Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 31 / Tuesday, February 15, 2000 / Notices 7577

72.214. The exemption request and CoC

application are docketed under Docket

No. 72–1014. These documents are

available for public review at the

Commission’s Public Document Room,

2120 L Street, NW, Washington, DC

20555.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day

of February 2000.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

E. William Brach, Director,

Spent Fuel Project Office, Office of Nuclear

Material Safety and Safeguards.

[FR Doc. 00–3516 Filed 2–14–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY

CORPORATION

Interest Assumption for Determining

Variable-Rate Premium; Interest

Assumptions for Multiemployer Plan

Valuations Following Mass Withdrawal

AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty

Corporation.

ACTION: Notice of interest rates and

assumptions.

SUMMARY: This notice informs the public

of the interest rates and assumptions to

be used under certain Pension Benefit

Guaranty Corporation regulations. These

rates and assumptions are published

elsewhere (or are derivable from rates

published elsewhere), but are collected

and published in this notice for the

convenience of the public. Interest rates

are also published on the PBGC’s web

site (http://www.pbgc.gov).

DATES: The interest rate for determining

the variable-rate premium under part

4006 applies to premium payment years

beginning in February 2000. The

interest assumptions for performing

multiemployer plan valuations

following mass withdrawal under part

4281 apply to valuation dates occurring

in March 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Harold J. Ashner, Assistant General

Counsel, Office of the General Counsel,

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation,

1200 K Street, NW., Washington, DC

20005, 202–326–4024. (For TTY/TDD

users, call the Federal relay service tollfree at 1–800–877–8339 and ask to be

connected to 202–326–4024.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Variable-Rate Premiums

Section 4006(a)(3)(E)(iii)(II) of the

Employee Retirement Income Security

Act of 1974 (ERISA) and § 4006.4(b)(1)

of the PBGC’s regulation on Premium

Rates (29 CFR part 4006) prescribe use

of an assumed interest rate in

determining a single-employer plan’s

variable-rate premium. The rate is the

‘‘applicable percentage’’ (currently 85

percent) of the annual yield on 30-year

Treasury securities for the month

preceding the beginning of the plan year

for which premiums are being paid (the

‘‘premium payment year’’). The yield

figure is reported in Federal Reserve

Statistical Releases G.13 and H.15.

The assumed interest rate to be used

in determining variable-rate premiums

for premium payment years beginning

in February 2000 is 5.64 percent (i.e., 85

percent of the 6.63 percent yield figure

for January 2000).

The following table lists the assumed

interest rates to be used in determining

variable-rate premiums for premium

payment years beginning between

March 1999 and February 2000.

For premium payment years

beginning in:

The assumed

interest rate

is:

March 1999 ............................. 4.56

April 1999 ............................... 4.74

May 1999 ................................ 4.72

June 1999 ............................... 4.94

July 1999 ................................ 5.13

August 1999 ........................... 5.08

September 1999 ..................... 5.16

October 1999 .......................... 5.16

November 1999 ...................... 5.32

December ............................... 5.23

January 2000 .......................... 5.40

February 2000 ........................ 5.64

Multiemployer Plan Valuations

Following Mass Withdrawal

The PBGC’s regulation on Duties of

Plan Sponsor Following Mass

Withdrawal (29 CFR part 4281)

prescribes the use of interest

assumptions under the PBGC’s

regulation on Allocation of Assets in

Single-employer Plans (29 CFR part

4044). The interest assumptions

applicable to valuation dates in March

2000 under part 4044 are contained in

an amendment to part 4044 published

elsewhere in today’s Federal Register.

Tables showing the assumptions

applicable to prior periods are codified

in appendix B to 29 CFR part 4044.

Issued in Washington, DC, on this 4th day

of February, 2000.

David M. Strauss,

Executive Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty

Corporation.

[FR Doc. 00–3459 Filed 2–14–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7708–01–P

OFFICE OF PERSONNEL

MANAGEMENT

Excepted Service

AGENCY: Office of Personnel

Management.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This gives notice of positions

placed or revoked under Schedules A

and B, and placed under Schedule C in

the excepted service, as required by

Civil Service Rule VI, Exceptions from

the Competitive Service.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Director, Staffing Reinvention Office,

Employment Service (202) 606–0830.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office

of Personnel Management published its

last monthly notice updating appointing

authorities established or revoked under

the Excepted Service provisions of 5

CFR 213 on December 27, 1999 (64 FR

72369). Individual authorities

established or revoked under Schedules

A and B and established under

Schedule C between November 1, 1999,

and December 31, 1999, appear in the

listing below. Future notices will be

published on the fourth Tuesday of each

month, or as soon as possible thereafter.

A consolidated listing of all authorities

has been published June 30 of last year.

Schedule A

No Schedule A authorities were

established or revoked during November

or December 1999.

Schedule B

No Schedule B authorities were

established or revoked during November

or December 1999.

Schedule C

The following Schedule C authorities

were established during November thru

December 1999:

Broadcasting Board of Governors

Senior Advisor to the Director,

International Broadcasting Bureau.

Effective November 2, 1999.

Commission on Civil Rights

Special Assistant to the

Commissioner. Effective November 5,

1999.

Department of Agriculture

Confidential Assistant to the Deputy

Administrator, Office of Community

Development. Effective November 1,

1999.

Confidential Assistant to the Chief,

Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Effective November 3, 1999.