83 FR 15635 - Proposed Extension of Information Collection Requests Submitted for Public Comment

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employee Benefits Security Administration

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 70 (April 11, 2018)

Page Range		15635-15639
FR Document		2018-07459
The Department of Labor (the Department), in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA 95) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and continuing collections of information. This helps the Department assess the impact of its information collection requirements and minimize the public's reporting burden. It also helps the public understand the Department's information collection requirements and provide the requested data in the desired format. The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is soliciting comments on the proposed extension of the information collection requests (ICRs) contained in the documents described below. A copy of the ICRs may be obtained by contacting the office listed in the ADDRESSES section of this notice. ICRs also are available at reginfo.gov (http:// www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain).
Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 70 (Wednesday, April 11, 2018)
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 70 (Wednesday, April 11, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15635-15639]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-07459]


=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employee Benefits Security Administration


Proposed Extension of Information Collection Requests Submitted 
for Public Comment

AGENCY: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of Labor.

ACTION: Notice.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (the Department), in accordance with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA 95) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), 
provides the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to 
comment on proposed and continuing collections of information. This 
helps the Department assess the impact of its information collection 
requirements and minimize the public's reporting burden. It also helps 
the public understand the Department's information collection 
requirements and provide the requested data in the desired format. The 
Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is soliciting comments 
on the proposed extension of the information collection requests (ICRs) 
contained in the documents described below. A copy of the ICRs may be 
obtained by contacting the office listed in the ADDRESSES section of 
this notice. ICRs also are available at reginfo.gov (http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain).

DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office shown in the 
Addresses section on or before June 11, 2018.

ADDRESSES: G. Christopher Cosby, Department of Labor, Employee Benefits 
Security Administration, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Room N-5718, 
Washington, DC 20210, [email protected], (202) 693-8410, FAX (202) 219-
4745 (these are not toll-free numbers).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice requests public comment on the 
Department's request for extension of the Office of Management and 
Budget's (OMB) approval of ICRs contained in the rules and prohibited 
transaction exemptions described below. The Department is not proposing 
any changes to the existing ICRs at this time. An agency may not 
conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, an 
information collection unless it displays a valid OMB control number. A 
summary of the ICRs and the current burden estimates follows:

    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: ERISA Procedure 76-1 Advisory Opinion Procedure.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved information 
collection.
    OMB Number: 1210-0066.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits.
    Respondents: 29.
    Responses: 29.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 299.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $731,000.
    Description: Under ERISA, the Department has responsibility to 
administer the reporting, disclosure, fiduciary and other standards for 
pension and welfare benefit plans. In 1976, the Department issued ERISA 
Procedure 76-1, Procedure for ERISA Advisory Opinions (ERISA 
Procedure), in order to establish a public process for requesting 
guidance from EBSA on the application of ERISA to particular 
circumstances. The ERISA Procedure sets forth specific administrative 
procedures for requesting either an advisory opinion or an information 
letter and describes the types of questions that may be submitted. As 
part of the ERISA Procedure, requesters are instructed to provide 
information to EBSA concerning the circumstances

[[Page 15636]]

governing their request. EBSA relies on the information provided by the 
requester to analyze the issue presented and provide guidance. The 
ERISA Procedure has been in use since 1976, and the Department has 
issued hundreds of advisory opinions and information letters under its 
rules. The ICR was approved by OMB under OMB Control Number 1210-0066 
and is scheduled to expire on August 31, 2018.

    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: ERISA Technical Release 91-1.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0084.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits.
    Respondents: 10.
    Responses: 80,015.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 1,668.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $26,898.
    Description: The information collection requirements arise from 
ERISA section 101(e), which establishes notice requirements that must 
be satisfied before an employer may transfer excess assets from a 
defined benefit pension plan to a retiree health benefit account, as 
permitted under the conditions set forth in section 420 of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986.
    The notice requirements of section 101(e) are two-fold. First, 
subsection (e)(1) requires plan administrators to provide advance 
written notification of such transfers to participants and 
beneficiaries. Second, subsection (e)(2)(A) requires employers to 
provide advance written notification of such transfers to the 
Secretaries of Labor and the Treasury, the plan administrator, and each 
employee organization representing participants in the plan. Both 
notices must be given at least 60 days before the transfer date. The 
two subsections prescribe the information to be included in each type 
of notice and further give the Secretary of Labor the authority to 
prescribe how notice to participants and beneficiaries must be given 
and any additional reporting requirements deemed necessary.
    Although the Department of Labor has not issued regulations under 
section 101(e), on May 8, 1991, the Department published ERISA 
Technical Release 91-1, to provide guidance on how to satisfy the 
notice requirements prescribed by this section. The Technical Release 
made two changes in the statutory requirements for the second type of 
notice. First, it required the notice to include a filing date and the 
intended asset transfer date. Second, it simplified the statutory 
filing requirements by providing that filing with the Department of 
Labor would be deemed sufficient notice to both the Department and the 
Department of the Treasury as required under the statute. The ICR was 
approved by OMB under OMB Control Number 1210-0084 and is scheduled to 
expire on August 31, 2018.

    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: Disclosures by Insurers to General Account Policyholders.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0114.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits.
    Respondents: 32,000.
    Responses: 32,000.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 135,000.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $12,000.
    Description: Section 1460 of the Small Business Job Protection Act 
of 1996 (Pub. L. 104-188) (SBJPA) amended added a new section 401(c) to 
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). This new 
section, inter alia, required the Department to promulgate a regulation 
providing guidance, applicable only to insurance policies issued on or 
before December 31, 1998, to or for the benefit of employee benefit 
plans, to clarify the extent to which assets held in an insurer's 
general account under such contracts are ``plan assets'' within the 
meaning of the ERISA, because the policies are not ``guaranteed benefit 
policies'' within the meaning of section 401(b) of ERISA. SBJPA further 
directed the Department to set standards for how insurers should manage 
the specified insurance policies (called Transition Policies). Pursuant 
to the authority and direction given under SBJPA, the Department 
promulgated a final regulation on January 5, 2000 (65 FR 714), which is 
codified at 29 CFR 2550.401c-1. This regulation has not been amended 
subsequently. The ICR was approved by OMB under OMB Control Number 
1210-0114 and is scheduled to expire on August 31, 2018.

