Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans; Nominations for Vacancies, 43273-43274 [2021-16814]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 149 / Friday, August 6, 2021 / Notices DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Federal Bureau of Investigation [OMB Number: 1110–0065] jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection eComments Requested; Extension Without Change of a Currently Approved Collection technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Overview of This Information Collection Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans; Nominations for Vacancies 1. Type of Information Collection: Extension, without change, of a currently approved collection. 2. The Title of the Form/Collection: AGENCY: Federal Bureau of Private Industry Feedback Survey. Investigation, Department of Justice. 3. The agency form number, if any, ACTION: 60-Day notice. and the applicable component of the Department sponsoring the collection: SUMMARY: The Department of Justice, There is no agency form number for this Federal Bureau of Investigation, Cyber collection. The applicable component Engagement & Intelligence Section, is within the Department of Justice is the submitting the following information Federal Bureau of Investigation, Cyber collection request to the Office of Engagement & Intelligence Section. Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with 4. Affected public who will be asked the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. or required to respond, as well as a brief DATES: The Department of Justice abstract: Private sector partners from encourages public comment and will private industry, non-profit accept input until October 5, 2021. organizations, and state and local government entities are requested to FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If voluntarily respond to the private you have additional comments industry feedback survey. Abstract: The especially on the estimated public FBI, Cyber Division, is requesting PRA burden or associated response time, approval of extending approval of an suggestions, or need a copy of the on-line survey to collect feedback proposed information collection information from private sector partners instrument with instructions or related to FBI cyber trend and threat additional information, please contact Kenneth Shelly, Management & Program reports. This collection will be the minimum amount of information Analyst, Federal Bureau of needed to improve future reports to Investigation, 935 Pennsylvania Ave. better serve the FBI’s private sector NW, Washington, DC 20535, kwshelly@ partners. This collection was previously fbi.gov, 703–633–5772. approved in 2018. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Written 5. An estimate of the total number of comments and suggestions from the public and affected agencies concerning respondents and the amount of time estimated for an average respondent to the proposed collection of information are encouraged. Your comments should respond: Expected annual responses are 150 and the survey will take 10 minutes address one or more of the following to complete. four points: ➢ Evaluate whether the proposed 6. 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Estimated time Intelligence Section, including whether spent on reviewing the survey responses the information will have practical in 100 hours. utility; If additional information is required ➢ Evaluate the accuracy of the contact: Melody Braswell, Department agency’s estimate of the burden of the Clearance Officer, United States proposed collection of information, Department of Justice, Justice including the validity of the Management Division, Policy and methodology and assumptions used; Planning Staff, Two Constitution ➢ Evaluate whether and if so how the Square, 145 N Street NE, 3E.405A, quality, utility, and clarity of the Washington, DC 20530. information to be collected can be Dated: August 3, 2021. enhanced; and Melody Braswell, ➢ Minimize the burden of the Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. collection of information on those who Department of Justice. are to respond, including through the [FR Doc. 2021–16852 Filed 8–5–21; 8:45 am] use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other BILLING CODE 4410–02–P VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:29 Aug 05, 2021 Jkt 253001 43273 PO 00000 Frm 00115 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Employee Benefits Security Administration Section 512 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 88 Stat. 895, 29 U.S.C. 1142, provides for the establishment of an Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans (the Council), consisting of 15 members appointed by the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) as follows: • Three representatives of employee organizations (at least one of whom shall be a representative of an organization whose members are participants in a multiemployer plan); • three representatives of employers (at least one of whom shall be a representative of employers maintaining or contributing to multiemployer plans); • three representatives from the general public (one of whom shall be a person representing those receiving benefits from a pension plan); and • one representative each from the fields of insurance, corporate trust, actuarial counseling, investment counseling, investment management, and accounting. No more than eight members of the Council shall be members of the same political party. Council members must be qualified to appraise the programs instituted under ERISA. Appointments are for three-year terms. The Council’s prescribed duties are to advise the Secretary with respect to carrying out his functions under ERISA, and to submit to the Secretary, or his designee, related recommendations. The Council will meet at least four times each year. The terms of five Council members expire at the end of this year. The groups or fields they represent are as follows: (1) Employee organizations; (2) employers; (3) the general public; (4) actuarial counseling; and (5) investment counseling. The Department of Labor is committed to