Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 142 / Tuesday, July 24, 2018 / Notices 35031 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Paul B. Kallan, 

Acting Chief, Licensing Branch 4, Division 

of Licensing, Siting, and Environmental 

Analysis, Office of New Reactors. 

[FR Doc. 2018–15783 Filed 7–23–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY 

CORPORATION 

Proposed Submission of Information 

Collections for OMB Review; Comment 

Request; Reportable Events; Notice of 

Failure To Make Required 

Contributions 

AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation. 

ACTION: Notice of intention to request 

extension of OMB approval. 

SUMMARY: The Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation (PBGC) intends to request 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) extend approval, under 

the Paperwork Reduction Act, of 

collections of information under PBGC’s 

regulation on Reportable Events and 

Certain Other Notification Requirements 

(OMB control numbers 1212–0013 and 

1212–0041, expiring November 30, 

2018) with modifications. This notice 

solicits public comment. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted by 

September 24, 2018 to be assured of 

consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

website instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: paperwork.comments@

pbgc.gov. 

• Mail or Hand Delivery: Regulatory 

Affairs Division, Office of the General 

Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation, 1200 K Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20005–4026. 

All submissions received must 

include the agency’s name (Pension 

Benefit Guaranty Corporation, or PBGC) 

and refer to the OMB control number(s) 

they relate to. All comments received 

will be posted without change to 

PBGC’s website, http://www.pbgc.gov, 

including any personal information 

provided. 

Copies of the collections of 

information and comments may be 

obtained without charge by writing to 

Disclosure Division, Office of the 

General Counsel, Pension Benefit 

Guaranty Corporation, 1200 K Street 

NW, Washington, DC 20005–4026; 

faxing a request to 202–326–4042; or 

calling 202–326–4040 during normal 

business hours. (TTY users may call the 

Federal relay service toll-free at 1–800– 

877–8339 and ask to be connected to 

202–326–4040.) The reportable events 

regulation, forms, and instructions are 

available at http://www.pbgc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephanie Cibinic, Deputy Assistant 

General Counsel for Regulatory Affairs 

(cibinic.stephanie@pbgc.gov; 202–326– 

4400 ext. 3839), or Deborah C. Murphy, 

Assistant General Counsel 

(murphy.deborah@pbgc.gov; 202–326– 

4400 ext. 3451 (leave voice message)), 

Office of the General Counsel, Pension 

Benefit Guaranty Corporation, 1200 K 

Street NW, Washington, DC 20005– 

4026. (TTY users may call the Federal 

relay service toll-free at 1–800–877– 

8339 and ask to be connected to 202– 

326–4400 and either of the above 

extensions.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

4043 of the Employee Retirement 

Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) 

requires plan administrators and plan 

sponsors to report certain plan and 

employer events to PBGC. The reporting 

requirements give PBGC notice of events 

that indicate plan or employer financial 

problems. PBGC uses the information 

provided in determining what, if any, 

action it needs to take. For example, 

PBGC might need to institute 

proceedings to terminate a plan (placing 

it in trusteeship) under section 4042 of 

ERISA to ensure the continued payment 

of benefits to plan participants and their 

beneficiaries or to prevent unreasonable 

increases in PBGC’s losses. 

The provisions of section 4043 of 

ERISA have been implemented in 

PBGC’s regulation on Reportable Events 

and Certain Other Notification 

Requirements (29 CFR part 4043). 

Subparts B and C of the regulation deal 

with reportable events. 

PBGC has issued Forms 10 and 10- 

Advance and related instructions under 

subparts B and C (approved under OMB 

control number 1212–0013). OMB 

approval of this collection of 

information expires November 30, 2018. 

PBGC intends to request that OMB 

extend its approval for three years, with 

modifications. An agency may not 

conduct or sponsor, and a person is not 

required to respond to, a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

PBGC estimates that it will receive 

590 reportable event notices per year 

under subparts B and C of the reportable 

events regulation using Forms 10 and 

10-Advance and that the average annual 

burden of this collection of information 

is 1,770 hours and $439,500. 

Section 303(k) of the Employee 

Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 

(ERISA) and section 430(k) of the 

Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Code) 

impose a lien in favor of an 

underfunded single-employer plan that 

is covered by PBGC’s termination 

insurance program if (1) any person fails 

to make a required payment when due, 

and (2) the unpaid balance of that 

payment (including interest), when 

added to the aggregate unpaid balance 

of all preceding payments for which 

payment was not made when due 

(including interest), exceeds $1 million. 

(For this purpose, a plan is underfunded 

if its funding target attainment 

percentage is less than 100 percent.) The 

lien is upon all property and rights to 

property belonging to the person or 

persons that are liable for required 

contributions (i.e., a contributing 

sponsor and each member of the 

controlled group of which that 

contributing sponsor is a member). 

Only PBGC (or, at its direction, the 

plan’s contributing sponsor or a member 

of the same controlled group) may 

perfect and enforce this lien. ERISA and 

the Code require persons that fail to 

make payments to notify PBGC within 

10 days of the due date whenever there 

is a failure to make a required payment 

and the total of the unpaid balances 

(including interest) exceeds $1 million. 

