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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Multiemployer Pension Plan
Application To Reduce Benefits
Department of the Treasury.
Notice of availability; request
for comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Board of Trustees of the
Building Material Drivers Local 436
Pension Fund, a multiemployer pension
plan, has submitted an application to
reduce benefits under the plan in
accordance with the Multiemployer
Pension Reform Act of 2014 (MPRA).
The purpose of this notice is to
announce that an application submitted
by the Board of Trustees of the Building
Material Drivers Local 436 Pension
Fund has been published on the website
of the Department of the Treasury
(Treasury), and to request public
comments on the application from
interested parties, including
participants and beneficiaries, employee
organizations, and contributing
employers of the Building Material
Drivers Local 436 Pension Fund.
DATES: Comments must be received by
September 11, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
electronically through the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at https://
www.regulations.gov, in accordance
with the instructions on that site.
Commenters are strongly encouraged to
submit public comments electronically.
Treasury expects to have limited
personnel available to process public
comments that are submitted on paper
through mail. Until further notice, any
comments submitted on paper will be
considered to the extent practicable.
Comments may be mailed to the
Department of the Treasury, MPRA
Office, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW,
Room 1224, Washington, DC 20220,
Attn: Danielle Norris. Comments sent
SUMMARY:
2014/applications-for-benefitsuspension. Treasury is publishing this
notice in the Federal Register, in
consultation with PBGC and the
Department of Labor, to solicit public
comments on all aspects of the Building
Material Drivers Local 436 Pension
Fund’s application.
Comments are requested from
interested parties, including
participants and beneficiaries, employee
organizations, and contributing
employers of the Building Material
Drivers Local 436 Pension Fund.
Consideration will be given to any
comments that are timely received by
Treasury.
David Kautter,
Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS
Advisory Committee Charter Renewals
Department of Veterans Affairs.
Notice of Advisory Committee
Charter Renewals.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the
provisions of the Federal Advisory
Committee ACT (FACA) and after
consultation with the General Services
Administration, the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs has determined that the
following Federal advisory committee is
vital to the mission of the Department
of Veterans Affairs (VA) and renewing
its charter would be in the public
interest. Consequently, the charter for
the following Federal advisory
committee is renewed for a two-year
period, beginning on the dates listed
below:
SUMMARY:
Committee name
Committee description
Cooperative Studies Scientific Evaluation Committee.
Provides advice on VA cooperative studies, multi-site clinical research activities, and policies related to conducting and managing these efforts and ensures that new and ongoing projects maintain high quality, are based upon
scientific merit, and are efficiently and economically conducted.
Provides advice on the fair and equitable selection of the most meritorious research projects for support by VA research funds; ensures the high quality
and mission relevance of VA’s legislatively mandated research and development program; advises on the scientific and technical merit, originality, feasibility, and mission relevance of individual research proposals; and advises on
the adequacy of protection of human and animal subjects.
Provides advice on the scientific quality, budget, safety, and mission relevance
of investigator-initiated research proposals submitted for VA merit review
consideration. The proposals to be reviewed may address research questions within the general area of biomedical and behavioral research or clinical
science research. The Board also advises VA research officials on program
priorities and policies, as well as administration of VA’s intramural program.
Health Services Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review
Board.
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via facsimile, telephone, or email will
not be accepted.
Additional Instructions. All
comments received, including
attachments and other supporting
materials, will be made available to the
public. Do not include any personally
identifiable information (such as your
Social Security number, name, address,
or other contact information) or any
other information in your comment or
supporting materials that you do not
want publicly disclosed. Treasury will
make comments available for public
inspection and copying on
www.regulations.gov or upon request.
Comments posted on the internet can be
retrieved by most internet search
engines.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
information regarding the application
from the Building Material Drivers Local
436 Pension Fund, please contact
Treasury at (202) 622–1534 (not a tollfree number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: MPRA
amended the Internal Revenue Code to
permit a multiemployer plan that is
projected to have insufficient funds to
reduce pension benefits payable to
participants and beneficiaries if certain
conditions are satisfied. In order to
reduce benefits, the plan sponsor is
required to submit an application to the
Secretary of the Treasury, which must
be approved or denied in consultation
with the Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation (PBGC) and the Department
of Labor.