    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: Employee Retirement Income Security Act Blackout Period 
Notice.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0122.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits.
    Respondents: 44,000.
    Responses: 6,400,000.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 198,000.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): 
$2,100,000.
    Description: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA), enacted on July 30, 
2002, added ERISA section 101(i), which requires individual account 
pension plans to furnish a written notice to participants and 
beneficiaries in advance of any ``blackout period'' during which their 
existing rights to direct or diversify their investments under the 
plan, or obtain a loan or distribution from the plan will be 
temporarily suspended. Under 306(b)(2) of SOA, the Secretary of Labor 
was directed to issue interim final rules necessary to implement the 
SOA amendments. The Department's regulation for this purpose is 
codified at 29 CFR 2520.101-3. The ICR was approved by OMB under OMB 
Control Number 1210-0122 and is scheduled to expire on August 31, 2018.

    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: Annual Information Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0110.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits.
    Respondents: 838,575.
    Responses: 838,575.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 586,765.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): 
257,414,600.
    Description: Under Titles I and IV of ERISA, and the Internal 
Revenue Code, as amended (Code), pension and other employee benefit 
plans generally are required to file annual returns/reports concerning, 
among other things, the financial condition and operations of the plan. 
Filing the Form 5500, ``Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit 
Plan,'' together with any required attachments and schedules (Form 5500 
Annual Return/Report) through the ERISA Filing Acceptance System 2 
(EFAST2) generally satisfies these annual reporting requirements. The 
Form 5500 Annual Return/Report is the primary source of information 
concerning the operation, funding, assets, and investments of pension 
and other employee benefit plans. In addition to being an important 
disclosure document for plan participants and beneficiaries, the Form 
5500 Annual Return/Report is a compliance and research tool for the

[[Page 15637]]

Department of Labor (Department), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and 
the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) (collectively, the 
Agencies) and a source of information and data for use by other federal 
agencies, Congress, and the private sector in assessing employee 
benefit, tax, and economic trends and policies. The ICR was approved by 
OMB under OMB Control Number 1210-0110 and is scheduled to expire on 
August 31, 2018.

    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: Registration for EFAST-2 Credentials.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0117.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits.
    Respondents: 305,000.
    Responses: 305,000.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 101,667.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $0.
    Description: ERISA Section 104 requires administrators of pension 
and welfare benefit plans (collectively, employee benefit plans), and 
employers sponsoring certain fringe benefit plans and other plans of 
deferred compensation, to file returns/reports annually with the 
Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) concerning the financial condition 
and operation of the plans. Reporting requirements are satisfied by 
filing the Form 5500 in accordance with its instructions and the 
related regulations. Beginning with plan year filings for 1999, Form 
5500 filings were processed under the ERISA Filing Acceptance System 
(EFAST), which was designed to simplify and expedite the receipt and 
processing of the Form 5500 by relying on computer scannable forms and 
electronic filing technologies.
    Beginning with plan year filings for 2009, Form 5500 filings are 
processed under a new system, the ERISA Filing Acceptance System 2 
(EFAST-2), which is designed to simplify and expedite the receipt and 
processing of the Form 5500 by relying on internet-based forms and 
electronic filing technologies. In order to file electronically, 
employee benefit plan filing authors, schedule authors, filing signers, 
Form 5500 transmitters, and entities developing software to complete 
and/or transmit the Form 5500 are required to register for EFAST-2 
credentials through the EFAST-2 website. Requested information 
includes: Applicant type (filing author, filing signer, schedule 
author, transmitter, or software developer); mailing address; fax 
number (optional); email address; company name, contact person; and 
daytime telephone number. Registrants must also provide an answer to a 
challenge question (``What is your date of birth?'' or ``Where is your 
place of birth?''), which enables users to retrieve forgotten 
credentials. In addition, registrants must accept a Privacy Agreement; 
PIN Agreement; and, under penalty of perjury, a Signature Agreement. 
The ICR was approved by OMB under OMB Control Number 1210-0117 and is 
scheduled to expire on September 30, 2018.

    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: PTE 1990-1; Insurance Company Pooled Separate Accounts.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0083.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits.
    Respondents: 96.
    Responses: 960.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 160.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $0.
    Description: PTE 90-1 provides an exemption from certain provisions 
of ERISA relating to transactions involving insurance company pooled 
separate accounts in which employee benefit plans participate. Without 
the exemption, sections 406 and 407(a) of ERISA and section 4975(c)(1) 
of the Internal Revenue Code might prohibit a party in interest to a 
plan from furnishing goods or services to an insurance company pooled 
separate account in which the plan has an interest, or prohibit 
engaging in other transactions. Under the exemption, persons who are 
parties in interest to a plan that invests in a pooled separate 
account, such as a service provider, may engage in otherwise prohibited 
transactions with the separate account if the plan's participation in 
the separate account does not exceed specified limits and other 
conditions are met. These other conditions include a requirement that 
the party in interest not be the insurance company, or an affiliate 
thereof, that holds the plan assets in its pooled separate account or 
other separate account. The terms of the transaction to which the 
exemption is applied must be at least as favorable to the pooled 
separate account as those that would be obtained in a separate arms-
length transaction with an unrelated party, and the insurance company 
must maintain records of any transaction to which the exemption applies 
for a period of six years. This ICR covers this recordkeeping 
requirement. The ICR was approved by OMB under OMB Control Number 1210-
0083 and is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2018.

