Notice2023-06937
Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program
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Published
April 4, 2023
Issuing agencies
Education Department
Abstract
This provides notice of the establishment of the matching program between the U.S. Department of Education (Department) and the Department of Defense (DoD), which sets forth the terms, safeguards, and procedures under which the DoD will disclose data to the Department on service members deployed to areas that qualify for imminent danger pay (IDP) or hostile fire pay (HFP) as described in Defense Manpower Data Center Base (DMDC 01) System of Records Notice, routine use 15.b. This matching program will enable the Department to provide no-interest accrual benefits on qualifying loans made under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA) during the time those service members were deployed to qualifying locations.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 64 (Tuesday, April 4, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19941-19943]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-06937]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket ID ED-2022-FSA-0152]
Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program
AGENCY: Federal Student Aid, Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice of a New Matching Program.
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SUMMARY: This provides notice of the establishment of the matching
program between the U.S. Department of
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Education (Department) and the Department of Defense (DoD), which sets
forth the terms, safeguards, and procedures under which the DoD will
disclose data to the Department on service members deployed to areas
that qualify for imminent danger pay (IDP) or hostile fire pay (HFP) as
described in Defense Manpower Data Center Base (DMDC 01) System of
Records Notice, routine use 15.b. This matching program will enable the
Department to provide no-interest accrual benefits on qualifying loans
made under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended
(HEA) during the time those service members were deployed to qualifying
locations.
DATES: Submit your comments on the proposed matching program on or
before May 4, 2023.
The matching program will go into effect 30 days after the
publication of this notice, on April 4, 2023, unless comments have been
received from interested members of the public requiring modification
and republication of the notice. The matching program will continue for
18 months after the effective date and may be renewed for an additional
12 months if, within 3 months prior to the expiration of the 18 months,
the respective Data Integrity Boards of the Department and DoD
determine that the conditions specified in 5 U.S.C. 552a(o)(2)(D) have
been met.
ADDRESSES: Comments must be submitted via the Federal eRulemaking
Portal at <a href="http://regulations.gov">regulations.gov</a>. Information on using Regulations.gov,
including instructions for finding a rule on the site and submitting
comments, is available on the site under ``FAQ.'' If you require an
accommodation or cannot otherwise submit your comments via
<a href="http://regulations.gov">regulations.gov</a>, please contact one of the program contact persons
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 closes. To ensure that the Department does not
receive duplicate copies, please submit your comment only once.
Additionally, please include the Docket ID at the top of your comments.
Privacy Note: The Department's policy is to generally make all
comments received from members of the public available for public
viewing in their entirety on the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
<a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>. 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, Partner and Participation
Oversight, Federal Student Aid, U.S. Department of Education, 830 First
Street NE, Washington, DC 20202-5320.
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: We provide this notice in accordance with
Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (Privacy Act) (5 U.S.C. 552a); Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) Final Guidance Interpreting the
Provisions of Public Law 100-503, the Computer Matching and Privacy
Protection Act of 1988, 54 FR 25818 (June 19, 1989); and OMB Circular
No. A-108.
Participating Agencies: The U.S. Department of Education and the
U.S Department of Defense.
Authority for Conducting the Matching Program: The Department's
legal authority to enter into this matching program is section 455(o)
of the HEA (20 U.S.C. 1087e(o)), and the Department is authorized to
disclose records to DoD by subsection (b)(3) of the Privacy Act (5
U.S.C. 552a(b)(3)).
DoD's legal authority for this matching program is provided by
section 455(o) of the HEA (20 U.S.C. 1087e(o)), and DoD is authorized
to disclose records to the Department by subsection (b)(3) of the
Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a(b)(3)).
Purpose(s): The matching program will assist the Department in its
obligation to ensure that borrowers who have loans first disbursed on
or after October 1, 2008, made under the William D. Ford Federal Direct
Loan Program (20 U.S.C. 1087a et seq.) or a TEACH grant first disbursed
on or after October 1, 2008, under the TEACH Grant Program (20 U.S.C.
1070g et seq.), which are collectively referred to herein as ``title IV
loans'', with outstanding balances receive the no-interest accrual
benefit on their eligible title IV loans during the period of time they
received IDP or HFP pay. The Department will proactively apply the no-
interest accrual benefit to the borrower's eligible title IV loans and
notify the borrower that, as a result of the matching program, the
borrower does not need to submit further documentation of the
borrower's eligibility for the benefit. The Department's notice also
will inform the borrower that the Department will accept DoD matched
information in lieu of the borrower's submission of DoD payroll
documentation, thereby making it easier for the borrower to receive the
no-interest accrual benefit.
Categories of Individuals: The matching program involves borrowers
who have title IV loans with outstanding balances who are listed on the
Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) website at <a href="https://scra.dmdc.osd.mil/scra/#/home">https://scra.dmdc.osd.mil/scra/#/home</a> as military servicemembers and who are
identified by DoD as being deployed to areas that qualify for IDP or
HFP.
Categories of Records: The records to be used in the matching
program are described as follows: The Department will disclose to DoD
the name (first, middle and last), and Social Security Number (SSN) of
borrowers from the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) (18-11-06)
who the Department identifies as being military servicemembers via the
SCRA website. DoD will then disclose to the Department the name (first
middle and last), DOB, and SSN of all service members who served in a
qualifying IDP or HFP deployment along with their beginning and ending
deployment dates and the total number of days deployed for each
qualified deployment.
The Department will match the data elements of name, DOB, and SSN
received from DoD with the Department's records on borrowers of title
IV loans with balances on such loans.
System(s) of Records: The Department will disclose records to DoD
from its system of records identified as ``National Student Loan Data
System (NSLDS)'' (18-11-06), which was last published in full in the
Federal Register on September 22, 2022 (87 FR 57873) pursuant to
routine use (1)(a) and will pass the relevant matched borrower data to
the identified loan servicer to apply the no-interest benefit covered
by the ``Common Services for Borrowers'' (CSB) (18-11-16) system, as
last published in the Federal Register in full on September 13, 2022
(87 FR 56003). The Department has determined that the NSLDS system and
CSB system of records notice contains appropriate routine use
disclosure authority and that the use is compatible with the purpose
for which the information is collected.
DoD will disclose records back to the Department from its system of
records identified as ``Defense Manpower Data Center Data Base (DMDC
01), which was last published in full in the Federal Register on
February 27, 2019 (84 FR 6383) and subsequently modified on April 16,
2019 (84 FR 15605), pursuant to routine use 15.b. DoD has determined
that the DMDC 01 system of records
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notice contains appropriate routine use disclosure authority and that
the use is compatible with the purpose for which the information is
collected.
The Department will then match the information provided by DoD with
records in the Department's NSLDS system of records.
Accessible Format: On request to the program contact person(s)
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.
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Richard Cordray,
Chief Operating Officer, Federal Student Aid.
[FR Doc. 2023-06937 Filed 4-3-23; 8:45 am]
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