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(i) Routine Use—Disclosure to the

Department of Justice for Litigation. A record

from a system of records maintained by this

component may be disclosed as a routine use

to any component of the Department of

Justice for the purpose of representing the

Department of Defense, or any officer,

employee or member of the Department in

pending or potential litigation to which the

record is pertinent.

(j) Routine Use—Disclosure to Military

Banking Facilities Overseas. Information as

to current military addresses and

assignments may be provided to military

banking facilities who provide banking

services overseas and who are reimbursed by

the Government for certain checking and

loan losses. For personnel separated,

discharged, or retired from the Armed Forces,

information as to last known residential or

home of record address may be provided to

the military banking facility upon

certification by a banking facility officer that

the facility has a returned or dishonored

check negotiated by the individual or the

individual has defaulted on a loan and that

if restitution is not made by the individual,

the U.S. Government will be liable for the

losses the facility may incur.

(k) Routine Use—Disclosure of Information

to the General Services Administration

(GSA). A record from a system of records

maintained by this component may be

disclosed as a routine use to the General

Services Administration (GSA) for the

purpose of records management inspections

conducted under authority of 44 U.S.C. 2904

and 2906.

(l) Routine Use—Disclosure of Information

to the National Archives and Records

Administration (NARA). A record from a

system of records maintained by this

component may be disclosed as a routine use

to the National Archives and Records

Administration (NARA) for the purpose of

records management inspections conducted

under authority of 44 U.S.C. 2904 and 2906.

(m) Routine Use—Disclosure to the Merit

Systems Protection Board. A record from a

system of records maintained by this

component may be disclosed as a routine use

to the Merit Systems Protection Board,

including the Office of the Special Counsel

for the purpose of litigation, including

administrative proceedings, appeals, special

studies of the civil service and other merit

systems, review of OPM or component rules

and regulations, investigation of alleged or

possible prohibited personnel practices;

including administrative proceedings

involving any individual subject of a DoD

investigation, and such other functions,

promulgated in 5 U.S.C. 1205 and 1206, or

as may be authorized by law.

(n) Routine Use—Counterintelligence

Purpose. A record from a system of records

maintained by this component may be

disclosed as a routine use outside the DoD or

the U.S. Government for the purpose of

counterintelligence activities authorized by

U.S. Law or Executive Order or for the

purpose of enforcing laws which protect the

national security of the United States.

Dated: June 22, 2000.

L.M. Bynum,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

34 CFR Part 694

Gaining Early Awareness and

Readiness for Undergraduate

Programs

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary

Education, Department of Education.

ACTION: Final regulations; interpretation.

SUMMARY: The Secretary interprets and

clarifies sections of the Department of

Education’s final regulations governing

the Gaining Early Awareness and

Readiness for Undergraduate Programs

(GEAR UP) program that were published

in the Federal Register on April 27,

2000 (65 FR 24756). The Secretary takes

this action in response to questions that

have arisen about scholarships for

GEAR UP students.

DATES: This interpretation is effective

June 28, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Rafael Ramirez, Office of Postsecondary

Education, U.S. Department of

Education, 1990 K Street, NW, Room

6252, Washington, DC 20006.

Telephone: (202) 502–7676. If you use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD), you may call the Federal

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–

800–877–8339. Individuals with

disabilities may obtain this document in

an alternative format (e.g., Braille, large

print, audiotape, or computer diskette)

on request to the contact person listed.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the

GEAR UP regulations, in § 694.10, we

require State and partnership grantees to

monitor the treatment of GEAR UP

scholarships in relation to other aid

GEAR UP students may receive. Some

colleges and universities have raised

questions about the applicability of the

regulations to them.

The GEAR UP regulations govern the

use of GEAR UP funds by GEAR UP

grantees. Accordingly, the GEAR UP

regulations do not apply to institutions

that are not GEAR UP grantees or do not

enroll any GEAR UP students.

Moreover, under the regulations, no

institution is required to enroll a GEAR

UP student, and if it does so, that

institution may decline to order the

student’s aid in the manner required by

the regulations. In the latter case,

however, it would be the grantee’s

responsibility to inform the GEAR UP

student that he or she could not receive

the GEAR UP scholarship to attend that

institution. In this case, the student

would be free to attend that college

without the GEAR UP scholarship or

another college that orders the aid in a

manner consistent with the regulations

with the GEAR UP scholarship.

Waiver of Public Comment

In accordance with the

Administrative Procedure Act, it is the

practice of the Secretary to offer

interested parties the opportunity to

comment on proposed rules. However,

since this document only clarifies and

interprets an existing regulation,

additional public comment on this

document is not required under 5 U.S.C.

553(b)(A).

Electronic Access to This Document

You may view this document in text

or Adobe Portable Document Format

(PDF) on the Internet at the following

sites:

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http://ifap.ed.gov/csb_html/fedlreg.htm

To use the PDF you must have Adobe

Acrobat Reader, which is available free

at the first of the previous sites. If you

have questions about using the PDF, call

the U.S. Government Printing Office

(GPO), toll free, at 1–888–293–6498; or

in the Washington, DC area at (202)

512–1530.

Note: The official version of this document

is the document published in the Federal

Register. Free Internet access to the official

edition of the Federal Register and the Code

of Federal Regulations is available on GPO

Access at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/

index.html.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Number: 84.334 Gaining Early Awareness

and Readiness for Undergraduate Program)

Dated: June 21, 2000.

A. Lee Fritschler,

Assistant Secretary, Office of Postsecondary

Education.

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