    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: Settlement Agreements Between a Plan and a Party in 
Interest.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0091.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits.
    Respondents: 6.
    Responses: 1,620.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 42.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $542.
    Description: Section 408(a) of ERISA and section 4975(c)(2) of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code) give the Secretary of Labor 
the authority to grant an exemption to a class or order of fiduciaries, 
disqualified persons, or transactions from all or part of the 
restrictions imposed by sections 406 and 407(a) of ERISA and from the 
taxes imposed by sections 4975(a) and (b) of the Code, by reason of 
section 4975(c)(1) of the Code. This information collection request 
(ICR) relates to two prohibited transaction class exemptions (PTEs) 
that the Department of Labor (the Department) has granted, both of 
which involve settlement agreements. These two exemptions are described 
below:
    PTE 94-71. Granted on September 30, 1994, PTE 94-71 exempts from 
certain restrictions of ERISA and certain taxes imposed by the Code, a 
transaction or activity that is authorized, prior to the execution of 
the transaction or activity, by a settlement agreement resulting from 
an investigation of an employee benefit plan conducted by the 
Department.
    PTE 2003-39. Granted on December 31, 2005, PTE 03-39 exempts from 
certain restrictions of ERISA and certain taxes imposed by the Code, 
transactions arising out of the settlement of litigation that involve 
the release of claims against parties in interest in exchange for 
payment by or on behalf of the party in interest, provided that certain 
conditions are met.
    Because both exemptions involve settlement agreements, the 
Department has combined their information collection provisions into 
one ICR and has obtained OMB approval for their paperwork burden. The 
Department believes that the public and the Federal government are both 
best served by allowing the public to review and comment on similar 
exemption

[[Page 15638]]

provisions in combination. The ICR was approved by OMB under OMB 
Control Number 1210-0091 and is scheduled to expire on December 31, 
2018.

    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption for Cross-Trades of 
Securities by Index and Model-Driven Funds (PTCE 2002-12).
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0115.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits.
    Respondents: 60.
    Responses: 840.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 855.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $800.
    Description: PTE 2002-12 exempts certain transactions that would be 
prohibited under ERISA and the Federal Employees' Retirement System Act 
(FERSA), and provides relief from certain sanctions of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code). The exemption permits cross-trades of 
securities among Index and Model-Driven Funds (Funds) managed by 
managers (Managers), and among such Funds and certain large accounts 
(Large Accounts) that engage such Managers to carry out a specific 
portfolio restructuring program or to otherwise act as a ``trading 
adviser'' for such a program. By removing existing barriers to these 
types of transactions, the exemption increases the incidences of cross-
trading, thereby lowering the transaction costs to plans in a number of 
ways from what they would be otherwise.
    In order for the Department to grant an exemption for a transaction 
or class of transactions that would otherwise be prohibited under 
ERISA, the statute requires the Department to make a finding that the 
exemption is administratively feasible, in the interest of the plan and 
its participants and beneficiaries, and protective of the rights of the 
participants and beneficiaries. To ensure that Managers have complied 
with the requirements of the exemption, the Department has included in 
the exemption certain recordkeeping and disclosure obligations that are 
designed to safeguard plan assets by periodically providing information 
to plan fiduciaries, who generally must be independent from the cross-
trading program. Initially, where plans are not invested in Funds, 
Managers must furnish information to plan fiduciaries about the cross-
trading program, provide a statement that the Manager will have a 
potentially conflicting division of loyalties, and obtain written 
authorization from a plan fiduciary for a plan to participate in a 
cross-trading program. For plans that are currently invested in Funds, 
the Manager must provide annual notices to update the plan fiduciary 
and provide the plan with an opportunity to withdraw from the program. 
For Large Accounts, prior to the cross-trade, the Manager must provide 
information about the cross-trading program and obtain written 
authorization from the fiduciary of a Large Account to engage in cross-
trading in connection with a portfolio restructuring program. Following 
completion of the Large Account's restructuring, information must be 
provided by the Manager about all cross-trades executed in connection 
with a portfolio-restructuring program. Finally, the exemption requires 
that Managers maintain for a period of 6 years from the date of each 
cross-trade the records necessary to enable plan fiduciaries and 
certain other persons specified in the exemption (e.g., Department 
representatives or contributing employers), to determine whether the 
conditions of the exemption have been met.
    The ICR was approved by OMB under OMB Control Number 1210-0113 and 
is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2018.

    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0118.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits.
    Respondents: 1,800.
    Responses: 50,700.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 8,100.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $329,200.
    Description: This information collection arises from two related 
actions: the Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program (the VFC Program or 
the Program) and Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption (PTE) 2002-51 
(the Exemption). The Department adopted the Program and the Exemption 
in order to encourage members of the public to voluntarily correct 
transactions that violate (or are suspected of violating) the fiduciary 
or prohibited transaction provisions of the ERISA. Both the Program and 
the Exemption incorporate information collection requirements in order 
to protect participants and beneficiaries and enable the Department to 
oversee the appropriate use of the Program and the Exemption. The ICR 
was approved by OMB under OMB Control Number 1210-0118 and is scheduled 
to expire on December 31, 2018.

