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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; National
Longitudinal Study of Unemployment
Insurance Recipients (NLS–UI)
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Policy/Chief Evaluation
Office, Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Department of Labor
(DOL), as part of its continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent
burden, conducts a preclearance
consultation program to provide the
general public and Federal agencies
with an opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing collections
of information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. This
program helps to ensure that required
data can be provided in the desired
format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed.
A copy of the proposed ICR can be
obtained by contacting the office listed
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Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
addresses section below on or before
September 20, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by either one of the following methods:
Email: Pavosevich.Robert@dol.gov; Mail
or Courier: Robert Pavosevich, U.S.
Department of Labor ETA/OUI/DFAS,
Room S–4231, 200 Constitution Avenue
NW., Washington DC 20210.
Instructions: Please submit one copy of
your comments by only one method. All
submissions received must include the
agency name and OMB Control Number
identified above for this information
collection. Because we continue to
experience delays in receiving mail in
the Washington, DC area, commenters
are strongly encouraged to transmit their
comments electronically via email or to
submit them by mail early. Comments,
including any personal information
provided, become a matter of public
record. They will also be summarized
and/or included in the request for OMB
approval of the information collection
request.
DATES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background: The unemployment
insurance (UI) program was designed to
reduce financial hardships for
unemployed workers, assist with
reemployment, and ameliorate the
negative effects of unemployment on the
economy as a whole. By providing
temporary income support, UI benefits
can smooth the transition to new
circumstances, reduce financial distress,
and provide workers with a buffer while
they search for jobs. Furthermore, to
reduce the potential incentive for UI
recipients to prolong their
unemployment, UI benefits are timelimited and provide only a partial
replacement of lost earnings.
Understanding how workers adjust to
the changes in income during and after
UI claim spells would enable
policymakers to assess how well the
program is serving the nation’s workers
and refine it to meet the needs of
unemployed workers while encouraging
them to return to work. However,
information about UI recipients is
generally obtained from retrospective
surveys, which might not provide
sufficient insight into the dynamic
adjustments after job loss or the
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recipients’ satisfaction with the program
structure.
The National Longitudinal Study of
Unemployment Insurance Recipients
(NLS–UI), funded by the U.S.
Department of Labor, Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Policy, Chief
Evaluation Office, will help
policymakers and program
administrators gain information about
the experiences of UI recipients. The
study will examine the extent to which
the UI program reduces recipients’
financial hardships, the ways in which
job search and reemployment
expectations change during and after
benefit collection, and customers’
satisfaction levels with the UI program.
The study will address research
questions in six broad topic areas: (1)
Adequacy of UI benefits, (2)
reemployment expectations, (3) job
search, (4) total UI benefit usage, (5)
employment outcomes, and (6) UI
recipients’ satisfaction with the UI
program.
This package requests clearance for
three surveys of UI recipients that will
take place over approximately nine
months. The surveys will be timed to
coincide with the early, middle, and
post-UI collection experiences of about
2,800 UI recipients in two states who
filed to receive a first payment during
2013. Each survey will take about 25
minutes, on average, and they will be
administered by web and computerassisted telephone interviewing.
Administrative UI claims data will also
be collected from both states to obtain
identifying and contact information
about UI recipients who will be
surveyed and to learn about their UI
benefit collection experiences.
II. Desired Focus of Comments:
Currently, the Department of Labor is
soliciting comments concerning the
above data collection for the National
Longitudinal Study of Unemployment
Insurance Recipients (NLS–UI).
Comments are requested to:
* 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
information collection on those who are
to respond, including the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
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mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submissions of responses.
III. Current Actions: At this time, the
Department of Labor is requesting
clearance to conduct three surveys of
about 2,800 UI recipients for the
National Longitudinal Study of
Unemployment Insurance Recipients
(NLS–UI).
Type of review: New information
collection request.
OMB Control Number: 1205–0NEW.
Affected Public: UI benefit recipients
in two states who filed to receive a first
payment during 2013.
Frequency: Three interviews.
Total Responses: 5,694 (1,898 per
three survey waves).
Average Time per Response: 25
minutes.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 2,372
hours.
Average Annual Other Burden Cost:
$0.
Comments submitted in response to
this request will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval; they
will also become a matter of public
record.
James H. Moore, Jr.,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S.
Department of Labor.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employee Benefits Security
Administration
Proposed Exemptions From Certain
Prohibited Transaction Restrictions
Employee Benefits Security
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice of Proposed Exemptions.