On June 30, 2020, the Building
Material Drivers Local 436 Pension
Fund’s Board of Trustees submitted an
application for approval to reduce
benefits under the plan. As required by
MPRA, that application has been
published on Treasury’s website at
https://home.treasury.gov/services/themultiemployer-pension-reform-act-of-
Joint Biomedical Laboratory Research
and
Development
and
Clinical
Science Research and Development
Services Scientific Merit Review
Board.
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Committee name
Committee description
Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review
Board.
Provides advice on the fair and equitable selection of the most meritorious research projects for support by VA research funds; provides advice for research program officials on program priorities and policies; and ensures that
the VA Rehabilitation Research and Development program promotes functional independence and improves the quality of life for impaired and disabled Veterans.
The Secretary has also renewed the
charter for the following statutorily
authorized Federal advisory committee
Advisory Committee on Cemeteries and
Memorials.
Provides advice on the administration of national cemeteries, Soldiers’ lots and
plots, the selection of cemetery sites, the erection of appropriate memorials
and the adequacy of Federal burial benefits.
Provides advice on benefits and services to Veterans experiencing homelessness.
Provides advice on VA prosthetics programs and the rehabilitation research,
development, and evaluation of prosthetics technology; assesses VA programs that serve Veterans with spinal cord injury, blindness or vision impairment, loss of or loss of use of extremities, deafness or hearing impairment or
other serious incapacities.
Provides advice to the Secretary on the administration of benefits for Veterans
who are former prisoners of war and the needs of these Veterans, in the
areas of compensation, health care and rehabilitation.
Provides advice on all matters pertaining to geriatrics and gerontology ..............
Geriatrics and
Committee.
Gerontology
Advisory
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jeffrey Moragne, Committee
Management Office, Department of
Veterans Affairs, Advisory Committee
Management Office (00AC), 810
Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC
20420; telephone 202–266–4660 or 202–
714–1578; or via email at
Jeffrey.Moragne@va.gov. To view a copy
of a VA Federal advisory committee
charters, please visit https://www.va.gov/
advisory.
Dated: July 22, 2020.
Jelessa M. Burney,
Federal Advisory Committee Management
Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS
Cost-Based and Inter-Agency Billing
Rates for Medical Care or Services
Provided by the Department of
Veterans Affairs for Fiscal Year 2021
AGENCY:
U.S. Department of Veterans
Affairs.
ACTION:
Notice.
This document updates the
Cost-Based and Inter-Agency billing
rates for medical care or services
provided by the U.S. Department of
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certain circumstances.
APPLICABLE DATE: The rates set forth
herein are effective October 1, 2020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Romona Greene, Office of Community
Care, Revenue Operations, Payer
Relations and Services, Rates and
Charges (10D1C1), Veterans Health
Administration, Department of Veterans
Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20420; telephone: 202–
382–2521 (this is not a toll-free
number).
VA’s
methodology for computing Cost-Based
and Inter-Agency rates for medical care
or services provided by VA is set forth
in section 17.102(h) of title 38 Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR). Two sets of
rates are obtained by applying this
methodology, Cost-Based and InterAgency.
Cost-Based rates apply to medical care
and services that are provided by VA
under 38 CFR 17.102(a), (b), (d) and (g),
respectively, in the following
circumstances:
• In error or based on tentative
eligibility;
• In a medical emergency;
• To pensioners of allied nations; and
• For research purposes in
circumstances under which the medical
care appropriation shall be reimbursed
from the research appropriation.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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April 21, 2020.
for a two-year period, beginning on the
date listed below:
Committee description
Advisory Committee on Former Prisoners of War.
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Advisory Committee on Homeless Veterans.
Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and
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Inter-Agency rates apply to medical
care and services that are provided by
VA under § 17.102(c) and (f),
respectively, in the following
circumstances when the care or services
provided are not covered by any
applicable sharing agreement in
accordance with § 17.102(e):
• To beneficiaries of the Department
of Defense or other Federal agencies;
and
• To military retirees with chronic
disability.
The calculations for the Cost-Based
and Inter-Agency rates are the same
with two exceptions. Inter-Agency rates
are all-inclusive and are not broken
down into three components (i.e.,
Physician; Ancillary; and Nursing,
Room and Board), and do not include
standard fringe benefit costs that cover
Government employee retirement,
disability costs, and return on fixed
assets. When VA pays for medical care
or services from a non-VA source under
circumstances in which the Cost-Based
or Inter-Agency rates would apply if the
care or services had been provided by
VA, the charge for such care or services
will be the actual amount paid by VA
for the care or services. Inpatient
charges will be at the per diem rates
shown for the type of bed section or
discrete treatment unit providing the
care.
