Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program, 2216-2217 [2024-00584]

Download as PDF 2216 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 9 / Friday, January 12, 2024 / Notices exclusion 19, as described within this notice, would be appropriate. Notice to the Public and Documentation of Adoption This notice documents adoption of the DoN categorical exclusion listed above in accordance with 32 CFR 775.6(e)(1) and is available for use by DARPA, effective immediately. Dated: January 9, 2024. Aaron T. Siegel, Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense. [FR Doc. 2024–00564 Filed 1–11–24; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6001–FR–P DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION [Docket ID ED–2023–FSA–0180] Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program Federal Student Aid, Department of Education. ACTION: Notice of a new matching program. AGENCY: Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended by the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988 and the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Amendments of 1990 (Privacy Act), and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance on the conduct of matching programs, notice is hereby given of the re-establishment of a matching program between the U.S. Department of Education (Department), as the recipient agency, and the Social Security Administration (SSA), as the source agency, to enable the Department to contact individuals whom SSA identifies as disabled using Medical Improvement Not Expected (MINE) data, to inform them that the Department will issue Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) discharges of their balances of loans under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), their title IV HEA loans that have been written off due to default, or, their outstanding service or repayment obligations under the Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant Program unless they opt out of the TPD discharge. Such TPD discharges will occur no earlier than 61 days from the date that the Department sends the notification to those individuals, unless those individuals choose to have their loans or outstanding service or repayment obligations discharged earlier, or choose to opt out of the TPD discharge within 60 days from the date that the Department sends the notification to them. khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 00:38 Jan 12, 2024 Jkt 262001 Submit your comments on the proposed re-establishment of the matching program on or before February 12, 2024. The matching program will go into effect on the later of the following three dates: (1) March 30, 2024; (2) at the expiration of the 60-day period following the Department’s transmittal of a report concerning the matching program to OMB and to the appropriate Congressional Committees, along with a copy of the Computer Matching Agreement, unless OMB waives any of this 60-day review period for compelling reasons, in which case, 60 days minus the number of days waived by OMB from the date of the Department’s transmittal of the report of the matching program; or (3) at the expiration of the 30-day public comment period following the Department’s publication of notice of this matching program in the Federal Register, assuming that the Department receives no public comments or receives public comments but makes no changes to the Matching Notice as a result of the public comments, or 30 days from the date on which the Department publishes a Revised Matching Notice in the Federal Register, assuming that the Department receives public comments and revises the Matching Notice as a result of public comments. If the latest date occurs on a non-business day, then that date will be counted for purposes of this paragraph as occurring on the next business day. ADDRESSES: Comments must be submitted via the Federal eRulemaking Portal at regulations.gov. However, if you require an accommodation or cannot otherwise submit your comments via regulations.gov, please contact the program contact 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. To ensure that we do not receive duplicate copies, please submit your comments only once. In addition, please include the Docket ID at the top of your comments. • Federal eRulemaking Portal: 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’’. Privacy Note: The Department’s policy is to make all comments received from members of the public available for public viewing in their entirety on the Federal eRulemaking Portal at DATES: PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 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: Ron Bennett, Group Director Program Technical & Business Support Group, Federal Student Aid, U.S. Department of Education, 830 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20202–5320. Telephone: (202) 377–3181. Email: Ron.Bennett@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: In accordance with the Privacy Act; OMB ‘‘Final Guidance Interpreting the Provisions of Public Law 100–503, the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988,’’ published in the Federal Register on June 19, 1989 (54 FR 25818); and OMB Circular No. A–108, notice is hereby given of the reestablishment of a matching program between the Department and SSA to enable the Department to contact certain individuals with loans under title IV of the HEA or outstanding service or repayment obligations under the TEACH Grant Program whom SSA identifies as disabled using MINE disability data to inform them that, should they wish, the Department will facilitate a TPD discharge of their loans under title IV of the HEA or TEACH Grant service or repayment obligations. Participating Agencies The Department and SSA. Authority for Conducting the Matching Program The Department’s legal authority to enter into the matching program and to disclose information thereunder includes sections 420N(c), 437(a)(1), 455(a)(1), and 464(c)(1)(F)(ii & iii) of the HEA (20 U.S.C. 1070g–2(c), 1087(a)(1), 1087e(a)(1)), and 1087dd((c)(1)(F)(ii & iii)). SSA’s legal authority to disclose information under this Agreement is section 1106 of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1306) and the regulations promulgated pursuant to that section (20 CFR part 401). Subsection (b)(3) of the Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(3) allows SSA to make the disclosure without the prior written consent of the individuals to whom the records pertain. Purpose(s) This matching program will enable the Department to send notices to certain borrowers with