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Issued: November 5, 2014.
By order of the Commission.
Lisa R. Barton,
Secretary to the Commission.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employee Benefits Security
Administration
Proposed Extension of Information
Collection Request Submitted for
Public Comment; Revisions to Annual
Return/Report—Multiple Employer
Plans
Employee Benefits Security
Administration, Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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 reporting burden on the public and
helps the public understand the
Department’s information collection
requirements and provide the requested
data in the desired format. Currently,
the Employee Benefits Security
Administration is soliciting comments
on the revision of the Form 5500
information collection to reflect the
hour burden required to implement
annual reporting changes for multiple
employer plans required by the
Cooperative and Small Employer
Charity Pension Flexibility Act. A copy
of the information collection request
(ICR) may be obtained by contacting the
office listed in the ADDRESSES section of
this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office shown in the
Addresses section on or before January
9, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
regarding the information collection
request and burden estimates to G.
Christopher Cosby, Office of Policy and
Research, Employee Benefits Security
Administration, U.S. Department of
Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Room N–5718, Washington, DC 20210.
Telephone: (202) 693–8410; Fax: (202)
219–4745. These are not toll-free
numbers. Comments may also be
SUMMARY:
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submitted electronically to the
following Internet email address:
ebsa.opr@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Background
Section 103 of the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
(ERISA), 29 U.S.C. 1023, and the
regulations issued under that section,
impose annual reporting and filing
obligations on pension and welfare
benefit plans, including multiple
employer plans. Plan administrators,
employers, and others generally satisfy
these annual reporting obligations by
the filing of the Form 5500 Annual
Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan
or Form 5500–SF Annual Return/Report
of Small Employee Benefit Plan,
including any required schedules and
attachments (together ‘‘Form 5500
Annual Return/Report’’), in accordance
with the instructions and related
regulations.
The Form 5500 Annual Return/Report
is the principal source of information
and data available to the Department of
Labor (DOL), the Internal Revenue
Service (IRS), and the Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)
concerning the operations, funding, and
investments of pension and welfare
benefit plans. The Form 5500 Annual
Return/Report constitutes an integral
part of each Agency’s enforcement,
research, and policy formulation
programs, and is 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 Form 5500 Annual Return/Report
also serves as a primary means by which
plan operations can be monitored by
participants and beneficiaries and by
the general public.
The Cooperative and Small Employer
Charity Pension Flexibility Act (the
‘‘CSEC Act’’),1 enacted on April 7, 2014,
created additional annual reporting
requirements for multiple employer
plans covered by Title I of ERISA.
Specifically, section 104(c) of the CSEC
Act amended section 103 of ERISA to
require in section 103(g) that annual
reports of multiple employer plans
include ‘‘a list of participating
employers’’ and, with respect to each
participating employer ‘‘a good faith
estimate of the percentage of total
contributions made by such
participating employers during the plan
year.’’ The effective date provisions in
Section 3 of the CSEC Act make these
new annual reporting requirements
1 Public
Law 113–97, 128 Stat. 1101.
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applicable for plan years beginning after
December 31, 2013.
In order to implement the CSEC Act
requirements in a timely fashion, the
interim final rule published elsewhere
in this Federal Register issue changes
Form 5500 and Form 5500–SF as
follows for plan years beginning after
December 31, 2013. First, certain
conforming revisions to Part I (Annual
Report Identification Information) of the
Form 5500 Annual Return/Report are
being made to facilitate multiple
employer plans using the Form 5500 to
comply with the new requirements
imposed by section 104(c) of the CSEC
Act. Specifically, Line A of Part I of the
Form 5500 and Form 5500–SF currently
provide a box to check if the Form 5500
or Form 5500–SF is being filed for a
multiple employer plan. A parenthetical
is being added next to the box that tells
filers checking the box that they must
attach a list of participating employers
and related information, and directing
them to the form instructions for further
information and directions on the filing
requirements for the attachment. The
instructions to the Form 5500 and Form
5500–SF for that box are also being
amended to include information and
specific directions on completing and
filing the required attachment.