AGENCY:
This document contains
notices of pendency before the
Department of Labor (the Department) of
proposed exemptions from certain of the
prohibited transaction restrictions of the
Employee Retirement Income Security
Act of 1974 (ERISA or the Act) and/or
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the
Code). This notice includes the
following proposed exemptions: D–
11506, UBS AG and Its Current and
Future Affiliates and Subsidiaries
(collectively, UBS or the Applicant); D–
11742 thru D–11746, The ABB Inc. Cash
Balance Pension Plan (the Cash Balance
Plan); the Cash Balance Pension Plan for
Certain Represented Employees of ABB
Inc. (the Union Cash Balance Plan); the
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Pension Plan for Employees of the
Process Analytics Division of ABB Inc.
Represented by the Laborer’s
International Union of North America
(AFL–CIO), Local No. 1304 (the Process
Analytics Plan); the Pension Plan of
Fischer & Porter Company (the Fisher &
Porter Plan); and the ABB Inc. Pension
Plan (UE 625 & 626) (the UE 625 & 626
Plan) (each a Plan, and collectively, the
Plans); and D–11767, D–11768 and D–
11769, American International Group,
Inc. Incentive Savings Plan (the Savings
Plan), American General Agents’ &
Managers’ Thrift Plan (the Thrift Plan),
and Chartis Insurance Company—
Puerto Rico Capital Growth Plan (the
Chartis Plan)(collectively, the Plans).
DATES: All interested persons are invited
to submit written comments or requests
for a hearing on the pending
exemptions, unless otherwise stated in
the Notice of Proposed Exemption,
within 45 days from the date of
publication of this Federal Register
Notice.
ADDRESSES: Comments and requests for
a hearing should state: (1) The name,
address, and telephone number of the
person making the comment or request,
and (2) the nature of the person’s
interest in the exemption and the
manner in which the person would be
adversely affected by the exemption. A
request for a hearing must also state the
issues to be addressed and include a
general description of the evidence to be
presented at the hearing.
All written comments and requests for
a hearing (at least three copies) should
be sent to the Employee Benefits
Security Administration (EBSA), Office
of Exemption Determinations, Room N–
5700, U.S. Department of Labor, 200
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20210. Attention: Application No.,
stated in each Notice of Proposed
Exemption. Interested persons are also
invited to submit comments and/or
hearing requests to EBSA via email or
FAX. Any such comments or requests
should be sent either by email to:
moffitt.betty@dol.gov, or by FAX to
(202) 219–0204 by the end of the
scheduled comment period. The
applications for exemption and the
comments received will be available for
public inspection in the Public
Documents Room of the Employee
Benefits Security Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor, Room N–1513,
200 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20210.
Warning: All comments 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 confidential
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business information that you do not want
publicly disclosed. All comments may be
posted on the Internet and can be retrieved
by most Internet search engines.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Notice to Interested Persons
Notice of the proposed exemptions
will be provided to all interested
persons in the manner agreed upon by
the applicant and the Department
within 15 days of the date of publication
in the Federal Register. Such notice
shall include a copy of the notice of
proposed exemption as published in the
Federal Register and shall inform
interested persons of their right to
comment and to request a hearing
(where appropriate).
The proposed exemptions were
requested in applications filed pursuant
to section 408(a) of the Act and/or
section 4975(c)(2) of the Code, and in
accordance with procedures set forth in
29 CFR Part 2570, Subpart B (76 FR
66637, 66644, October 27, 2011).1
Effective December 31, 1978, section
102 of Reorganization Plan No. 4 of
1978, 5 U.S.C. App. 1 (1996), transferred
the authority of the Secretary of the
Treasury to issue exemptions of the type
requested to the Secretary of Labor.
Therefore, these notices of proposed
exemption are issued solely by the
Department.
The applications contain
representations with regard to the
proposed exemptions which are
summarized below. Interested persons
are referred to the applications on file
with the Department for a complete
statement of the facts and
representations.
UBS AG and Its Current and Future
Affiliates and Subsidiaries
(Collectively, UBS or the Applicant)
Located in New York, New York
[Application No. D–11506]
Proposed Exemption
The Department is considering
granting an exemption under the
authority of section 408(a) of the
Employee Retirement Income Security
Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA or the
Act) and section 4975(c)(2) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended (the Code), and in accordance
with the procedures set forth in 29 CFR
Part 2570, Subpart B (76 FR 66637,
66644, October 27, 2011).2
1 The Department has considered exemption
applications received prior to December 27, 2011
under the exemption procedures set forth in 29 CFR
Part 2570, Subpart B (55 FR 32836, 32847, August
10, 1990).
