[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 29 (Monday, February 12, 2001)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 9773]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-3559]


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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

45 CFR Part 2525

RIN 3045-AA09


AmeriCorps Education Awards: Delay of Effective Date

AGENCY: Corporation for National and Community Service.

ACTION: Final rule; delay of effective date.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the memorandum of January 20, 2001, from 
the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, entitled 
``Regulatory Review Plan,'' published in the Federal Register on 
January 24, 2001, this action temporarily delays for 60 days the 
effective date of an amendment to the rule entitled ``AmeriCorps 
Education Awards,'' published in the Federal Register on December 13, 
2000, at 65 FR 77820. This rule concerns an individual who successfully 
completes a term of service in a national service position (referred to 
as an ``AmeriCorps member'') is eligible for an education award. An 
AmeriCorps Member may use an education award to repay qualified student 
loans or to pay for approved educational expenses. To the extent that 5 
U.S.C. section 553 applies to this action, it is exempt from notice and 
comment because it constitutes a rule of procedure under 5 U.S.C. 
section 553(b)(A). Alternatively, the Corporation's implementation of 
this action without opportunity for public comment, effective 
immediately upon publication today in the Federal Register, is based on 
the good cause exceptions in 5 U.S.C. section 553(b)(B) and 553(d)(3) 
seeking public comment is impracticable, unnecessary and contrary to 
the public interest. The temporary 60-day delay in effective date is 
necessary to allow further review and consideration of new regulations, 
consistent with the Assistant to the President's memorandum of January 
20, 2001. Given the imminence of the effective date, seeking prior 
public comment on this temporary delay would have been impractical, as 
well as contrary to the public interest in the orderly promulgation and 
implementation of regulations. The imminence of the effective date is 
also good cause for making this rule effective immediately upon 
publication.

EFFECTIVE DATES: The effective date of the AmeriCorps Education Awards, 
published in the Federal Register on December 13, 2000, at 65 FR 77820, 
is delayed for 60 days, from February 12, 2001, to a new effective date 
of April 13, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary Kowalczyk, Coordination of 
National Service Programs, Corporation for National and Community 
Service, (202) 606-5000, ext. 340.

    Dated: February 7, 2001.
Frank R. Trinity,
Acting General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 01-3559 Filed 2-9-01; 8:45 am]
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