The instructions to the Form 5500 and
Form 5500–SF will now provide that
the Annual Return/Report filed for a
multiple employer plan must include an
attachment that identifies the
participating employers in the plan by
name and employer identification
number (EIN), and includes for each
participating employer an estimate of
the percentage of the contributions
made by the employer relative to the
total contributions made by all
participating employers during the plan
year. The attachment, entitle ‘‘Multiple
Employer Plan Participating Employer
Information,’’ supplements and does not
replace other Form 5500 reporting
requirements that apply to multiple
employer plans.
On October 7, 2014, the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approved the changes to Form 5500
required by the CSEC Act as a revision
to OMB Control Number 1210–0110
under the emergency procedures for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (Pub. L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter
35) and 5 CFR 1320.13. OMB’s approval
of the revision currently is scheduled to
expire on April 30, 2015.
II. Current Actions
This notice requests public comment
pertaining to the Department’s request
for extension of OMB’s approval of its
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revision to OMB Control Number 1210–
0110 relating to the CSEC Act
requirements. After considering
comments received in response to this
notice, the Department intends to
submit an ICR to OMB for continuing
approval. No change to the existing ICR
is proposed or made at this time. The
Department notes that 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 ICR and the current
burden estimates follows:
Agency: Employee Benefits Security
Administration, Department of Labor.
Title: Annual Information Return/
Report.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection of
information.
OMB Number: 1210–0110.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; business or other for-profit;
not-for-profit institutions.
Respondents: 5,527.
Frequency of Responses: Annual.
Responses: 5,527.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 2,764.
Estimated Total Burden Cost
(Operating and Maintenance): $0.
III. Desired Focus of Comments
The Department of Labor
(Department) is particularly interested
in comments that:
• Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is 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 burden of the
proposed collection 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 ICR for OMB approval
of the extension of the information
collection; they will also become a
matter of public record.
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Dated: October 8, 2014.
Joseph S. Piacentini,
Director, Office of Policy and Research,
Employee Benefits Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 2014–26499 Filed 11–7–14; 8:45 am]
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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
SPACE ADMINISTRATION
[Notice: (14–109)]
NASA Advisory Council; Science
Committee; Astrophysics
Subcommittee; Meeting
Subcommittee members were informed
of the meeting date several months ago,
and have made firm schedule
commitments for this meeting. To
mitigate the late publication, the Agency
will issue a NASA Solicitation and
Proposal Integrated Review and
Evaluation System (NSPIRES)
announcement to members of the
scientific community. In addition,
corrective action is being taken by the
Agency to prevent future late meeting
notices.
Patricia D. Rausch,
Advisory Committee Management Officer,
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:
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In accordance with the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public
Law 92–463, as amended, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) announces a meeting of the
Astrophysics Subcommittee of the
NASA Advisory Council (NAC). This
Subcommittee reports to the Science
Committee of the NAC. The meeting
will be held for the purpose of
soliciting, from the scientific
community and other persons, scientific
and technical information relevant to
program planning.
DATES: Friday, November 14, 2014,
11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., Local Time.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Ann Delo, Science Mission Directorate,
NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
20546, (202) 358–0750, fax (202) 358–
2779, or ann.b.delo@nasa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
meeting will be open to the public
telephonically and by WebEx. Any
interested person may call the USA toll
free conference call number 866–844–
9416, Passcode APS, to participate in
this meeting by telephone. The WebEx
link is https://nasa.webex.com/,
meeting number 999–351–851,
Password APS@NOV14.
The agenda for the meeting includes
the following topics:
—Astrophysics Division Update
—Astrophysics Implementation Plan
—James Webb Space Telescope
Observing Policy
—Program Analysis Group Updates
It is imperative that the meeting be
held on this date to accommodate the
scheduling priorities of the key
participants. Due to administrative
error, this advisory committee meeting
notice is being published with less than
15 calendar day advance publication
requirement. Exceptional circumstances
warrant proceeding with the meeting.
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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
SPACE ADMINISTRATION
[Notice: (14–105)]
NASA Advisory Council; Science
Committee; Planetary Protection
Subcommittee; Meeting
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public
Law 92–463, as amended, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) announces a meeting of the
Planetary Protection Subcommittee
(PPS) of the NASA Advisory Council
(NAC). This Subcommittee reports to
the Science Committee of the NAC. The
meeting will be held for the purpose of
soliciting, from the scientific
community and other persons, scientific
and technical information relevant to
program planning.
