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generally not required to respond to an
information collection, unless it is
approved by the OMB under the PRA
and displays a currently valid OMB
Control Number. In addition,
notwithstanding any other provisions of
law, no person shall generally be subject
to penalty for failing to comply with a
collection of information that does not
display a valid Control Number. See 5
CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6. The DOL
obtains OMB approval for this
information collection under Control
Number 1219–0054. The current
approval is scheduled to expire on
January 31, 2013; however, it should be
noted that existing information
collection requirements submitted to the
OMB receive a month-to-month
extension while they undergo review.
This ICR has been classified as a
revision for technical reasons. This ICR
would move burden associated with
information collection requirements
contained in regulations 30 CFR 75–
1103–5(a)(2)(ii) and 75.1103–8(b) and
(c) from Control Number 1219–0145 to
1219–0054; however, the actual
requirements will remain unchanged.
The DOL intends to submit a
corresponding non-material change
under Control Number 1219–0145 to the
OMB after receiving a Notice of Action
approving Control Number 1219–0054
with the new burden. For additional
information, see the related notice
published in the Federal Register on
September 19, 2012 (77 FR 58170).
Interested parties are encouraged to
send comments to the OMB, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs at
the address shown in the ADDRESSES
section within 30 days of publication of
this notice in the Federal Register. In
order to help ensure appropriate
consideration, comments should
mention OMB Control Number 1219–
0054. The OMB 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
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other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Agency: DOL–MSHA.
Title of Collection: Fire Protection in
Underground Coal Mines.
OMB Control Number: 1219–0054.
Affected Public: Private Sector—
businesses or other for-profits.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 549.
Total Estimated Number of
Responses: 294,618.
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: 54,809.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs
Burden: $693.
Dated: January 23, 2013.
Michel Smyth,
Departmental Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request;
Unemployment Compensation for ExServicemembers
ACTION:
Notice.
The Department of Labor
(DOL) is submitting the Employment
and Training Administration (ETA)
sponsored information collection
request (ICR) titled, ‘‘Unemployment
Compensation for Ex-Servicemembers,’’
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval for
continued use in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
DATES: Submit comments on or before
February 28, 2013.
ADDRESSES: A copy of this ICR with
applicable supporting documentation;
including a description of the likely
respondents, proposed frequency of
response, and estimated total burden
may be obtained from the RegInfo.gov
Web site, https://www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain, on the day
following publication of this notice or
by contacting Michel Smyth by
telephone at 202–693–4129 (this is not
a toll-free number) or sending an email
to DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
Submit comments about this request
to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk
Officer for DOL–ETA, Office of
Management and Budget, Room 10235,
725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC
20503, Fax: 202–395–6881 (this is not a
SUMMARY:
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toll-free number), email:
OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michel Smyth by telephone at 202–693–
4129 (this is not a toll-free number) or
by email at DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D).
The
Unemployment Compensation for ExServicemembers Act (UCXA), 5 U.S.C.
8521 et seq., provides unemployment
insurance protection to former members
of the Armed Forces. The UCXA
requires a State Workforce Agency
(SWA) to administer the Unemployment
Compensation for Ex-Servicemembers
(UCX) Program in accordance with the
same terms and conditions of State
unemployment insurance law that apply
to unemployed claimants who have
worked in the private sector. Each SWA
must obtain certain military service
information about a claimant filing for
UCX benefits in order to make a benefiteligibility determination. A SWA may
record or obtain required UCX
information on Form ETA–843, Request
for Military Document and Information.
Use of this form may be essential to the
UCX claims process. Optional-use Form
ETA–841, Request for Determination of
Federal Military Service and Wages, is
also part of this information collection.
Information pertaining to the UCX
claimant can only be obtained from the
individual’s military discharge papers,
the appropriate branch of military
service, or the Department of Veterans’
Affairs. Without a claimant’s military
information, a SWA cannot adequately
determine the eligibility of exservicemembers and would not be
properly able to administer the program.
