SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

On March 25, 2025, the President of the United States of America issued Executive Order 14249, “Protecting America's Bank Account from Fraud, Waste, and Abuse,” directing Federal agencies to share information with the U.S. Department of the Treasury to mitigate fraud, waste, and abuse across the Federal government. Section 3(d) of this Executive Order requires Federal agencies to modify relevant system of records notices to include a routine use allowing for the “disclosure of records to the Department of the Treasury for the purposes of identifying, preventing, or recouping fraud and improper payments, to the extent permissible by law.”

Subsequently, on August 20, 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued Memorandum M-25-32, “Preventing Improper Payments and Protecting Privacy Through Do Not Pay,” clarifying the modifications required to be made to system of records notices under Executive Order 14249. Specifically, M-25-32 requires a routine use be added for any system that may disclose information to the U.S. Department of the Treasury for identifying, preventing, or recouping improper payments by reviewing payment and award eligibility through the Do Not Pay Working System.

The Department is modifying the systems of records identified in this Notice to include the routine use set forth in Section 3(d) of Executive Order 14249 and M-25-32, Appendix I.

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For the reasons discussed in the preamble, the Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development of the U.S. Department of Education (Department) publishes a modified system of records notice, as follows:

SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER:

The systems of records to be modified by including the new routine use described in this notice are listed below. An asterisk (*) designates the last publication of the complete document in the Federal Register . Any history prior to the last publication in the Federal Register is omitted for clarity.

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified.

SYSTEM LOCATION:

The appropriate Department program, as identified in each notice listed above, governs each respective system of records.

SYSTEM MANAGER(S):

The applicable program executive is identified in each notice listed above.

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:

In addition to disclosures generally permitted under 5 U.S.C. 552a(b), all or a portion of the records or information contained in the systems identifier above may be disclosed outside the Department pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(3) as follows: “To the U.S. Department of the Treasury when disclosure of the information is relevant to review payment and award eligibility through the Do Not Pay Working System for the purposes of identifying, preventing, or recouping improper payments to an applicant for, or recipient of, Federal funds, including funds disbursed by a state (meaning a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, a territory or possession of the United States, or a federally recognized Indian tribe) in a state-administered, federally funded program.”

HISTORY:

See the notice for the systems listed above.

90 FR 57040