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employment which results in the 

borrower not being eligible to receive 

unemployment benefits under 

applicable State law. 

Application Procedures for Loan 

Repayment and Payment Processing 

(A) A borrower may request loan 

repayment by completing the 

Application and Service Agreement 

approved by the Secretary and 

providing any required supporting 

documentation. 

(B) The Secretary makes a student 

loan repayment commitment for each 

consecutive 12-month period of service 

to a qualified applicant on a first-come, 

first-served basis, according to the date 

that the borrower’s complete and 

accurate signed Application and Service 

Agreement is received by the Secretary, 

contingent upon the availability of 

funds for the fiscal year on that date. 

The date the application is received by 

the Secretary is: 

(1) No earlier than the first receipt 

date established by the Secretary; 

(2) No later than the deadline date for 

receipt of applications specified in this 

Notice; and 

(3) If the borrower’s application is 

incomplete or inaccurate, the date the 

Secretary considers the borrower’s 

application to be complete and accurate. 

(C) The Secretary notifies applicants 

of— 

(1) Their eligibility or ineligibility for 

a student loan repayment commitment; 

(2) For eligible borrowers, the 

required service period covered under 

the borrower’s Service Agreement with 

the Secretary; 

(3) For eligible borrowers, the loan 

repayment amount to be paid following 

completion of the first consecutive 12- 

month period of service covered under 

the borrower’s Service Agreement; and 

(4) Any other terms and conditions of 

the Secretary’s payment of benefits. 

(D) No later than 90 days after the end 

of each consecutive 12-month period for 

which the Secretary committed a loan 

repayment amount for the borrower, the 

borrower must submit to the Secretary 

a certification of completed service 

certified by the borrower’s employer on 

a form approved by the Secretary. 

(E) Upon receipt of the borrower’s 

certification of completed service, the 

Secretary will send the approved 

repayment amount for which the 

borrower qualified to the holder of the 

borrower’s highest current outstanding 

unsubsidized loan, if any, for payment 

on that loan. If the borrower has no 

outstanding unsubsidized loans, the 

Secretary forwards the repayment 

amount to the holder of the borrower’s 

highest outstanding subsidized loan. 

(F) If the holder of the borrower’s 

loan(s) determines that the repayment 

amount received from the Secretary 

exceeds the remaining balance of the 

loan for which it is designated in 

accordance with paragraph (E) of this 

section, the holder must apply the 

remaining balance to another eligible 

loan of the borrower held by the holder, 

if applicable. If the holder has no other 

eligible loans of the borrower, the 

holder must return the balance to the 

Secretary. If applicable, the Secretary 

will forward that balance to another 

holder of the borrower’s eligible loans. 

Repayment Procedures 

(A) A borrower must repay to the 

Secretary any repayment benefit 

received if the borrower— 

(1) Fails to complete all of the service 

required under the Service Agreement; 

or 

(2) Before the end of the period of 

employment required by the Service 

Agreement, is involuntarily separated 

from eligible employment due to 

misconduct or voluntarily leaves that 

eligible employment. 

(B) Upon notification of a borrower’s 

involuntary separation due to 

misconduct or voluntary separation 

from eligible employment, or upon a 

borrower’s failure to submit a 

certification of completed service within 

90 days of the end date of the second 

or subsequent consecutive 12-month 

service period required to retain the 

repayment benefit, the Secretary notifies 

the borrower that the borrower must 

repay any benefit received under the 

Service Agreement unless the borrower 

provides the Secretary, within 30 days 

of the date of the Secretary’s notice, 

with documentation that establishes to 

the satisfaction of the Secretary that 

such repayment should not be required. 

(C) If, within 30 days of the date of the 

Secretary’s notice under paragraph (B) 

of this section, the borrower fails to 

provide the Secretary with 

documentation that establishes to the 

satisfaction of the Secretary why the 

borrower should not be required to 

repay a benefit received, the Secretary 

treats the payment amount as a Federal 

debt and provides the borrower with a 

repayment schedule that includes a 

monthly payment amount, the first 

payment due date, the applicable 

interest rate, and any accrued interest. 

The Secretary also informs the borrower 

of any other terms and conditions of 

repayment. 

(D) If a borrower who is required to 

repay a benefit received under a Service 

Agreement fails to make a monthly 

payment within 20 days of the due date, 

the Secretary undertakes collection of 

the amount owed by the borrower using 

all the methods provided for by law for 

the recovery of Federal debts. 

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print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

on request to the program contact 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

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all other documents of this Department 

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text or Adobe Portable Document 

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index.html. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.409. 

Delegation of Authority: The Secretary 

of Education has delegated authority to 

Daniel T. Madzelan, Director, 

Forecasting and Policy Analysis for the 

Office of Postsecondary Education, to 

perform the functions and duties of the 

Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary 

Education. 

Dated: June 30, 2010. 

Daniel T. Madzelan, 

Director, Forecasting and Policy Analysis. 