    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: Acquisition and Sale of Trust Real Estate Investment Trust 
Shares by Individual Account Plans Sponsored by Trust Real Estate 
Investment Trusts.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0124.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits.
    Respondents: 52.
    Responses: 109,200.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 5,469.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $346,000.
    Description: PTE 2004-07 exempts from certain prohibited 
transaction restrictions of ERISA and from certain taxes imposed by the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code), the acquisition, holding, 
sale, and contribution in kind of publicly traded shares of beneficial 
interest in a real estate investment trust that is structured under 
State law as a business trust (Trust REIT), on behalf of and to 
individual account plans sponsored by the REIT or its affiliates, 
provided that certain conditions are met.
    The exemption allows individual account plans (Plans) established 
by Trust REITS to offer a beneficial interest in the Trust REIT in the 
form of Qualifying REIT Shares, as defined in the exemption, to 
participants in Plans sponsored by the REIT or its employer affiliates, 
to require that employer contributions be used to purchase such shares, 
and to permit ``contributions in kind'' of such shares to these Plans 
by employers.
    The exemption conditions relief on compliance with a number of 
information collection requirements. These information collections are 
to be provided or made available to plan participants and fiduciaries 
in order to inform them about investments in Qualifying REIT Shares and 
the conditions of the exemption permitting share transactions. Records 
sufficient to allow them to determine whether the exemption conditions 
are met must also be maintained, and made available to them upon 
request, for a period of six years. These records must also be made 
available on request to employers and employee organizations with 
employees and members covered by a Plan of the

[[Page 15639]]

Trust REIT or one of its employer affiliates, and to authorized 
employees and representatives of the Department and the Internal 
Revenue Service. EBSA submitted an ICR for the information collections 
in PTE 2004-07 to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review 
and clearance in connection with proposal of the class exemption, which 
was published in the Federal Register on June 3, 2003 (68 FR 33185). 
The ICR was approved by OMB under OMB Control Number 1210-0124 and is 
scheduled to expire on December 31, 2018.

    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: Abandoned Individual Account Plan Termination.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0127.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits.
    Respondents: 26,700.
    Responses: 1,308,000.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 47,700.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $689,000.
    Description: The abandoned plan initiative includes the following 
actions, which impose the following information collections:
    1. Qualified Termination Administrator (QTA) Regulation: The QTA 
regulation creates an orderly and efficient process by which a 
financial institution that holds the assets of a plan that is deemed to 
have been abandoned may undertake to terminate the plan and distribute 
its assets to participants and beneficiaries holding accounts under the 
plan, with protections and approval of the Department under the 
standards of the regulation. The regulation requires the QTA to provide 
certain notices to the Department, to participants and beneficiaries, 
and to the plan sponsor (or service providers to the plan, if 
necessary), and to keep certain records pertaining to the termination.
    2. Abandoned Plan Terminal Report Regulation: The terminal report 
regulation provides an alternative, simplified method for a QTA to 
satisfy the annual report requirement otherwise applicable to a 
terminating plan by filing a special simplified terminal report with 
the Department after terminating an abandoned plan and distributing the 
remaining assets in the individual account plans to participants and 
beneficiaries.
    3. Terminated Plan Distribution Regulation: The terminated plan 
distribution regulation establishes a safe harbor method by which 
fiduciaries who are terminating individual account pension plans 
(whether abandoned or not) may select an investment vehicle to receive 
account balances distributed from the terminated plan when the 
participant has failed to provide investment instructions. The 
regulation requires the fiduciaries to provide advance notice to 
participants and beneficiaries of how such distributions will be 
invested, if no other investment instructions are provided.
    4. Abandoned Plan Class Exemption: The exemption permits a QTA that 
terminates an abandoned plan under the QTA regulation to receive 
payment for its services from the abandoned plan and to distribute the 
account balance of a participant who has failed to provide investment 
direction into an individual retirement account (IRA) maintained by the 
QTA or an affiliate. Without the exemption, financial institutions 
would be unable to receive payment for services rendered out of plan 
assets without violating ERISA's prohibited transaction provisions and 
would therefore be highly unlikely to undertake the termination of 
abandoned plans. The exemption includes the condition that the QTA keep 
records of the distributions for a period of six years and make such 
records available on request to interested persons (including the 
Department and participants and beneficiaries). If a QTA wishes to be 
paid out of plan assets for services provided prior to becoming a QTA, 
the exemption requires that the QTA enter into a written agreement with 
a plan fiduciary or the plan sponsor prior to receiving payment and 
that a copy of the agreement be provided to the Department.
    5. PTE 2004-16 (Automatic Rollover Exemption): Also included in 
this ICR are the notice and recordkeeping requirements contained in PTE 
2004-16, which permits a pension plan fiduciary that is a financial 
institution and is also the employer maintaining an individual account 
pension plan for its employees to establish, on behalf of its separated 
employees, an IRA at a financial institution that is either the 
employer or an affiliate, which IRA would receive mandatory 
distributions that the fiduciary ``rolls over'' from the plan when an 
employee terminates employment.
    Because all of these regulations and exemptions relate to 
terminating or abandoned plans and/or to distribution and rollover of 
distributed benefits for which no participant investment election has 
been made, the Department has combined the paperwork burden for all of 
these actions into one ICR. In the Department's view, this combination 
allows the public to have a better understanding of the aggregate 
burden imposed on the public for these related regulatory actions. The 
ICR was approved by OMB under OMB Control Number 1210-0127 and is 
scheduled to expire on December 31, 2018.

I. Focus of Comments

    The Department is particularly interested in comments that:
     Evaluate whether the collections of information are 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility;
     Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the 
collections of information, including the validity of the methodology 
and assumptions used;
     Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and
     Minimize the burden of the collection of information on 
those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate 
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., by 
permitting electronic submissions of responses.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and/or included in the ICRs for OMB approval of the extension of the 
information collection; they will also become a matter of public 
record.

