The U.S. Department of Education (ED) will reopen the Title IX NPRM public comment period for 24 hours on Friday, February 15th in “an abundance of caution” to address concerns that some users may have experienced technical issues preventing submission of comments using the eRulemaking Portal. Their intention to reopen the comment period was announced Tuesday afternoon in an official pre-publication of a notice scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on Thursday, February 14th.
Commenters must submit comments: between 12:00 a.m. EST and 11:59 p.m. EST on February 15, 2019 if submitted through the Federal eRulemaking Portal; between 9:00a.m. and 5:00 p.m. EST on February 15, 2019, if hand-delivered; or postmarked on February 15, 2019, if delivered by postal mail or commercial delivery. For this 24 hour period comments can again be filed at https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=ED_FRDOC_0001-0830 on the Portal.
ED is currently processing 104,367 comments received from November 29, 2018 to January 30, 2019, of which 10,943 have been reviewed and posted on the Portal as of February 12th. The new notice says “Once all comments have been processed, they will be posted and publicly available.”