Agency Information Collection Activities; Request for Public Comment, 7732-7736 [2024-02176]

Agencies

• Employee Benefits Security Administration
• DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 24 (Monday, February 5, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7732-7736]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02176]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employee Benefits Security Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities; Request for Public 
Comment

AGENCY: Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), Department of 
Labor.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (the Department), in accordance with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act, provides the general public and Federal 
agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and continuing 
collections of information. This helps the Department assess the impact 
of its information collection requirements and minimize the public's 
reporting burden. It also helps the public understand the Department's 
information collection requirements and provide the requested data in 
the desired format. The Employee Benefits Security Administration 
(EBSA) is soliciting comments on the proposed extension of the 
information collection requests (ICRs) contained in the documents 
described below. A copy of the ICRs may be obtained by contacting the 
office listed in the ADDRESSES section of this notice. ICRs also are 
available at reginfo.gov (https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain).

DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office shown in the

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ADDRESSES section on or before April 5, 2024.

ADDRESSES: James Butikofer, Department of Labor, Employee Benefits 
Security Administration, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Room N-5718, 
Washington, DC 20210, or [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Current Actions

    This notice requests public comment on the Department's request for 
extension of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval of 
ICRs contained in the rules and prohibited transaction exemptions 
described below. This action is not related to any pending rulemakings 
and the Department is not proposing any changes to the existing ICRs at 
this time. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not 
required to respond to, an information collection unless it displays a 
valid OMB control number. A summary of the ICRs and the burden 
estimates follows:
    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: Employee Retirement Income Security Act Section 408(b)(2) 
Regulation.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0133.
    Affected Public: Private sector, Business or other for profits.
    Respondents: 56,891.
    Responses: 1,643,991.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 1,134,055.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $258,506.
    Description: The prohibited transaction described in section 
406(a)(1)(C) of ERISA generally prohibits the furnishing of goods, 
services, or facilities between a plan and a party in interest to the 
plan. Because ERISA defines any person furnishing services to the plan 
as a ``party in interest'' to the plan, a service relationship between 
a plan and a service provider would constitute a prohibited transaction 
under section 406(a)(1)(C) in the absence of relief. Section 408(b)(2) 
of ERISA provides relief, however, for service contracts or 
arrangements if the contract or arrangement is ``reasonable,'' if the 
services are necessary for the establishment or operation of the plan, 
and if no more than ``reasonable'' compensation is paid for the 
services. The Department's final rule under ERISA section 408(b)(2) (29 
CFR 2550.408b-2) requires reasonable contracts or arrangements between 
employee pension benefit plans and certain providers of services to 
such plans include specified information to assist plan fiduciaries in 
assessing the reasonableness of the compensation paid for services and 
the conflicts of interest that may affect a service provider's 
performance of services.