DATES: Monday, November 17, 2014,
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Tuesday,
November 18, 2014, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00
p.m., Local Time.
ADDRESSES: NASA Headquarters, 300 E
Street SW., Room 6H41, Washington,
DC 20546.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Ann Delo, Science Mission Directorate,
NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
20546, (202) 358–0750, fax (202) 358–
2779.
SUMMARY:
The
meeting will be open to the public up
to the capacity of the room. The meeting
will also be available telephonically and
by WebEx. Any interested person may
call the USA toll free conference call
number 844–467–6272, passcode
229669, to participate in this meeting by
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telephone. The WebEx link is https://
nasa.webex.com/, the meeting number
on November 17, 2014, is 994–009–643,
passcode PPS11172014#; the meeting
telephone conference number on
November 18, 2014, is 844–467–6272,
passcode 229669. The WebEx link is
https://nasa.webex.com/, the meeting
number on November 18, 2014 is 997–
419–246, passcode PPS11182014#.
The agenda for the meeting includes
the following topics:
—Update on NASA Planetary Protection
Activities and Committee on Space
Research (COSPAR)
—Mars 2020 Level I requirements
—Evolvable Mars
—Rosetta
—Europa status planning
—Other related items
Attendees will be requested to sign a
register and to comply with NASA
Headquarters security requirements,
including the presentation of a valid
picture ID before receiving access to
NASA Headquarters. Foreign nationals
attending this meeting will be required
to provide a copy of their passport and
visa in addition to providing the
following information no less than 10
working days prior to the meeting: Full
name; gender; date/place of birth;
citizenship; passport information
(number, country, telephone); visa
information (number, type, expiration
date); employer/affiliation information
(name of institution, address, country,
telephone); title/position of attendee. To
expedite admittance, attendees with
U.S. citizenship and Permanent
Residents (green card holders) can
provide full name and citizenship status
3 working days in advance by
contacting Ann Delo via email at
ann.b.delo@nasa.gov or by fax at (202)
358–2779. It is imperative that the
meeting be held on these dates to
accommodate the scheduling priorities
of the key participants. Due to
administrative error, this advisory
committee meeting notice is being
published with less than 15 calendar
day advance publication requirement.
Exceptional circumstances warrant
proceeding with the meeting.
Subcommittee members were informed
of the meeting date several months ago,
and have made firm schedule
commitments and travel arrangements
for this meeting. To mitigate the late
publication, the Agency will issue a
NASA Solicitation and Proposal
Integrated Review and Evaluation
System (NSPIRES) announcement to
members of the scientific community. In
addition, corrective action is being
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employee Benefits Security Administration
Proposed Extension of Information Collection Request Submitted
for Public Comment; Revisions to Annual Return/Report--Multiple
Employer Plans
AGENCY: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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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 reporting burden on the public and helps
the public understand the Department's information collection
requirements and provide the requested data in the desired format.
Currently, the Employee Benefits Security Administration is soliciting
comments on the revision of the Form 5500 information collection to
reflect the hour burden required to implement annual reporting changes
for multiple employer plans required by the Cooperative and Small
Employer Charity Pension Flexibility Act. A copy of the information
collection request (ICR) may be obtained by contacting the office
listed in the ADDRESSES section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office shown in the
Addresses section on or before January 9, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments regarding the information
collection request and burden estimates to G. Christopher Cosby, Office
of Policy and Research, Employee Benefits Security Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Room N-5718,
Washington, DC 20210. Telephone: (202) 693-8410; Fax: (202) 219-4745.
These are not toll-free numbers. Comments may also be
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submitted electronically to the following Internet email address:
ebsa.opr@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
Section 103 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
(ERISA), 29 U.S.C. 1023, and the regulations issued under that section,
impose annual reporting and filing obligations on pension and welfare
benefit plans, including multiple employer plans. Plan administrators,
employers, and others generally satisfy these annual reporting
obligations by the filing of the Form 5500 Annual Return/Report of
Employee Benefit Plan or Form 5500-SF Annual Return/Report of Small
Employee Benefit Plan, including any required schedules and attachments
(together ``Form 5500 Annual Return/Report''), in accordance with the
instructions and related regulations.
