Announcement of Effective Dates

Prior to its amendment by the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 (IASA), section 431(d) of the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) required that most Department of Education regulatory documents be published in the Federal Register for forty-five (45) calendar days, or longer if Congress took certain adjournments, before they became effective. Since future congressional adjournments could not be predicted with certainty when a document was published, the Department could not announce a specific effective date at the time of publication. This notice announces the effective dates for certain regulatory documents subject to the delayed effective date requirement of section 431(d) prior to its amendment.