    The Department also issued a class prohibited transaction exemption 
as part of the final rule. The class exemption grants plan fiduciaries 
relief from liability for a prohibited transaction resulting from the 
service provider's failure to comply with the regulation's disclosure 
requirements. The Department recognizes that a plan fiduciary may on 
occasion unknowingly enter into a contract or arrangement that does not 
meet the requirements of the regulation for relief under ERISA section 
408(b)(2), in the reasonable belief that the service provider has 
divulged the requisite information. If the requirements of the rule are 
not satisfied, a prohibited transaction occurs for both the service 
provider and the plan fiduciary, but for the availability of the class 
exemption.
    The Department has received approval from OMB for this ICR under 
OMB Control No. 1210-0133. The current approval is scheduled to expire 
on August 31, 2024.
    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 
Notices.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0138.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households, private sector, not-
for-profit institutions, businesses or other for-profits.
    Respondents: 1,323,153.
    Responses: 1,323,153.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 941,555.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): 
$1,091,047.
    Description: The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health 
Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) was enacted on October 
3, 2008 as sections 511 and 512 of the Tax Extenders and Alternative 
Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008 (division C of Pub. L. 110-343). MHPAEA 
amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the 
Public Health Service Act (PHS Act), and the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 (the Code). In 1996, Congress enacted the Mental Health Parity Act 
of 1996, which required parity in aggregate lifetime and annual dollar 
limits for mental health (MH) benefits and medical/surgical benefits, 
and codified those provisions in section 712 of ERISA, section 2705 of 
the PHS Act, and section 9812 of the Code. The changes made by MHPAEA 
are codified in these same sections and include provisions to apply the 
mental health parity requirements to substance use disorder (SUD) 
benefits and impose additional requirements for financial requirements 
and treatment limitations for group health plans and health insurance 
coverage offered in connection with a group health plan. MHPAEA does 
not apply to small employers that have between two and 50 employees.
    MHPAEA and the final regulations (29 CFR 2590.712(d)) require plan 
administrators to provide two disclosures regarding MH/SUD benefits--
one providing criteria for medical necessity determinations (medical 
necessity disclosure) and the other providing the reason for denial of 
claims reimbursement (claims denial disclosure).
    Section 203 of title II of division BB of the Consolidated 
Appropriations Act (CAA, 2021) was enacted on December 27, 2020 and 
amended MHPAEA, in part, by requiring group health plans and health 
insurance issuers offering group or individual health insurance 
coverage that offer both medical/surgical benefits and MH/SUD benefits 
and that impose NQTLs on MH/SUD benefits to perform and document their 
comparative analyses of the design and application of NQTLs.
    The CAA, 2021 also provides that the Departments of the Treasury, 
Labor, and Health and Human Services (collectively, the Departments) 
shall request that a group health plan or issuer submit the comparative 
analyses for plans that involve potential violations of MHPAEA or 
complaints regarding noncompliance with MHPAEA that concern NQTLs, and 
any other instances in which the Departments determine appropriate. The 
CAA, 2021 further requires the Departments, after review of the 
comparative analyses, to share information on findings of compliance 
and noncompliance with the State where the plan is located or the State 
where the issuer is licensed to do business.
    The Department has received approval from OMB for this ICR under 
OMB Control No. 1210-0138. The

