposes of the incentive compensation
guidance to ensure there is no affiliation between the institution and
the entity providing services?
9. What steps can the Department take to better ensure compliance
with the prohibition on incentive compensation?
Registration: Individuals who would like to present comments at the
virtual listening sessions must register by sending an email message to
[email protected] no later than 12:00 p.m., Eastern time, on the
business day prior to the listening session at which they want to
speak. The message should include the name of the speaker, the email
address of the speaker, and one or more dates and times during which
the individual would be available to speak. We will attempt to
accommodate each speaker's preference for date and time; however, if we
are unable to do so, we will make the determination on a first-come,
first-served basis, based on the time and date we received the message.
We will limit each participant's comments to 3 minutes.
The Department will notify speakers of their reserved time slot and
provide information on how to log in to the session as a speaker. An
individual may make only one presentation at the listening sessions. If
we receive more registrations than we can accommodate, the Department
reserves the right to reject the registration of an entity or
individual affiliated with an entity already scheduled to present
comments, to ensure that a broad range of entities and individuals are
able to present. Speakers will access the meetings through a link
separate from those who wish to listen to the sessions.
Individuals who want to observe the listening sessions, but who do
not want to present comments, also are required to register. We will
post registration links for attendees who wish to observe on our
website at: www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/policy.html. There will
be a unique link each day for attendees who wish to observe. Non-
speaking
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attendees will be muted for the duration of each listening session.
Reasonable Accommodations: The sessions will be accessible to
individuals with disabilities. If you will need an auxiliary aid or
service to attend or to provide a live comment, please notify the
person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT at least 1 week
before the scheduled meeting date. Although we will attempt to meet a
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Nasser Paydar,
Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education.
[FR Doc. 2023-03261 Filed 2-15-23; 8:45 am]
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