Federal Student Aid - IFAP
   
PublicationDate: 8/9/99
Summary: Items Posted to IFAP During the Week of August 2, 1999
Author: CSB - SFA Customer Support Branch


August 2 - August 6, 1999. IFAP Postings. The Customer Support Branch (CSB) posted the following Documents/Letters/Regulations/Announcements to the Information for Financial Aid Professionals (IFAP) web page:

DEAR COLLEAGUE/PARTNER LETTERS:

GEN-99-22: Implementation of Blanket Certificate of Loan Guaranty Pilot Program

Disaster Letter 99-28: Discontinuation of "Disaster Letters"

ANN-99-7: We are now offering Direct Loan Consolidation training in Boston, MA (Region I), Atlanta, GA (Region IV), and Kansas City, MO (Region VII).



DIRECT LOAN BULLETINS:

DLB 99-53: Subject: Zero Dollar Disclosures


ELECTRONIC ANNOUNCEMENTS:

August 6, 1999: Y2K LETTER TO COLLEGE PRESIDENTS from Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley

August 6, 1999: Y2K Testing with the CPS

August 6, 1999: Problem Identified in the 2000-2001 FISAP Software - Part VI, Section A, Fields 16, 17, and 18

August 5, 1999: 1998-1999 ISIR Correction Submission Deadline

August 2, 1999: Upcoming Automatic Message Class Update

August 2, 1999: Update on the Recipient and Financial Management System

August 2, 1999: Patch File Available for EDExpress Version 5.3

August 2, 1999: Announcing the Availability of the first NSLDS Web pages for Financial Aid Professionals

August 2, 1999: Items Posted to IFAP During the Week of July 26, 1999




FEDERAL REGISTERS:


August 6, 1999: NPRM - Proposed Rulemaking, Refunds. Comments must be received by Septemeber 15, 1999.

August 3, 1999: NOTICE - ED, invites comments on the submission for OMB review as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, on the Lender Particpation Questionnaire.

August 3, 1999: NPRM - Proposed Rulemaking Guaranty Agencies/FFELP Lenders. Comments must be received no later than September 15, 1999.

August 3, 1999: NPRM - Proposed Rulemaking Pell/Campus Based Programs. Comments must be received no later than September 15, 1999.

August 2, 1999: NOTICE - Closing date for institutions that participate in the Federal Work-Study (FWS) programs.