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    \1\ This request for extension of the OMB approval for ICR is 
not related to finalizing the proposed rules published on August 3, 
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    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: Pension Benefit Statement.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0166.
    Affected Public: Private sector, businesses or other for-profits, 
not-for-profit institutions.
    Respondents: 721,876.
    Responses: 410,933,333.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 19,675.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): 
$498,958,393.
    Description: Section 105(a) of the Employee Retirement Income 
Security Act (ERISA) requires administrators of defined contribution 
plans and defined benefit plans to provide periodic pension benefit 
statements to participants and certain beneficiaries. If a defined 
contribution plan permits participants and beneficiaries to direct 
their own investments, benefit statements must be provided at least 
once each quarter. If the defined contribution plan does not permit 
participants and beneficiaries to direct their own investments, benefit 
statements must be provided at least once each year. In the case of 
defined benefit plans, benefit statements generally must be provided at 
least once every three years. Section 105(a)(2)(A)(i)(I) requires a 
benefit statement to indicate the participant's or beneficiary's 
``total benefits accrued.''
    On December 20, 2019, ERISA section 105 was amended by section 203 
of the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 
2019 (SECURE Act). As amended, ERISA section 105 requires, in relevant 
part, that ``a lifetime income disclosure . . . be included in only one 
pension benefit statement provided to participants of defined 
contribution plans during any one 12-month period.'' A lifetime income 
disclosure ``shall set forth the lifetime income stream equivalent of 
the total benefits accrued with respect to the participant or 
beneficiary.'' A lifetime income stream equivalent means the amount of 
monthly payments the participant or beneficiary would receive if the 
total accrued benefits of such participant or beneficiary were used to 
provide a single life annuity and a qualified joint and survivor 
annuity.
    The Department has received approval from OMB for this ICR under 
OMB Control No. 1210-0166. The current approval is scheduled to expire 
on October 31, 2024.
    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: Employee Retirement Income Security Act Procedure 1976-1; 
Advisory Opinion Procedure.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0066.
    Affected Public: Private sector, Business or other for-profits, 
Not-for-profit institutions.
    Respondents: 18.
    Responses: 18.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 182.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $477,089.
    Description: In 1976, the Department issued ERISA Procedure 76-1, 
the Procedure for ERISA Advisory Opinions (ERISA Procedure), in order 
to establish a public process for requesting guidance from the Employee 
Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) on the application of ERISA to 
particular circumstances. The ERISA Procedure sets forth specific 
administrative procedures for requesting either an advisory opinion or 
an information letter and describes the types of questions that may be 
submitted.
    As part of the ERISA Procedure, requesters are instructed to 
provide information to EBSA concerning the circumstances governing 
their request. Section 6 of ERISA Procedure 76-1 lists the information 
that must be supplied by the party requesting an advisory opinion. This 
information includes identifying information (name, type of plan, EIN 
Number, etc.), a detailed description of the act(s) or transaction(s) 
with respect to which an advisory opinion is being requested, a 
discussion of the issues presented by the act(s) or transaction(s), a 
statement of the party's views concerning the issues to be resolved and 
the legal basis for such views. The requesting party must also include 
copies of the relevant documents and may also request a conference with 
EBSA in the event that EBSA is considering issuing an adverse opinion.
    The Department has received approval from OMB for this ICR under 
OMB Control No. 1210-0066. The current approval is scheduled to expire 
on November 30, 2024.
    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 Technical 
Release 1991-1.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0084.
    Affected Public: Private sector, business or other for-profits.
    Respondents: 6.
    Responses: 18,419.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 623.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $839.
    Description: Section 101(e) of ERISA establishes notice 
requirements that must be satisfied before an employer may transfer 
excess assets from a defined benefit pension plan to a retiree health 
benefit account, as permitted under the conditions set forth in section 
420 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code).
    The notice requirements of ERISA section 101(e) are two-fold. 
First, subsection (e)(1) requires plan administrators to provide 
advance written notification of such transfers to participants and 
beneficiaries. Second, subsection (e)(2)(A) requires employers to 
provide advance written notification of such transfers to the 
Secretaries of Labor and the Treasury, the plan administrator, and each 
employee organization representing participants in the plan. Both 
notices must be given at least 60 days before the transfer date. The 
two subsections prescribe the information to be included in each type 
of notice and further give the Secretary of Labor the authority to 
prescribe how notice to participants and beneficiaries must be given, 
and how any additional reporting requirements are deemed necessary.
    On May 8, 1991, the Department published ERISA Technical Release 
91-1, to provide guidance on how to satisfy the notice requirements 
prescribed by ERISA section 101(e). The Technical Release made two 
changes in the statutory requirements for the second type of notice. 
First, it required the notice to include a filing date and the intended 
asset transfer date. Second, it simplified the statutory filing 
requirements by providing that filing with the Department of Labor 
would be deemed sufficient notice to both the Department and the 
Department of the Treasury as required under the statute.
    The Department has received approval from OMB for this ICR under 
OMB Control No. 1210-0084. The current approval is scheduled to expire 
on November 30, 2024.
    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: Disclosures by Insurers to General Account Policyholders.

