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1845-0013 200205-1845-003
Historical Active 200108-1845-006
ED/FSA
Lender's Request for Payment of Interest and Special Allowance (JS)
Extension without change of a currently approved collection   No
Regular
Approved with change 07/31/2002
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 05/30/2002
Under existing regulatory and administrative requirements, data regarding new and outstanding guaranteed student loans is collected through a labyrinth of intermediaries and processes. As a result, loan information is often incomplete and reporting is significantly delayed. Rather than lender payments on loan- level data, the Department makes fee payments based on summary data from 4000 lenders and 36 guaranty agencies while waiting for transaction level information to follow months later. This creates myriad problems: errors in determining contingent liability for financial statements, post-payment reconciliation problems between summary reports and loan data, constant changes in "actual" loan information, and ED's inability to verify loan data. Therefore, in order to maximize the practical utility of this data collection, ED shall submit to OMB, no later than 12/31/02, a detailed business case for making the necessary adjustments to the FFEL data system (including NSLDS) so that lender payments are based on loan-level data provided directly by the lenders on a quarterly or monthly basis, rather than on summary reports processed by other intermediaries.
  Inventory as of this Action Requested Previously Approved
10/31/2003 10/31/2003 07/31/2002
17,200 0 17,200
41,925 0 41,925
0 0 0