loans under title IV of the HEA and TEACH Grant E:\FR\FM\12JAN1.SGM 12JAN1 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 9 / Friday, January 12, 2024 / Notices recipients whom SSA identifies as disabled based on MINE disability data to inform them that the Department will discharge the individuals’ title IV loans or TEACH Grant service or repayment obligations no earlier than 61 days from the date that the Department sends the notification to the individual, unless the individual chooses to have their loans or service or repayment obligations discharged earlier or chooses to opt out of the TPD discharge within 60 days from the date that the Department sends the notification to the individual. Categories of Individuals Under the Computer Matching Agreement (CMA) for this matching program, the Department will disclose information to SSA from the system of records entitled ‘‘National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS)’’ (18–11–06) on individuals who owe a balance on one or more title IV, HEA loans, who have had a title IV, HEA loan written off due to default, or who have an outstanding service or repayment obligation under the TEACH Grant Program. Under the CMA for this matching program, SSA will disclose information to the Department from the Disability Control File (DCF), which originates from the ‘‘Completed Determination Record—Continuing Disability Determinations’’ (60–0050) system of records, on individuals whom SSA identifies as disabled using MINE disability data. khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES Categories of Records The Department will disclose to SSA from the system of records entitled ‘‘National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS)’’ (18–11–06) the name, date of birth (DOB), and Social Security number (SSN) of the individuals identified in the preceding section. These individuals will be matched with SSA data recorded in the DCF, which originates from the ‘‘Completed Determination Record— Continuing Disability Determinations’’ (60–0050) system of records, in order to provide the Department with MINE disability data. System(s) of Records The Department will disclose records to SSA from its system of records identified as ‘‘National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS)’’ (18–11–06), as last published in the Federal Register in full on June 28, 2023 (88 FR 41934). SSA will disclose records back to the Department from its systems of records identified as the ‘‘Completed Determination Record—Continuing Disability Determinations’’ (60–0050), which was last fully published in the Federal Register at 71 FR 1813 on VerDate Sep<11>2014 00:38 Jan 12, 2024 Jkt 262001 January 11, 2006, and updated on December 10, 2007 (72 FR 69723), November 1, 2018 (83 FR 54969), and April 26, 2019 (84 FR 17907). The Department will maintain matched records that it receives from SSA in the aforementioned system of records identified as ‘‘National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS)’’ (18–11– 06), along with the Department’s system of records identified as ‘‘Common Services for Borrowers (CSB)’’ (18–11– 16), last published in the Federal Register in full on July 27, 2023 (88 FR 48449). 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 www.govinfo.gov. At this site you can view this document, as well as all other documents of this Department published in the Federal Register, in text or Portable Document Format (PDF). To use PDF, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available free at the site. You may also access documents of the Department published in the Federal Register by using the article search feature at www.federalregister.gov. Specifically, through the advanced search feature at this site, you can limit your search to documents published by the Department. Richard Cordray, Chief Operating Officer, Federal Student Aid. [FR Doc. 2024–00584 Filed 1–11–24; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4000–01–P DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION [Docket No.: ED–2024–SCC–0005] Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; Joint Consolidation Loan Separation Application Federal Student Aid (FSA), Department of Education (ED). ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 2217 1995, the Department is proposing a new information collection request (ICR). DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before March 12, 2024. ADDRESSES: To access and review all the documents related to the information collection listed in this notice, please use https://www.regulations.gov by searching the Docket ID number ED– 2024–SCC–0005. Comments submitted in response to this notice should be submitted electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at https:// www.regulations.gov by selecting the Docket ID number or via postal mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. If the regulations.gov site is not available to the public for any reason, the Department will temporarily accept comments at ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please include the docket ID number and the title of the information collection request when requesting documents or submitting comments. Please note that comments submitted after the comment period will not be accepted. Written requests for information or comments submitted by postal mail or delivery should be addressed to the Manager of the Strategic Collections and Clearance Governance and Strategy Division, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW, LBJ, Room 6W203, Washington, DC 20202–8240. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to collection activities, please contact Beth Grebeldinger, (202) 377–4018. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed, revised, and continuing collections of information. This helps the Department assess the impact of its information collection requirements and minimize the public’s reporting burden. It also helps the public understand the Department’s information collection requirements and provide the requested data in the desired format. The Department is soliciting comments on the proposed information collection request (ICR) that is described below. The Department is especially interested in public comment addressing the following issues: (1) is this collection necessary to the proper functions of the Department; (2) will this information be processed and used in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate of burden accurate; (4) how might the Department enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the E:\FR\FM\12JAN1.SGM 12JAN1

