53366 Federal Register / Vol. 67, No. 158 / Thursday, August 15, 2002 / Notices 

Management Systems (ADAMS) Public 

Electronic Reading Room on the Internet 

at the NRC Web site, http://

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

The ADAMS Accession No. for the 

bulletin is ML022200494. 

If you do not have access to ADAMS 

or if there are problems in accessing 

documents located in ADAMS, contact 

the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) 

Reference staff at 301–415–4737 or 1–

800–397–4209, or by e-mail to 

pdr@nrc.gov.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day 

of August 2002.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

David B. Matthews, 

Director, Division of Regulatory Improvement 

Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation.

[FR Doc. 02–20729 Filed 8–14–02; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY 

CORPORATION 

Required Interest Rate 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 can be derived 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 required interest rate for 

determining the variable-rate premium 

under part 4006 applies to premium 

payment years beginning in August 

2002. The interest assumptions for 

performing multiemployer plan 

valuations following mass withdrawal 

under part 4281 apply to valuation dates 

occurring in September 2002.

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. (TTY/TDD users 

may 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 (the 

‘‘required interest rate’’) in determining 

a single-employer plan’s variable-rate 

premium. The required interest rate is 

the ‘‘applicable percentage’’ (currently 

100 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’’). (Although 

the Treasury Department has ceased 

issuing 30-year securities, the Internal 

Revenue Service announces a surrogate 

yield figure each month—based on the 

30-year Treasury bond maturing in 

February 2031—which the PBGC uses to 

determine the required interest rate.) 

The required interest rate to be used 

in determining variable-rate premiums 

for premium payment years beginning 

in August 2002 is 5.39 percent. 

The following table lists the required 

interest rates to be used in determining 

variable-rate premiums for premium 

payment years beginning between 

September 2001 and August 2002.

For premium payment years 

beginning in: 

The required interest rate is: 

September 2001 ....................... 4.66 

October 2001 ............................ 4.66 

November 2001 ........................ 4.52 

December 2001 ........................ 4.35 

January 2002 ............................ 5.48 

February 2002 .......................... 5.45 

March 2002 ............................... 5.40 

April 2002 ................................. 5.71 

May 2002 .................................. 5.68 

June 2002 ................................. 5.65 

July 2002 .................................. 5.52 

August 2002 ............................. 5.39 

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 

September 2002 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 8th day 

of August, 2002. 

Joseph H. Grant, 

Deputy Executive Director and Chief 

Operating Officer, Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation.

[FR Doc. 02–20703 Filed 8–14–02; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7708–01–P

RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

Proposed Data Collection Available for 

Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

Summary: In accordance with the 

requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

which provides opportunity for public 

comment on new or revised data 

collections, the Railroad Retirement 

Board (RRB) will publish periodic 

summaries of proposed data collections. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed information collection is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information has practical 

utility; (b) the accuracy of the RRB’s 

estimate of the burden of the collection 

of the information; (c) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (d) 

ways to minimize the burden related to 

the collection of information on 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Title and Purpose of Information 

Collection 

Evidence of Martial Relationship, 

Living with Requirements; OMB 3220–

0021. 

To support an application for a 

spouse or widow(er)’s annuity under 

Sections 2(c) or 2(d) of the Railroad 

Retirement Act, an applicant must 

submit proof of a valid marriage to a 

railroad employee. In some cases, the 

existence of a marital relationship is not 

formalized by a civil or religious 

ceremony. In other cases, questions may 

arise about the legal termination of a 

prior marriage of an employee, spouse, 

or widow(er). In these instances, the 

RRB must secure additional information 

to resolve questionable marital 

relationships. The circumstances 

requiring an applicant to submit 

documentary evidence of marriage are 

prescribed in 20 CFR 219.30. 

In the absence of documentary 

evidence to support the existence of a 

valid marriage between a spouse or 

widow(er) annuity applicant and a 

railroad employee, the RRB needs to 

obtain information to determine if a