Comment Request for Review of an Expiring Information Collection: Establishment Information Form, Wage Data Collection Form, Wage Data Collection Continuation Form DD 1918, DD 1919, and DD 1919C, 29809-29810 [05-10273]
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8358, FAX (202) 418–3251 or via email
to MaryBeth.Smith-Toomey@opm.gov.
Please include a mailing address with
your request.
DATES: Comments on this proposal
should be received within 60 calendar
days from the date of this publication.
ADDRESSES: Send or deliver comments
to—Pamela S. Israel, Chief, Operations
Support Group, Retirement Services
Program, U.S. Office of Personnel
Management, 1900 E Street, NW., Room
3349, Washington, DC 20415–3540.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Cyrus S. Benson, Team Leader,
Publications Team, RIS Support
Services/Support Group, (202) 606–
0623.
U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Dan G. Blair,
Acting Director.
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL
MANAGEMENT
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request for Extension of a
Revised Information Collection:
Nonforeign Area Cost-of-Living
Allowance Price and Background
Surveys
Office of Personnel
Management.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
has submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget a request for
extension of two previously-approved
information collections for which
approval will soon expire. OPM uses the
two information collections, a price
survey and a background survey, to
gather data to be used in determining
nonforeign area cost-of-living
allowances (COLAs) paid to certain
Federal employees in Alaska, Hawaii,
Guam and the Northern Mariana
Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin
Islands. OPM conducts Price Surveys in
the Washington, DC, area on an annual
basis and once every 3 years in each
allowance area on a rotating basis. Prior
to these surveys, OPM conducts
Background Surveys that are similar to
the Price Surveys, but much more
limited in scope. OPM uses the results
of the Background Surveys to prepare
for the Price Surveys.
The COLA Price Survey is necessary
for collecting living-cost data used to
determine COLAs. OPM uses the Price
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Survey results to compare prices in the
allowance areas with prices in the
Washington, DC, area and to derive
COLA rates where local living costs
significantly exceed those in the DC
area. The COLA Background Survey is
necessary to determine the continued
appropriateness of items, services, and
businesses selected for the annual price
surveys. OPM uses the Background
Survey results to identify items to be
priced and the outlets at which OPM
will price the items in the Price
Surveys.
OPM will survey selected retail,
service, realty, and other businesses and
local governments in the allowance
areas and in the Washington, DC, area.
OPM will contact approximately 2,000
establishments in each annual Price
Survey and approximately 100
establishments in each annual
Background Survey. Participation in the
surveys is voluntary.
OPM estimates that the average price
survey interview will take
approximately 6 minutes, for a total
burden of 200 hours. The average
background survey interview will take
approximately 6.5 minutes, for a total
burden of 11 hours.
For copies of this proposal, please
contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey at
(202) 606–8358; fax: (202) 418–3251; or
E-mail: mbtoomey@opm.gov.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
June 23, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Comments: Send or deliver
comments to:
• Donald J. Winstead, Deputy
Associate Director for Pay and
Performance Policy, Office of Personnel
Management, Room 7H31, 1900 E
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20415–
8200; fax: (202) 606–4264, or e-mail:
cola@opm.gov.; and
• Brenda Aguilar, OPM Desk Officer,
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, New Executive Office Building,
NW., Room 10235, Washington, DC
20503.
Kurt
M. Springmann, (202) 606–2838.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OPM
published notice of its intention to
request an extension of the price and
background surveys in the Federal
Register on February 1, 2005 (70 FR
5258). OPM received no comments.
Office of Personnel Management.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dan G. Blair,
Acting Director.
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL
MANAGEMENT
Comment Request for Review of an
Expiring Information Collection:
Establishment Information Form, Wage
Data Collection Form, Wage Data
Collection Continuation Form DD 1918,
DD 1919, and DD 1919C
Office of Personnel
Management.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13,
May 22, 1995), the Office of Personnel
Management (OPM) seeks comments on
its intention to request Office of
Management and Budget clearance of
three currently approved information
collection forms. The Establishment
Information Form, the Wage Data
Collection Form, and the Wage Data
Collection Continuation Form are wage
survey forms developed by OPM for use
by the Department of Defense to
establish prevailing wage rates for
Federal Wage System employees.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
July 25, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Send or deliver comments
to Donald J. Winstead, Deputy Associate
Director for Pay and Performance
Policy, Office of Personnel Management,
Room 7H31, 1900 E Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20415–8200; fax (202)
606–4264; or e-mail pay-performancepolicy@opm.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Madeline Gonzalez, (202) 606–2838; fax
(202) 606–4264; or e-mail payperformance-policy@opm.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department of Defense contacts
approximately 21,200 businesses
annually to determine the level of wages
paid by private enterprise
establishments for representative jobs
common to both private industry and
the Federal Government. Each survey
collection requires 1–4 hours of
respondent burden, resulting in a total
yearly burden of approximately 75,800
hours.