Joseph Piacentini,
Director, Office of Policy and Research, Employee Benefits Security 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2018-07459 Filed 4-10-18; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4510-29-P
Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 70 / Wednesday, April 11, 2018 / Notices 15635

including the validity of the respond: The requested revision will not described below. A copy of the ICRs
methodology and assumptions used; impact the estimated survey burden or may be obtained by contacting the office
—Evaluate whether and, if so, how the the annual number of respondents. The listed in the ADDRESSES section of this
quality, utility, and clarity of the estimated annual number of notice. ICRs also are available at
information to be collected will be respondents is 130,707. It will take the reginfo.gov (http://www.reginfo.gov/
impacted by the change; and average interviewed respondent an public/do/PRAMain).
—The burden of the collection of estimated 25 minutes to respond; the DATES: Written comments must be
information on those who are to average non-interviewed respondent an submitted to the office shown in the
respond, including through the use of estimated 7 minutes to respond; the Addresses section on or before June 11,
appropriate automated, electronic, average follow-up interview is estimated 2018.
mechanical, or other technological at 15 minutes, and the average follow- ADDRESSES: G. Christopher Cosby,
collection techniques or other forms up for a non-interview is estimated at 1 Department of Labor, Employee Benefits
of information technology, e.g., minute. Security Administration, 200
permitting electronic submission of (6) An estimate of the total public Constitution Avenue NW, Room
responses. burden (in hours) associated with the N–5718, Washington, DC 20210,
collection: The requested revision will ebsa.opr@dol.gov, (202) 693–8410, FAX
Overview of This Information
not change the annual burden hours. (202) 219–4745 (these are not toll-free
Collection
There are an estimated 120,810 annual numbers).
(1) Type of Information Collection: burden hours associated with this
Revision of a currently approved collection. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
collection. If additional information is required notice requests public comment on the
(2) The Title of the Form/Collection: contact: Melody Braswell, Department Department’s request for extension of
National Crime Victimization Survey. Clearance Officer, United States the Office of Management and Budget’s
(3) The agency form number, if any, Department of Justice, Justice (OMB) approval of ICRs contained in
and the applicable component of the Management Division, Policy and the rules and prohibited transaction
Department sponsoring the collection: Planning Staff, Two Constitution exemptions described below. The
The form number for the questionnaire Square, 145 N Street NE, 3E.405A, Department is not proposing any
impacted by the modification is NCVS– Washington, DC 20530. changes to the existing ICRs at this time.
1. The applicable component within the An agency may not conduct or sponsor,
Dated: April 6, 2018.
Department of Justice is the Bureau of and a person is not required to respond
Justice Statistics, in the Office of Justice Melody Braswell,
to, an information collection unless it
Programs. Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. displays a valid OMB control number. A
(4) Affected public who will be asked Department of Justice.
summary of the ICRs and the current
or required to respond, as well as a brief [FR Doc. 2018–07448 Filed 4–10–18; 8:45 am]
burden estimates follows:
abstract: The National Crime BILLING CODE 4410–18–P
Agency: Employee Benefits Security
Victimization Survey (NCVS) collects, Administration, Department of Labor.
analyzes, publishes, and disseminates Title: ERISA Procedure 76–1 Advisory
statistics on criminal victimization and DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Opinion Procedure.
the context of criminal victimization in Type of Review: Extension of a
the U.S. The NCVS is administered to Employee Benefits Security
currently approved information
persons 12 years or older living in Administration
collection.
sampled households located throughout OMB Number: 1210–0066.
Proposed Extension of Information
the US. Affected Public: Businesses or other
Since July 2016, self-report data on Collection Requests Submitted for
Public Comment for-profits.
sexual orientation and gender identity Respondents: 29.
have been collected from all sampled AGENCY: Employee Benefits Security Responses: 29.
persons age 16 or older. Within six Administration, Department of Labor. Estimated Total Burden Hours: 299.
months of OMB approval of this ACTION: Notice. Estimated Total Burden Cost
requested change, the single question on (Operating and Maintenance): $731,000.
sexual orientation and two part question SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (the Description: Under ERISA, the
on gender identity (sex at birth and Department), in accordance with the Department has responsibility to
current gender) will no longer be Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA administer the reporting, disclosure,
administered to respondents ages 16 95) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), provides fiduciary and other standards for
and 17. The minimum age for these the general public and Federal agencies pension and welfare benefit plans. In
questions will be raised to 18 due to with an opportunity to comment on 1976, the Department issued ERISA
concerns about the potential sensitivity proposed and continuing collections of Procedure 76–1, Procedure for ERISA
of these questions for adolescents. information. This helps the Department Advisory Opinions (ERISA Procedure),
BJS plans to publish information from assess the impact of its information in order to establish a public process for
the NCVS in reports and reference it collection requirements and minimize requesting guidance from EBSA on the
when responding to queries from the the public’s reporting burden. It also application of ERISA to particular
U.S. Congress, Executive Office of the helps the public understand the circumstances. The ERISA Procedure
President, the U.S. Supreme Court, state Department’s information collection sets forth specific administrative
amozie on DSK30RV082PROD with NOTICES

officials, international organizations, requirements and provide the requested procedures for requesting either an
researchers, students, the media, and data in the desired format. The advisory opinion or an information
others interested in criminal justice Employee Benefits Security letter and describes the types of
statistics. Administration (EBSA) is soliciting questions that may be submitted. As
(5) An estimate of the total number of comments on the proposed extension of part of the ERISA Procedure, requesters
respondents and the amount of time the information collection requests are instructed to provide information to
estimated for an average respondent to (ICRs) contained in the documents EBSA concerning the circumstances

VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:17 Apr 10, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00086 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\11APN1.SGM 11APN1
15636 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 70 / Wednesday, April 11, 2018 / Notices

governing their request. EBSA relies on the statutory filing requirements by Responses: 6,400,000.
the information provided by the providing that filing with the Estimated Total Burden Hours:
requester to analyze the issue presented Department of Labor would be deemed 198,000.
and provide guidance. The ERISA sufficient notice to both the Department Estimated Total Burden Cost
Procedure has been in use since 1976, and the Department of the Treasury as (Operating and Maintenance):
and the Department has issued required under the statute. The ICR was $2,100,000.
hundreds of advisory opinions and approved by OMB under OMB Control Description: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
information letters under its rules. The Number 1210–0084 and is scheduled to (SOA), enacted on July 30, 2002, added
ICR was approved by OMB under OMB expire on August 31, 2018. ERISA section 101(i), which requires
Control Number 1210–0066 and is Agency: Employee Benefits Security individual account pension plans to
scheduled to expire on August 31, 2018. Administration, Department of Labor. furnish a written notice to participants
Agency: Employee Benefits Security Title: Disclosures by Insurers to and beneficiaries in advance of any
Administration, Department of Labor. General Account Policyholders. ‘‘blackout period’’ during which their
Title: ERISA Technical Release 91–1. Type of Review: Extension of a existing rights to direct or diversify their
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of investments under the plan, or obtain a
currently approved collection of information. loan or distribution from the plan will
information. OMB Number: 1210–0114. be temporarily suspended. Under
OMB Number: 1210–0084. Affected Public: Businesses or other 306(b)(2) of SOA, the Secretary of Labor
Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits. was directed to issue interim final rules
for-profits. Respondents: 32,000. necessary to implement the SOA
Respondents: 10. Responses: 32,000. amendments. The Department’s
Responses: 80,015. Estimated Total Burden Hours: regulation for this purpose is codified at
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 1,668. 135,000. 29 CFR 2520.101–3. The ICR was
Estimated Total Burden Cost Estimated Total Burden Cost approved by OMB under OMB Control
(Operating and Maintenance): $26,898. (Operating and Maintenance): $12,000. Number 1210–0122 and is scheduled to
Description: The information Description: Section 1460 of the Small expire on August 31, 2018.
collection requirements arise from Business Job Protection Act of 1996 Agency: Employee Benefits Security
ERISA section 101(e), which establishes (Pub. L. 104–188) (SBJPA) amended Administration, Department of Labor.
notice requirements that must be added a new section 401(c) to the Title: Annual Information Return/
satisfied before an employer may Employee Retirement Income Security Report of Employee Benefit Plan.
transfer excess assets from a defined Act of 1974 (ERISA). This new section, Type of Review: Extension of a
benefit pension plan to a retiree health inter alia, required the Department to currently approved collection of
benefit account, as permitted under the promulgate a regulation providing information.
conditions set forth in section 420 of the guidance, applicable only to insurance OMB Number: 1210–0110.
Internal Revenue Code of 1986. policies issued on or before December Affected Public: Businesses or other
The notice requirements of section 31, 1998, to or for the benefit of for-profits.
101(e) are two-fold. First, subsection employee benefit plans, to clarify the Respondents: 838,575.
(e)(1) requires plan administrators to extent to which assets held in an Responses: 838,575.
provide advance written notification of insurer’s general account under such Estimated Total Burden Hours:
such transfers to participants and contracts are ‘‘plan assets’’ within the 586,765.
beneficiaries. Second, subsection meaning of the ERISA, because the Estimated Total Burden Cost
(e)(2)(A) requires employers to provide policies are not ‘‘guaranteed benefit (Operating and Maintenance):
advance written notification of such policies’’ within the meaning of section 257,414,600.
transfers to the Secretaries of Labor and 401(b) of ERISA. SBJPA further directed Description: Under Titles I and IV of
the Treasury, the plan administrator, the Department to set standards for how ERISA, and the Internal Revenue Code,
and each employee organization insurers should manage the specified as amended (Code), pension and other
representing participants in the plan. insurance policies (called Transition employee benefit plans generally are
Both notices must be given at least 60 Policies). Pursuant to the authority and required to file annual returns/reports
days before the transfer date. The two direction given under SBJPA, the concerning, among other things, the
subsections prescribe the information to Department promulgated a final financial condition and operations of
be included in each type of notice and regulation on January 5, 2000 (65 FR the plan. Filing the Form 5500, ‘‘Annual
further give the Secretary of Labor the 714), which is codified at 29 CFR Return/Report of Employee Benefit
authority to prescribe how notice to 2550.401c–1. This regulation has not Plan,’’ together with any required
participants and beneficiaries must be been amended subsequently. The ICR attachments and schedules (Form 5500
given and any additional reporting was approved by OMB under OMB Annual Return/Report) through the
requirements deemed necessary. Control Number 1210–0114 and is ERISA Filing Acceptance System 2
Although the Department of Labor has scheduled to expire on August 31, 2018. (EFAST2) generally satisfies these
not issued regulations under section Agency: Employee Benefits Security annual reporting requirements. The
101(e), on May 8, 1991, the Department Administration, Department of Labor. Form 5500 Annual Return/Report is the
published ERISA Technical Release 91– Title: Employee Retirement Income primary source of information
1, to provide guidance on how to satisfy Security Act Blackout Period Notice. concerning the operation, funding,
amozie on DSK30RV082PROD with NOTICES

the notice requirements prescribed by Type of Review: Extension of a assets, and investments of pension and
this section. The Technical Release currently approved collection of other employee benefit plans. In
made two changes in the statutory information. addition to being an important
requirements for the second type of OMB Number: 1210–0122. disclosure document for plan
notice. First, it required the notice to Affected Public: Businesses or other participants and beneficiaries, the Form
include a filing date and the intended for-profits. 5500 Annual Return/Report is a
asset transfer date. Second, it simplified Respondents: 44,000. compliance and research tool for the

VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:17 Apr 10, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00087 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\11APN1.SGM 11APN1
Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 70 / Wednesday, April 11, 2018 / Notices 15637

