Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 10 / Tuesday, January 16, 2024 / Rules and Regulations 2489 

1Sec. 212, Public Law 116–260, 134 Stat. 1182, 

2176 (2020). 

officer, or other officer operating a Coast 

Guard vessel, or a Federal, State, or 

local officer designated by or assisting 

the Captain of the Port (COTP) San 

Francisco in the enforcement of the 

safety zone. 

(c) Regulations. (1) Under the general 

safety zone regulations in subpart C of 

this part, you may not enter the safety 

zone described in paragraph (a) of this 

section unless authorized by the COTP 

or the COTP’s designated representative. 

(2) Vessel operators desiring to enter 

or operate within the safety zone must 

contact the COTP or the COTP’s 

designated representative to obtain 

permission to do so. Vessel operators 

given permission to enter in the safety 

zone must comply with all lawful orders 

or directions given to them by the COTP 

or the COTP’s designated representative. 

Persons and vessels may request to enter 

the safety zone through the 24-hour 

Command Center at telephone (415) 

399–3547. 

(d) Enforcement period. This section 

will be enforced from 5 a.m. on January 

10, 2024, through 11 p.m. on January 17, 

2024. 

Dated: January 9, 2024. 

Taylor Q. Lam, 

Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the 

Port Sector San Francisco. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00694 Filed 1–12–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–04–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

34 CFR Part 685 

[Docket ID ED–2023–OPE–0004] 

RIN 1840–AD81 

Improving Income Driven Repayment 

for the William D. Ford Federal Direct 

Loan Program and the Federal Family 

Education Loan (FFEL) Program 

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary 

Education, Department of Education. 

ACTION: Announcement of early 

implementation date. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Education (Department) designates a 

regulatory provision in its final rule 

related to income-driven repayment for 

early implementation. 

DATES: January 16, 2024. For the 

implementation date of the regulatory 

provision, see SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bruce Honer, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

5th Floor, Washington, DC 20202. 

Telephone: (202) 987–0750. Email: 

Bruce.Honer@ed.gov. 

If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or 

have a speech disability and wish to 

access telecommunications relay 

services, please dial 7–1–1. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

482(c)(1) of the Higher Education Act of 

1965, as amended (HEA), requires that 

regulations affecting programs under 

title IV of the HEA be published in final 

form by November 1 prior to the start of 

the award year (July 1) to which they 

apply. Section 482(c)(2) of the HEA also 

permits the Secretary to designate any 

regulatory provision as one that an 

entity subject to the provision may 

choose to implement earlier and to 

outline the conditions for early 

implementation. 

On July 10, 2023, the Department 

published in the Federal Register a final 

rule amending regulations related to 

income-driven repayment (88 FR 

43820). In that final rule we designated 

certain provisions for early 

implementation. In addition, on October 

23, 2023, the Department published in 

the Federal Register a document 

announcing early implementation of 

provisions related to income-driven 

repayment (88 FR 72685). 

The Secretary is exercising his 

authority under section 482(c) of the 

HEA to designate an additional 

regulatory change made in that final 

rule for early implementation beginning 

on January 21, 2024. 

Under § 685.209(k)(3), a borrower 

receives forgiveness if the borrower’s 

total original principal balance on all 

loans that are being paid under the 

Revised Pay as You Earn (REPAYE) plan 

was less than or equal to $12,000, after 

the borrower has satisfied 120 monthly 

payments or the equivalent, plus an 

additional 12 monthly payments or the 

equivalent over a period of at least 1 

year for every $1,000 if the total original 

principal balance is above $12,000. See 

88 FR 43820, 43903. Under the 

regulations, the REPAYE plan is also 

known as the Saving on a Valuable 

Education (SAVE) plan. The Department 

will implement this provision on 

January 21, 2024. 

Accessible Format: On request to the 

program contact person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, 

individuals with disabilities can obtain 

this document in an accessible format. 

The Department will provide the 

requestor with an accessible format that 

may include Rich Text Format (RTF) or 

text format (txt), a thumb drive, an MP3 

file, braille, large print, audiotape, or 

compact disc, or other accessible format. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. You may access the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the 

Code of Federal Regulations at 

www.govinfo.gov. At this site 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). To use PDF, you must 

have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. 

You may also access documents of the 

Department published in the Federal 

Register by using the article search 

feature at www.federalregister.gov. 

Specifically, through the advanced 

search feature at this site, you can limit 

your search to documents published by 

the Department. 

Miguel A. Cardona, 

Secretary of Education. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00204 Filed 1–12–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

Copyright Office 

37 CFR Parts 220, 222, and 226 

[Docket No. 2021–8] 

Copyright Claims Board: Active 

Proceedings and Evidence—Smaller 

Claims Procedures 

AGENCY: U.S. Copyright Office, Library 

of Congress. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Copyright 

Alternative in Small-Claims 

Enforcement Act, the U.S. Copyright 

Office is adopting a final rule amending 

the procedures for ‘‘smaller claims’’ 

proceedings before the Copyright Claims 

Board. 

DATES: Effective February 15, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rhea Efthimiadis, Assistant to the 

General Counsel, by email at meft@

copyright.gov or telephone at (202) 707– 

8350. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Copyright Alternative in SmallClaims Enforcement Act of 2020 (the 

‘‘CASE Act’’), the Copyright Office 

created the Copyright Claims Board (the 

‘‘CCB’’), an alternative and voluntary 

forum for parties seeking to resolve 

certain copyright-related disputes.1 The 

CASE Act directed the Register of 

Copyrights to ‘‘establish regulations to 

provide for the consideration and 

determination, by not fewer than 1 


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