(a) [Reserved]
(b) Limitations on your ability to dispute a program cohort default rate. (1) You may not dispute the calculation of a program cohort default rate except as described in this subpart.
(1) You may not dispute the calculation of a program cohort default rate except as described in this subpart.
(2) You may not request an adjustment, or appeal a program cohort default rate, under Sec. 668.509, Sec. 668.510, Sec. 668.511, or Sec. 668.512, more than once.
(c) Content and format of requests for adjustments and appeals. We may deny your request for adjustment or appeal if it does not meet the following requirements:
(1) All appeals, notices, requests, independent auditor's opinions, management's written assertions, and other correspondence that you are required to send under this subpart must be complete, timely, accurate, and in a format acceptable to us. This acceptable format is described in materials that we provide to you.
(2) Your completed request for adjustment or appeal must include--
(i) All of the information necessary to substantiate your request for adjustment or appeal; and
(ii) A certification by your chief executive officer, under penalty of perjury, that all the information you provide is true and correct.
(d) Our copies of your correspondence. Whenever you are required by this subpart to correspond with a party other than us, you must send us a copy of your correspondence within the same time deadlines. However, you are not required to send us copies of documents that you received from us originally.
(e) Requirements for data managers' responses. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this subpart, if this subpart requires a data manager to correspond with any party other than us, the data manager must send us a copy of the correspondence within the same time deadlines.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this subpart, if this subpart requires a data manager to correspond with any party other than us, the data manager must send us a copy of the correspondence within the same time deadlines.
(2) If a data manager sends us correspondence under this subpart that is not in a format acceptable to us, we may require the data manager to revise that correspondence's format, and we may prescribe a format for that data manager's subsequent correspondence with us.
(f) Our decision on your request for adjustment or appeal. (1) We determine whether your request for an adjustment or appeal is in compliance with this subpart.
(1) We determine whether your request for an adjustment or appeal is in compliance with this subpart.
(2) In making our decision for an adjustment, under Sec. 668.509 or Sec. 668.510, or an appeal, under Sec. 668.511 or Sec. 668.512--
(i) We presume that the information provided to you by a data manager is correct unless you provide substantial evidence that shows the information is not correct; and
(ii) If we determine that a data manager did not provide the necessary clarifying information or legible records in meeting the requirements of this subpart, we presume that the evidence that you provide to us is correct unless it is contradicted or otherwise proven to be incorrect by information we maintain.
(3) Our decision is based on the materials you submit under this subpart. We do not provide an oral hearing.
(4) We notify you of our decision before we notify you of your next official program cohort default rate.
(5) You may not seek judicial review of our determination of a program cohort default rate until we issue our decision on all pending requests for adjustments or appeals for that program cohort default rate. (Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1001, 1002, 1088)