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(Direct Loans) Subject: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Direct PLUS Loans

Posted Date:August 8, 2014

Author: Lynn Mahaffie, Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of Postsecondary Education

Subject: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Direct PLUS Loans

Today, August 8, 2014, the Department published in the Federal Register (79 FR 46640) a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to strengthen and improve the administration of the Federal Direct Loan PLUS Program.

Comments on the proposed regulations may be submitted electronically through www.regulations.gov and must be received no later than September 8, 2014. We have attached a pdf copy of the NPRM to this announcement.