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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 130 / Monday, July 12, 2021 / Notices and including the professional doctoral degree, including those institutions that are specifically certified by the agency as accredited for Title IV purposes.
7. Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools. Scope of recognition: The accreditation of postsecondary, non-degree granting institutions that offer all or part of their educational programs via distance education modalities in the United States.
8. Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges SACSCOC. Scope of recognition:
The accreditation and pre-accreditation Candidate for Accreditation of degree-granting institutions of higher education in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, including the accreditation of programs offered via distance and correspondence education within these institutions. This recognition extends to the SACSCOC
Board of Trustees and the Appeals Committee of the College Delegate Assembly on cases of initial candidacy or initial accreditation and for continued accreditation or candidacy.

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Compliance Reports 1. New York State Board of Regents, State Education Department, Office of the Professions Public Postsecondary Vocational Education, Practical Nursing. Scope of Recognition: State agency for the approval of public postsecondary vocational education in the field of practical nursing offered by a Board of Cooperative Educational Services, an Educational Opportunity Center, City School Districts, and County Boards of Supervisors to prepare persons for licensed practical nursing careers in the State of New York. The compliance report includes findings of noncompliance with Criteria in 34 CFR
603 as referenced in the SDO decision letter dated May 27, 2020 available under NACIQI meeting date 02/27/2020
at https surveys.ope.ed.gov/
erecognition/PublicDocuments.
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 August 15, 2021, in the ThirdPartyComments@ed.gov mailbox.
Please include in the subject line Written Comments: agency name.
The electronic mail email must include the names, title, organization/
affiliation, mailing address, email address, and telephone number of the
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persons making the comment.
Comments should be submitted as a Microsoft Word document or in a medium compatible with Microsoft Word not a PDF file 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 senior Department officials letter that requested the report, or in the Secretarys 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 agencys compliance with the Criteria for the Recognition of Accrediting Agencies, which are available at http
www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/
index.html.
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.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Docket No. ED2021SCC0034

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request;
Assurance of ComplianceCivil Rights Certificate Office of Civil Rights OCR, Department of Education ED.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is proposing an extension of a currently approved collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before August 11, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for proposed information collection requests should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/
do/PRAMain. Find this information collection request by selecting Department of Education under Currently Under Review, then check Only Show ICR for Public Comment checkbox. Comments may also be sent to ICDocketmgr@ed.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to collection activities, please contact Elizabeth Wiegman, 2024536039.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Education ED, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 PRA 44 U.S.C.
3506c2A, provides the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed, revised, and continuing collections of information. This helps the Department assess the impact of its information collection requirements and minimize the publics reporting burden. It also helps the public understand the Departments information collection requirements and provide the requested data in the desired format. ED is soliciting comments on the proposed information collection request ICR that is described below. The Department of Education is especially interested in public comment addressing the following issues: 1 Is this collection necessary to the proper functions of the Department; 2 will this information be processed and used in a timely manner;
3 is the estimate of burden accurate;
4 how might the Department enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and 5 how might the Department minimize the burden of this collection on the SUMMARY:

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