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• 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 submissions of responses.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to:
Christopher J. Reich, Senior Advisor,
Institute of Museum and Library
Services, 1800 M St. NW., 9th Floor,
Washington, DC 20036. Mr. Reich can
be reached by Telephone: 202–653–
4685, Fax: 202–653–4608, or by email at
creich@imls.gov, or by teletype (TTY/
TDD) at 202–653–4614.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Background
The Institute of Museum and Library
Services is the primary source of federal
support for the Nation’s 123,000
libraries and 35,000 museums. The
Institute’s mission is to inspire libraries
and museums to advance innovation,
learning, and civic engagement. The
Institute works at the national level and
in coordination with state and local
organizations to sustain heritage,
culture, and knowledge; enhance
learning and innovation; and support
professional development. IMLS is
responsible for identifying national
needs for and trends in museum,
library, and information services;
measuring and reporting on the impact
and effectiveness of museum, library
and information services throughout the
United States, including programs
conducted with funds made available by
IMLS; identifying, and disseminating
information on, the best practices of
such programs; and developing plans to
improve museum, library, and
information services of the United
States and strengthen national, State,
local, regional, and international
communications and cooperative
networks (20 U.S.C. 72, 20 U.S.C. 9108).
II. Current Actions
The purpose of this survey is to gauge
the effect of the Museum Assessment
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Program (MAP) on participating
museums and the museum field at large.
The survey will be used to measure the
degree to which the program is meeting
the needs and building the institutional
capacity of individual museums, and its
overall impact on the museum field
nationwide. Methods will include web
surveys, telephone interviews, and
focus group meetings.
The web survey will consist of
approximately 40 questions that will
examine the participating museums’
experience with the MAP program and
the subsequent changes in its operations
that can be attributed to the program, as
well as basic institutional profile
information. The web survey will
require an average of 60 minutes to
complete. The telephone interview
guide will be organized into
approximately four sections (e.g.
institutional changes resulting from
MAP participation; funding;
professionalization; and future
expectations) and is projected to average
30 minutes to complete. Focus groups
will be organized to generate shared
experiences and discussion relating to
overall impact on the museum field at
large. No more than six focus groups
will be organized, each involving 10–12
persons for a period of approximately
one hour.
Agency: Institute of Museum and
Library Services.
Title: Museum Assessment Program
Evaluation.
OMB Number: To Be Determined.
Frequency: Anticipated for Every Five
Years.
Affected Public: The target population
is museums that have participated in
the Museum Assessment Program
during the past five years, all of which
are located in the United States.
Number of Respondents: 132.
Estimated Average Burden per
Response: The burden per respondent is
estimated to be an average of one hour
for the web survey, 30 minutes for the
telephone interview and one hour for
the focus groups.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 132
hours.
Total Annualized capital/startup
costs: n/a.
Total Annual costs: To be determined.
Public Comments Invited: Comments
submitted in response to this notice will
be summarized and/or included in the
request for OMB’s clearance of this
information collection.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Christopher J. Reich, Senior Advisor,
Institute of Museum and Library
Services, 1800 M St. NW., 9th Floor,
Washington, DC 20036. Mr. Reich can
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be reached by Telephone: 202–653–
4685, Fax: 202–653–4608, or by email at
creich@imls.gov, or by teletype (TTY/
TDD) at 202–653–4614. Office hours are
from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., E.T., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Dated: July 6, 2015.
Kim Miller,
Management Analyst.
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PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY
CORPORATION
Proposed Submission of Information
Collection for OMB Review; Comment
Request; Qualified Domestic Relations
Orders Submitted to PBGC
Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation.
ACTION: Notice of intent to request
extension of OMB approval.
AGENCY:
The Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation (PBGC) intends to request
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) extend its approval,
under the Paperwork Reduction Act, of
the information collection related to
PBGC’s booklet, Qualified Domestic
Relations Orders & PBGC. The booklet
provides guidance on how to submit a
qualified domestic relations order to
PBGC. This notice informs the public of
PBGC’s intent and solicits public
comment on the collection of
information.
SUMMARY:
Comments must be submitted by
September 8, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be
submitted by any of the following
methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the Web
site instructions for submitting
comments.
• Email: paperwork.comments@
pbgc.gov.
• Fax: 202–326–4224.
• Mail or Hand Delivery: Office of
General Counsel, Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corporation, 1200 K Street
NW., Washington, DC 20005–4026.