Comments are particularly invited on
whether (1) this information is
necessary for the proper performance of
OPM functions, (2) it will have practical
utility, (3) our estimate of the public
burden of this collection of information
is accurate and based on valid
assumptions and methodology, and (4)
ways in which we can minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on those who are to respond through the
use of appropriate technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
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For copies of this proposal, contact
Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on (202) 606–
8358, fax (202) 418–3251, or e-mail
mbtoomey@opm.gov. Please include a
mailing address with your request.
Office of Personnel Management.
Dan G. Blair,
Acting Director.
[FR Doc. 05–10273 Filed 5–23–05; 8:45 am]
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION
[Investment Company Act Release No.
26871; 812–12946]
Touchstone Investment Trust, et al.;
Notice of Application
HEARING OR NOTIFICATION OF HEARING: An
order granting the application will be
issued unless the Commission orders a
hearing. Interested persons may request
a hearing by writing to the
Commission’s Secretary and serving
applicants with a copy of the request,
personally or by mail. Hearing requests
should be received by the Commission
by 5:30 p.m. on June 13, 2005, and
should be accompanied by proof of
service on applicants, in the form of an
affidavit or, for lawyers, a certificate of
service. Hearing requests should state
the nature of the writer’s interest, the
reason for the request, and the issues
contested. Persons may request
notification of a hearing by writing to
the Commission’s Secretary.
May 18, 2005.
Securities and Exchange
Commission (‘‘Commission’’).
ACTION: Notice of an application under
section 12(d)(1)(J) of the Investment
Company Act of 1940 (the ‘‘Act’’) for an
exemption from sections 12(d)(1)(A) and
(B) of the Act, under sections 6(c) and
17(b) of the Act for an exemption from
section 17(a) of the Act, and under
section 17(d) of the Act and rule 17d–
1 under the Act to permit certain joint
transactions.
Secretary, Securities and
Exchange Commission, 450 Fifth Street,
NW., Washington, DC 20549–0609.
Applicants, 221 East Fourth Street,
Suite 300, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202–4311.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Marc R. Ponchione, Senior Counsel, at
(202) 551–6874, or Nadya B. Roytblat,
Assistant Director, at (202) 551–6821
(Division of Investment Management,
Office of Investment Company
Regulation).
AGENCY:
Applicants
request an order to permit certain
registered open-end management
investment companies to invest
uninvested cash and cash collateral in
one or more affiliated money market
funds in excess of the limits in sections
12(d)(1)(A) and (B) of the Act.
APPLICANTS: Touchstone Investment
Trust (‘‘TINT’’), Touchstone Strategic
Trust (‘‘TST’’), Touchstone Tax-Free
Trust (‘‘TTFT’’), Touchstone Variable
Series Trust (‘‘TVST’’) (each, a ‘‘Trust,’’
and collectively, the ‘‘Trusts’’), on
behalf of all of the existing and future
series of each Trust (each, a ‘‘Fund,’’
and collectively, the ‘‘Funds’’),
Touchstone Advisors, Inc. (‘‘Touchstone
Advisors’’), and any other registered
open-end management investment
company or series thereof that is now or
in the future advised by Touchstone
Advisors or a person controlling,
controlled by, or under common control
with Touchstone Advisors (each,
including Touchstone Advisors, an
‘‘Advisor’’) (each such investment
company or series thereof included in
the term ‘‘Funds’’).
FILING DATES: The application was filed
on March 20, 2003, and was amended
on May 13, 2005.
SUMMARY OF APPLICATION:
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ADDRESSES:
The
following is a summary of the
application. The complete application
may be obtained for a fee at the
Commission’s Public Reference Desk,
450 Fifth Street, NW., Washington, DC
20549–0102 (tel. 202–551–5850).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Applicants’ Representations
1. The Trusts are Massachusetts
business trusts that are registered under
the Act as open-end management
investment companies. Each Trust is
comprised of a number of Funds, each
with its own investment objectives and
policies.1
2. Touchstone Advisors, an Ohio
corporation and an investment adviser
registered under the Advisers Act of
1940, as amended (‘‘Advisers Act’’), is
the investment adviser to each of the
Funds. Touchstone Advisors has
engaged sub-advisors (‘‘Sub-Advisors’’)
to handle the day-to-day portfolio
management of each of the Funds.2 Each
Sub-Advisor has discretionary authority
to invest all of a particular Fund’s Cash
1 All existing registered investment companies
that currently intend to rely on the requested order
are named as applicants, and any other existing or
future Fund that subsequently relies on the order
will comply with the terms and conditions in the
application.
