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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 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might the Department minimize the 

burden of this collection on the 

respondents, including through the use 

of information technology. Please note 

that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

Title of Collection: Endowment Excise 

Tax: Allocation Reduction Waiver. 

OMB Control Number: 1840–NEW. 

Type of Review: A new information 

collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: Private 

Sector. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 200. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 200. 

Abstract: In accordance with the 

Coronavirus Response and Relief 

Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 

(CRRSAA), Public Law 116–260, section 

314(d)(6)(B), the Secretary may waive 

the requirements to reduce a grantee’s 

CRRSAA allocation by 50 percent, if 

upon application, an institution of 

higher education demonstrates need 

(including need for additional funding 

for financial aid grants to students, 

payroll expenses, or other expenditures) 

for the total amount of funds such 

institution is allocated under section 

314(a)(1) of CRRSAA. The proposed 

form provides institutions with the 

opportunity to request this waiver and 

collects data needed to evaluate their 

waiver request. 

Additional Information: If this 

emergency collection is not approved, 

the Department will be unable to receive 

and review waiver requests in a timely 

manner, delaying the release of funds to 

institutions of higher education and 

students that are still recovering from 

the effects of the pandemic. 

Dated: July 7, 2021. 

Juliana Pearson, 

PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and 

Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, 

Office of Chief Data Office, Office of Planning, 

Evaluation and Policy Development. 

[FR Doc. 2021–14736 Filed 7–9–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Accrediting Agencies Currently 

Undergoing Review for the Purposes 

of Recognition by the U.S. Secretary of 

Education 

AGENCY: Accreditation Group, Office of 

Postsecondary Education, U.S. 

Department of Education. 

ACTION: Call for written third-party 

comments. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides 

information to members of the public on 

submitting written comments for 

accrediting agencies currently 

undergoing review for purposes of 

recognition by the U.S. Secretary of 

Education. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Herman Bounds, Director, Accreditation 

Group, Office of Postsecondary 

Education, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

Room 270–01, Washington, DC 20202, 

telephone: (202) 453–7615, or email: 

herman.bounds@ed.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

request for written third-party 

comments concerning the performance 

of accrediting agencies under review by 

the Secretary of Education is required 

by § 496(n)(1)(A) of the Higher 

Education Act (HEA) of 1965, as 

amended, and pertains to the summer 

2022 meeting of the National Advisory 

Committee on Institutional Quality and 

Integrity (NACIQI). The meeting date 

and location have not been determined, 

but will be announced in a later Federal 

Register notice. In addition, a later 

Federal Register notice will describe 

how to register to provide oral 

comments at the meeting. 

Agencies Under Review and 

Evaluation: The Department requests 

written comments from the public on 

the following accrediting agencies, 

which are currently undergoing review 

and evaluation by the Accreditation 

Group, and which will be reviewed at 

the summer 2022 NACIQI meeting. 

The agencies are listed by the type of 

application each agency has submitted. 

Please note, each agency’s current scope 

of recognition is indicated below. If any 

agency requests a change to its scope of 

recognition, identified are both the 

current scope of recognition and the 

requested scope of recognition. 

Applications for Renewal of 

Recognition 

1. Association for Biblical Higher 

Education, Commission on 

Accreditation. Scope of recognition: The 

accreditation and pre-accreditation 

(‘‘Candidate Status’’) of institutions of 

biblical higher education in the United 

States offering undergraduate 

certificates, associate degrees, 

baccalaureate degrees, graduate 

certificates, and master’s degrees, 

including the accreditation of 

educational programs offered via 

distance education. 

2. American Occupational Therapy 

Association, Accreditation Council for 

Occupational Therapy Education. Scope 

of recognition: The accreditation of 

occupational therapy educational 

programs offering the professional 

master’s degree, combined 

baccalaureate/master’s degree, and 

occupational therapy doctorate (OTD) 

degree; the accreditation of occupational 

therapy assistant programs offering the 

associate degree or a certificate; and the 

accreditation of these programs offered 

via distance education. Requested scope 

of recognition: The pre-accreditation 

and accreditation throughout the United 

States of occupational therapy 

education programs offering the 

professional master’s degree, combined 

baccalaureate/master’s degree, and 

occupational therapy doctorate (OTD) 

degree; and occupational therapy 

assistant programs offering the 

baccalaureate degree, associate degree, 

or a certificate; including those 

programs offered via distance education. 

3. Accreditation Council for Pharmacy 

Education. Scope of recognition: The 

accreditation and pre-accreditation 

within the United States of professional 

degree programs in pharmacy leading to 

the degree of Doctor of Pharmacy, 

including those programs offered via 

distance education. 

4. Association for Clinical Pastoral 

Education, Inc., Accreditation 

Commission. Scope of recognition: The 

pre-accreditation (provisional) and 

accreditation of both clinical pastoral 

education (CPE) centers and Certified 

Educator CPE programs within the 

United States, including those that offer 

those programs via distance education. 