[FR Doc. 2010–16360 Filed 7–6–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket ID ED–2010–IES–0008] 

Notice Inviting Comments on Priorities 

To Be Proposed to the National Board 

for Education Sciences of the Institute 

of Education Sciences 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences, 

Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice inviting comments on 

priorities to be proposed to the National 

Board for Education Sciences of the 

Institute of Education Sciences. 

SUMMARY: The Director of the Institute of 

Education Sciences (Institute) has 

developed priorities to guide the work 

of the Institute. The National Board for 

Education Sciences (Board) must 

approve the priorities, but before 

proposing the priorities to the Board, 

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will be provided to the Board prior to 

its action on the priorities. 

DATES: We must receive your comments 

on or before September 7, 2010. 

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 e-mail. Please 

submit your comments only one time, in 

order to ensure 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 

This Site.’’ 

• Postal Mail, Commercial Delivery, 

or Hand Delivery. If you mail or deliver 

your comments about these proposed 

priorities, address your comments to 

Elizabeth Payer, U.S. Department of 

Education, 555 New Jersey Avenue, 

NW., room 602c, Washington, DC 

20208. 

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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elizabeth Payer. Telephone: (202) 219– 

1310. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), call the 

Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 

1–800–877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Invitation 

to Comment: We invite you to submit 

comments regarding these proposed 

priorities. During and after the comment 

period, you may inspect all public 

comments about these proposed 

priorities by accessing Regulations.gov. 

You may also inspect the comments, in 

person, in room 602q, 555 New Jersey 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC, between 

the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., 

Eastern time, Monday through Friday of 

each week except Federal holidays. 

Assistance to Individuals With 

Disabilities in Reviewing the Record: On 

request we will provide an appropriate 

accommodation or auxiliary aid to an 

individual with a disability who needs 

assistance to review the comments or 

other documents in the public 

rulemaking record for these proposed 

priorities. If you want to schedule an 

appointment for this type of 

accommodation or auxiliary aid, please 

contact the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Background: The Education Sciences 

Reform Act of 2002 (20 U.S.C. 9516) 

requires that the Director of the Institute 

propose to the Board priorities for the 

Institute. The Director is to identify 

topics that require long term research 

and topics that are focused on 

understanding and solving education 

problems and issues, including those 

associated with the goals and 

requirements of the Elementary and 

Secondary Education Act of 1965, as 

amended; the Individuals with 

Disabilities Education Act, as amended; 

and the Higher Education Act of 1965, 

as amended; such as closing the 

achievement gap; ensuring that all 

children have the ability to obtain a 

high-quality education and reach, at a 

minimum, proficiency on State 

standards and assessments; and 

ensuring access to, and opportunities 

for, postsecondary education. 

Before submitting proposed priorities 

to the Board, the Director must make the 

priorities available to the public for 

comment for not less than 60 days. Each 

comment submitted must be provided to 

the Board. 

The Director anticipates submitting to 

the Board proposed priorities for the 

Institute at a meeting to be held in 

September, 2010. 

The Board must approve or 

disapprove the priorities for the 

Institute proposed by the Director, 

including any necessary revision of the 

priorities. Approved priorities are to be 

transmitted to appropriate congressional 

committees by the Board. 

The Director will publish in the 

Federal Register the Institute’s plan for 

addressing the priorities and make it 

available for comment for not less than 

60 days. 

Proposed Priorities 

The overall mission of the Institute is 

to expand fundamental knowledge and 

understanding of education and to 

provide education leaders and 

practitioners, parents and students, 

researchers, and the general public with 

unbiased, reliable, and useful 

information about the condition and 

progress of education in the United 

States; about education policies, 

programs, and practices; and about the 

effectiveness of Federal and other 

education programs. 

The work of the Institute is grounded 

in the principle that effective education 

research must be informed by the 

interests and needs of education 

practitioners and policymakers. To this 

end, the Institute will encourage close 

partnerships between researchers and 

practitioners in the conceptualization, 

planning, and conduct of research and 

evaluation. The Institute will facilitate 

the use of education statistics, research, 

and evaluation in educational planning 

both by including members of the 

practitioner community in the design 

and conduct of the work and by 

producing reports that are accessible, 

timely, and meaningful to the day-today work of education practitioners and 

policymakers. Further, the Institute will 

seek to increase the capacity of 

education policymakers and 

practitioners to use the knowledge 

generated from high quality data 

analysis, research, and evaluation. 

To accomplish this mission, the 

Institute will compile statistics, support 

research, conduct evaluations, and 

facilitate the use of scientific evidence 

addressing a broad range of education 

outcomes for all students, including 

those with disabilities. These education 

outcomes may include, but are not 

limited to: School readiness and 

developmental outcomes for infants, 

toddlers, and young children; learning, 

higher order thinking, and achievement 

in reading and writing, mathematics, 

and the sciences; behaviors, skills, and 

dispositions that support learning in 

school and later success in the 

workforce; educational attainment in 

postsecondary, vocational, and adult 

education; and the training, recruitment, 

and retention of educators. 

