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Written Statements: Pursuant to 41 

CFR 102–3.105(j) and 102–3.140, and 

section 10(a)(3) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act of 1972, written 

statements to the committee may be 

submitted to the committee at any time 

or in response to a stated planned 

meeting agenda by FAX or email to Ms. 

Joycelyn Stevens at (202) 685–0079, Fax 

(202) 685–3920 or StevensJ7@ndu.edu. 

Dated: April 29, 2022. 

Aaron T. Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2022–09594 Filed 5–4–22; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Accrediting Agencies Currently 

Undergoing Review for the Purposes 

of Recognition by the U.S. Secretary of 

Education 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Education, 

Accreditation Group, Office of 

Postsecondary 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 2C158, 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 2023 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 2023 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 of Advanced 

Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools, 

Accreditation Commission. Scope of 

Recognition: The accreditation and preaccreditation (‘‘Correspondent’’ and 

‘‘Candidate’’) of advanced rabbinical 

and Talmudic schools to include 

Associate, Baccalaureate, Masters, 

Doctorate, and First Rabbinic and First 

Talmudic degrees programs. 

Geographic Area of Accrediting 

Activities: Throughout the United 

States. 

2. Academy of Nutrition and 

Dietetics, Accreditation Council for 

Education in Nutrition and Dietetics. 

Scope of Recognition: The accreditation 

and pre-accreditation, of Didactic and 

Coordinated Programs in Dietetics at 

both the undergraduate and graduate 

level, postbaccalaureate Dietetic 

Internships, and Dietetic Technician 

Programs at the associate degree level 

and for its accreditation of such 

programs offered via distance education. 

Geographic Area of Accrediting 

Activities: Throughout the United 

States. 

3. American Optometric Association, 

Accreditation Council on Optometric 

Education. Scope of Recognition: The 

accreditation of professional optometric 

degree programs and optometric 

residency programs, and for the preaccreditation category of Preliminary 

Approval for professional optometric 

degree programs. 

Geographic Area of Accrediting 

Activities: Throughout the United 

States. 

4. Commission on Collegiate Nursing 

Education. Scope of Recognition: The 

accreditation of nursing education 

programs at the baccalaureate, master’s, 

doctoral, and certificate levels, 

including programs offering distance 

education. 

Geographic Area of Accrediting 

Activities: Throughout the United 

States. 

5. Council on Accreditation of Nurse 

Anesthesia Educational Programs. 

Scope of Recognition: The accreditation 

of institutions and programs of nurse 

anesthesia at the post master’s 

certificate, master’s, or doctoral degree 

levels, including programs offering 

distance education. 

Geographic Area of Accrediting 

Activities: Throughout the United 

States. 

Requested Scope of Recognition: The 

accreditation of institutions and 

programs of nurse anesthesia at the post 

master’s certificate, post-doctoral 

certificate, master’s, or doctoral degree 

levels, including programs offering 

distance education. 

Geographic Area of Accrediting 

Activities: Throughout the United 

States. 

6. Liaison Committee on Medical 

Education. Scope of Recognition: The 

accreditation of medical education 

programs leading to the M.D. degree. 

Geographic Area of Accrediting 

Activities: Throughout the United 

States. 

7. National Association of Schools of 

Art and Design, Commission on 

Accreditation. Scope of Recognition: 

The accreditation of freestanding 

institutions and units offering art/design 

and art/design-related programs (both 

degree- and non-degree-granting), 

including those offered via distance 

education. 

Geographic Area of Accrediting 

Activities: Throughout the United 

States. 

8. Northwest Commission on Colleges 

and Universities. Scope of Recognition: 

The accreditation and pre-accreditation 

(‘‘Candidacy status’’) of postsecondary 

degree-granting educational institutions 

and the accreditation of programs 

offered via distance education within 

these institutions. 

Geographic Area of Accrediting 

Activities: Throughout the United 

States. 

Compliance Report 

1. Commission on Massage Therapy 

Accreditation. Scope of Recognition: 

The accreditation of institutions and 

programs that award postsecondary 

certificates, postsecondary diplomas, 

academic Associate degrees and 

occupational Associate degrees, in the 

practice of massage therapy, bodywork, 

and aesthetics/esthetics and skin care. 

Geographic Area of Accrediting 

Activities: Throughout the United 

States. 

The compliance report addresses 

findings of noncompliance with 34 CFR 

602 as referenced in the senior 

Department official’s (SDO) decision 

letter dated June 02, 2021, available 

under NACIQI meeting date February 

25, 2021, available at: https://

surveys.ope.ed.gov/erecognition/Public

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26744 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 87 / Thursday, May 5, 2022 / Notices 

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 June 06, 2022, 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 

PDF, Microsoft Word document or in a 

medium compatible with Microsoft 

Word 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 SDO’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: https://www.ecfr.gov/ 

current/title-34/subtitle-B/chapter-VI/ 

part-602?toc=1. 

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. 2022–09582 Filed 5–4–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 4428–011] 

Walden Hydro, LLC; Notice of Waiver 

of Water Quality Certification 

On May 29, 2020, Walden Hydro, LLC 

(Walden Hydro) filed an application for 

a new license for the Walden 

Hydroelectric Project (project) in the 

above captioned docket. On April 1, 

2021, Walden Hydro filed with the New 

York State Department of 

Environmental Conservation a request 

for water quality certification for the 

project under section 401(a)(1) of the 

Clean Water Act. 

On April 15, 2021, staff provided the 

certifying authority with written notice 

pursuant to 40 CFR 121.6(b) that the 

applicable reasonable period of time for 

the state to act on the certification 

request was one (1) year from the date 

of receipt of the request, and that the 

certification requirement for the license 

would be waived if the certifying 

authority failed to act by April 1, 2022. 

Because the state did not act by April 1, 

2022, we are notifying you pursuant to 

40 CFR 121.9(c), and section 401(a)(1) of 

the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 

1341(a)(1), that waiver of the 

certification requirement has occurred. 

Dated: April 29, 2022. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–09637 Filed 5–4–22; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. ER22–1698–000] 

EDF Spring Field WPC, LLC; 

Supplemental Notice That Initial 

Market-Based Rate Filing Includes 

Request for Blanket Section 204 

Authorization 

This is a supplemental notice in the 

above-referenced proceeding of EDF 

Spring Field WPC, LLC’s application for 

market-based rate authority, with an 

accompanying rate tariff, noting that 

such application includes a request for 

blanket authorization, under 18 CFR 

part 34, of future issuances of securities 

and assumptions of liability. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest should file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, 

in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214). Anyone filing a motion to 

intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Applicant. 

Notice is hereby given that the 

deadline for filing protests with regard 

to the applicant’s request for blanket 

authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of 

future issuances of securities and 

assumptions of liability, is May 19, 

2022. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http://

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic 

service, persons with internet access 

who will eFile a document and/or be 

listed as a contact for an intervenor 

must create and validate an 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

may mail similar pleadings to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 

20426. Hand delivered submissions in 

docketed proceedings should be 

delivered to Health and Human 

Services, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

In addition to publishing the full text 

of this document in the Federal 

Register, the Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

document via the internet through the 

Commission’s Home Page (http://

www.ferc.gov) using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

Enter the docket number excluding the 

last three digits in the docket number 

field to access the document. At this 

time, the Commission has suspended 

access to the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room, due to the 

proclamation declaring a National 

Emergency concerning the Novel 

Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued 

by the President on March 13, 2020. For 

assistance, contact the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202) 

502–8659. 


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