Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request, 43941-43942 [2013-17421]

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NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION General Information Sunshine Act; Notice of Agency Meeting tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES The attention of interested persons is directed to the following: (1) The fact that a transaction is the subject of an exemption under section 408(a) of the Act and/or section 4975(c)(2) of the Code does not relieve a fiduciary or other party in interest or disqualified person from certain other provisions of the Act and/or the Code, including any prohibited transaction provisions to which the exemption does not apply and the general fiduciary responsibility provisions of section 404 of the Act, which, among other things, require a fiduciary to discharge his duties respecting the plan solely in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the plan and in a prudent fashion in accordance with section 404(a)(1)(b) of the Act; nor does it affect the requirement of section 401(a) of the Code that the plan must operate for the exclusive benefit of the employees of the employer maintaining the plan and their beneficiaries; (2) Before an exemption may be granted under section 408(a) of the Act and/or section 4975(c)(2) of the Code, the Department must find that the exemption is administratively feasible, in the interests of the plan and of its participants and beneficiaries, and protective of the rights of participants and beneficiaries of the plan; (3) The proposed exemptions, if granted, will be supplemental to, and not in derogation of, any other provisions of the Act and/or the Code, including statutory or administrative exemptions and transitional rules. Furthermore, the fact that a transaction is subject to an administrative or statutory exemption is not dispositive of whether the transaction is in fact a prohibited transaction; and (4) The proposed exemptions, if granted, will be subject to the express condition that the material facts and representations contained in each application are true and complete, and that each application accurately describes all material terms of the transaction which is the subject of the exemption. Signed at Washington, DC, this 12th day of July 2013. Lyssa E. Hall, Director, Office of Exemption Determinations, Employee Benefits Security Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. [FR Doc. 2013–17498 Filed 7–19–13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4510–29–P VerDate Mar<15>2010 17:15 Jul 19, 2013 Jkt 229001 10:00 a.m., Thursday, July 25, 2013 PLACE: Board Room, 7th Floor, Room 7047, 1775 Duke Street (All visitors must use Diagonal Road Entrance), Alexandria, VA 22314–3428 STATUS: Open MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 1. Interpretive Ruling and Policy Statement, Minority Credit Union Preservation Program. 2. Board Briefing—Interagency Proposal, Joint Diversity Standards for Regulated Entities. 3. NCUA’s Rules and Regulations, Electronic Filing of Financial Reports. 4. Request from San Francisco FCU to Expand its Community Charter Boundaries. 5. Quarterly Insurance Fund Report. 6. 2013 Temporary Corporate Credit Union Stabilization Fund Assessment. 7. Reprogramming of NCUA’s Operating Budget for 2013. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Rupp, Secretary of the Board, Telephone: 703–518–6304 TIME AND DATE: Mary Rupp, Secretary of the Board. [FR Doc. 2013–17651 Filed 7–18–13; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 7535–01–P NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request National Science Foundation. Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request. AGENCY: ACTION: The National Science Foundation (NSF) has submitted the following information collection requirement to OMB for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104– 13. This is the second notice for public comment; the first was published in the Federal Register at 78 FR 23598, and no comments were received. NSF is forwarding the proposed renewal submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance simultaneously with the publication of this second notice. The full submission may be found at: https:// www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Comments regarding (a) whether the collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00094 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 43941 functions f the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate of burden including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information to be collected; (d) ways to 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 should be addressed to: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for National Science Foundation, 725—17th Street NW. Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, and to Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1265, Arlington, Virginia 22230 or send email to splimpto@nsf.gov. Comments regarding these information collections are best assured of having their full effect if received within 30 days of this notification. Copies of the submission(s) may be obtained by calling 703–292–7556. NSF may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless the collection of information displays a currently valid OMB control number and the agency informs potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information that such persons are not required to respond to the collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title of Collection: International Cover Page Addendum OMB Control No.: 3145–0205. Abstract: The Office of International Science and Engineering within the Office of the NSF Director will use the International Cover Page Addendum. Principal Investigators submitting proposals to this Office will be asked to complete an electronic version of the International Cover Page Addendum. The Addendum requests foreign counterpart investigator/host information and participant demographics not requested elsewhere in NSF proposal documents. The information gathered with the International Cover Page Addendum serves four purposes. The first is to enable proposal assignment to the program officer responsible for activity with the primary countries involved. No current component of a standard NSF proposal requests this information. (The international cooperative activities box E:\FR\FM\22JYN1.SGM 22JYN1 43942 Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 140 / Monday, July 22, 2013 / Notices on the standard NSF Cover Page applies only to one specific type of activity, not the wide range of activities supported by OISE.) NSF proposal assignment applications are program element-based and therefore can not be used to determine assignment by country. The second use of the information is program management. OISE is committed to investing in activities in all regions of the world. With data from this form, the Office can determine submissions by geographic region. Thirdly, funding decisions can not be made without details for the international partner not included in any other part of the submission process. The fourth section, counts of scientists and students to be supported by the project, are also not available elsewhere in the proposal since OISE budgets do not include participant support costs. These factors are all important for OISE program management. Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 600. Burden on the Public: 150 hours (15 minutes per respondent). Dated: July 16, 2013. Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation. [FR Doc. 2013–17421 Filed 7–19–13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7555–01–P PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION Submission of Information Collection for OMB Review; Comment Request; Data To Study Multiemployer Plan Guaranty Program Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. ACTION: Notice of request for OMB approval. AGENCY: The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is requesting that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approve, under the Paperwork Reduction Act, a voluntary collection of information to assist PBGC in modeling potential outcomes of pension plans insured under its multiemployer program. This notice informs the public of the PBGC’s request and solicits public comment on the collection of information. tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: Comments should be submitted by August 21, 2013. ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and DATES: VerDate Mar<15>2010 18:15 Jul 19, 2013 Jkt 229001 Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, via electronic mail at OIRA_DOCKET@omb.eop.gov or by fax to (202) 395–6974. Copies of the request (including the collection of information) may be obtained without charge by writing to the Disclosure Division of the Office of the General Counsel of PBGC at Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, 1200 K Street NW., Washington, DC 20005– 4026 or by visiting the Disclosure Division or calling 202–326–4040 during normal business hours. (TTY and TDD users may call the Federal relay service toll-free at 1–800–877–8339 and ask to be connected to 202–326–4040.) The Disclosure Division will email, fax, or mail the requested information to you, as you request. The request will also be posted on PBGC’s Web site at https://www.pbgc.gov/res/laws-andregulations/information-collectionsunder-omb-review.html. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dan Liebman Attorney, Regulatory Affairs Group, Office of the General Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, 1200 K Street NW., Washington, DC 20005–4026, liebman.daniel@pbgc.gov or 202–326–4400, ext. 6510. (For TTY and TDD, call 800–877–8339 and request connection to 202–326–4000, ext. 6779.) SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Pension Protection Act of 2006 (Pub. L. 109–280) (PPA) requires the actuary of a multiemployer plan in effect on July 16, 2006 to certify the plan’s status within certain zones established under PPA to the plan’s trustees and the Secretary of the Treasury within 90 days after the beginning of each plan year. The certification must state whether or not the plan meets any of the tests to be in critical status or endangered status and for a plan already in critical or endangered status, whether the plan is progressing as scheduled toward the applicable statutory target for improved funding. Plans in endangered and critical status are restricted with respect to the types of actions they may take and the types of amendments they may adopt, as well as required to follow special rules during the adoption period of collective bargaining agreements. PBGC is researching the effects of potential changes to its multiemployer program. PBGC’s objective is to quantify the effect of potential policy proposals on multiemployer plans that are or could enter critical status with respect to projected dates of insolvency, amount of financial assistance that PBGC would be required to provide, and the benefit PO 00000 Frm 00095 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 changes plan participants would experience. To assist in this research, PBGC is requesting that OMB approve an information collection request of multiemployer pension plans, their actuarial service providers, and their stakeholders, including unions and relevant professional and trade organizations. PBGC would request the following types of information (which are routinely provided to plan actuaries): • The most recent actuarial valuation report. • The most recent cash flow projections that the plan actuary developed in connection with the plan’s rehabilitation plan annual update and a summary of the actuarial assumptions utilized in the projections. • Participant census data, including accrued benefit, date of birth, date credited service began (for both active and inactive participants, if available), gender, form of payment and other data for participants in pay status, and any plan specific data needed to replicate actuarial valuation results. PBGC believes the data requested would be readily available and there would be no need to assemble new information. PBGC would not ask for any personally identifiable information (such as name, address, social security number, etc.) in the participant census data. This information collection would be voluntary on the part of respondents and any information provided in response to this request would not be used for any PBGC enforcement activities. Instead, such information will be used only for research into policy alternatives and would be subject to PBGC’s standard confidentiality agreement. The names of the plans submitting data in support of PBGC’s research would not appear in any report distributed outside of PBGC. PBGC is requesting that OMB approve this collection of information for three years. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. PBGC estimates that between 40 to 50 plans would respond to this collection of information. PBGC further estimates that the average burden of this collection of information would be four hours and $1,280 per plan, with an average total burden of 180 hours and $57,600. 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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION


Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request

AGENCY: National Science Foundation.

ACTION: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request.

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SUMMARY: The National Science Foundation (NSF) has submitted the 
following information collection requirement to OMB for review and 
clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. 
This is the second notice for public comment; the first was published 
in the Federal Register at 78 FR 23598, and no comments were received. 
NSF is forwarding the proposed renewal submission to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance simultaneously with the 
publication of this second notice. The full submission may be found at: 
https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Comments regarding (a) 
whether the collection of information is necessary for the proper 
performance of the functions f the agency, including whether the 
information will have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 
agency's estimate of burden including the validity of the methodology 
and assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility and 
clarity of the information to be collected; (d) ways to 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 should be addressed to: Office of Information 
and Regulatory Affairs of OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for National 
Science Foundation, 725--17th Street NW. Room 10235, Washington, DC 
20503, and to Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance Officer, National 
Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1265, Arlington, 
Virginia 22230 or send email to splimpto@nsf.gov. Comments regarding 
these information collections are best assured of having their full 
effect if received within 30 days of this notification. Copies of the 
submission(s) may be obtained by calling 703-292-7556.
    NSF may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless 
the collection of information displays a currently valid OMB control 
number and the agency informs potential persons who are to respond to 
the collection of information that such persons are not required to 
respond to the collection of information unless it displays a currently 
valid OMB control number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:  Title of Collection: International Cover 
Page Addendum
    OMB Control No.: 3145-0205.
    Abstract: The Office of International Science and Engineering 
within the Office of the NSF Director will use the International Cover 
Page Addendum. Principal Investigators submitting proposals to this 
Office will be asked to complete an electronic version of the 
International Cover Page Addendum. The Addendum requests foreign 
counterpart investigator/host information and participant demographics 
not requested elsewhere in NSF proposal documents.
    The information gathered with the International Cover Page Addendum 
serves four purposes. The first is to enable proposal assignment to the 
program officer responsible for activity with the primary countries 
involved. No current component of a standard NSF proposal requests this 
information. (The international cooperative activities box

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on the standard NSF Cover Page applies only to one specific type of 
activity, not the wide range of activities supported by OISE.) NSF 
proposal assignment applications are program element-based and 
therefore can not be used to determine assignment by country. The 
second use of the information is program management. OISE is committed 
to investing in activities in all regions of the world. With data from 
this form, the Office can determine submissions by geographic region. 
Thirdly, funding decisions can not be made without details for the 
international partner not included in any other part of the submission 
process. The fourth section, counts of scientists and students to be 
supported by the project, are also not available elsewhere in the 
proposal since OISE budgets do not include participant support costs. 
These factors are all important for OISE program management.
    Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 600.
    Burden on the Public: 150 hours (15 minutes per respondent).

    Dated: July 16, 2013.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation.
[FR Doc. 2013-17421 Filed 7-19-13; 8:45 am]
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