83_FR_28294 83 FR 28177 - Program Integrity: Gainful Employment

83 FR 28177 - Program Integrity: Gainful Employment

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 117 (June 18, 2018)

Page Range28177-28178
FR Document2018-13054

On January 6 and January 19, 2017, the Department announced dates by which institutions subject to the Department's gainful employment (GE) regulations must comply with certain disclosure requirements in the GE regulations. On July 5, 2017, the Department announced that it was allowing additional time, until July 1, 2018, to comply with those provisions. This document announces that the Department allows additional time, until July 1, 2019, for institutions to comply with those disclosure requirements in the GE regulations and invites comment on this action.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 117 (Monday, June 18, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 117 (Monday, June 18, 2018)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 28177-28178]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-13054]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket ID ED-2017-OPE-0090]


Program Integrity: Gainful Employment

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education.

ACTION: Announcement of applicable dates; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: On January 6 and January 19, 2017, the Department announced 
dates by which institutions subject to the Department's gainful 
employment (GE) regulations must comply with certain disclosure 
requirements in the GE regulations. On July 5, 2017, the Department 
announced that it was allowing additional time, until July 1, 2018, to 
comply with those provisions. This document announces that the 
Department allows additional time, until July 1, 2019, for institutions 
to comply with those disclosure requirements in the GE regulations and 
invites comment on this action.

DATES: The Department is allowing additional time--until July 1, 2019--
for institutions to comply with 34 CFR 668.412(d) and (e). We must 
receive your comments on or before July 18, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments through the Federal eRulemaking Portal 
or via postal mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. We will not 
accept comments by fax or by email or those 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 ``Help.''
     Postal Mail, Commercial Delivery, or Hand Delivery: If you 
mail or deliver your comments, address them to Jean-Didier Gaina, U.S. 
Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW, Room 290-34, Washington, 
DC 20202.
    Privacy Note: The Department's policy for comments received from 
members of the public (including comments submitted by mail, commercial 
delivery, or hand delivery) is to make these submissions 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 on the internet.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott Filter, U.S. Department of 
Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW, Room 290-42, Washington, DC 20202. 
Telephone: (202) 453-7249. Email at: [email protected].
    If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) or a text 
telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 1-
800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 34 CFR 668.412(d) and (e), 
institutions subject to the GE regulations would be required to include 
a disclosure template with information specified by the Department, or 
a link thereto, in their GE program promotional materials

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and to directly distribute the disclosure template to prospective 
students.
    On January 6 and January 19, 2017, the Department announced dates 
by which institutions subject to the GE regulations must comply with 
certain provisions of the GE regulations, including the requirements in 
34 CFR 668.412(d) and (e). On March 6, 2017, the Department announced 
that it was allowing additional time, until July 1, 2017, to comply 
with those requirements. On June 30, 2017 in an electronic announcement 
and in a notice published in the Federal Register on July 5, 2017, the 
Department announced that it was allowing additional time, until July 
1, 2018, to comply with those requirements and invited comment (82 FR 
30975). The Department received 45 comments on that action. Many 
commenters expressed general support for the GE regulations, while 
others expressed general opposition to the GE regulations. One 
commenter recommended the development of a mass upload tool for GE 
disclosure templates. Another commenter requested the Department review 
the information that had to be disclosed for GE programs, as they 
contended the disclosures were confusing to students. Other commenters 
provided comments on other aspects of the GE regulations, such as on 
the alternate earnings appeals process, the student warning 
requirement, and the reporting requirements.
    From December 4, 2017, through March 15, 2018, the Department 
conducted three negotiated rulemaking sessions related to the GE 
regulations. The committee did not reach consensus. The Department 
intends to develop proposed regulations that would replace the GE 
regulations. As part of this rulemaking process, the Department 
continues to evaluate the efficacy of these disclosures to students, 
including the manner in which the GE regulations would require 
institutions make these disclosures, and the burden associated with the 
implementation of these requirements. As the Department continues to 
review the utility of these requirements in connection with the 
proposed rulemaking, we are allowing institutions additional time--
until July 1, 2019--to comply with the provisions in 34 CFR 668.412(d) 
and (e). The requirements in 34 CFR 668.412(a), (b), and (c) that 
schools post disclosures on their program websites using the approved 
disclosure template provided by the Department and that those 
disclosures be updated annually remain in effect.
    We are inviting your comments on this action. We will consider 
these comments in determining whether to take any future action in 
connection with the implementation of the disclosure requirements.
    Accessible Format: Individuals with disabilities can obtain this 
document in an accessible format (e.g., Braille, large print, 
audiotape, or compact disc) on request to the program contact person 
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
    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 via the Federal Digital System at: www.thefederalregister.org/fdsys. 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 this 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 of this site, you can limit your search to documents published 
by the Department.

