Department of Education June 28, 2013 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services announces a priority for the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program administered by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). Specifically, we announce a priority for a Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Disability in Rural Areas. The Assistant Secretary may use this priority for competitions in fiscal year (FY) 2013 and later years. We take this action to focus research attention on areas of national need. We intend this priority to improve outcomes among individuals with disabilities in rural areas.

In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (Privacy Act), 5 U.S.C. 552a, the Chief Operating Officer for Federal Student Aid (FSA) of the Department of Education (Department) publishes this notice proposing to revise the system of records entitled ``National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS)'' (18-11-06), originally published on December 27, 1999 (64 FR 72395-72397), altered on September 7, 2010 (75 FR 54331-54336), and most recently altered on June 24, 2011 (76 FR 37095-37100). The Department proposes to revise the NSLDS to make necessary updates resulting from the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), Public Law 112-141, which amended the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), to limit students' eligibility for Direct Subsidized Loans to no more than 150 percent of the published length of the educational program in which the student is enrolled. We are also expanding the system's categories of records, purposes, authority, and its routine uses to reflect programmatic disclosures needed to better evaluate the effectiveness of institutions and their title IV-eligible educational programs, and to make that information available to the general public on the Department's ``College Scorecard'' and the Department's ``Financial Aid Shopping Sheet.'' Finally, we are revising and streamlining programmatic routine use 1(c).

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is proposing a new information collection.