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Subtitle A-Office of the
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Official seal...........

Service of process ........

Availability of information to the public pursuant

to Pub. L. 90-23.......

Privacy Act regulations

Inventions and patents (general)

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Employee inventions.................

Advisory committee management

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Disposal and utilization of surplus real property
for educational purposes.....

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Uniform relocation assistance and real property
acquisition for federal and federally assisted
programs...

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National security information procedures......
Equal access to justice........

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Debt collection...

Salary offset for Federal employees who are in-
debted to the United States under programs ad-
ministered by the Secretary of Education.....
Salary offset to recover overpayments of pay or
allowances from Department of Education em-
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Exchange

Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act .......
Tort claims against the Government...........
Visitor Program-request for

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waiver of the two-year foreign residence require-
ment..............

Indemnification of Department of Education em-
ployees.............

Standards of conduct.

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Part

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Administration of grants to institutions of higher
education, hospitals, and nonprofit organiza-
tions.............

Direct grant programs.

State-administered programs.................

Definitions that apply to Department regulations.
Education Appeal Board ...........................................

Intergovernmental Review of Department of Edu-
cation programs and activities.............
Uniform administrative requirements for grants
and cooperative agreements to state and local
governments...............

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General Education Provision Act-enforcement.....
Governmentwide debarment and suspension (non-
procurement) and
and governmentwide require-
ments for drug-free workplace (grants).

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Student rights in research, experimental pro-
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Family educational rights and privacy.....

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Sec.

PART 3-OFFICIAL SEAL

3.1 Definitions.

3.2 Description.

3.3 Authority to affix seal.

3.4 Use of the seal.

AUTHORITY: 20 U.S.C. 3472 and 3485, unless otherwise noted.

SOURCE: 45 FR 86491, Dec. 31, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

§3.1 Definitions.

For the purposes of this part:

(a) "ED" means all organizational units of the Department of Education.

(b) "Embossing Seal" means a display of the form and content of the Official Seal made on a die so that the Seal can be embossed on paper or other media.

(c) "Official Seal" means the original(s) of the Seal showing the exact form, content, and colors.

(d) "Replica" means a copy of the Official Seal displaying the identical form, content, and colors.

(e) "Reproduction" means a copy of the Official Seal displaying the form and content, reproduced in only one color.

(f) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Education.

§3.2 Description.

The Official Seal of the Department of Education is described as follows: Standing upon a mound, an oak tree with black trunk and limbs and green foliage in front of a gold rising sun, issuing gold rays on a light blue disc, enclosed by a dark blue border with gold edges bearing the inscription "DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION" above a star at either side of the words "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" in smaller letters in the base; letters and stars in white. The Offical Seal of the Department is modified when used in reproductions in black and white and when embossed. As so modified, it appears below.

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STATES OF AMERICA

§ 3.3 Authority to affix seal.

The Secretary and the Secretary's designees are authorized to affix the Official Seal, replicas, reproductions, and embossing seals to appropriate documents, certifications, and other material for all purposes as authorized by this section.

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 3474)

§ 3.4 Use of the seal.

(a) Use by any person or organization outside of the Department may be made only with the Department's prior written approval.

(b) Requests by any person or organization outside of the Department for permission to use the Seal must be made in writing to Deputy Under Secretary for Planning, Budget, and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Washington, D.C. 20202, and must specify, in detail, the exact use to be made. Any permission granted applies only to the specific use for which it was granted and is not to be construed as permission for any other use.

(c) Replicas may be used only:

(1) For display ir: or adjacent to ED facilities, in Departmental auditoriums, presentation rooms, hearing rooms, lobbies, and public document rooms;

(2) In offices of senior officials; (3) For official awards, certificates, medals, and plaques;

(4) For motion picture film, video tape and other audiovisual media prepared by or for ED and attributed thereto;

(5) On official publications which represent the achievements or mission of ED;

(6) In non-ED facilities in connection with events and displays sponsored by ED, and public appearances of the Secretary or other senior ED officials; and

(7) For other purposes as determined by the Director of the Office of Administrative Resources Manage

ment;

(d) Reproductions may be used only

(1) On ED letterhead stationery; (2) On official ED identification cards, security, and other approved credentials;

(3) On business cards for ED employees;

(4) On official ED signs;

(5) On official publications or graphics issued by and attributed to ED, or joint statements of ED with one or more other Federal agencies, State or local governments, or foreign governments;

(6) On official awards, certificates, and medals;

(7) On motion picture film, video tape, and other audiovisual media prepard by or for ED and attributed thereto; and

(8) For other purposes as determined by the Director of the Office of Administrative Resources Manage

ment.

(e) Embossing seals may be used only

(1) On ED legal documents, including interagency or intergovernmental agreements, agreements with State or local governments, foreign patent applications, certification(s) of true copies, and similar documents;

(2) On official awards and certificates; and

(3) For other purposes as determined by the General Counsel or Deputy Under Secretary for Management.

(f) Falsely making, forging, counterfeiting, mutilating, or altering the Official Seal, replicas, reproductions, or embossing seals, or knowingly using or possessing with fraudulent intent and altered official seal, replica, reproduction or embossing seal is punishable under 18 U.S.C. 506.

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law or in connection with the transaction of public business and preserved by the Department as evidence of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, programs, or other activities.

(b) "Record" does not include: Objects or articles such as tangible exhibits, models, equipment, or processing materials; or formulae, designs, drawings, or other items of valuable property; books, magazines, pamphlets, or other reference material in formally organized and officially designated libraries of the Department, which are available under the rules of the particular library concerned.

§ 5.6 Statutory definitions.

The definitions in the Act and the Office of Management and Budget's "Uniform FOIA Fee Schedule and Guidelines," 52 FR 10012 (March 27, 1987), apply to this part.

[52 FR 32525, Aug. 27, 1987]

Subpart B-What Records Are Available

§ 5.11 Purpose and scope.

This part constitutes the regulation of the Department respecting the availability to the public, pursuant to the Act, of records of the Department. It informs the public what records are generally available.

§ 5.12 General policy.

The Department's policy is one of the fullest responsible disclosure limited only by the obligations of confidentiality and the administrative necessities recognized by the Act. Unless otherwise exempted from disclosure pursuant to law, records of the Department shall be available for inspection and copying in accordance with this part.

§ 5.13 Records available.

(a) Publication in the Federal Register. The following shall be published in the FEDERAL REGISTER:

(1) Descriptions of the Department's central and field organization and the established places at which, the officers from whom, and the methods

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