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exclusion 19, as described within this 

notice, would be appropriate. 

Notice to the Public and Documentation 

of Adoption 

This notice documents adoption of 

the DoN categorical exclusion listed 

above in accordance with 32 CFR 

775.6(e)(1) and is available for use by 

DARPA, effective immediately. 

Dated: January 9, 2024. 

Aaron T. Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00564 Filed 1–11–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6001–FR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket ID ED–2023–FSA–0180] 

Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program 

AGENCY: Federal Student Aid, 

Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice of a new matching 

program. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 

1974, as amended by the Computer 

Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 

1988 and the Computer Matching and 

Privacy Protection Amendments of 1990 

(Privacy Act), and Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) guidance on the 

conduct of matching programs, notice is 

hereby given of the re-establishment of 

a matching program between the U.S. 

Department of Education (Department), 

as the recipient agency, and the Social 

Security Administration (SSA), as the 

source agency, to enable the Department 

to contact individuals whom SSA 

identifies as disabled using Medical 

Improvement Not Expected (MINE) 

data, to inform them that the 

Department will issue Total and 

Permanent Disability (TPD) discharges 

of their balances of loans under title IV 

of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as 

amended (HEA), their title IV HEA loans 

that have been written off due to 

default, or, their outstanding service or 

repayment obligations under the 

Teacher Education Assistance for 

College and Higher Education (TEACH) 

Grant Program unless they opt out of the 

TPD discharge. Such TPD discharges 

will occur no earlier than 61 days from 

the date that the Department sends the 

notification to those individuals, unless 

those individuals choose to have their 

loans or outstanding service or 

repayment obligations discharged 

earlier, or choose to opt out of the TPD 

discharge within 60 days from the date 

that the Department sends the 

notification to them. 

DATES: Submit your comments on the 

proposed re-establishment of the 

matching program on or before February 

12, 2024. 

The matching program will go into 

effect on the later of the following three 

dates: (1) March 30, 2024; (2) at the 

expiration of the 60-day period 

following the Department’s transmittal 

of a report concerning the matching 

program to OMB and to the appropriate 

Congressional Committees, along with a 

copy of the Computer Matching 

Agreement, unless OMB waives any of 

this 60-day review period for 

compelling reasons, in which case, 60 

days minus the number of days waived 

by OMB from the date of the 

Department’s transmittal of the report of 

the matching program; or (3) at the 

expiration of the 30-day public 

comment period following the 

Department’s publication of notice of 

this matching program in the Federal 

Register, assuming that the Department 

receives no public comments or receives 

public comments but makes no changes 

to the Matching Notice as a result of the 

public comments, or 30 days from the 

date on which the Department publishes 

a Revised Matching Notice in the 

Federal Register, assuming that the 

Department receives public comments 

and revises the Matching Notice as a 

result of public comments. If the latest 

date occurs on a non-business day, then 

that date will be counted for purposes 

of this paragraph as occurring on the 

next business day. 

ADDRESSES: Comments must be 

submitted via the Federal eRulemaking 

Portal at regulations.gov. However, if 

you require an accommodation or 

cannot otherwise submit your 

comments via regulations.gov, please 

contact the program contact person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. The Department will not 

accept comments submitted by fax or by 

email, or comments submitted after the 

comment period. To ensure that we do 

not receive duplicate copies, please 

submit your comments only once. In 

addition, please include the Docket ID 

at the top of your comments. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

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 ‘‘FAQ’’. 

Privacy Note: The Department’s 

policy is to make all comments received 

from members of the public available for 

public viewing in their entirety on the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at 

www.regulations.gov. Therefore, 

commenters should be careful to 

include in their comments only 

information that they wish to make 

publicly available. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ron 

Bennett, Group Director Program 

Technical & Business Support Group, 

Federal Student Aid, U.S. Department of 

Education, 830 First Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20202–5320. 

Telephone: (202) 377–3181. Email: 

Ron.Bennett@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: In 

accordance with the Privacy Act; OMB 

‘‘Final Guidance Interpreting the 

Provisions of Public Law 100–503, the 

Computer Matching and Privacy 

Protection Act of 1988,’’ published in 

the Federal Register on June 19, 1989 

(54 FR 25818); and OMB Circular No. 

A–108, notice is hereby given of the reestablishment of a matching program 

between the Department and SSA to 

enable the Department to contact certain 

individuals with loans under title IV of 

the HEA or outstanding service or 

repayment obligations under the 

TEACH Grant Program whom SSA 

identifies as disabled using MINE 

disability data to inform them that, 

should they wish, the Department will 

facilitate a TPD discharge of their loans 

under title IV of the HEA or TEACH 

Grant service or repayment obligations. 

Participating Agencies 

The Department and SSA. 

Authority for Conducting the Matching 

Program 

The Department’s legal authority to 

enter into the matching program and to 

disclose information thereunder 

includes sections 420N(c), 437(a)(1), 

455(a)(1), and 464(c)(1)(F)(ii & iii) of the 

HEA (20 U.S.C. 1070g–2(c), 1087(a)(1), 

1087e(a)(1)), and 1087dd((c)(1)(F)(ii & 

iii)). 