2 For purposes of this proposed exemption,
references to section 406 of ERISA should be read,
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; National Longitudinal Study of Unemployment
Insurance Recipients (NLS-UI)
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy/Chief Evaluation
Office, Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (DOL), as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a
preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and
Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or
continuing collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. This program
helps to ensure that required data can be provided in the desired
format, reporting burden (time and financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly understood, and the impact of
collection requirements on respondents can be properly assessed.
A copy of the proposed ICR can be obtained by contacting the office
listed below in the addresses section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
addresses section below on or before September 20, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either one of the following
methods: Email: Pavosevich.Robert@dol.gov; Mail or Courier: Robert
Pavosevich, U.S. Department of Labor ETA/OUI/DFAS, Room S-4231, 200
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington DC 20210. Instructions: Please
submit one copy of your comments by only one method. All submissions
received must include the agency name and OMB Control Number identified
above for this information collection. Because we continue to
experience delays in receiving mail in the Washington, DC area,
commenters are strongly encouraged to transmit their comments
electronically via email or to submit them by mail early. Comments,
including any personal information provided, become a matter of public
record. They will also be summarized and/or included in the request for
OMB approval of the information collection request.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Pavosevich by telephone at 202-
693-2935 (this is not a toll-free number) or by email at
Pavosevich.Robert@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background: The unemployment insurance (UI) program was designed
to reduce financial hardships for unemployed workers, assist with
reemployment, and ameliorate the negative effects of unemployment on
the economy as a whole. By providing temporary income support, UI
benefits can smooth the transition to new circumstances, reduce
financial distress, and provide workers with a buffer while they search
for jobs. Furthermore, to reduce the potential incentive for UI
recipients to prolong their unemployment, UI benefits are time-limited
and provide only a partial replacement of lost earnings.
Understanding how workers adjust to the changes in income during
and after UI claim spells would enable policymakers to assess how well
the program is serving the nation's workers and refine it to meet the
needs of unemployed workers while encouraging them to return to work.
However, information about UI recipients is generally obtained from
retrospective surveys, which might not provide sufficient insight into
the dynamic adjustments after job loss or the recipients' satisfaction
with the program structure.
The National Longitudinal Study of Unemployment Insurance
Recipients (NLS-UI), funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Chief Evaluation Office, will help
policymakers and program administrators gain information about the
experiences of UI recipients. The study will examine the extent to
which the UI program reduces recipients' financial hardships, the ways
in which job search and reemployment expectations change during and
after benefit collection, and customers' satisfaction levels with the
UI program. The study will address research questions in six broad
topic areas: (1) Adequacy of UI benefits, (2) reemployment
expectations, (3) job search, (4) total UI benefit usage, (5)
employment outcomes, and (6) UI recipients' satisfaction with the UI
program.
This package requests clearance for three surveys of UI recipients
that will take place over approximately nine months. The surveys will
be timed to coincide with the early, middle, and post-UI collection
experiences of about 2,800 UI recipients in two states who filed to
receive a first payment during 2013. Each survey will take about 25
minutes, on average, and they will be administered by web and computer-
assisted telephone interviewing. Administrative UI claims data will
also be collected from both states to obtain identifying and contact
information about UI recipients who will be surveyed and to learn about
their UI benefit collection experiences.
II. Desired Focus of Comments: Currently, the Department of Labor
is soliciting comments concerning the above data collection for the
National Longitudinal Study of Unemployment Insurance Recipients (NLS-
UI). Comments are requested to:
* 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 information collection on those who
are to respond, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic,
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mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms
of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submissions of
responses.
III. Current Actions: At this time, the Department of Labor is
requesting clearance to conduct three surveys of about 2,800 UI
recipients for the National Longitudinal Study of Unemployment
Insurance Recipients (NLS-UI).
Type of review: New information collection request.
OMB Control Number: 1205-0NEW.
Affected Public: UI benefit recipients in two states who filed to
receive a first payment during 2013.
Frequency: Three interviews.
Total Responses: 5,694 (1,898 per three survey waves).
Average Time per Response: 25 minutes.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 2,372 hours.
Average Annual Other Burden Cost: $0.
Comments submitted in response to this request will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
approval; they will also become a matter of public record.
James H. Moore, Jr.,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Labor.
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