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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 92 / Friday, May 14, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
from their institution. This change from the IFR will allow institutions to award grants to their students with the most need, including students with significant unmet need that may not otherwise be eligible for Federal funding.
Because institutions will determine how they will distribute funds to their
students, the Department does not know the exact distribution of who will receive the grants. Table 1 shows the estimated pool of potential recipients as derived from data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System IPEDS for institutions that received an allocation. It is not specific to Spring 2020 enrollment but does provide an
indication of the number of students who could receive funds. The change from the IFR is reflected in the 1.2
million non-resident alien and 3.3
million students involved exclusively in distance education programs who are potentially eligible for grants under the final rule.

TABLE 1ESTIMATED POTENTIAL GRANT RECIPIENTS BY CONTROL OF INSTITUTION 5 6
Public Total Enrollment 1
Undergraduate
Graduate
Non-Resident Alien
% All-Distance 2
Distance Education eligible under final rule

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Studentswill benefit from assistance in paying additional expenses associated with elements included in their cost of attendance, such as room and board, that changed with the disruption of campus activities. As confirmed by the Internal Revenue Service, the relief provided under section 18004 of the CARES Act will not be considered gross income, so students have no Federal tax consequences to deter them from accepting this assistance. Students will have to work with their institutions to access the funds according to the process the institution establishes for awarding the relief. As described in the Paperwork Reduction Act section of this preamble, the estimated number of students applying for relief is increased compared to the IFR published June 17, 2020, but the time per application is reduced because students would not have to submit paperwork to prove titleIV eligibility. Students are expected to take 1,280,908 hours for a total of $22.4
million at a wage rate of $17.50 7 to apply for emergency relief.
5 Analysis of IPEDS 201819 12-month enrollment file, effy2019 available at https
nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/DataFiles.aspx?goTo ReportId=7.
6 National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics 2019, Table 311.15. Number and percentage of students enrolled in degreegranting postsecondary institutions, by distance education participation, location of student, level of enrollment, and control and level of institution: Fall 2017 and Fall 2018. Fall 2018 share of students taking exclusively distance education courses.
Available at https nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/
d19/tables/dt19lowbar;311.15.asp.
6 Students hourly rate estimated using national median hourly wage for all occupations. Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2020 Occupational Employment Statistics Data. Available at https
www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm00-0000. Last accessed March 31, 2021.
7 Students hourly rate estimated using national median weekly wage for 1624 year-olds. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Labor Force Statistics, Table 3:

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19,335,244
17,493,764
1,841,480
729,367
12.40
1,806,382

Institutions are also affected by this final rule. They have some flexibility in determining how they will distribute the funds they were allocated for this emergency relief. They will incur some costs in setting criteria or establishing an application process for their students. We assume the distribution of the funds can largely rely on existing processes and information involved in the disbursement financial aid. Several commenters noted that there would be a significant burden on institutions in confirming students eligibility for the emergency relief, including for students who do not have an existing valid SAR
or ISIR for the 201920 or 202021
award years. One commenter estimated that it would take an institution approximately 148.5 hours to administer HEERF funds. However, with the change in the final rule, the burden on institutions should be reduced because they do not have to confirm students title IV eligibility.
As described in the Paperwork Reduction Act section of this preamble, the burden on institutions may be reduced compared to the IFR that involved checking title IV eligibility, but we do not incorporate that possibility into the estimated25,680 hours and $1,203,622 at a wage rate of $46.87 for postsecondary education administrators.8
Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by age, race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, and sex, not seasonally adjusted.
Available at https www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/
cpswktab3.htm. Last accessed April 13, 2021.
8 Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2020
National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates Outlook HandbookManagement OccupationsPostsecondary Administrators, 201920 median hourly wage. Available at https
https www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm110000. Last accessed April 13, 2021.

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Private 5,271,445
3,533,450
1,737,995
420,550
28.40
837,479

Proprietary 2,078,903
1,695,833
383,070
34,221
62.50
614,126

Total 26,685,592
22,723,047
3,962,545
1,184,138
3,257,987

To the extent that students use emergency financial aid grants to pay for expenses related to their cost of attendance, institutions will benefit from the revenue stemming from payments that students would otherwise not be able to make. Table 2 summarizes the amounts to be allocated to institutions by sector. The full breakout of amounts allocated to individual institutions, including the maximum that can be allocated to institutional costs, is available in the Allocations for section 18004a1 of the CARES Act document 9 on the Departments CARES
Act website.10 These allocations were made according to the formula described in the Methodology for Calculating Allocations document 11 on the Departments CARES Act website.
The allocation formula emphasizes institutions share of Pell Grant recipients with 75 percent of the allocation based on each IHEs share of full-time equivalent FTE enrollment of Pell Grant recipients who were not enrolled in exclusively distance education prior to the coronavirus emergency, relative to the share of such individuals in all institutions. The remaining 25 percent is based on the institutions share of FTE enrollment of students who were not Pell Grant recipients and who were not enrolled exclusively in distance education prior to the coronavirus emergency. This formula helps direct relief to institutions that serve lower income students as part of their on-campus operations. Table 2A summarizes the 9 Available at www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/
ope/allocationstableinstitutionalportion.pdf.
10 www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/
caresact.html.
11 Available at www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/
ope/
heerf90percentformulaallocationexplanation.pdf.

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