This information collection is subject
to the PRA. A Federal agency generally
cannot conduct or sponsor a collection
of information, and the public is
generally not required to respond to an
information collection, unless it is
approved by the OMB under the PRA
and displays a currently valid OMB
Control Number. In addition,
notwithstanding any other provisions of
law, no person shall generally be subject
to penalty for failing to comply with a
collection of information that does not
display a valid Control Number. See 5
CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6. The DOL
obtains OMB approval for this
information collection under Control
Number 1205–0176. The current
approval is scheduled to expire on
January 31, 2013; however, it should be
noted that existing information
collection requirements submitted to the
OMB receive a month-to-month
extension while they undergo review.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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For additional information, see the
related notice published in the Federal
Register on September 18, 2012 (77 FR
57595).
Interested parties are encouraged to
send comments to the OMB, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs at
the address shown in the ADDRESSES
section within 30 days of publication of
this notice in the Federal Register. In
order to help ensure appropriate
consideration, comments should
mention OMB Control Number 1205–
0176. The OMB 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., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Agency: DOL–ETA.
Title of Collection: Unemployment
Compensation for Ex-Servicemembers.
OMB Control Number: 1205–0176.
Affected Public: State, Local, and
Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 53.
Total Estimated Number of
Responses: 6,172.
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: 103.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs
Burden: $0.
Dated: January 23, 2013.
Michel Smyth,
Departmental Clearance Officer.
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EBSA, (202) 693–8360. (This is not a
toll-free number.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employee Benefits Security
Administration
RIN 1210–ZA15
Delinquent Filer Voluntary Compliance
Program
Employee Benefits Security
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice, Changes to the
Delinquent Filer Voluntary Compliance
Program.
AGENCY:
This Notice describes changes
to the Department of Labor’s
(Department) Delinquent Filer
Voluntary Compliance Program (DFVC
Program or Program). Administrators of
employee benefit plans subject to Title
I of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) who fail
to file annual reports on a timely basis
can be subject to civil penalties under
section 502(c)(2) of ERISA. The DFVC
Program is intended to encourage
delinquent plan administrators to
comply with their annual reporting
obligations under ERISA through the
assessment of reduced civil penalties.
The DFVC Program was initially
adopted in 1995 and was last updated
in a published Federal Register Notice
on March 28, 2002 (2002 Notice). The
Department’s DFVC Program Web site
has been updated periodically since
2002 to reflect the adoption of technical
changes to the Program. Most recently,
the DFVC Program Web site was
updated to reflect the Department’s final
regulation mandating electronic filing of
annual reports as part of the
implementation of a wholly electronic
ERISA Filing Acceptance System
(EFAST2) for those reports. (See
www.dol.gov/ebsa.) This Notice also
describes an existing online penalty
calculator and Internet-based payment
system for the DFVC Program. (See
https://www.dol.gov/ebsa/calculator/
dfvcpmain.html). This Notice is
intended to be a comprehensive update
and restatement of the DFVC Program
that incorporates the changes that have
been made in the DFVC Program since
the 2002 Notice.
DATES: The DFVC Program described
herein is effective immediately on
publication, and it supersedes and
replaces the DFVC Program Notice
published in the Federal Register on
March 28, 2002 (67 FR 15062).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
questions regarding the DFVC Program,
including making an application,
contact Jennifer C. Warner or Scott C.
Albert, Office of the Chief Accountant,
SUMMARY:
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A. Background
The Secretary of Labor has the
authority under section 502(c)(2) of
ERISA to assess civil penalties of up to
$1,100 1 a day against plan
administrators who fail or refuse to file
complete and timely annual reports as
required under section 101(b) of ERISA
and the Secretary’s regulations.
Pursuant to 29 CFR 2560.502c–2 and 29
CFR 2570.60 et seq., EBSA maintains an
enforcement program for the assessment
of civil penalties under section 502(c)(2)
of ERISA for noncompliance with
ERISA’s annual reporting requirements.
Under this enforcement program, plan
administrators who fail to file an annual
report may be assessed a penalty of $300
per day, up to $30,000 per year, until a
complete annual report is filed. Plan
administrators who file but file late
annual reports may be assessed $50 per
day for each day an annual report is
filed after the date on which the annual
report was required to be filed, without
regard to any extensions of time for
filing. The Department may, in its
discretion, waive all or part of a civil
penalty assessed under section 502(c)(2)
of ERISA upon a showing by the
administrator that there was reasonable
cause for the failure to file a complete
and timely annual report or that there
was reasonable cause why the penalty,
as calculated, should not be assessed.
