Institutions and Lender Requirements Relating to Education Loans:

Federal Register Volume 76, Number 162 (Monday, August 22, 2011)

Rules and Regulations

Pages 52271-52272

From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

FR Doc No: 2011-21356

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 34 CFR Part 668

Docket ID ED-2009-OPE-0003

RIN 1840-AC95

Institutions and Lender Requirements Relating to Education Loans,

Student Assistance General Provisions, Federal Perkins Loan Program,

Federal Family Education Loan Program, and William D. Ford Federal

Direct Loan Program; Corrections

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education.

ACTION: Correcting amendments.

SUMMARY: On October 28, 2009, the Department of Education (Department) published final regulations in the Federal Register to implement requirements relating to education loans that were added to the Higher

Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), by the Higher Education

Opportunity Act (HEOA). The Department also amended regulations for the

Student Assistance General Provisions, Federal Perkins Loan Program,

Federal Family Education Loan Program, and William D. Ford Federal

Direct Loan Program to implement certain provisions of the HEA that involve school-based loan issues and that were affected by the statutory changes made to the HEA by

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the HEOA. That document inadvertently included minor technical errors in the amendments to 34 CFR part 668. This document corrects the final regulations.

DATES: August 22, 2011.

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List of Subjects in 34 CFR Part 668

Administrative practice and procedure, Colleges and universities,

Consumer protection, Education, Loan programs--education, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Student aid.

Accordingly, 34 CFR part 668 is corrected by making the following correcting amendments:

PART 668--STUDENT ASSISTANCE GENERAL PROVISIONS 0 1. The authority citation for part 668 continues to read as follows:

Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1001, 1002, 1003, 1070g, 1085, 1088, 1091, 1092, 1094, 1099c, and 1099c-1, unless otherwise noted.

Sec. 668.16 [Corrected] 0 2. In Sec. 668.16(m)(2)(iv), add the word ``will'' after the word

``we''.

Sec. 668.213 [Corrected] 0 3. In Sec. 668.213-- 0

1. In paragraph (g)(1), add the words ``or of a rate described in paragraph (a)(2) of this section'' after the words ``you receive the notice of your loss of eligibility''. 0

2. In paragraph (g)(2), add the words ``or of a rate described in paragraph (a)(2) of this section'' after the words ``you receive the notice of your loss of eligibility''.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Numbers: 84.032 Federal

Family Education Loan Program; 84.038 Federal Perkins Loan Program; 84.268 William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program.)

Dated: August 17, 2011.

Eduardo M. Ochoa,

Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education.

FR Doc. 2011-21356 Filed 8-19-11; 8:45 am

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