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    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0114.
    Affected Public: Private sector, business or other for-profits.
    Respondents: 353.
    Responses: 26,981.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 114,670.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $10,792.
    Description: Section 1460 of the Small Business Job Protection Act 
of 1996 (Pub. L. 104-188) (SBJPA) amended ERISA by adding section 
401(c). This section requires the Department to promulgate a regulation 
providing guidance, applicable only to insurance policies issued on or 
before December 31, 1998, to or for the benefit of employee benefit 
plans, to clarify the extent to which assets held in an insurer's 
general account under such contracts are ``plan assets'' within the 
meaning of ERISA, because the policies are not ``guaranteed benefit 
policies'' within the meaning of section 401(b) of ERISA. SBJPA further 
directed the Department to set standards for how insurers should manage 
the specified insurance policies (called Transition Policies). Pursuant 
to the authority and direction given under SBJPA, the Department 
promulgated a final rule on January 5, 2000 (65 FR 714) that is 
codified at 29 CFR 2550.401c-1.
    Regulation section 29 CFR 2550.401(c)-1 imposes specific 
requirements on insurers that are parties to Transition Policies in 
order to ensure that the fiduciaries acting on behalf of plans have 
adequate information and understanding of how the Transition Policies 
work. This information collection requires that an insurer that issues 
and maintains a Transition Policy to or for the benefit of an employee 
benefit plan must disclose to the plan fiduciary, initially upon 
issuance of the policy and on an annual basis, to the extent that the 
policy is not a guaranteed benefit policy: (1) the methods by which 
income and expenses of the insurer's general account are allocated to 
the policy, the actual annual return to the plan, and other pertinent 
information; (2) the extent to which alternative arrangements supported 
by the assets of the insurer's separate accounts are available; (3) any 
rights under the policy to transfer funds to a separate account and the 
terms governing such right; and (4) the extent to which support by 
assets of the insurer's separate accounts might pose differing risks to 
the plan.
    The Department has received approval from OMB for this ICR under 
OMB Control No. 1210-0114. The current approval is scheduled to expire 
on November 30, 2024.
    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: Registration for EFAST-2 Credentials.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0117.
    Affected Public: Private sector, not-for-profit institutions, 
businesses or other for-profits.
    Respondents: 248,985.
    Responses: 248,985.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 82,995.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $0.
    Description: The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 
(ERISA) section 104 requires administrators of employee benefits plans 
(pension and welfare plans) and employers sponsoring certain fringe 
benefit plans and other plans of deferred compensation to file returns/
reports annually with the Secretary of Labor concerning the financial 
condition and operation of plans. Reporting requirements are satisfied 
by filing the Form 5500 in accordance with its instructions and the 
related regulations. Form 5500 filings are processed under the ERISA 
Filing Acceptance System 2 (EFAST-2), which is designed to simplify and 
expedite the receipt and processing of the Form 5500 by relying on 
internet-based forms and electronic filing technologies.
    In order to file electronically, employee benefit plan Filing 
authors, Schedule authors, Filing signers, Form 5500 transmitters, and 
entities developing software to complete and/or transmit the Form 5500 
are required to register for EFAST-2 credentials through the EFAST2 
website. The information requested for registration includes: Applicant 
type (Filing Author, Filing Signer, Schedule Author, Transmitter, or 
software developer); mailing address; fax number (optional); email 
address; company name, contact person; and daytime telephone number. 
Registrants must also provide an answer to a challenge question (``What 
is your date of birth?'' or ``Where is your place of birth?''), which 
enables users to retrieve forgotten credentials. In addition, 
registrants must accept a Privacy Agreement; PIN Agreement; and, under 
penalty of perjury, a Signature Agreement.
    The Department has received approval from OMB for this ICR under 
OMB Control No. 1210-0117. The current approval is scheduled to expire 
on November 30, 2024.
    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: Employee Retirement Income Security Act Blackout Period 
Notice.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0122.
    Affected Public: Private sector, businesses or other for-profits, 
not-for-profit institutions.
    Respondents: 47,250.
    Responses: 7,409,220.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 88,905.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $324,524.
    Description: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA), enacted on July 30, 
2002, amended ERISA to include a blackout period disclosure requirement 
in subsection 101(i). This information collection requires 
administrators of individual account pension plans (e.g., a profit 
sharing plan, 401(k) type plan or money purchase pension plan) to 
provide at least 30 days advance written notice to the affected 
participants and beneficiaries in advance of any ``blackout period'' 
during which their existing rights to direct or diversify their 
investments under the plan, or obtain a loan or distribution from the 
plan will be temporarily suspended. The term ``blackout period'' is 
generally defined as any period of more than three consecutive business 
days during which time the ability of plan participants and 
beneficiaries to direct or diversify investments or to obtain loans or 
distributions is suspended, limited or restricted.
    The Department has received approval from OMB for this ICR under 
OMB Control No. 1210-0122. The current approval is scheduled to expire 
on November 30, 2024.
    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: Coverage of Certain Preventive Services under the Affordable 
Care Act--Private Sector.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0150.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households, private sector, 
businesses or other for-profits, not-for-profit institutions.