    Dated: June 13, 2018.
Betsy DeVos,
Secretary of Education.
[FR Doc. 2018-13054 Filed 6-15-18; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 117 / Monday, June 18, 2018 / Proposed Rules 28177 outcome of this rulemaking. If you zone established under this section, the Department allows additional time, submit a comment, please include the COTP will publish a notice of until July 1, 2019, for institutions to docket number for this rulemaking, enforcement in the Federal Register as comply with those disclosure indicate the specific section of this early as is practicable. In addition, the requirements in the GE regulations and document to which each comment COTP will also inform the public of the invites comment on this action. applies, and provide a reason for each enforcement area and times of this DATES: The Department is allowing suggestion or recommendation. section as indicated in paragraph (d) additional time—until July 1, 2019—for We encourage you to submit Information broadcasts. institutions to comply with 34 CFR comments through the Federal (c) Regulations. (1) In accordance with 668.412(d) and (e). We must receive eRulemaking Portal at http:// the general regulations in § 165.23, entry your comments on or before July 18, www.regulations.gov. If your material into this zone is prohibited to all vessels 2018. cannot be submitted using http:// and persons except vessels authorized www.regulations.gov, contact the person by the COTP or designated ADDRESSES: Submit your comments in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION representative. A designated through the Federal eRulemaking Portal CONTACT section of this document for representative means any Coast Guard or via postal mail, commercial delivery, alternate instructions. commissioned, warrant, or petty officer or hand delivery. We will not accept We accept anonymous comments. All of the U.S. Coast Guard assigned to comments by fax or by email or those comments received will be posted units under the operational control of submitted after the comment period. To without change to http:// Sector New Orleans. ensure that we do not receive duplicate www.regulations.gov and will include (2) Persons and vessels requiring copies, please submit your comments any personal information you have entry into this safety zone must request only once. In addition, please include provided. For more about privacy and permission from the COTP or a the Docket ID at the top of your the docket, visit http:// designated representative. They may be comments. www.regulations.gov/privacyNotice. contacted on VHF–FM Channel 16 or 67 • Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to Documents mentioned in this NPRM or by telephone at (504) 365–2200. www.regulations.gov to submit your as being available in the docket, and all (3) Persons and vessels permitted to comments electronically. Information public comments, will be in our online enter this safety zone must transit at on using Regulations.gov, including docket at http://www.regulations.gov their slowest safe speed and comply instructions for accessing agency and can be viewed by following that with all lawful directions issued by the documents, submitting comments, and website’s instructions. Additionally, if COTP or the designated representative. viewing the docket, is available on the you go to the online docket and sign up (d) Information broadcasts. The COTP site under ‘‘Help.’’ for email alerts, you will be notified or a designated representative will • Postal Mail, Commercial Delivery, when comments are posted or a final inform the public of the enforcement or Hand Delivery: If you mail