5. American Dental Association, 

Commission on Dental Accreditation. 

Scope of recognition: The accreditation 

of predoctoral dental education 

programs (leading to the D.D.S. or 

D.M.D. degree), advanced dental 

education programs, and allied dental 

education programs that are fully 

operational or have attained ‘‘Initial 

Accreditation’’ status, including 

programs offered via distance education. 

6. Distance Education Accrediting 

Commission. Scope of recognition: The 

accreditation of postsecondary 

institutions in the United States that 

offer degree and/or non-degree programs 

primarily by the distance or 

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and including the professional doctoral 

degree, including those institutions that 

are specifically certified by the agency 

as accredited for Title IV purposes. 

7. Middle States Commission on 

Secondary Schools. Scope of 

recognition: The accreditation of 

postsecondary, non-degree granting 

institutions that offer all or part of their 

educational programs via distance 

education modalities in the United 

States. 

8. Southern Association of Colleges 

and Schools, Commission on Colleges 

(‘‘SACSCOC’’). Scope of recognition: 

The accreditation and pre-accreditation 

(‘‘Candidate for Accreditation’’) of 

degree-granting institutions of higher 

education in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, 

Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North 

Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, 

Texas, and Virginia, including the 

accreditation of programs offered via 

distance and correspondence education 

within these institutions. This 

recognition extends to the SACSCOC 

Board of Trustees and the Appeals 

Committee of the College Delegate 

Assembly on cases of initial candidacy 

or initial accreditation and for 

continued accreditation or candidacy. 

Compliance Reports 

1. New York State Board of Regents, 

State Education Department, Office of 

the Professions (Public Postsecondary 

Vocational Education, Practical 

Nursing). Scope of Recognition: State 

agency for the approval of public 

postsecondary vocational education in 

the field of practical nursing offered by 

a Board of Cooperative Educational 

Services, an Educational Opportunity 

Center, City School Districts, and 

County Boards of Supervisors to prepare 

persons for licensed practical nursing 

careers in the State of New York. The 

compliance report includes findings of 

noncompliance with Criteria in 34 CFR 

603 as referenced in the SDO decision 

letter dated May 27, 2020 available 

under NACIQI meeting date 02/27/2020 

at https://surveys.ope.ed.gov/ 

erecognition/PublicDocuments. 

Submission of Written Comments 

Regarding a Specific Accrediting 

Agency Under Review 

Written comments about the 

recognition of any of the accrediting 

agencies listed above must be received 

by August 15, 2021, in the 

ThirdPartyComments@ed.gov mailbox. 

Please include in the subject line 

‘‘Written Comments: (agency name).’’ 

The electronic mail (email) must 

include the name(s), title, organization/ 

affiliation, mailing address, email 

address, and telephone number of the 

person(s) making the comment. 

Comments should be submitted as a 

Microsoft Word document or in a 

medium compatible with Microsoft 

Word (not a PDF file) that is attached to 

an email or provided in the body of an 

email message. Comments about an 

agency that has submitted a compliance 

report scheduled for review by the 

Department must relate to the criteria 

for recognition cited in the senior 

Department official’s letter that 

requested the report, or in the 

Secretary’s appeal decision, if any. 

Comments about an agency that has 

submitted a petition for initial 

recognition, renewal of recognition, or 

an expansion of scope must relate to the 

agency’s compliance with the Criteria 

for the Recognition of Accrediting 

Agencies, which are available at http:// 

www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/ 

index.html. 

Only written materials submitted by 

the deadline to the email address listed 

in this notice, and in accordance with 

these instructions, become part of the 

official record concerning agencies 

scheduled for review and are considered 

by the Department and NACIQI in their 

deliberations. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

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 via the Federal Digital System 

at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you 

can view this document, as well as all 

other documents of the 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. 

Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1011c; 20 U.S.C. 

1099b. 

Annmarie Weisman, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, 

Planning and Innovation, Office of 

Postsecondary Education. 

[FR Doc. 2021–14741 Filed 7–9–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No. ED–2021–SCC–0034] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Assurance of Compliance—Civil 

Rights Certificate 

AGENCY: Office of Civil Rights (OCR), 

Department of Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is 

proposing an extension of a currently 

approved collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before August 

11, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for proposed 

information collection requests should 

be sent within 30 days of publication of 

this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/ 

do/PRAMain. Find this information 

collection request by selecting 

‘‘Department of Education’’ under 

‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ then check 

‘‘Only Show ICR for Public Comment’’ 

checkbox. Comments may also be sent 

to ICDocketmgr@ed.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Elizabeth 

Wiegman, 202–453–6039. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Education (ED), 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. ED is 

soliciting comments on the proposed 

information collection request (ICR) that 

is described below. The Department of 

Education 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 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might the Department minimize the 

burden of this collection on the 


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