PBGC Form 200, Notice of Failure to 

Make Required Contributions, and 

related instructions implement the 

statutory notification requirement. 

Submission of Form 200 is required by 

29 CFR 4043.81 (Subpart D of PBGC’s 

regulation on Reportable Events and 

Other Notification Requirements, 29 

CFR part 4043). 

OMB has approved this collection of 

information under OMB control number 

1212–0041, which expires November 

30, 2018. PBGC intends to request that 

OMB extend its approval for three years, 

with modifications. An agency may not 

conduct or sponsor, and a person is not 

required to respond to, a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

PBGC estimates that it will receive 

100 Form 200 filings per year and that 

the average annual burden of this 

collection of information is 100 hours 

and $72,500. 

PBGC is soliciting public comments 

to— 

• evaluate whether the proposed 

collections of information are necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 


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• evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collections of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodologies and assumptions used; 

• enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

• minimize the burden of the 

collections 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., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. 

Stephanie Cibinic, 

Deputy Assistant General Counsel for 

Regulatory Affairs, Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation. 

[FR Doc. 2018–15806 Filed 7–23–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7709–02–P 

RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

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. 

1. Title and purpose of information 

collection: Employee’s Certification; 

OMB 3220–0140. 

Section 2 of the Railroad Retirement 

Act (RRA), provides for the payment of 

an annuity to the spouse or divorced 

spouse of a retired railroad employee. 

For the spouse or divorced spouse to 

qualify for an annuity, the RRB must 

determine if any of the employee’s 

current marriage to the applicant is 

valid. 

The requirements for obtaining 

documentary evidence to determine 

valid marital relationships are 

prescribed in 20 CFR 219.30 through 

219.35. Section 2(e) of the RRA requires 

that an employee must relinquish all 

rights to any railroad employer service 

before a spouse annuity can be paid. 

The RRB uses Form G–346, 

Employee’s Certification, to obtain the 

information needed to determine 

whether the employee’s current 

marriage is valid. Form G–346 is 

completed by the retired employee who 

is the husband or wife of the applicant 

for a spouse annuity. Completion is 

required to obtain a benefit. One 

response is requested of each 

respondent. The RRB proposes no 

changes to Form G–346. 

Form G–346sum, Employee 

Certification Summary, which mirrors 

the information collected on Form G– 

346, is used when an employee, after 

being interviewed by an RRB field office 

representative, ‘‘signs’’ the form using 

an alternative signature method known 

as ‘‘attestation.’’ Attestation refers to the 

action taken by the RRB field office 

representative to confirm and annotate 

the RRB’s records of the applicant’s 

affirmation under penalty of perjury that 

the information provided is correct and 

the applicant’s agreement to sign the 

form by proxy. The RRB proposes no 

changes to Form G–346sum. 

ESTIMATE OF ANNUAL RESPONDENT BURDEN

Form No. Annual 

responses 

Time 

(min) 

Burden 

(hrs) 

G–346 .......................................................................................................................................... 4,220 5 352 

G–346sum ................................................................................................................................... 2,100 5 175 

Total ...................................................................................................................................... 6,320 ........................ 527 

2. Title and purpose of information 

collection: Railroad Separation 

Allowance or Severance Pay Report; 

OMB 3220–0173. 

Section 6 of the Railroad Retirement 

Act provides for a lump-sum payment to 

an employee or the employee’s 

survivors equal to the Tier II taxes paid 

by the employee on a separation 

allowance or severance payment for 

which the employee did not receive 

credits toward retirement. The lumpsum is not payable until retirement 

benefits begin to accrue or the employee 

dies. Also, Section 4(a–1) (iii) of the 

Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act 

provides that a railroad employee who 

is paid a separation allowance is 

disqualified for unemployment and 

sickness benefits for the period of time 

the employee would have to work to 

earn the amount of the allowance. The 

reporting requirements are specified in 

20 CFR 209.14. 

In order to calculate and provide 

payments, the Railroad Retirement 

Board (RRB) must collect and maintain 

records of separation allowances and 

severance payments which were subject 

to Tier II taxation from railroad 

employers. The RRB uses Form BA–9, 

Report of Separation Allowance or 

Severance Pay, to obtain information 

from railroad employers concerning the 

separation allowances and severance 

payments made to railroad employees 

and/or the survivors of railroad 

employees. Employers currently have 

the option of submitting their reports on 

paper Form BA–9, (or in like format) on 

a CD–ROM, or by File Transfer Protocol 

(FTP), or Secure Email. Completion is 

mandatory. One response is requested of 

each respondent. The RRB proposes no 

changes to Form BA–9. 

ESTIMATE OF ANNUAL RESPONDENT BURDEN

Form No. Annual 

responses 

Time 

(minutes) 

Burden 

(hours) 

BA–9 (Paper) ............................................................................................................................... 100 76 127 

BA–9 (CD–ROM) ......................................................................................................................... 40 76 51 

BA–9 (Secure Email) ................................................................................................................... 60 76 76 


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