PBGC will make all comments
available on its Web site at
www.pbgc.gov.
Copies of 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 the above address
or by visiting that office or calling 202–
326–4040 during normal business
hours. (TTY and TDD users may call the
Federal relay service toll-free at 1–800–
DATES:
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877–8339 and ask to be connected to
202–326–4040.) The regulations relating
to this collection of information are
available on PBGC’s Web site at
www.pbgc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jo
Amato Burns, Attorney, or Catherine B.
Klion, Assistant General Counsel, Office
of the General Counsel, Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corporation, 1200 K Street
NW., Washington, DC 20005–4026, 202–
326–4223. (For TTY and TDD, call 800–
877–8339 and ask to be connected to
202–326–4223.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A defined
benefit pension plan that does not have
enough money to pay benefits may be
terminated if the employer responsible
for the plan faces severe financial
difficulty, such as bankruptcy, and is
unable to maintain the plan. In such an
event, PBGC becomes trustee of the plan
and pays benefits, subject to legal limits,
to plan participants and beneficiaries.
The benefits of a pension plan
participant generally may not be
assigned or alienated. Title I of ERISA
provides an exception for domestic
relations orders that relate to child
support, alimony payments, or marital
property rights of an alternate payee (a
spouse, former spouse, child, or other
dependent of a plan participant). The
exception applies only if the domestic
relations order meets specific legal
requirements that make it a qualified
domestic relations order (QDRO).
When PBGC is trustee of a plan, it
reviews submitted domestic relations
orders to determine whether the order is
qualified before paying benefits to an
alternate payee. The requirements for
submitting a domestic relations order
and the contents of such orders are
established by statute. The models and
the guidance provided by PBGC assist
parties by making it easier for them to
comply with ERISA’s QDRO
requirements in plans trusteed by PBGC;
they do not create any additional
requirements and result in a reduction
of the statutory burden.
OMB has approved the collection of
information in PBGC’s booklet,
Qualified Domestic Relations Orders &
PBGC under control number 1212–0054
through October 31, 2015. PBGC intends
to request that OMB extend approval of
the 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 is not proposing any
substantive changes to the booklet.
PBGC estimates that over the next
three years it will receive approximately
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1,200 domestic relations orders each
year from prospective alternate payees
and participants. PBGC further
estimates that the total average annual
burden of this collection of information
will be approximately 2,100 hours and
$350,000.
PBGC is soliciting public comments
to—
• Evaluate whether the 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 collections of information,
including the validity of the
methodologies and assumptions used;
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• Minimize the burden of the
collections 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.
Issued in Washington, DC, this 6th day of
July 2015.
Judith Starr,
General Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation.
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POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. MC2015–62 and CP2015–93;
Order No. 2563]
New Postal Product
Postal Regulatory Commission.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Commission is noticing a
recent Postal Service filing concerning
the addition of Priority Mail Contract
129 to the competitive product list. This
notice informs the public of the filing,
invites public comment, and takes other
administrative steps.
DATES: Comments are due: July 13,
2015.
SUMMARY:
Submit comments
electronically via the Commission’s
Filing Online system at https://
www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit
comments electronically should contact
the person identified in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section by
telephone for advice on filing
alternatives.
ADDRESSES:
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at
202–789–6820.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. Notice of Commission Action
III. Ordering Paragraphs
I. Introduction
In accordance with 39 U.S.C. 3642
and 39 CFR 3020.30 et seq., the Postal
Service filed a formal request and
associated supporting information to
add Priority Mail Contract 129 to the
competitive product list.1
The Postal Service
contemporaneously filed a redacted
contract related to the proposed new
product under 39 U.S.C. 3632(b)(3) and
39 CFR 3015.5. Id. Attachment B.
To support its Request, the Postal
Service filed a copy of the contract, a
copy of the Governors’ Decision
authorizing the product, proposed
changes to the Mail Classification
Schedule, a Statement of Supporting
Justification, a certification of
compliance with 39 U.S.C. 3633(a), and
an application for non-public treatment
of certain materials. It also filed
supporting financial workpapers.
II. Notice of Commission Action
The Commission establishes Docket
Nos. MC2015–62 and CP2015–93 to
consider the Request pertaining to the
proposed Priority Mail Contract 129
product and the related contract,
respectively.
