83 FR 2874 - Multiemployer Pension Plan Application To Reduce Benefits
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 13 (January 19, 2018)
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 13 (January 19, 2018)
| Page Range | 2874-2875 | |
| FR Document | 2018-00828 |
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 13 (Friday, January 19, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 2874-2875] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-00828] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Multiemployer Pension Plan Application To Reduce Benefits AGENCY: Department of the Treasury. ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comments. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Board of Trustees of the Alaska Ironworkers Pension Plan, a multiemployer pension plan, has submitted an application to reduce benefits under the plan in accordance with the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014. The purpose of this notice is to announce that the application submitted by the Board of Trustees of the Alaska Ironworkers Pension Plan has been published on the Treasury website, and to request public comments on the application from interested parties, including participants and beneficiaries, employee organizations, and contributing employers of the Alaska Ironworkers Pension Plan. DATES: Comments must be received by March 5, 2018. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov, in accordance with the instructions on that site. Electronic submissions through www.regulations.gov are encouraged. Comments may also be mailed to the Department of the Treasury, MPRA Office, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Room 1224, Washington, DC 20220. Attn: Eric Berger. Comments sent via facsimile and email will not be accepted. Additional Instructions. All comments received, including attachments and other supporting materials, will be made available to the public. Do not include any personally identifiable information (such as Social Security number, name, address, or other contact information) or any other information in your comment or supporting materials that you do not want publicly disclosed. Treasury will make comments available for public inspection and copying on www.regulations.gov or upon request. Comments posted on the internet can be retrieved by most internet search engines. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information regarding the application from the Alaska Ironworkers Pension Plan, please contact Treasury at [(202) 622-1534] (not a toll-free number). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014 (MPRA) amended the Internal [[Page 2875]] Revenue Code to permit a multiemployer plan that is projected to have insufficient funds to reduce pension benefits payable to participants and beneficiaries if certain conditions are satisfied. In order to reduce benefits, the plan sponsor is required to submit an application to the Secretary of the Treasury, which Treasury, in consultation with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and the Department of Labor, is required to approve or deny. On December 19, 2017, the Board of Trustees of the Alaska Ironwokers Pension Plan submitted an application for approval to reduce benefits under the plan. As required by MPRA, that application has been published on Treasury's website at https://auth.treasury.gov/services/Pages/Plan-Applications.aspx. Treasury is publishing this notice in the Federal Register, in consultation with the PBGC and the Department of Labor, to solicit public comments on all aspects of the Alaska Ironworkers Pension Plan application. Comments are requested from interested parties, including participants and beneficiaries, employee organizations, and contributing employers of the Alaska Ironworkers Pension Plan. Consideration will be given to any comments that are timely received by Treasury. Dated: January 11, 2018. David Kautter, Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy. [FR Doc. 2018-00828 Filed 1-18-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4810-25-P
![2874 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 13 / Friday, January 19, 2018 / Notices
11 inches, suitable for copying and CMVs used to travel ‘‘short distances’’ DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
electronic filing. If you submit from a driver’s en route lodgings to
comments by mail and would like to restaurants in the vicinity of such Multiemployer Pension Plan
know that they reached the facility, lodgings. In addition, the 1997 guidance Application To Reduce Benefits
please enclose a stamped, self-addressed explicitly excluded the use of laden AGENCY: Department of the Treasury.
postcard or envelope. vehicles as personal conveyance and the
FMCSA will consider all comments ACTION:Notice of availability; request
operation of the CMV as personal for comments.
and material received during the conveyance by drivers who have been
comment period and may change this placed out of service for HOS violations. SUMMARY: The Board of Trustees of the
guidance based on your comments.
