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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket ID ED–2011–OPE–0009] 

Public Meeting on Recommendations 

for Improvement of Student Financial 

Aid Offer Forms, Development of 

Model Financial Aid Forms 

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary 

Education, Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting; 

request for public comments. 

SUMMARY: We will conduct a public 

meeting for interested parties to discuss 

and offer recommendations for 

improvements to student financial aid 

offer forms, as required by section 484 

of the Higher Education Opportunity 

Act (HEOA). 

To inform the discussion at the public 

meeting, we invite written comments on 

how to improve the information to be 

included in financial aid offer forms. 

We announce the development of a 

Model Financial Aid Offer page on the 

Department of Education’s Web site at— 

http://www.ed.gov/policy/highered/ 

guid/aid-offer/index.html. This page 

presents information related to the 

Department’s activities to carry out the 

HEOA requirement. This information 

includes sample financial aid award 

letter forms and award information for 

members of the public to respond to and 

comment upon through Regulations.gov. 

DATES: The date, time, and location of 

the public meeting are listed in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this notice. We must receive your 

written comments by August 26, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your written 

comments through the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal or via U.S. mail, 

commercial delivery, or hand delivery. 

We will not accept comments by fax or 

by e-mail. Please submit your comments 

only one time so that we do not receive 

duplicate copies. In addition, please 

include the Docket ID at the top of your 

comments. 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://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 ‘‘How to Use 

Regulations.gov’’ in the ‘‘Help’’ section. 

U.S. Mail, Commercial Delivery, or 

Hand Delivery. If you mail or deliver 

your comments on financial aid award 

letters, address them to Marty Guthrie, 

U.S. Department of Education, 1990 K 

Street, NW., Room 8042, Washington, 

DC 20006. 

Privacy Note: The Department’s 

policy for comments received from 

members of the public (including those 

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 

http://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. 

You may inspect all public comments 

submitted for this public meeting by 

searching the public comments for 

docket ED–2011–OPE–0009 on 

Regulations.gov. You may also inspect 

the comments, in person, in room 8042, 

1990 K Street, NW., Washington, DC 

between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 

p.m., Eastern Standard Time, Monday 

through Friday of each week except 

Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Marty Guthrie, U.S. Department of 

Education, 1990 K Street, NW., Room 

8042, Washington, DC 20006, or by 

phone at (202) 219–7031. You may also 

e-mail your questions about the public 

meeting to: Marty.Guthrie@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), call the 

Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 

1–800–877–8339. 

Individuals with disabilities can 

obtain this document in an accessible 

format (e.g., braille, large print, 

audiotape, or computer diskette) by 

contacting the person responsible for 

information about the public meeting. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 484 of the HEOA, Public Law 

110–315, requires the Secretary to 

convene a group to make 

recommendations to improve financial 

aid offer forms. The group must include 

students, families of students, secondary 

school guidance counselors, 

representatives of institutions of higher 

education (including financial aid 

administrators, registrars, and business 

officers), and nonprofit consumer 

groups. 

The group’s meeting will be held on 

September 13, 2011, from 9:00 a.m. to 

4:00 p.m. at the U.S. Department of 

Education, 1990 K Street, NW., Eighth 

Floor Conference Center, Washington, 

DC 20006. We will conduct an overview 

and a panel discussion on financial aid 

award offer letters and related issues 

during the morning session. We will 

randomly separate attendees into small 

groups for the afternoon session. All 

attendees will be invited to participate 

in a small group discussion. Each small 

group will be given a set of questions to 

discuss. Results from the small group 

meetings will be reported to participants 

to conclude the public meeting. 

We encourage persons interested in 

attending and participating in the 

meeting to register by 5:00 p.m. on 

September 7, 2011. Register by sending 

an e-mail to ModelAidOffer@ed.gov. The 

e-mail should include the name, 

address, telephone, and e-mail contact 

information for the individual, as well 

as the constituency or interest group 

that the individual represents. We will 

accept walk-in registrations to the extent 

space permits. 

II. HEOA Requirements for Model 

Financial Aid Offer Form 

The HEOA requires that the 

recommendations for improving the 

model financial aid offer form present 

the following material in a consumerfriendly manner that is simple and 

understandable: 

(1) Information on the student’s cost 

of attendance, including tuition and 

fees, room and board costs, books and 

supplies, and transportation. 

(2) The amount of financial aid that 

the student does not have to repay, such 

as scholarships, grants, and work-study 

assistance, offered to the student for 

such year, and the conditions of such 

financial aid. 

(3) The types and amounts of loans 

under part B, D, or E of title IV of the 

Higher Education Act of 1965, as 

amended, for which the student is 

eligible for such year, and the applicable 

terms and conditions of such loans. 

(4) The net amount that the student, 

or the student’s family on behalf of the 

student, will have to pay for the student 

to attend the institution for such year, 

equal to— 

(A) The cost of attendance for the 

student for such year; Minus. 

(B) The amount of financial aid 

described in paragraphs (2) and (3) that 

is offered in the financial aid offer form. 

(5) Where a student or the student’s 

family can seek additional information 

regarding the financial aid offered. 