The Commission invites comments on
whether the Postal Service’s filings in
the captioned dockets are consistent
with the policies of 39 U.S.C. 3632,
3633, or 3642, 39 CFR part 3015, and 39
CFR part 3020, subpart B. Comments are
due no later than July 13, 2015. The
public portions of these filings can be
accessed via the Commission’s Web site
(https://www.prc.gov).
The Commission appoints Cassie
D’Souza to serve as Public
Representative in these dockets.
III. Ordering Paragraphs
It is ordered:
1. The Commission establishes Docket
Nos. MC2015–62 and CP2015–93 to
consider the matters raised in each
docket.
2. Pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505, Cassie
D’Souza is appointed to serve as an
officer of the Commission to represent
1 Request of the United States Postal Service to
Add Priority Mail Contract 129 to Competitive
Product List and Notice of Filing (Under Seal) of
Unredacted Governors’ Decision, Contract, and
Supporting Data, July 2, 2015 (Request).
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[FR Doc No: 2015-16929]
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PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION
Proposed Submission of Information Collection for OMB Review;
Comment Request; Qualified Domestic Relations Orders Submitted to PBGC
AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
ACTION: Notice of intent to request extension of OMB approval.
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SUMMARY: The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) intends to
request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) extend its
approval, under the Paperwork Reduction Act, of the information
collection related to PBGC's booklet, Qualified Domestic Relations
Orders & PBGC. The booklet provides guidance on how to submit a
qualified domestic relations order to PBGC. This notice informs the
public of PBGC's intent and solicits public comment on the collection
of information.
DATES: Comments must be submitted by September 8, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the Web site instructions for submitting comments.
Email: paperwork.comments@pbgc.gov.
Fax: 202-326-4224.
Mail or Hand Delivery: Office of General Counsel, Pension
Benefit Guaranty Corporation, 1200 K Street NW., Washington, DC 20005-
4026.
PBGC will make all comments available on its Web site at
www.pbgc.gov.
Copies of 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 the above address or by visiting that office
or calling 202-326-4040 during normal business hours. (TTY and TDD
users may call the Federal relay service toll-free at 1-800-
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877-8339 and ask to be connected to 202-326-4040.) The regulations
relating to this collection of information are available on PBGC's Web
site at www.pbgc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jo Amato Burns, Attorney, or Catherine
B. Klion, Assistant General Counsel, Office of the General Counsel,
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, 1200 K Street NW., Washington, DC
20005-4026, 202-326-4223. (For TTY and TDD, call 800-877-8339 and ask
to be connected to 202-326-4223.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A defined benefit pension plan that does not
have enough money to pay benefits may be terminated if the employer
responsible for the plan faces severe financial difficulty, such as
bankruptcy, and is unable to maintain the plan. In such an event, PBGC
becomes trustee of the plan and pays benefits, subject to legal limits,
to plan participants and beneficiaries.
The benefits of a pension plan participant generally may not be
assigned or alienated. Title I of ERISA provides an exception for
domestic relations orders that relate to child support, alimony
payments, or marital property rights of an alternate payee (a spouse,
former spouse, child, or other dependent of a plan participant). The
exception applies only if the domestic relations order meets specific
legal requirements that make it a qualified domestic relations order
(QDRO).
When PBGC is trustee of a plan, it reviews submitted domestic
relations orders to determine whether the order is qualified before
paying benefits to an alternate payee. The requirements for submitting
a domestic relations order and the contents of such orders are
established by statute. The models and the guidance provided by PBGC
assist parties by making it easier for them to comply with ERISA's QDRO
requirements in plans trusteed by PBGC; they do not create any
additional requirements and result in a reduction of the statutory
burden.
OMB has approved the collection of information in PBGC's booklet,
Qualified Domestic Relations Orders & PBGC under control number 1212-
0054 through October 31, 2015. PBGC intends to request that OMB extend
approval of the 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 is not proposing any substantive changes to the booklet.
PBGC estimates that over the next three years it will receive
approximately 1,200 domestic relations orders each year from
prospective alternate payees and participants. PBGC further estimates
that the total average annual burden of this collection of information
will be approximately 2,100 hours and $350,000.
PBGC is soliciting public comments to--
Evaluate whether the 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 collections of information, including the
validity of the methodologies and assumptions used;
Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
Minimize the burden of the collections 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.
Issued in Washington, DC, this 6th day of July 2015.
Judith Starr,
General Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
[FR Doc. 2015-16929 Filed 7-9-15; 8:45 am]
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