The guidance has remained unchanged Alaska Ironworkers Pension Plan, a
B. Viewing Comments and Documents since 1997. multiemployer pension plan, has
To view comments, go to http:// In the December 19, 2017, proposed submitted an application to reduce
www.regulations.gov. Insert the docket revision to the guidance, the Agency benefits under the plan in accordance
number, FMCSA–2017–0108, in the with the Multiemployer Pension Reform
focused on the reason the driver is
keyword box, and click ‘‘Search.’’ Next, Act of 2014. The purpose of this notice
operating a CMV while off duty, without
click the ‘‘Open Docket Folder’’ button is to announce that the application
regard to whether the CMV is or is not
and choose the document to review. If submitted by the Board of Trustees of
laden. The previous guidance, which the Alaska Ironworkers Pension Plan
you do not have access to the internet, required the CMV to be unladen, was
you may view the docket online by has been published on the Treasury
written for combination vehicles, where website, and to request public
visiting the Docket Management Facility the driver could readily detach the
in Room W12–140 on the ground floor comments on the application from
trailer and use the unladen tractor for interested parties, including
of the DOT West Building, 1200 New personal conveyance. This
Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC participants and beneficiaries, employee
interpretation had the inadvertent effect organizations, and contributing
20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., e.t.,
of not allowing drivers of single-unit employers of the Alaska Ironworkers
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays. work trucks that carry loads, as well as Pension Plan.
tools of trade and related materials, on DATES: Comments must be received by
C. Privacy Act the power unit to document this off- March 5, 2018.
In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), duty time on the RODS. In the absence ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
DOT solicits comments from the public of a trailer, these loads, tools, and other electronically through the Federal
to better inform its regulatory process. equipment cannot reasonably be eRulemaking Portal at http://
DOT posts these comments, without offloaded, left unattended, and reloaded www.regulations.gov, in accordance
edit, including any personal information after the power unit has been used for with the instructions on that site.
the commenter provides, to personal conveyance. This proposed Electronic submissions through
www.regulations.gov, as described in revision to the guidance eliminates the www.regulations.gov are encouraged.
the system of records notice (DOT/ALL– requirement that the CMV be unladen Comments may also be mailed to the
14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at and thus the disparate impact created by Department of the Treasury, MPRA
www.transportation.gov/privacy. the previous guidance. Office, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW,
II. Background Room 1224, Washington, DC 20220.
Request for Extension of the Comment Attn: Eric Berger. Comments sent via
On December 19, 2017 (82 FR 60269), Period facsimile and email will not be
FMCSA published a notice of proposed accepted.
regulatory guidance concerning the use On December 22, 2017, the American
Trucking Associations, Inc. (ATA), Additional Instructions. All
of a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) comments received, including
for personal conveyance. This provision asked that the Agency provide a 30-day
attachments and other supporting
is available to all CMV drivers required extension of the comment period. ATA
materials, will be made available to the
to record their hours of service (HOS) expressed concern that end-of-year tasks public. Do not include any personally
who are permitted by their employer to and holiday periods might make it identifiable information (such as Social
use the vehicle for personal use. The difficult for many interested parties to Security number, name, address, or
proposed regulatory guidance would prepare comments by the original other contact information) or any other
revise Question 26 to 49 CFR 395.8. January 19, deadline. A copy of the ATA information in your comment or
The existing guidance on personal request is in the docket identified at the supporting materials that you do not
conveyance (49 CFR 395.8, Question 26) beginning of this notice. want publicly disclosed. Treasury will
was issued by the Federal Highway make comments available for public
Administration (FHWA), FMCSA’s FMCSA acknowledges ATA’s
concerns. After reviewing the request, inspection and copying on
predecessor agency, in a memorandum www.regulations.gov or upon request.
dated November 18, 1996, and later FMCSA hereby grants a 30-day
extension of the comment period to Comments posted on the internet can be
published in a compilation of guidance retrieved by most internet search
(62 FR 16370, 16426, April 4, 1997). The February 20, 2018, to provide all
interested parties additional time to engines.
guidance reiterated the basic principle
that a driver in off-duty status must be respond to the notice of proposed FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES
relieved from work and all regulatory guidance. information regarding the application
responsibility for performing work. It Issued on: January 12, 2018.
from the Alaska Ironworkers Pension
highlighted the use of the CMV as a Plan, please contact Treasury at [(202)
Larry W. Minor, 622–1534] (not a toll-free number).
personal conveyance in traveling to and
from the place of employment (e.g., the Associate Administrator for Policy.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
normal work reporting location). The [FR Doc. 2018–00878 Filed 1–18–18; 8:45 am] Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of
1997 guidance included discussion of BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 2014 (MPRA) amended the Internal
VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:05 Jan 18, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00108 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\19JAN1.SGM 19JAN1](https://thefederalregister.org/doc/83_FR_2887/page/1.svg)
![Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 13 / Friday, January 19, 2018 / Notices 2875
Revenue Code to permit a FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 05 Aug 1976; nationality China; Additional
multiemployer plan that is projected to OFAC: Associate Director for Global Sanctions Information—Subject to Secondary
have insufficient funds to reduce Targeting, tel.: 202–622–2420; Assistant Sanctions; Gender Male; Passport PE0475719
(China) expires 14 Nov 2019 (individual)
pension benefits payable to participants Director for Sanctions Compliance & [NPWMD] [IFSR].