The following table depicts the CostBased and Inter-Agency rates that are
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Advisory Committee Charter Renewals
AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION: Notice of Advisory Committee Charter Renewals.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory
Committee ACT (FACA) and after consultation with the General Services
Administration, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs has determined that
the following Federal advisory committee is vital to the mission of the
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and renewing its charter would be
in the public interest. Consequently, the charter for the following
Federal advisory committee is renewed for a two-year period, beginning
on the dates listed below:
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Charter renewed
Committee name Committee description on
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Cooperative Studies Scientific Provides advice on VA April 21, 2020.
Evaluation Committee. cooperative studies,
multi-site clinical
research activities,
and policies related
to conducting and
managing these
efforts and ensures
that new and ongoing
projects maintain
high quality, are
based upon scientific
merit, and are
efficiently and
economically
conducted.
Health Services Research and Provides advice on the April 21, 2020.
Development Service fair and equitable
Scientific Merit Review Board. selection of the most
meritorious research
projects for support
by VA research funds;
ensures the high
quality and mission
relevance of VA's
legislatively
mandated research and
development program;
advises on the
scientific and
technical merit,
originality,
feasibility, and
mission relevance of
individual research
proposals; and
advises on the
adequacy of
protection of human
and animal subjects.
Joint Biomedical Laboratory Provides advice on the April 21, 2020.
Research and Development and scientific quality,
Clinical Science Research and budget, safety, and
Development Services mission relevance of
Scientific Merit Review Board. investigator-
initiated research
proposals submitted
for VA merit review
consideration. The
proposals to be
reviewed may address
research questions
within the general
area of biomedical
and behavioral
research or clinical
science research. The
Board also advises VA
research officials on
program priorities
and policies, as well
as administration of
VA's intramural
program.
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Rehabilitation Research and Provides advice on the April 21, 2020.
Development Service fair and equitable
Scientific Merit Review Board. selection of the most
meritorious research
projects for support
by VA research funds;
provides advice for
research program
officials on program
priorities and
policies; and ensures
that the VA
Rehabilitation
Research and
Development program
promotes functional
independence and
improves the quality
of life for impaired
and disabled Veterans.
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The Secretary has also renewed the charter for the following
statutorily authorized Federal advisory committee for a two-year
period, beginning on the date listed below:
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Charter renewed
Committee name Committee description on
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Advisory Committee on Provides advice on the April 21, 2020.
Cemeteries and Memorials. administration of
national cemeteries,
Soldiers' lots and
plots, the selection
of cemetery sites,
the erection of
appropriate memorials
and the adequacy of
Federal burial
benefits.
Advisory Committee on Homeless Provides advice on May 6, 2020.
Veterans. benefits and services
to Veterans
experiencing
homelessness.
Advisory Committee on Provides advice on VA May 26, 2020.
Prosthetics and Special- prosthetics programs
Disabilities Programs. and the
rehabilitation
research,
development, and
evaluation of
prosthetics
technology; assesses
VA programs that
serve Veterans with
spinal cord injury,
blindness or vision
impairment, loss of
or loss of use of
extremities, deafness
or hearing impairment
or other serious
incapacities.
Advisory Committee on Former Provides advice to the June 15, 2020.
Prisoners of War. Secretary on the
administration of
benefits for Veterans
who are former
prisoners of war and
the needs of these
Veterans, in the
areas of
compensation, health
care and
rehabilitation.
Geriatrics and Gerontology Provides advice on all July 9, 2020.
Advisory Committee. matters pertaining to
geriatrics and
gerontology.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeffrey Moragne, Committee Management
Office, Department of Veterans Affairs, Advisory Committee Management
Office (00AC), 810 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20420; telephone
202-266-4660 or 202-714-1578; or via email at [email protected].
To view a copy of a VA Federal advisory committee charters, please
visit https://www.va.gov/advisory.
Dated: July 22, 2020.
Jelessa M. Burney,
Federal Advisory Committee Management Officer.
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