Team II
Loan Issues

First Meeting
January 21-22, 1999
Washington, DC

This meeting commenced at approximately 8:30 a.m. on January 21, 1999, as scheduled, and adjourned on January 22, 1999, at approximately 4:00 pm.

All members and the facilitators were present. (During this meeting the Department of Education advised the Committee that the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology had declined its invitation to membership on the Committee.)

The facilitators and spokespersons were introduced and brief oral descriptions of the member organizations were provided.

A document specifying the organizational protocols adopted by the members on January 11, 1999, was distributed. The facilitators reviewed the format including "workshop" and negotiations meetings, as well as certain of the protocols.

A request for Committee membership by the National Association of Student Loan Administrators was accepted by the Committee and that member's spokesperson joined the discussion.

It was understood that the agenda for this two-day meeting would be mainly comprised of discussions of those issues listed on the pertinent attachment to the Department of Education's December 29, 1998, "Dear Colleague" letter, as well as any issues added by the Committee.

It was further understood that the "workshop" meeting was intended to provide the Department with information as to the members' views of those issues so that the Department could draft a negotiations text for use in subsequent negotiations meetings. The format of this discussion was to move through the list of issues allowing all members to present their views, with the understanding that the Department may probe those views in aid of its draft preparation. In doing so, members expressed their views on, among other factors, whether issues should be categorized:

1. No regulation required.
2. Regulation required, but no negotiation necessary.
3. Regulation required, to be negotiated to take effect by July 1, 2000.
4. Regulation required, to be negotiated to take effect by July 1, 2001.

All of the listed issues, as well as issues suggested by Team I and some issues suggested by members were discussed. In view of this progress, the Department indicated that it would attempt to provide the Committee with some preliminary drafts, and/or undrafted, but more developed, indications of its views on specific issues for discussion at the Committee's February meeting.

All members were encouraged to prepare draft provisions for the Department's consideration before the February meeting, and to otherwise communicate their perspectives both with the Department and among each other.

The Committee's February 18 and 19, 1999 meeting, will commence at 8:30 a.m.

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