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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 39 / Tuesday, March 2, 2021 / Proposed Rules
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
34 CFR Chapter III
Docket ID ED2021OSERS0003

Proposed Priority and Requirements Training of Interpreters for Individuals Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing and Individuals Who Are DeafBlind Program Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Department of Education.
ACTION: Proposed priority and requirements.
AGENCY:

The U.S. Department of Education Department proposes a priority and requirements for the Training of Interpreters for Individuals Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing and Individuals Who Are DeafBlind program, Assistance Listing Number 84.160D. The Department may use the priority and requirements for competitions in fiscal year 2021 and later years. We take this action to provide training to working interpreters in order to develop a new skill area or enhance an existing skill area.
DATES: We must receive your comments on or before April 1, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments through the Federal eRulemaking Portal or via postal mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. We will not accept comments submitted by fax or by email or those submitted after the comment period. To ensure that we do not receive duplicate copies, please submit your comments only once. In addition, please include the Docket ID at the top of your comments.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to www.regulations.gov to submit your comments electronically. Information on using Regulations.gov, including instructions for accessing agency documents, submitting comments, and viewing the docket, is available on the site under How to use Regulations.gov in the Help section.
Postal Mail, Commercial Delivery, or Hand Delivery: If you mail or deliver your comments about the proposed priority and requirements, address them to Kristen Rhinehart-Fernandez, U.S.
Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Room 5094, Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC 20202
2800.
Privacy Note: The Departments policy is to make all comments received from members of the public available for public viewing in their entirety on the Federal eRulemaking Portal at www.regulations.gov. Therefore,
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kristen Rhinehart-Fernandez, U.S.
Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Room 5094, Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC 20202
2800. Telephone: 202 2456103.
Email: Kristen.Rhinehart@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf TDD or a text telephone TTY, call the Federal Relay Service FRS, toll free, at 1800877
8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Invitation to Comment: We invite you to submit comments regarding the proposed priority and requirements. To ensure that your comments have maximum effect in developing the notice of final priority and requirements, we urge you to identify clearly the specific section of the proposed priority and requirements that each comment addresses.
In addition to your general comments and recommended clarifications, we seek input on the proposed design of the training. We are particularly interested in your feedback on the following questions:
1. Do the four specialty areas identified in the proposed priority meet the current needs in the field of interpreting for individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, or DeafBlind? Are there other specialty areas that should be considered? If so, please provide information to demonstrate need and explain why.
2. Are there challenges to providing an induction experience for all participants as a requirement for successfully completing the program?
For example, is there a limited number of potential induction opportunities that might be available for participants? If so, please provide information to describe any challenges and options for how induction opportunities may be reasonably incorporated into the training program.
We invite you to assist us in complying with the specific requirements of Executive Orders 12866
and 13563 and their overall requirement of reducing regulatory burden that might result from the proposed priority and requirements. Please let us know of any further ways we could reduce potential costs or increase potential benefits while preserving the effective and efficient administration of the program.
During and after the comment period, you may inspect all public comments
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about the proposed priority and requirements by accessing Regulations.gov. Due to the COVID19
pandemic, the Department buildings are currently not open. However, upon reopening, you may also inspect the comments in person in Room 5059, 550
12th Street SW, Washington, DC, between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 4:00
p.m., Eastern Time, Monday through Friday of each week except Federal holidays. Please contact the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
Assistance to Individuals With Disabilities in Reviewing the Rulemaking Record: On request, we will provide an appropriate accommodation or auxiliary aid to an individual with a disability who needs assistance to review the comments or other documents in the public rulemaking record for the proposed priority and requirements. If you want to schedule an appointment for this type of accommodation or auxiliary aid, please contact the person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Purpose of Program: Under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended Rehabilitation Act, the Rehabilitation Services Administration RSA makes grants to public and private nonprofit agencies and organizations, including institutions of higher education, to establish interpreter training programs or to provide financial assistance for ongoing interpreter programs to train a sufficient number of qualified professionals as defined in 34 CFR
396.4 throughout the country.
The purpose of the program is to train interpreters to effectively interpret and transliterate using spoken, visual, and tactile modes of communication; ensure the maintenance of the interpreting skills of qualified interpreters; and provide opportunities for interpreters to raise their skill level in order to meet the highest standards approved by certifying associations and to effectively meet the communication needs of individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing and individuals who are DeafBlind.
Program Authority: 29 U.S.C. 709c and 772a and f.
Proposed Priority: This notice contains one proposed priority.
Interpreter Training in Specialty Areas Background The Department has long been committed to improving the delivery of vocational rehabilitation VR services to, and the employment outcomes of, individuals with disabilities who are
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