or deliver rule is published. period of this safety zone through Vessel your comments, address them to Jean- Traffic Service Advisories, Broadcast Didier Gaina, U.S. Department of List of Subjects in 33 CFR Part 165 Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW, Notices to Mariners (BNMs), Local Harbors, Marine safety, Navigation Notice to Mariners (LNMs), and/or Room 290–34, Washington, DC 20202. (water), Reporting and recordkeeping Marine Safety Information Bulletins Privacy Note: The Department’s requirements, Security measures, (MSIBs) as appropriate. policy for comments received from Waterways. members of the public (including Dated: June 11, 2018. For the reasons discussed in the comments submitted by mail, Wayne R. Arguin, commercial delivery, or hand delivery) preamble, the Coast Guard amends 33 Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the is to make these submissions available CFR part 165 as follows: Port Sector New Orleans. for public viewing in their entirety on PART 165—REGULATED NAVIGATION [FR Doc. 2018–13025 Filed 6–15–18; 8:45 am] the Federal eRulemaking Portal at AREAS AND LIMITED ACCESS AREAS BILLING CODE 9110–04–P www.regulations.gov. Therefore, commenters should be careful to ■ 1. The authority citation for part 165 include in their comments only continues to read as follows: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION information that they wish to make Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1231; 50 U.S.C. 191; [Docket ID ED–2017–OPE–0090] publicly available on the internet. 33 CFR 1.05–1, 6.04–1, 6.04–6, and 160.5; FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Department of Homeland Security Delegation Program Integrity: Gainful Employment Scott Filter, U.S. Department of No. 0170.1. Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW, ■ 2. Add § 165.845 to read as follows: AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Room 290–42, Washington, DC 20202. Education, Department of Education. Telephone: (202) 453–7249. Email at: § 165.845 Safety Zone; Lower Mississippi ACTION: Announcement of applicable River, mile markers 94 to 97 above Head of Scott.Filter@ed.gov. dates; request for comments. If you use a telecommunications Passes, New Orleans, LA SUMMARY: On January 6 and January 19, device for the deaf (TDD) or a text (a) Location. The following area is a 2017, the Department announced dates telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay safety zone: All navigable waters of the by which institutions subject to the Service (FRS), toll free, at 1–800–877– Lower Mississippi River, New Orleans, amozie on DSK3GDR082PROD with PROPOSALS1 Department’s gainful employment (GE) 8339. LA from mile marker (MM) 94 to MM 97 above Head of Passes. regulations must comply with certain SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 34 (b) Enforcement period. The safety disclosure requirements in the GE CFR 668.412(d) and (e), institutions zone established by this section will be regulations. On July 5, 2017, the subject to the GE regulations would be enforced only upon notice of the Department announced that it was required to include a disclosure Captain of the Port Sector New Orleans allowing additional time, until July 1, template with information specified by (COTP). In accordance with 33 CFR 2018, to comply with those provisions. the Department, or a link thereto, in 165.7, for each enforcement of the safety This document announces that the their GE program promotional materials VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:54 Jun 15, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\18JNP1.SGM 18JNP1