equal opportunity in the workplace and seeks a broad-based and diverse Council. If you or your organization wants to nominate one or more people for appointment to the Council to represent one of the groups or fields specified above, submit nominations to Christine Donahue, Council Executive Secretary, as email attachments to E:\FR\FM\06AUN1.SGM 06AUN1 43274 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 149 / Friday, August 6, 2021 / Notices jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES donahue.christine@dol.gov or by mail to U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Ave. NW, Suite N–5700, Washington, DC 20210. Nominations must be received on or before September 20, 2021. If sending electronically, please use an attachment in rich text, Word, or pdf format. Please allow three weeks for regular mail delivery to the Department of Labor. Nominations may be in the form of a letter, resolution, or petition signed by the person making the nomination or, in the case of a nomination by an organization, by an authorized representative of the organization. The Department of Labor encourages you to include additional supporting letters of nomination. The Department of Labor will not consider self-nominees who have no supporting letters. Nominations, including supporting letters, should: • State the person’s qualifications to serve on the Council (including any particular specialized knowledge or experience relevant to the nominee’s proposed Council position); • state that the candidate will accept appointment to the Council if offered; • include which of the five positions (representing groups or fields) you are nominating the candidate to fill; • include the nominee’s full name, work affiliation, mailing address, phone number, and email address; • include the nominator’s full name, work affiliation, mailing address, phone number, and email address; • include the nominator’s signature, whether sent by email or otherwise. Please do not include any information that you do not want publicly disclosed. The Department of Labor will contact nominees for information on their political affiliation and their status as registered lobbyists. Anyone currently subject to federal registration requirements as a lobbyist is not eligible for appointment. Nominees should be aware of the time commitment for attending meetings and actively participating in the work of the Council. Historically, this has meant a commitment of at least 20 days per year. The Department of Labor has a process for vetting nominees under consideration for appointment. Signed at Washington, DC, this 2nd day of August, 2021. Ali Khawar, Acting Assistant Secretary, Employee Benefits Security Administration. [FR Doc. 2021–16814 Filed 8–5–21; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4510–29–P VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:29 Aug 05, 2021 Jkt 253001 NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION [NARA–2021–040] Draft FY 2022–2026 Strategic Plan National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). ACTION: Invitation to comment. AGENCY: We have posted our new draft Strategic Plan and are inviting feedback from staff, public and Government customers, stakeholders, and colleagues in the archival, historical, and records management communities. DATES: Please provide your feedback by August 20, 2021. Location: You can view the draft Strategic Plan in two places: On our website at https://archives.gov/about/ plans-reports/strategic-plan/draftstrategic-plan and on GitHub at https:// usnationalarchives.github.io/strategicplan. You can submit feedback on GitHub or by email to strategy@ nara.gov. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carla Patterson, Director, Strategy and Performance Division, National Archives and Records Administration; 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, Maryland 20740, by email at strategy@ nara.gov, or by telephone at 301 837– 0993. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The draft plan reaffirms our current Mission, Vision, Values, Transformational Outcomes, and Strategic Goals (see Strategic Plan (FY 2018–FY 2022) at https://www.archives.gov/about/plansreports/strategic-plan). The draft plan updates the agency’s strategic objectives to focus agency resources on improving equity, providing a world-class customer experience for all customers, and using our experiences during the pandemic to accelerate agency modernization. Our draft Strategic Plan commits to new outreach to traditionally underserved communities and to work with these communities to identify the records in our holdings that are most important to them. Once identified, we’ll prioritize those records for archival processing and describing, digitizing, and accessing online. We’re at the beginning of a process to build new relationships with underserved communities, and this draft plan reflects our intent to maintain and foster those relationships over time. The draft Strategic Plan also revitalizes our customer service activities by addressing the entire customer experience. We’ve proposed agency-wide objectives to better SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00116 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 understand customer needs and expectations and modernize services and communications channels. These objectives will drive cross-agency activities to provide a unified, responsive experience for customers across all of our services lines. And finally, the draft Strategic Plan challenges our programs and agency records management functions to continue modernizing activities that we started during the COVID–19 pandemic. We recognize that making more of our work processes electronic and online will allow us to fulfill more of our mission remotely, making the agency more resilient over time. We also commit to modernizing our records management policies to keep pace with changes in how Federal agencies create and manage a new generation of electronic records. All Federal agencies must issue a new Strategic Plan every four years. We shared this draft plan with National Archives employees on July 28 and are now sharing the plan with