In an effort to encourage plan
administrators to voluntarily comply
with the annual reporting requirements
under Title I of ERISA, the Department
adopted the DFVC Program. The DFVC
Program was initially adopted on April
27, 1995 (60 FR 20874), and amended
by Notice published on March 28, 2002
(67 FR 15052). The Program permits
administrators otherwise subject to the
assessment of higher civil penalties for
failing to file a timely annual report to
pay reduced civil penalties for
voluntarily complying with the
requirement to file an annual report
under Title I of ERISA. Eligible plan
administrators have been able to avail
themselves of the DFVC Program by
filing their delinquent Form 5500,
‘‘Annual Return/Report of Employee
Benefit Plan,’’ together with all required
schedules and attachments (Form 5500)
in accordance with applicable filing
1 In accordance with the requirements of the
Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of
1990, as amended, the Department’s regulation at
29 CFR 2575.502c–2 increased the maximum civil
penalty from $1,000 a day as stated in section
502(c)(2) of ERISA to $1,100 a day for violations
occurring after July 29, 1997.
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[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 2013-01850]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Unemployment Compensation for Ex-
Servicemembers
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting the Employment and
Training Administration (ETA) sponsored information collection request
(ICR) titled, ``Unemployment Compensation for Ex-Servicemembers,'' to
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval for
continued use in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
DATES: Submit comments on or before February 28, 2013.
ADDRESSES: A copy of this ICR with applicable supporting documentation;
including a description of the likely respondents, proposed frequency
of response, and estimated total burden may be obtained from the
RegInfo.gov Web site, https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain, on the
day following publication of this notice or by contacting Michel Smyth
by telephone at 202-693-4129 (this is not a toll-free number) or
sending an email to DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
Submit comments about this request to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for DOL-ETA, Office of
Management and Budget, Room 10235, 725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC
20503, Fax: 202-395-6881 (this is not a toll-free number), email:
OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michel Smyth by telephone at 202-693-
4129 (this is not a toll-free number) or by email at DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Unemployment Compensation for Ex-
Servicemembers Act (UCXA), 5 U.S.C. 8521 et seq., provides unemployment
insurance protection to former members of the Armed Forces. The UCXA
requires a State Workforce Agency (SWA) to administer the Unemployment
Compensation for Ex-Servicemembers (UCX) Program in accordance with the
same terms and conditions of State unemployment insurance law that
apply to unemployed claimants who have worked in the private sector.
Each SWA must obtain certain military service information about a
claimant filing for UCX benefits in order to make a benefit-eligibility
determination. A SWA may record or obtain required UCX information on
Form ETA-843, Request for Military Document and Information. Use of
this form may be essential to the UCX claims process. Optional-use Form
ETA-841, Request for Determination of Federal Military Service and
Wages, is also part of this information collection. Information
pertaining to the UCX claimant can only be obtained from the
individual's military discharge papers, the appropriate branch of
military service, or the Department of Veterans' Affairs. Without a
claimant's military information, a SWA cannot adequately determine the
eligibility of ex-servicemembers and would not be properly able to
administer the program.
This information collection is subject to the PRA. A Federal agency
generally cannot conduct or sponsor a collection of information, and
the public is generally not required to respond to an information
collection, unless it is approved by the OMB under the PRA and displays
a currently valid OMB Control Number. In addition, notwithstanding any
other provisions of law, no person shall generally be subject to
penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information that
does not display a valid Control Number. See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and
1320.6. The DOL obtains OMB approval for this information collection
under Control Number 1205-0176. The current approval is scheduled to
expire on January 31, 2013; however, it should be noted that existing
information collection requirements submitted to the OMB receive a
month-to-month extension while they undergo review.
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For additional information, see the related notice published in the
Federal Register on September 18, 2012 (77 FR 57595).
Interested parties are encouraged to send comments to the OMB,
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the address shown in
the ADDRESSES section within 30 days of publication of this notice in
the Federal Register. In order to help ensure appropriate
consideration, comments should mention OMB Control Number 1205-0176.
The OMB 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., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
Agency: DOL-ETA.
Title of Collection: Unemployment Compensation for Ex-
Servicemembers.
OMB Control Number: 1205-0176.
Affected Public: State, Local, and Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 53.
Total Estimated Number of Responses: 6,172.
Total Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 103.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $0.
Dated: January 23, 2013.
Michel Smyth,
Departmental Clearance Officer.
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