SSA’s legal authority to disclose 

information under this Agreement is 

section 1106 of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1306) 

and the regulations promulgated 

pursuant to that section (20 CFR part 

401). Subsection (b)(3) of the Privacy 

Act (5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(3) allows SSA to 

make the disclosure without the prior 

written consent of the individuals to 

whom the records pertain. 

Purpose(s) 

This matching program will enable 

the Department to send notices to 

certain borrowers with loans under title 

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recipients whom SSA identifies as 

disabled based on MINE disability data 

to inform them that the Department will 

discharge the individuals’ title IV loans 

or TEACH Grant service or repayment 

obligations no earlier than 61 days from 

the date that the Department sends the 

notification to the individual, unless the 

individual chooses to have their loans 

or service or repayment obligations 

discharged earlier or chooses to opt out 

of the TPD discharge within 60 days 

from the date that the Department sends 

the notification to the individual. 

Categories of Individuals 

Under the Computer Matching 

Agreement (CMA) for this matching 

program, the Department will disclose 

information to SSA from the system of 

records entitled ‘‘National Student Loan 

Data System (NSLDS)’’ (18–11–06) on 

individuals who owe a balance on one 

or more title IV, HEA loans, who have 

had a title IV, HEA loan written off due 

to default, or who have an outstanding 

service or repayment obligation under 

the TEACH Grant Program. 

Under the CMA for this matching 

program, SSA will disclose information 

to the Department from the Disability 

Control File (DCF), which originates 

from the ‘‘Completed Determination 

Record—Continuing Disability 

Determinations’’ (60–0050) system of 

records, on individuals whom SSA 

identifies as disabled using MINE 

disability data. 

Categories of Records 

The Department will disclose to SSA 

from the system of records entitled 

‘‘National Student Loan Data System 

(NSLDS)’’ (18–11–06) the name, date of 

birth (DOB), and Social Security number 

(SSN) of the individuals identified in 

the preceding section. These individuals 

will be matched with SSA data recorded 

in the DCF, which originates from the 

‘‘Completed Determination Record— 

Continuing Disability Determinations’’ 

(60–0050) system of records, in order to 

provide the Department with MINE 

disability data. 

System(s) of Records 

The Department will disclose records 

to SSA from its system of records 

identified as ‘‘National Student Loan 

Data System (NSLDS)’’ (18–11–06), as 

last published in the Federal Register in 

full on June 28, 2023 (88 FR 41934). 

SSA will disclose records back to the 

Department from its systems of records 

identified as the ‘‘Completed 

Determination Record—Continuing 

Disability Determinations’’ (60–0050), 

which was last fully published in the 

Federal Register at 71 FR 1813 on 

January 11, 2006, and updated on 

December 10, 2007 (72 FR 69723), 

November 1, 2018 (83 FR 54969), and 

April 26, 2019 (84 FR 17907). 

The Department will maintain 

matched records that it receives from 

SSA in the aforementioned system of 

records identified as ‘‘National Student 

Loan Data System (NSLDS)’’ (18–11– 

06), along with the Department’s system 

of records identified as ‘‘Common 

Services for Borrowers (CSB)’’ (18–11– 

16), last published in the Federal 

Register in full on July 27, 2023 (88 FR 

48449). 

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 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. 

Richard Cordray, 

Chief Operating Officer, Federal Student Aid. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00584 Filed 1–11–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No.: ED–2024–SCC–0005] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; Joint 

Consolidation Loan Separation 

Application 

AGENCY: Federal Student Aid (FSA), 

Department of Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, the Department is proposing a 

new information collection request 

(ICR). 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before March 

12, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: To access and review all the 

documents related to the information 

collection listed in this notice, please 

use http://www.regulations.gov by 

searching the Docket ID number ED– 

2024–SCC–0005. Comments submitted 

in response to this notice should be 

submitted electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://

www.regulations.gov by selecting the 

Docket ID number or via postal mail, 

commercial delivery, or hand delivery. 

If the regulations.gov site is not 

available to the public for any reason, 

the Department will temporarily accept 

comments at ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. 

Please include the docket ID number 

and the title of the information 

collection request when requesting 

documents or submitting comments. 

Please note that comments submitted 

after the comment period will not be 

accepted. Written requests for 

information or comments submitted by 

postal mail or delivery should be 

addressed to the Manager of the 

Strategic Collections and Clearance 

Governance and Strategy Division, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Ave. SW, LBJ, Room 6W203, 

Washington, DC 20202–8240. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Beth 

Grebeldinger, (202) 377–4018. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department, in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) 

(44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the 

general public and Federal agencies 

with an opportunity to comment on 

proposed, revised, and continuing 

collections of information. This helps 

the Department assess the impact of its 

information collection requirements and 

minimize the public’s reporting burden. 

It also helps the public understand the 

Department’s information collection 

requirements and provide the requested 

data in the desired format. The 

Department is soliciting comments on 

the proposed information collection 

request (ICR) that is described below. 

The Department is especially interested 

in public comment addressing the 

following issues: (1) is this collection 

necessary to the proper functions of the 

Department; (2) will this information be 

processed and used in a timely manner; 

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might the Department enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 


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