[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 59 (Tuesday, March 28, 2023)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 18255-18256]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-06303]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

34 CFR Parts 600, 668, and 690

[Docket ID ED-2022-OPE-0062]
RIN 1840-AD54, 1840-AD55, 1840-AD66, 1840-AD69


Pell Grants for Prison Education Programs; Determining the Amount 
of Federal Education Assistance Funds Received by Institutions of 
Higher Education (90/10); Change in Ownership and Change in Control; 
Correction

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education.

ACTION: Final regulations; correction.

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SUMMARY: On October 28, 2022, the Department of Education (Department) 
published in the Federal Register final regulations for the Pell Grants 
for Prison Education Programs (PEPs). This document corrects those 
regulations by clarifying the requirements associated with an 
accrediting agency's review of a new PEP.

DATES: This correction is effective July 1, 2023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Aaron Washington. Telephone: (202) 
987-0911. Email [email protected].
    If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability and 
wish to access telecommunications relay services, please dial 7-1-1.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 28, 2022, the Department 
published in the Federal Register final regulations that, among other 
things, establish requirements for postsecondary educational 
institutions to offer PEPs (87 FR 65426), effective July 1, 2023. The 
approval process for new PEPs under Sec.  668.237(b) requires review by 
the postsecondary educational institution's accrediting agency. 
Specifically, under Sec.  668.237(b)(4), the accrediting agency must 
have reviewed and approved the methodology for how the institution, in 
collaboration with the oversight entity, made the determination that 
the prison education program meets the same standards as substantially 
similar programs that are not prison education programs at the 
institution. Under Sec.  668.236(a)(3), however, the oversight entity 
is not required to make this determination until two years after the 
initial PEP is approved to operate by the Department.
    We are correcting Sec.  668.237(b)(4) by adding the words ``If the 
requirements of Sec.  668.236(a)(3) are satisfied,'' to make clear 
that, as part of its review of new PEPs, the accrediting agency reviews 
the referenced methodology only after the two-year period set forth in 
Sec.  668.236(a)(3).

Correction

    In FR Doc. 2022-23078, published in the Federal Register on October 
28, 2022 (87 FR 65426), on page 65496, in the third column, in Sec.  
668.237, paragraph (b)(4) is corrected to read as follows:


Sec.  668.237  [Corrected]

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    (b) * * *
    (4) If the requirements under Sec.  668.236(a)(3) are satisfied, 
reviewed and approved the methodology for how the institution, in 
collaboration with the oversight entity, made the determination that 
the prison education program meets the same standards as substantially 
similar programs that are not prison education programs at the 
institution.
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Miguel A. Cardona,
Secretary of Education.
[FR Doc. 2023-06303 Filed 3-27-23; 8:45 am]
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