Department of Labor (Department), mailing address; fax number (optional); ICR covers this recordkeeping
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the email address; company name, contact requirement. The ICR was approved by
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation person; and daytime telephone number. OMB under OMB Control Number
(PBGC) (collectively, the Agencies) and Registrants must also provide an answer 1210–0083 and is scheduled to expire
a source of information and data for use to a challenge question (‘‘What is your on December 31, 2018.
by other federal agencies, Congress, and date of birth?’’ or ‘‘Where is your place Agency: Employee Benefits Security
the private sector in assessing employee of birth?’’), which enables users to Administration, Department of Labor.
benefit, tax, and economic trends and retrieve forgotten credentials. In Title: Settlement Agreements Between
policies. The ICR was approved by OMB addition, registrants must accept a a Plan and a Party in Interest.
under OMB Control Number 1210–0110 Privacy Agreement; PIN Agreement; Type of Review: Extension of a
and is scheduled to expire on August and, under penalty of perjury, a currently approved collection of
31, 2018. Signature Agreement. The ICR was information.
Agency: Employee Benefits Security approved by OMB under OMB Control OMB Number: 1210–0091.
Administration, Department of Labor. Number 1210–0117 and is scheduled to Affected Public: Businesses or other
Title: Registration for EFAST–2 expire on September 30, 2018. for-profits.
Credentials. Agency: Employee Benefits Security Respondents: 6.
Type of Review: Extension of a Administration, Department of Labor. Responses: 1,620.
currently approved collection of Title: PTE 1990–1; Insurance Estimated Total Burden Hours: 42.
information. Company Pooled Separate Accounts. Estimated Total Burden Cost
OMB Number: 1210–0117. Type of Review: Extension of a (Operating and Maintenance): $542.
Affected Public: Businesses or other currently approved collection of Description: Section 408(a) of ERISA
for-profits. information. and section 4975(c)(2) of the Internal
Respondents: 305,000. OMB Number: 1210–0083. Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code) give
Responses: 305,000. Affected Public: Businesses or other the Secretary of Labor the authority to
Estimated Total Burden Hours: for-profits. grant an exemption to a class or order
101,667. Respondents: 96. of fiduciaries, disqualified persons, or
Estimated Total Burden Cost Responses: 960. transactions from all or part of the
(Operating and Maintenance): $0. Estimated Total Burden Hours: 160. restrictions imposed by sections 406
Description: ERISA Section 104 Estimated Total Burden Cost and 407(a) of ERISA and from the taxes
requires administrators of pension and (Operating and Maintenance): $0. imposed by sections 4975(a) and (b) of
welfare benefit plans (collectively, Description: PTE 90–1 provides an the Code, by reason of section 4975(c)(1)
employee benefit plans), and employers exemption from certain provisions of of the Code. This information collection
sponsoring certain fringe benefit plans ERISA relating to transactions involving request (ICR) relates to two prohibited
and other plans of deferred insurance company pooled separate transaction class exemptions (PTEs) that
compensation, to file returns/reports accounts in which employee benefit the Department of Labor (the
annually with the Secretary of Labor plans participate. Without the Department) has granted, both of which
(the Secretary) concerning the financial exemption, sections 406 and 407(a) of involve settlement agreements. These
condition and operation of the plans. ERISA and section 4975(c)(1) of the two exemptions are described below:
Reporting requirements are satisfied by Internal Revenue Code might prohibit a PTE 94–71. Granted on September 30,
filing the Form 5500 in accordance with party in interest to a plan from 1994, PTE 94–71 exempts from certain
its instructions and the related furnishing goods or services to an restrictions of ERISA and certain taxes
regulations. Beginning with plan year insurance company pooled separate imposed by the Code, a transaction or
filings for 1999, Form 5500 filings were account in which the plan has an activity that is authorized, prior to the
processed under the ERISA Filing interest, or prohibit engaging in other execution of the transaction or activity,
Acceptance System (EFAST), which was transactions. Under the exemption, by a settlement agreement resulting
designed to simplify and expedite the persons who are parties in interest to a from an investigation of an employee
receipt and processing of the Form 5500 plan that invests in a pooled separate benefit plan conducted by the
by relying on computer scannable forms account, such as a service provider, may Department.
and electronic filing technologies. engage in otherwise prohibited PTE 2003–39. Granted on December
Beginning with plan year filings for transactions with the separate account if 31, 2005, PTE 03–39 exempts from
2009, Form 5500 filings are processed the plan’s participation in the separate certain restrictions of ERISA and certain
under a new system, the ERISA Filing account does not exceed specified limits taxes imposed by the Code, transactions
Acceptance System 2 (EFAST–2), which and other conditions are met. These arising out of the settlement of litigation
is designed to simplify and expedite the other conditions include a requirement that involve the release of claims against
receipt and processing of the Form 5500 that the party in interest not be the parties in interest in exchange for
by relying on internet-based forms and insurance company, or an affiliate payment by or on behalf of the party in
electronic filing technologies. In order thereof, that holds the plan assets in its interest, provided that certain
to file electronically, employee benefit pooled separate account or other conditions are met.
plan filing authors, schedule authors, separate account. The terms of the Because both exemptions involve
filing signers, Form 5500 transmitters, transaction to which the exemption is settlement agreements, the Department
and entities developing software to applied must be at least as favorable to has combined their information
amozie on DSK30RV082PROD with NOTICES

complete and/or transmit the Form 5500 the pooled separate account as those collection provisions into one ICR and
are required to register for EFAST–2 that would be obtained in a separate has obtained OMB approval for their
credentials through the EFAST–2 arms-length transaction with an paperwork burden. The Department
website. Requested information unrelated party, and the insurance believes that the public and the Federal
includes: Applicant type (filing author, company must maintain records of any government are both best served by
filing signer, schedule author, transaction to which the exemption allowing the public to review and
transmitter, or software developer); applies for a period of six years. This comment on similar exemption

VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:17 Apr 10, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00088 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\11APN1.SGM 11APN1
Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 70 / Wednesday, April 11, 2018 / Notices 15639