2 Each Advisor and each Sub-Advisor is or will
be registered under the Advisers Act.
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Balances, as defined below, allocated to
it.
3. TINT, TTFT, and TVST each have
one or more money market Funds that
comply with rule 2a–7 under the Act
(‘‘Money Market Funds’’). The Funds
that are not Money Market Funds (the
‘‘Non-Money Market Funds’’) invest in
a variety of debt and/or equity securities
in accordance with their investment
objectives and policies.
4. Applicants state that each NonMoney Market Fund has, or may be
expected to have cash that has not been
invested in portfolio securities
(‘‘Uninvested Cash’’). Uninvested Cash
may result from a variety of sources,
including, but not limited to, dividends
or interest received from portfolio
securities, unsettled securities
transactions, reserves held for
investment strategy purposes, scheduled
maturity of investments, liquidation of
investment securities to meet
anticipated redemptions and dividend
payments, and new monies received
from investors. The Funds may
implement a securities lending program
in the future under which the Funds
will lend portfolio securities to
registered broker-dealers or other
institutional investors. The loans will be
continuously secured by collateral,
which may include cash (‘‘Cash
Collateral,’’ and together with
Uninvested Cash, ‘‘Cash Balances’’),
equal at all times in value to at least the
market value of the securities loaned.
Any investment of Cash Collateral will
comply with all present and future
applicable Commission or staff
positions regarding securities lending
arrangements.
5. Applicants request an order to
permit the Non-Money Market Funds to
use their Cash Balances to purchase and
redeem shares of the Money Market
Funds, and the Money Market Funds to
sell their shares to, and redeem their
shares as requested by, the Non-Money
Market Funds. Investment of Cash
Balances in shares of the Money Market
Funds will be made only if permitted by
the Non-Money Market Fund’s
investment restrictions and to the extent
consistent with each Non-Money Market
Fund’s investment restrictions and
policies as set forth in its prospectus
and statement of additional information.
Applicants believe that the proposed
transactions may reduce transaction
costs, create more liquidity, increase
returns, and diversify holdings.
Applicants’ Legal Analysis
1. Section 12(d)(1)(A) of the Act
provides that no registered investment
company may acquire the securities of
another investment company if the
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
Comment Request for Review of an Expiring Information Collection:
Establishment Information Form, Wage Data Collection Form, Wage Data
Collection Continuation Form DD 1918, DD 1919, and DD 1919C
AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, May
22, 1995), the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) seeks comments on
its intention to request Office of Management and Budget clearance of
three currently approved information collection forms. The
Establishment Information Form, the Wage Data Collection Form, and the
Wage Data Collection Continuation Form are wage survey forms developed
by OPM for use by the Department of Defense to establish prevailing
wage rates for Federal Wage System employees.
DATES: Submit comments on or before July 25, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Send or deliver comments to Donald J. Winstead, Deputy
Associate Director for Pay and Performance Policy, Office of Personnel
Management, Room 7H31, 1900 E Street, NW., Washington, DC 20415-8200;
fax (202) 606-4264; or e-mail pay-performance-policy@opm.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Madeline Gonzalez, (202) 606-2838; fax
(202) 606-4264; or e-mail pay-performance-policy@opm.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Defense contacts
approximately 21,200 businesses annually to determine the level of
wages paid by private enterprise establishments for representative jobs
common to both private industry and the Federal Government. Each survey
collection requires 1-4 hours of respondent burden, resulting in a
total yearly burden of approximately 75,800 hours.
Comments are particularly invited on whether (1) this information
is necessary for the proper performance of OPM functions, (2) it will
have practical utility, (3) our estimate of the public burden of this
collection of information is accurate and based on valid assumptions
and methodology, and (4) ways in which we can minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those who are to respond through the
use of appropriate technological collection techniques or other forms
of information technology.
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For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, fax (202) 418-3251, or e-mail mbtoomey@opm.gov. Please
include a mailing address with your request.
Office of Personnel Management.
Dan G. Blair,
Acting Director.
[FR Doc. 05-10273 Filed 5-23-05; 8:45 am]
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