Within these areas, the Institute will 

sponsor work to: Examine the state of 

education in the United States; develop 

and evaluate innovative approaches to 

improving education outcomes; 

understand the characteristics of highquality teaching and how better to train 

current and prospective teachers; 

understand the processes of schooling 

through which educational policies, 

programs, and practices affect students; 

and understand classroom, school, and 

other social contextual factors that 

moderate the effects of education 

practices and contribute to their 

successful implementation and 

sustainability. In doing so, the Institute 

will seek to identify education policies, 

programs, and practices that improve 

education outcomes; and to determine 

how, why, for whom, and under what 

conditions these policies, programs, and 

practices are effective. In particular, the 

Institute will promote research to 

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students who have traditionally been 

poorly served by the education system 

because of their socioeconomic status, 

race/ethnicity, disability, limited 

English proficiency, and residential or 

school mobility, with a goal of 

generating knowledge to assist 

educators and policymakers in assessing 

and improving the equity of the 

education system. 

The Institute will maintain rigorous 

scientific standards for the technical 

quality of its statistics, research, and 

evaluation activities, ensuring that the 

methods applied are appropriate to the 

questions asked and the results are valid 

and reliable. The work of the Institute 

will include a variety of research and 

statistical methods. The Institute will 

support the development of improved 

research methods; improved measures 

of a broad range of education processes, 

systems, and outcomes; and improved 

analytical approaches for designing and 

conducting education research. Where 

needed, the Institute will develop and 

publish rigorous technical standards for 

these methods. The Institute will ensure 

the quality and objectivity of its work by 

submitting all products to rigorous 

scientific review. In addition to 

supporting new research, the Institute 

will facilitate the synthesis of existing 

and ongoing research to construct 

coherent bodies of scientific knowledge 

about education. The Institute will build 

the capacity of the education research 

community by supporting post-doctoral 

and interdisciplinary doctoral training 

in the education sciences, equipping 

education researchers with the skills to 

conduct rigorous research and 

effectively engage the practitioner 

community in that research, and by 

conducting training in research design 

and methods and in the use of 

longitudinal data. 

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disabilities can obtain this document in 

an accessible format (e.g., braille, large 

print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

on request to the contact person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Electronic Access to This Document 

You can view this document, as well 

as all other documents of this 

Department published in the Federal 

Register, in text or Adobe Portable 

Document Format (PDF) on the Internet 

at the following site: http://www.ed.gov/ 

news/fedregister. To use PDF you must 

have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at this site. 

You may also view this document in 

text (Word and PDF) at the following 

site: http://ies.ed.gov/whatsnew/. 

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.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

number does not apply.) 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 9501 et seq. 

Dated: July 1, 2010. 

John Q. Easton, 

Director, Institute of Education Sciences. 

[FR Doc. 2010–16527 Filed 7–6–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket ID ED–2010–OPE–0007] 

SAFRA Act Payments to Loan 

Servicers for Job Retention 

ACTION: Interim final requirements; 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Secretary of 

Education (Secretary) establishes 

requirements to implement section 

458(a)(7) of the Higher Education Act of 

1965, as amended (HEA), as added by 

section 2212(b)(1) of the SAFRA Act, 

title II of the Health Care and Education 

Reconciliation Act of 2010 (SAFRA). 

Under this provision of the law, the 

Secretary provides payments to student 

loan servicers in Federal fiscal year (FY) 

2010 and FY 2011 for retaining jobs at 

locations in the United States where 

such servicers were operating under 

title IV, part B of the HEA (the Federal 

Family Education Loan Program) on 

January 1, 2010. 

As discussed in more detail elsewhere 

in these interim final requirements, the 

Department adopts these requirements 

for FY 2010 on an interim final basis. 

We also request public comment on 

these requirements. After consideration 

of these comments, the Secretary will 

publish final requirements that will 

govern the program for FY 2011. 

DATES: These requirements are effective 

July 7, 2010. We must receive your 

comments by August 6, 2010. 

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 e-mail. Please 

submit your comments only one time, in 

order to ensure 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 

This Site.’’ 

• Postal Mail, Commercial Delivery, 

or Hand Delivery: If you mail or deliver 

your comments about these interim final 

requirements, address them to Donald 

Conner, 1990 K Street, NW., Room 8030, 

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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Donald Conner, Telephone: 202–502– 

7818 or by e-mail: 

Donald.conner@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) on 

request to the contact person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Invitation To Comment 

We invite you to submit comments 

regarding these interim final 

requirements. To ensure that your 

comments have maximum effect in 

developing the requirements for FY 

2011 for this program, we urge you to 

identify clearly the specific section or 

sections of the interim final 

requirements that each of your 

comments addresses and to arrange your 

comments in the same order as in the 

interim final requirements. 

We invite you to assist us in 

complying with the specific 

requirements of Executive Order 12866 

and its overall requirement of reducing 

regulatory burden that might result from 

these interim final requirements. Please 

let us know of any further opportunities 

we should take to reduce potential costs 

or increase potential benefits while 

preserving the effective and efficient 

administration of the program. 

During and after the comment period, 

you may inspect all public comments 

about these interim final requirements 

by accessing Regulations.gov. You may 


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