Trust REIT or one of its employer distribution regulation establishes a safe all of these actions into one ICR. In the
affiliates, and to authorized employees harbor method by which fiduciaries Department’s view, this combination
and representatives of the Department who are terminating individual account allows the public to have a better
and the Internal Revenue Service. EBSA pension plans (whether abandoned or understanding of the aggregate burden
submitted an ICR for the information not) may select an investment vehicle to imposed on the public for these related
collections in PTE 2004–07 to the Office receive account balances distributed regulatory actions. The ICR was
of Management and Budget (OMB) for from the terminated plan when the approved by OMB under OMB Control
review and clearance in connection participant has failed to provide Number 1210–0127 and is scheduled to
with proposal of the class exemption, investment instructions. The regulation expire on December 31, 2018.
which was published in the Federal requires the fiduciaries to provide
advance notice to participants and I. Focus of Comments
Register on June 3, 2003 (68 FR 33185).
The ICR was approved by OMB under beneficiaries of how such distributions The Department is particularly
OMB Control Number 1210–0124 and is will be invested, if no other investment interested in comments that:
scheduled to expire on December 31, instructions are provided. • Evaluate whether the collections of
2018. 4. Abandoned Plan Class Exemption: information are necessary for the proper
The exemption permits a QTA that performance of the functions of the
Agency: Employee Benefits Security terminates an abandoned plan under the agency, including whether the
Administration, Department of Labor. QTA regulation to receive payment for information will have practical utility;
Title: Abandoned Individual Account its services from the abandoned plan • Evaluate the accuracy of the
Plan Termination. and to distribute the account balance of agency’s estimate of the collections of
Type of Review: Extension of a a participant who has failed to provide information, including the validity of
currently approved collection of investment direction into an individual the methodology and assumptions used;
information. retirement account (IRA) maintained by • Enhance the quality, utility, and
OMB Number: 1210–0127. the QTA or an affiliate. Without the clarity of the information to be
Affected Public: Businesses or other exemption, financial institutions would collected; and
for-profits. be unable to receive payment for • Minimize the burden of the
Respondents: 26,700. services rendered out of plan assets collection of information on those who
Responses: 1,308,000. without violating ERISA’s prohibited are to respond, including through the
Estimated Total Burden Hours: transaction provisions and would use of appropriate automated,
47,700. therefore be highly unlikely to electronic, mechanical, or other
Estimated Total Burden Cost undertake the termination of abandoned technological collection techniques or
(Operating and Maintenance): $689,000. plans. The exemption includes the other forms of information technology,
Description: The abandoned plan condition that the QTA keep records of e.g., by permitting electronic
initiative includes the following actions, the distributions for a period of six years submissions of responses.
which impose the following information and make such records available on Comments submitted in response to
collections: request to interested persons (including this notice will be summarized and/or
1. Qualified Termination the Department and participants and included in the ICRs for OMB approval
Administrator (QTA) Regulation: The beneficiaries). If a QTA wishes to be of the extension of the information
QTA regulation creates an orderly and paid out of plan assets for services collection; they will also become a
efficient process by which a financial provided prior to becoming a QTA, the matter of public record.
institution that holds the assets of a plan exemption requires that the QTA enter
that is deemed to have been abandoned Joseph Piacentini,
into a written agreement with a plan
may undertake to terminate the plan Director, Office of Policy and Research,
fiduciary or the plan sponsor prior to Employee Benefits Security Administration.
and distribute its assets to participants receiving payment and that a copy of
and beneficiaries holding accounts [FR Doc. 2018–07459 Filed 4–10–18; 8:45 am]
the agreement be provided to the
under the plan, with protections and Department. BILLING CODE 4510–29–P
approval of the Department under the 5. PTE 2004–16 (Automatic Rollover
standards of the regulation. The Exemption): Also included in this ICR
regulation requires the QTA to provide DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
are the notice and recordkeeping
certain notices to the Department, to requirements contained in PTE 2004– Occupational Safety and Health
participants and beneficiaries, and to 16, which permits a pension plan Administration
the plan sponsor (or service providers to fiduciary that is a financial institution
the plan, if necessary), and to keep and is also the employer maintaining an [Docket No. OSHA–2011–0190]
certain records pertaining to the individual account pension plan for its
termination. employees to establish, on behalf of its Shipyard Employment Standards;
2. Abandoned Plan Terminal Report separated employees, an IRA at a Extension of the Office of Management
Regulation: The terminal report financial institution that is either the and Budget’s (OMB) Approval of
regulation provides an alternative, employer or an affiliate, which IRA Information Collection (Paperwork)
simplified method for a QTA to satisfy would receive mandatory distributions Requirements
the annual report requirement otherwise that the fiduciary ‘‘rolls over’’ from the AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health
applicable to a terminating plan by plan when an employee terminates Administration (OSHA), Labor.
filing a special simplified terminal employment. ACTION: Request for public comments.
amozie on DSK30RV082PROD with NOTICES

report with the Department after Because all of these regulations and
terminating an abandoned plan and exemptions relate to terminating or SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public
distributing the remaining assets in the abandoned plans and/or to distribution comments concerning its proposal to
individual account plans to participants and rollover of distributed benefits for extend OMB approval of the
and beneficiaries. which no participant investment information collection requirements
3. Terminated Plan Distribution election has been made, the Department contained in the Shipyard Employment
Regulation: The terminated plan has combined the paperwork burden for Standards of Subpart G—Gear and

VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:17 Apr 10, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00090 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\11APN1.SGM 11APN1
Document Created: 2018-04-10 23:59:40
Document Modified: 2018-04-10 23:59:40
Category		Regulatory Information
Collection		Federal Register
sudoc Class		AE 2.7: GS 4.107: AE 2.106:
Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Notices
Action		Notice.
Dates		Written comments must be submitted to the office shown in the
FR Citation		83 FR 15635
83 FR 15635 - Proposed Extension of Information Collection Requests Submitted for Public Comment

DEPARTMENT OF LABOREmployee Benefits Security Administration

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 70 (April 11, 2018)

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employee Benefits Security Administration