The Form 5500 Annual Return/Report is the principal source of
information and data available to the Department of Labor (DOL), the
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation (PBGC) concerning the operations, funding, and investments
of pension and welfare benefit plans. The Form 5500 Annual Return/
Report constitutes an integral part of each Agency's enforcement,
research, and policy formulation programs, and is 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 Form 5500 Annual Return/Report also serves as
a primary means by which plan operations can be monitored by
participants and beneficiaries and by the general public.
The Cooperative and Small Employer Charity Pension Flexibility Act
(the ``CSEC Act''),\1\ enacted on April 7, 2014, created additional
annual reporting requirements for multiple employer plans covered by
Title I of ERISA. Specifically, section 104(c) of the CSEC Act amended
section 103 of ERISA to require in section 103(g) that annual reports
of multiple employer plans include ``a list of participating
employers'' and, with respect to each participating employer ``a good
faith estimate of the percentage of total contributions made by such
participating employers during the plan year.'' The effective date
provisions in Section 3 of the CSEC Act make these new annual reporting
requirements applicable for plan years beginning after December 31,
2013.
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\1\ Public Law 113-97, 128 Stat. 1101.
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In order to implement the CSEC Act requirements in a timely
fashion, the interim final rule published elsewhere in this Federal
Register issue changes Form 5500 and Form 5500-SF as follows for plan
years beginning after December 31, 2013. First, certain conforming
revisions to Part I (Annual Report Identification Information) of the
Form 5500 Annual Return/Report are being made to facilitate multiple
employer plans using the Form 5500 to comply with the new requirements
imposed by section 104(c) of the CSEC Act. Specifically, Line A of Part
I of the Form 5500 and Form 5500-SF currently provide a box to check if
the Form 5500 or Form 5500-SF is being filed for a multiple employer
plan. A parenthetical is being added next to the box that tells filers
checking the box that they must attach a list of participating
employers and related information, and directing them to the form
instructions for further information and directions on the filing
requirements for the attachment. The instructions to the Form 5500 and
Form 5500-SF for that box are also being amended to include information
and specific directions on completing and filing the required
attachment.
The instructions to the Form 5500 and Form 5500-SF will now provide
that the Annual Return/Report filed for a multiple employer plan must
include an attachment that identifies the participating employers in
the plan by name and employer identification number (EIN), and includes
for each participating employer an estimate of the percentage of the
contributions made by the employer relative to the total contributions
made by all participating employers during the plan year. The
attachment, entitle ``Multiple Employer Plan Participating Employer
Information,'' supplements and does not replace other Form 5500
reporting requirements that apply to multiple employer plans.
On October 7, 2014, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
approved the changes to Form 5500 required by the CSEC Act as a
revision to OMB Control Number 1210-0110 under the emergency procedures
for review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) and 5 CFR 1320.13. OMB's
approval of the revision currently is scheduled to expire on April 30,
2015.
II. Current Actions
This notice requests public comment pertaining to the Department's
request for extension of OMB's approval of its revision to OMB Control
Number 1210-0110 relating to the CSEC Act requirements. After
considering comments received in response to this notice, the
Department intends to submit an ICR to OMB for continuing approval. No
change to the existing ICR is proposed or made at this time. The
Department notes that 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 ICR and the
current burden estimates follows:
Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of
Labor.
Title: Annual Information Return/Report.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection of
information.
OMB Number: 1210-0110.
Affected Public: Individuals or households; business or other for-
profit; not-for-profit institutions.
Respondents: 5,527.
Frequency of Responses: Annual.
Responses: 5,527.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 2,764.
Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $0.
III. Desired Focus of Comments
The Department of Labor (Department) is particularly interested in
comments that:
Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
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
burden of the proposed collection 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 ICR for OMB approval of the extension of the
information collection; they will also become a matter of public
record.
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Dated: October 8, 2014.
Joseph S. Piacentini,
Director, Office of Policy and Research, Employee Benefits Security
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2014-26499 Filed 11-7-14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4510-29-P