and beneficiaries if certain conditions Evaluation, tel.: 202–622–2490; Designated pursuant to section 1(a)(iii) of
are satisfied. In order to reduce benefits, Assistant Director for Licensing, tel.: E.O. 13382 for having provided, or attempted
the plan sponsor is required to submit 202–622–2480; or the Department of the to provide, financial, material, technological
an application to the Secretary of the Treasury’s Office of the General or other support for, or goods or services in
Treasury, which Treasury, in Counsel: Office of the Chief Counsel support of, SHIRAZ ELECTRONICS
consultation with the Pension Benefit (Foreign Assets Control), tel.: 202–622– INDUSTRIES, a person whose property and
interests in property are blocked pursuant to
Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and the 2410.
E.O. 13382, and section 1(a)(iv) of E.O. 13382
Department of Labor, is required to SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: for acting or purporting to act for or on
approve or deny. behalf, directly or indirectly, WUHAN
On December 19, 2017, the Board of Electronic Availability
SANJIANG IMPORT AND EXPORT CO. LTD,
Trustees of the Alaska Ironwokers The Specially Designated Nationals a person whose property and interests in
Pension Plan submitted an application and Blocked Persons List and additional property are blocked pursuant to E.O. 13382.
for approval to reduce benefits under information concerning OFAC sanctions 4. ZIAEI, Gholamreza, Karaj, Iran;
programs are available on OFAC’s Additional Sanctions Information—Subject
the plan. As required by MPRA, that to Secondary Sanctions; Gender Male
application has been published on website (www.treas.gov/ofac). (individual) [IRAN–HR].
Treasury’s website at https:// Notice of OFAC Actions Designated pursuant to section 1(a)(ii)(C) of
auth.treasury.gov/services/Pages/Plan- E.O. 13553 for having acted or purported to
Applications.aspx. Treasury is On January 12, 2018, OFAC act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly,
publishing this notice in the Federal determined that the property and RAJAEE SHAHR PRISON.
Register, in consultation with the PBGC interests in property subject to U.S. 5. ZHU, Yuequn; DOB 01 Nov 1979; POB
and the Department of Labor, to solicit jurisdiction of the following persons are Jiangsu, China; nationality China; Additional
blocked under the relevant sanctions Sanctions Information—Subject to Secondary
public comments on all aspects of the Sanctions; Gender Male; Passport G40986974
Alaska Ironworkers Pension Plan authorities listed below.
(China) expires 01 Mar 2020 (individual)
application. Individuals [NPWMD] [IFSR].
Comments are requested from Designated pursuant to section 1(a)(iv) of
1. LARIJANI, Sadegh Amoli (a.k.a. E.O. 13382 for acting or purporting to act for
interested parties, including LARIJANI, Sadegh; a.k.a. LARIJANI, Sadeq;
participants and beneficiaries, employee or on behalf, directly or indirectly,
a.k.a. LARIJANI, Sadeq Ardeshir; a.k.a. BOCHUANG CERAMIC, INC.
organizations, and contributing LARIJANI–AMOLI, Sadegh Ardeshir), Iran;
employers of the Alaska Ironworkers DOB 1960; POB Najaf, Iraq; Additional Entities
Pension Plan. Consideration will be Sanctions Information—Subject to Secondary 1. BOCHUANG CERAMIC, INC., A101
given to any comments that are timely Sanctions; Gender Male; Ayatollah; Head of Songgang Industry Park, No. 368 West Yindu
received by Treasury. the Judiciary (individual) [IRAN–HR]. Road, Shanghai 201612, China; website
Designated pursuant to section 1(a)(ii)(A) http://www.boceramic.com; Additional
Dated: January 11, 2018. of Executive Order 13553 of September 28, Sanctions Information—Subject to Secondary
David Kautter, 2010, ‘‘Blocking Property of Certain Persons Sanctions [NPWMD] [IFSR].
Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy. With Respect to Serious Human Rights Designated pursuant to sections 1(a)(iii) of
Abuses by the Government of Iran and E.O. 13382 for having provided, or attempted
[FR Doc. 2018–00828 Filed 1–18–18; 8:45 am]
Taking Certain Other Actions’’ (‘‘E.O. to provide, financial, material, technological
BILLING CODE 4810–25–P 13553’’), for being an official of the or other support for, or goods or services in
Government of Iran or a person acting on support of, PARDAZAN SYSTEM NAMAD
behalf of the Government of Iran (including ARMAN.
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY members of paramilitary organizations) who 2. GREEN WAVE TELECOMMUNICATION
is responsible for or complicit in, or (a.k.a. GREEN WAVE TECHNOLOGIES; a.k.a.
Office of Foreign Assets Control responsible for ordering, controlling, or GREEN WAVE TELECOMMUNICATION
otherwise directing, the commission of SDN BHD; a.k.a. GREENWAVE TELECOM;
Notice of OFAC Sanctions Actions serious human rights abuses against persons a.k.a. ‘‘GREEN WAVE’’; a.k.a. ‘‘GREEN
in Iran or Iranian citizens or residents, or the WAVE COMPANY’’; a.k.a. ‘‘GWT’’), 8, 12, 9,
AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets family members of the foregoing, on or after Menara Mutiara, Bangsar, Jalan Liku, Off
Control, Treasury. June 12, 2009, regardless of whether such Jalan Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur 59100,
ACTION: Notice. abuses occurred in Iran. Malaysia; website gwt.com.my; Additional
2. RAZAVI, Morteza (a.k.a. RAZAVI, Seyed Sanctions Information—Subject to Secondary
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the Morteza; a.k.a. REZAVI, Mortaza); DOB 09 Sanctions; Registration ID 880140–W
Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Apr 1973; POB Tehran, Iran; Additional (Malaysia) [NPWMD] [IFSR].
Control (OFAC) is publishing the names Sanctions Information—Subject to Secondary Designated pursuant to sections 1(a)(iii)
Sanctions; Gender Male (individual) and 1(a)(iv) of E.O. 13382 for having
of one or more persons that have been [NPWMD] [IFSR]. provided, or attempted to provide, financial,
placed on OFAC’s Specially Designated Designated pursuant to section 1(a)(iv) of material, technological or other support for,
Nationals and Blocked Persons List Executive Order 13382 of June 28, 2005, or goods or services in support of, and for
based on OFAC’s determination that one ‘‘Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass being owned or controlled by, FANAMOJ, a
or more applicable legal criteria were Destruction Proliferators and Their person whose property and interests in
daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES
satisfied. All property and interests in Supporters’’ (‘‘E.O. 13382’’), for acting for or property are blocked pursuant to E.O. 13382.
property subject to U.S. jurisdiction of on behalf of, directly or indirectly, 3. IRAN AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES (a.k.a.
these persons are blocked, and U.S. FANAMOJ, a person whose property and IRAN AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES CO.; a.k.a.
persons are generally prohibited from interests in property are blocked pursuant to ‘‘IACI’’; a.k.a. ‘‘SAHA’’), Km 3 Karaj Special
E.O. 13382, and GREEN WAVE Road, Ekbatan City, Azadi Square, Tehran,
engaging in transactions with them. TELECOMMUNICATION. Iran; P.O. Box 14155–1449, Iran; Additional
DATES: See Supplementary Information 3. YUHUA, Shi (a.k.a. HUA, Shi Yu; a.k.a. Sanctions Information—Subject to Secondary
section. SHI, Yuhua; a.k.a. ‘‘SHI, Arlex’’), China; DOB Sanctions [NPWMD] [IFSR].
VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:05 Jan 18, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00109 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\19JAN1.SGM 19JAN1](https://thefederalregister.org/doc/83_FR_2887/page/2.svg)
Document Created: 2018-01-19 02:42:32
Document Modified: 2018-01-19 02:42:32
| 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 of availability; request for comments. | |
| Dates | Comments must be received by March 5, 2018. | |
| Contact | For information regarding the application from the Alaska Ironworkers Pension Plan, please contact Treasury at [(202) 622-1534] (not a toll-free number). | |
| FR Citation | 83 FR 2874 |
2025 Federal Register | Disclaimer | Privacy Policy
USC | CFR | eCFR