    Respondents: 114.
    Responses: 777,363.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 181.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $194,963.
    Description: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public 
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111-148, (the Affordable Care Act) was enacted on March 23, 2010 and 
amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, 
Public Law 111-152 on March 30, 2010. The Affordable Care Act added 
section 2713 to the Public Health Service (PHS) Act and incorporated 
this provision into ERISA and the Code. The Departments of Health and 
Human Services, Labor, and Treasury first published interim final rules 
on July 19, 2010, which implements the requirements of PHS Act section 
2713, including the requirement that non-grandfathered group health 
insurance coverage to provide benefits for certain preventive services 
without cost sharing, including benefits for certain women's preventive 
health services as provided for in comprehensive guidelines supported 
by the Health Resources and Services Administration. The Departments 
subsequently published regulations establishing an exemption for 
certain religious objectors with respect to the requirement to cover 
contraception pursuant to comprehensive guidelines supported by HRSA.
    In 2013, the Department issued final rules, which clarified the 
definition of religious employer for purposes of the religious employer 
exemption and also provided accommodations for health coverage 
established or maintained or arranged by certain nonprofit religious 
organizations with religious objections to contraceptive services 
(eligible organizations). The 2018 final rules expanded the exemption 
to include additional entities (any kind of employer) and persons that 
object based on religious beliefs or moral convictions objecting to 
contraceptive or sterilization coverage, and by making the 
accommodation compliance process optional for eligible organizations 
instead of mandatory. The regulations contain the following collections 
of information. First, each organization seeking to be treated as an 
eligible organization for the optional accommodation process offered 
under the regulation must either notify an issuer or third-party 
administrator using the EBSA Form 700 method of self-certification or 
provide notice to HHS of its religious or moral objection to coverage 
of all or a subset of contraceptive services. Second, a health 
insurance issuer or third-party administrator providing or arranging 
separate payments for contraceptive services for participants and 
beneficiaries in insured plans (or student enrollees and covered 
dependents in student health insurance coverage) of eligible 
organizations is required to provide a written notice to plan 
participants and beneficiaries (or student enrollees and covered 
dependents) informing them of the availability of such payments. The 
notice must be separate from but, contemporaneous with (to the extent 
possible) any application materials distributed in connection with 
enrollment (or re-enrollment) in group or student coverage of the 
eligible organization in any plan year to which the accommodation is to 
apply and will be provided annually. To satisfy the notice requirement, 
issuers may, but are not required to, use the model language set forth 
in the 2018 final rules or substantially similar language. Third, an 
eligible organization may also revoke its use of the accommodation 
process and must provide participants and beneficiaries written notice 
of such revocation as soon as possible.
    The Department has received approval from OMB for this ICR under 
OMB Control No. 1210-0150. The current approval is scheduled to expire 
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    Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of 
Labor.
    Title: EBSA Participant Assistance Program Customer Survey.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of 
information.
    OMB Number: 1210-0161.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Respondents: 11,200.
    Responses: 11,200.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 1,867.
    Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $0.
    Description: EBSA conducts the surveys to evaluate the Participant 
Assistance Program (PAP) provided by the benefits advisor staff 
nationwide to understand how well the Agency is meeting service 
delivery goals by; (1) assessing EBSA's customers' perception of the 
services provided by the EBSA benefit advisors, and (2) determining 
what actions the performance data indicate could enable each regional 
office to provide the best possible participant assistance service; and 
(3) establishing a current baseline for EBSA's (Government Performance 
and Accountability Act GPRA) measurement. EBSA will use the data from 
the survey to track the agency's progress on accomplishing it's GPRA 
measurement goal.
    The PAP Customer Survey collects customer satisfaction data for a 
sample of private citizens who call into the participant assistance 
program to ask about their private sector employer provided benefits 
such as pensions, retirement savings, and health benefits. Three types 
of callers are queried: (1) those who need benefit claim assistance, 
(2) those who have a valid benefit claim, and (3) those who have an 
invalid benefit claim will be queried. The results of the survey will 
be analyzed to provide actionable data that could be used to improve 
program performance. The study includes data from the EBSA regional 
offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Kansas City, 
Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, as well as the 
District offices in Miami, Seattle, and Washington.
    The Department has received approval from OMB for this ICR under 
OMB Control No. 1210-0161. The current approval is scheduled to expire 
on November 30, 2024.

II. Focus of Comments

    The Department is particularly interested in comments that:
     Evaluate whether the collections of information are 
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 
collections 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., by 
permitting electronic submissions of responses.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and/or included in the ICR for OMB approval of the information 
collection; they will also become a matter of public record.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of January 2024.
Lisa M. Gomez,
Assistant Secretary, Employee Benefits Security Administration, U.S. 
Department of Labor.
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