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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 9 (Friday, January 12, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2216-2217]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00584]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket ID ED-2023-FSA-0180]


Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program

AGENCY: Federal Student Aid, Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice of a new matching program.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended by the 
Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988 and the Computer 
Matching and Privacy Protection Amendments of 1990 (Privacy Act), and 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance on the conduct of 
matching programs, notice is hereby given of the re-establishment of a 
matching program between the U.S. Department of Education (Department), 
as the recipient agency, and the Social Security Administration (SSA), 
as the source agency, to enable the Department to contact individuals 
whom SSA identifies as disabled using Medical Improvement Not Expected 
(MINE) data, to inform them that the Department will issue Total and 
Permanent Disability (TPD) discharges of their balances of loans under 
title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), their 
title IV HEA loans that have been written off due to default, or, their 
outstanding service or repayment obligations under the Teacher 
Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant 
Program unless they opt out of the TPD discharge. Such TPD discharges 
will occur no earlier than 61 days from the date that the Department 
sends the notification to those individuals, unless those individuals 
choose to have their loans or outstanding service or repayment 
obligations discharged earlier, or choose to opt out of the TPD 
discharge within 60 days from the date that the Department sends the 
notification to them.

DATES: Submit your comments on the proposed re-establishment of the 
matching program on or before February 12, 2024.
    The matching program will go into effect on the later of the 
following three dates: (1) March 30, 2024; (2) at the expiration of the 
60-day period following the Department's transmittal of a report 
concerning the matching program to OMB and to the appropriate 
Congressional Committees, along with a copy of the Computer Matching 
Agreement, unless OMB waives any of this 60-day review period for 
compelling reasons, in which case, 60 days minus the number of days 
waived by OMB from the date of the Department's transmittal of the 
report of the matching program; or (3) at the expiration of the 30-day 
public comment period following the Department's publication of notice 
of this matching program in the Federal Register, assuming that the 
Department receives no public comments or receives public comments but 
makes no changes to the Matching Notice as a result of the public 
comments, or 30 days from the date on which the Department publishes a 
Revised Matching Notice in the Federal Register, assuming that the 
Department receives public comments and revises the Matching Notice as 
a result of public comments. If the latest date occurs on a non-
business day, then that date will be counted for purposes of this 
paragraph as occurring on the next business day.

ADDRESSES: Comments must be submitted via the Federal eRulemaking 
Portal at regulations.gov. However, if you require an accommodation or 
cannot otherwise submit your comments via regulations.gov, please 
contact the program contact 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. To ensure that 
we do not receive duplicate copies, please submit your comments only 
once. In addition, please include the Docket ID at the top of your 
comments.
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: 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''.
    Privacy Note: The Department's policy is to make all comments 
received from members of the public available for public viewing in 
their entirety 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: Ron Bennett, Group Director Program 
Technical & Business Support Group, Federal Student Aid, U.S. 
Department of Education, 830 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20202-
5320. Telephone: (202) 377-3181. 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: In accordance with the Privacy Act; OMB 
``Final Guidance Interpreting the Provisions of Public Law 100-503, the 
Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988,'' published in 
the Federal Register on June 19, 1989 (54 FR 25818); and OMB Circular 
No. A-108, notice is hereby given of the re-establishment of a matching 
program between the Department and SSA to enable the Department to 
contact certain individuals with loans under title IV of the HEA or 
outstanding service or repayment obligations under the TEACH Grant 
Program whom SSA identifies as disabled using MINE disability data to 
inform them that, should they wish, the Department will facilitate a 
TPD discharge of their loans under title IV of the HEA or TEACH Grant 
service or repayment obligations.

