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Page Numbers: 77965
Summary: FSA Students Portal
Web site
Posted on 12-20-2002
[Federal
Register: December 20, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 245)]
[Page 77965]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT
OF EDUCATION
Submission
for OMB Review; Comment Request
AGENCY:
Department of Education.
SUMMARY:
The Leader, Regulatory Management Group, Office of the Chief Information Officerinvites
comments on the submission for OMB review as required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995.
DATES:
Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before January 21, 2003.
ADDRESSES:
Written comments should be addressed to the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs,
Attention:
Lauren Wittenberg, Desk Officer, Department of Education, Office of Management
and Budget,
725
17th Street, NW., Room 10235, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC
20503 or should be
electronically
mailed to the Internet address Lauren.Whittenberg@omb.eop.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION: Section 3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) provide
interested
Federal agencies and the public an early opportunity to comment on information
collection
requests. OMB may amend or waive the requirement for public consultation to
the extent
that public participation in the approval process would defeat the purpose of
the information collection, violate State or Federal law,
or substantially interfere with any agency's ability to perform its statutory
obligations.
The
Leader, Regulatory Management Group, Office of the Chief Information Officer,
publishes that
notice containing proposed information collection requests prior to submission
of these requests
to OMB. Each proposed information collection, grouped by office, contains the
following:
(1)
Type of review requested, e.g. new, revision, extension, existing or reinstatement;
(2) Title; (3) Summary
of the collection; (4) Description of the need for, and proposed use of, the
information; (5)
Respondents and frequency of collection; and (6) Reporting and/or Recordkeeping
burden.
OMB
invites public comment.
Dated: December 16, 2002.
John
D. Tressler,
Leader,
Regulatory Management Group, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
Federal
Student Aid
Type
of Review: New.
Title:
FSA Students Portal Web site.
Frequency:
On occasion, monthly, annually.
Affected
Public: Individuals or household; Federal Government;
State,
Local, or Tribal Gov't, SEAs or LEAs.
Reporting
and Recordkeeping Hour Burden:
Responses:
5,000,000.
Burden
Hours: 200,000.
Abstract:
Federal Student Aid (FSA) of the U.S. Department of Education seeks to establish
a registration system within the ``Students Portal'', an Internet Portal Web
site (hereafter ``the Web site'') The Web site will make the college application
process more efficient, faster, and accurate
by
making it an automated, electronic process that targets financial aid and college
applications. The Website uses some personal contact information criteria to
automatically fill out the forms and
surveys initiated by the user. The Web site will also provide a database of
demographic
information
that will help FSA target the distribution of financial aid materials to specific
groups of students and/or parents. For example, studies have shown that providing
student financial assistance
information to middle school (or elementary school) students and/or their parents
dramatically
increases the likelihood that those students will attend college. The demographic
information from the Web site will help us to identify potential customers in
the middle school age
range and is information that was previously unavailable to us.
Written
requests for information should be addressed to Vivian Reese, Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Room 4050, Regional Office Building 3,
Washington, DC 20202-4651 or directed to her e-mail address Vivian.Reese@ed.gov.
Requests may also be faxed to 202-708-9346. Please specify the complete title
of the information collection when making your request. Comments regarding burden
and/or the collection activity requirements should be directed to Joseph Schubart
at his e-mail address Joe.Schubart@ed.gov.
Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call
the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339.
[FR Doc. 02-32034 Filed 12-19-02; 8:45 am]
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