(6) Any other information the 

Secretary of Education determines 

necessary so that students and parents 

can make informed student loan 

borrowing decisions. 

III. Proposed Issues for Discussion 

We propose that answers to the 

following questions be used to develop 

recommendations for improving the 

model financial aid offer form: 

(1) What is the most important change 

to improve financial aid offer letters? 

(2) How can we make clear the bottom 

line cost that the student must pay? 

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(3) How can we ensure that the 

student understands what is included in 

the cost of attendance? 

(4) How can we help the student 

clearly identify ‘‘free’’ (grant and 

scholarship) money? 

(5) Would it be useful to offer 

additional details on an accompanying 

information sheet to maintain a 

comprehensible format? 

IV. Model Financial Aid Format 

Required 

After a review of the public comments 

and using the group’s recommendations, 

the Secretary must develop a model 

format for financial aid offer forms. In 

addition, the Secretary must submit 

recommendations resulting from the 

review of the public comments and from 

the public meeting to the Congressional 

authorizing committees. Finally, the 

Secretary is required to make the 

recommendations and the model 

financial aid offer format widely 

available. We will publish these items 

on the Internet at the Department’s 

Model Financial Aid Offer page. 

V. Comments 

We are holding this public meeting 

for interested parties to discuss and 

offer recommendations for 

improvements to financial aid offer 

forms. In addition, interested parties 

may offer comments based on personal 

knowledge or experience working with 

financial aid offer forms, as well as 

comments based on the information on 

the Model Financial Aid Offer Web 

page. 

The deadline for submitting 

comments related to this public meeting 

is August 19, 2011. 

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and the Code of Federal Regulations is 

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Department. 

Dated: July 26, 2011. 

Eduardo M. Ochoa, 

Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary 

Education. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Notice of Intent To Grant Partially 

Exclusive License Between the 

National Energy Technology 

Laboratory and Envired Systems 

AGENCY: National Energy Technology 

Laboratory, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to grant 

partially exclusive license. 

SUMMARY: The National Energy 

Technology Laboratory (NETL), on 

behalf of the Department of Energy 

(DOE), hereby gives notice of its intent 

to grant a partially exclusive license to 

practice the inventions described and 

claimed in U.S. Patent No 6,908,497, 

issued June 21, 2005, titled ‘‘Solid 

sorbents for removal of carbon dioxide 

from gas streams at low temperatures,’’ 

to Envired Systems, having its principal 

place of business in Newton, MA. The 

inventions are owned by United States 

of America, as represented by DOE. 

DATES: Written comments or 

nonexclusive license applications are to 

be received at the address listed below 

no later than August 10, 2011. 

Objections submitted in response to this 

notice will not be made available to the 

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under the Freedom of Information Act, 

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ADDRESSES: Objections relating to the 

prospective exclusive license may be 

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Laboratory, 3610 Collins Ferry Rd., P.O. 

Box 880, Morgantown, WV 26506 or via 

facsimile at (412) 386–5949. Comments 

relating to the prospective exclusive 

license may be submitted to the 

Technology Transfer Program, U.S. 

Department of Energy, National Energy 

Technology Laboratory, 626 Cochrans 

Mills Rd., P.O. Box 10940, Pittsburgh, 

PA 15236 or via facsimile at (412) 386– 

5920. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jessica Sosenko, Technology Transfer 

Program Manager, U.S. Department of 

Energy, National Energy Technology 

Laboratory, 626 Cochrans Mills Rd., 

P.O. Box 10940, Pittsburgh, PA 15236; 

Telephone (412) 386–7417; E-mail: 

jessica.sosenko@netl.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

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to grant exclusive or partially exclusive 

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on behalf of the United States where it 

determines that, among other things, the 

desired practical application of the 

invention has not been achieved, or is 

not likely to be expeditiously achieved, 

under a nonexclusive license. The 

statute and implementing regulations 

(37 CFR part 404) require that this 

determination be made after public 

notice and opportunity for filing written 

objections. 

Envired Systems, a new small 

business, has applied for a partially 

exclusive license to practice the 

inventions and has a plan for 

commercialization of the invention. 

DOE intends to grant the license, upon 

a final determination in accordance 

with 35 U.S.C. 209(c), unless within 15 

days of publication of this notice the 

NETL Technology Transfer Manager 

(contact information listed above), 

receives in writing any of the following, 

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setting forth reasons why it would not 

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brought the invention to practical 

application or is likely to expeditiously 

bring the invention to practical 

application. 

The proposed license will be partially 

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and human occupied space, including 

all heating, ventilation and airconditioning applications; and indoor 

air quality applications, including all air 

quality and air treatment in buildings, 

houses, shelters, vehicles, vessels, 

aircraft, storage, refrigeration facilities, 

greenhouses, and the like. DOE will 

review all timely written responses to 

this notice, and will grant the license if, 

after expiration of the 15-day notice 

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responses to this notice, it determines in 

accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(c) that 

the license is in the public interest. 

This notice is issued in accordance 

with 35 U.S.C. 209(c)(1) and 37 CFR 

404.7(a)(1)(i). 

Dated: July 22, 2011. 

Scott Klara, 

Deputy Director, National Energy Technology 

Laboratory. 

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