Participating Agencies

    The Department and SSA.

Authority for Conducting the Matching Program

    The Department's legal authority to enter into the matching program 
and to disclose information thereunder includes sections 420N(c), 
437(a)(1), 455(a)(1), and 464(c)(1)(F)(ii & iii) of the HEA (20 U.S.C. 
1070g-2(c), 1087(a)(1), 1087e(a)(1)), and 1087dd((c)(1)(F)(ii & iii)).
    SSA's legal authority to disclose information under this Agreement 
is section 1106 of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1306) and the regulations 
promulgated pursuant to that section (20 CFR part 401). Subsection 
(b)(3) of the Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(3) allows SSA to make the 
disclosure without the prior written consent of the individuals to whom 
the records pertain.

Purpose(s)

    This matching program will enable the Department to send notices to 
certain borrowers with loans under title IV of the HEA and TEACH Grant

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recipients whom SSA identifies as disabled based on MINE disability 
data to inform them that the Department will discharge the individuals' 
title IV loans or TEACH Grant service or repayment obligations no 
earlier than 61 days from the date that the Department sends the 
notification to the individual, unless the individual chooses to have 
their loans or service or repayment obligations discharged earlier or 
chooses to opt out of the TPD discharge within 60 days from the date 
that the Department sends the notification to the individual.

Categories of Individuals

    Under the Computer Matching Agreement (CMA) for this matching 
program, the Department will disclose information to SSA from the 
system of records entitled ``National Student Loan Data System 
(NSLDS)'' (18-11-06) on individuals who owe a balance on one or more 
title IV, HEA loans, who have had a title IV, HEA loan written off due 
to default, or who have an outstanding service or repayment obligation 
under the TEACH Grant Program.
    Under the CMA for this matching program, SSA will disclose 
information to the Department from the Disability Control File (DCF), 
which originates from the ``Completed Determination Record--Continuing 
Disability Determinations'' (60-0050) system of records, on individuals 
whom SSA identifies as disabled using MINE disability data.

Categories of Records

    The Department will disclose to SSA from the system of records 
entitled ``National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS)'' (18-11-06) the 
name, date of birth (DOB), and Social Security number (SSN) of the 
individuals identified in the preceding section. These individuals will 
be matched with SSA data recorded in the DCF, which originates from the 
``Completed Determination Record--Continuing Disability 
Determinations'' (60-0050) system of records, in order to provide the 
Department with MINE disability data.

System(s) of Records

    The Department will disclose records to SSA from its system of 
records identified as ``National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS)'' 
(18-11-06), as last published in the Federal Register in full on June 
28, 2023 (88 FR 41934).
    SSA will disclose records back to the Department from its systems 
of records identified as the ``Completed Determination Record--
Continuing Disability Determinations'' (60-0050), which was last fully 
published in the Federal Register at 71 FR 1813 on January 11, 2006, 
and updated on December 10, 2007 (72 FR 69723), November 1, 2018 (83 FR 
54969), and April 26, 2019 (84 FR 17907).
    The Department will maintain matched records that it receives from 
SSA in the aforementioned system of records identified as ``National 
Student Loan Data System (NSLDS)'' (18-11-06), along with the 
Department's system of records identified as ``Common Services for 
Borrowers (CSB)'' (18-11-16), last published in the Federal Register in 
full on July 27, 2023 (88 FR 48449).
    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 www.govinfo.gov. At this site you can view this 
document, as well as all other documents of this Department published 
in the Federal Register, in text or Portable Document Format (PDF). To 
use PDF, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available free at 
the site.
    You may also access documents of the Department published in the 
Federal Register by using the article search feature at 
www.federalregister.gov. Specifically, through the advanced search 
feature at this site, you can limit your search to documents published 
by the Department.

Richard Cordray,
Chief Operating Officer, Federal Student Aid.
[FR Doc. 2024-00584 Filed 1-11-24; 8:45 am]
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