stakeholders and the public for comment. We’ll collect and consider feedback, and then revise and share the draft plan with the Office of Management and Budget by September 13. We’ll publish the final Strategic Plan in February 2022 and it will become the agency’s official plan for fiscal years 2022 through 2026. David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States. [FR Doc. 2021–16850 Filed 8–5–21; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7515–01–P NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Panel Advisory Committee Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities; National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities. ACTION: Notice of meeting. AGENCY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, notice is hereby given that the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities will hold a meeting of the Arts and Artifacts Domestic Indemnity Panel. DATES: The meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 18, 2021, from 12:00 p.m. until adjourned. ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held by videoconference originating at the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC 20506. SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\06AUN1.SGM 06AUN1

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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 149 (Friday, August 6, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43273-43274]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-16814]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employee Benefits Security Administration


Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans; 
Nominations for Vacancies

    Section 512 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 
(ERISA), 88 Stat. 895, 29 U.S.C. 1142, provides for the establishment 
of an Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans 
(the Council), consisting of 15 members appointed by the Secretary of 
Labor (the Secretary) as follows:
     Three representatives of employee organizations (at least 
one of whom shall be a representative of an organization whose members 
are participants in a multiemployer plan);
     three representatives of employers (at least one of whom 
shall be a representative of employers maintaining or contributing to 
multiemployer plans);
     three representatives from the general public (one of whom 
shall be a person representing those receiving benefits from a pension 
plan); and
     one representative each from the fields of insurance, 
corporate trust, actuarial counseling, investment counseling, 
investment management, and accounting.
    No more than eight members of the Council shall be members of the 
same political party.
    Council members must be qualified to appraise the programs 
instituted under ERISA. Appointments are for three-year terms. The 
Council's prescribed duties are to advise the Secretary with respect to 
carrying out his functions under ERISA, and to submit to the Secretary, 
or his designee, related recommendations. The Council will meet at 
least four times each year.
    The terms of five Council members expire at the end of this year. 
The groups or fields they represent are as follows:
    (1) Employee organizations;
    (2) employers;
    (3) the general public;
    (4) actuarial counseling; and
    (5) investment counseling.
    The Department of Labor is committed to equal opportunity in the 
workplace and seeks a broad-based and diverse Council.
    If you or your organization wants to nominate one or more people 
for appointment to the Council to represent one of the groups or fields 
specified above, submit nominations to Christine Donahue, Council 
Executive Secretary, as email attachments to

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[email protected] or by mail to U.S. Department of Labor, 200 
Constitution Ave. NW, Suite N-5700, Washington, DC 20210. Nominations 
must be received on or before September 20, 2021. If sending 
electronically, please use an attachment in rich text, Word, or pdf 
format. Please allow three weeks for regular mail delivery to the 
Department of Labor. Nominations may be in the form of a letter, 
resolution, or petition signed by the person making the nomination or, 
in the case of a nomination by an organization, by an authorized 
representative of the organization. The Department of Labor encourages 
you to include additional supporting letters of nomination. The 
Department of Labor will not consider self-nominees who have no 
supporting letters.
    Nominations, including supporting letters, should:
     State the person's qualifications to serve on the Council 
(including any particular specialized knowledge or experience relevant 
to the nominee's proposed Council position);
     state that the candidate will accept appointment to the 
Council if offered;
     include which of the five positions (representing groups 
or fields) you are nominating the candidate to fill;
     include the nominee's full name, work affiliation, mailing 
address, phone number, and email address;
     include the nominator's full name, work affiliation, 
mailing address, phone number, and email address;
     include the nominator's signature, whether sent by email 
or otherwise.
    Please do not include any information that you do not want publicly 
disclosed.
    The Department of Labor will contact nominees for information on 
their political affiliation and their status as registered lobbyists. 
Anyone currently subject to federal registration requirements as a 
lobbyist is not eligible for appointment. Nominees should be aware of 
the time commitment for attending meetings and actively participating 
in the work of the Council. Historically, this has meant a commitment 
of at least 20 days per year. The Department of Labor has a process for 
vetting nominees under consideration for appointment.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 2nd day of August, 2021.
Ali Khawar,
Acting Assistant Secretary, Employee Benefits Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 2021-16814 Filed 8-5-21; 8:45 am]
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