28178 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 117 / Monday, June 18, 2018 / Proposed Rules and to directly distribute the disclosure We are inviting your comments on received in the U.S. Copyright Office no template to prospective students. this action. We will consider these later than July 18, 2018. On January 6 and January 19, 2017, comments in determining whether to ADDRESSES: For reasons of government the Department announced dates by take any future action in connection efficiency, the Copyright Office is using which institutions subject to the GE with the implementation of the disclosure requirements. the regulations.gov system for the regulations must comply with certain Accessible Format: Individuals with submission and posting of public provisions of the GE regulations, disabilities can obtain this document in comments in this proceeding. All including the requirements in 34 CFR an accessible format (e.g., Braille, large comments are therefore to be submitted 668.412(d) and (e). On March 6, 2017, print, audiotape, or compact disc) on electronically through regulations.gov. the Department announced that it was request to the program contact person Specific instructions for submitting allowing additional time, until July 1, listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION comments are available on the 2017, to comply with those CONTACT. Copyright Office website at https:// requirements. On June 30, 2017 in an Electronic Access to This Document: www.copyright.gov/rulemaking/group- electronic announcement and in a The official version of this document is serials/. If electronic submission of notice published in the Federal Register the document published in the Federal comments is not feasible due to lack of on July 5, 2017, the Department announced that it was allowing Register. You may access the official access to a computer and/or the additional time, until July 1, 2018, to edition of the Federal Register and the internet, please contact the Office for comply with those requirements and Code of Federal Regulations via the special instructions using the contact invited comment (82 FR 30975). The Federal Digital System at: www.gpo.gov/ information below. Department received 45 comments on fdsys. At this site you can view this FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: that action. Many commenters document, as well as all other Robert J. Kasunic, Associate Register of expressed general support for the GE documents of this Department Copyrights and Director of Registration regulations, while others expressed published in the Federal Register, in Policy and Practice, or Erik Bertin, general opposition to the GE text or Portable Document Format Deputy Director of Registration Policy regulations. One commenter (PDF). To use PDF you must have and Practice, by telephone at 202–707– recommended the development of a Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 8040, or by email at rkas@copyright.gov mass upload tool for GE disclosure available free at this site. and ebertin@copyright.gov; or Cindy templates. Another commenter You may also access documents of the Paige Abramson, Assistant General requested the Department review the Department published in the Federal Counsel, by telephone at 202–707–0676, information that had to be disclosed for Register by using the article search or by email at ciab@copyright.gov. GE programs, as they contended the feature at: www.federalregister.gov. disclosures were confusing to students. Specifically, through the advanced SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May Other commenters provided comments search feature of this site, you can limit 17, 2018, the U.S. Copyright Office on other aspects of the GE regulations, your search to documents published by issued a proposed rulemaking to update such as on the alternate earnings the Department. its regulations governing the group appeals process, the student warning Dated: June 13, 2018. registration option for newsletters, requirement, and the reporting which are defined in part as a class of Betsy DeVos, requirements. serials that are published at least two Secretary of Education. days each week. The Office proposed From December 4, 2017, through [FR Doc. 2018–13054 Filed 6–15–18; 8:45 am] March 15, 2018, the Department several changes, such as requiring conducted three negotiated rulemaking BILLING CODE 4000–01–P applicants to submit their applications sessions related to the GE regulations. and deposit copies through the Office’s The committee did not reach consensus. electronic registration system instead of The Department intends to develop LIBRARY OF CONGRESS submitting paper applications and proposed regulations that would replace physical deposit copies, amending the the GE regulations. As part of this Copyright Office definition of ‘‘newsletter,’’ updating the rulemaking process, the Department eligibility requirements for this group continues to evaluate the efficacy of 37 CFR Part 201, 202 registration option, and removing the these disclosures to students, including requirement that newsletter publishers [Docket No. 2018–3] the manner in which the GE regulations provide the Library of Congress with would require institutions make these Group Registration of Newsletters complimentary subscriptions or disclosures, and the burden associated microfilm of the newsletter and the with the implementation of these AGENCY: U.S. Copyright Office, Library effect of this change on newsletter requirements. As the Department of Congress publishers in satisfying their obligations continues to review the utility of these ACTION: Extension of comment period. under the mandatory deposit requirements in connection with the requirement.1 The Office invited public proposed rulemaking, we are allowing SUMMARY: The U.S. Copyright Office is comment on the notice of proposed institutions additional time—until July extending the deadline for the rulemaking, to be provided by no later 1, 2019—to comply with the provisions submission of written comments in than June 18, 2018. However, to ensure amozie on DSK3GDR082PROD with PROPOSALS1 in 34 CFR 668.412(d) and (e). The response to its May 17, 2018 notice of that members of the public have requirements in 34 CFR 668.412(a), (b), proposed rulemaking regarding sufficient time to respond, and to ensure and (c) that schools post disclosures on amendments to its regulation governing that the Office has the benefit of a their program websites using the the group registration option for complete record, the Office is extending approved disclosure template provided newsletters. the submission deadline by an by the Department and that those DATES: The comment period is extended additional thirty days. Written disclosures be updated annually remain by an additional thirty days. Comments in effect. must be made in writing and must be 1 83 FR 22902 (May 17, 2018). VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:54 Jun 15, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\18JNP1.SGM 18JNP1


Document Created: 2018-06-18 15:49:58
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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionRules and Regulations
ActionAnnouncement of applicable dates; request for comments.
DatesThe Department is allowing additional time--until July 1, 2019-- for institutions to comply with 34 CFR 668.412(d) and (e). We must receive your comments on or before July 18, 2018.
ContactScott Filter, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW, Room 290-42, Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 453-7249. Email at: [email protected]
FR Citation83 FR 28177 
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