To Lenders, Guaranty Agencies, and Other FFEL Program Participants

From: Susan Szabo, Chief Business Operations Officer

Business Operations
Federal Student Aid

Re: Access to NSLDS

Date: April 17, 2007

Effective immediately, access to information in the National Student Loan Data System
(NSLDS) by all participants in the student loan program, except students, borrowers and
institutions of higher education, is temporarily suspended. During this temporary suspension of
access, the Department will more fully examine the specific usage of NSLDS by those entities
for which access has been suspended to determine if there was unauthorized usage. Upon
completion of this examination we will consider options for providing NSLDS access to these
entities.

Note that postsecondary educational institutions as well as individual students/borrowers will

continue to have access to NSLDS information.