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our Web site at www.nicic.gov/ 

cooperativeagreements. 

All final documents and other 

materials submitted under this project 

must meet the federal government’s 

requirement for Section 508 

accessibility, including those provisions 

outlined in 1194 Subpart B, Technical 

Provisions, Subpart C, Functional 

Performance Criteria; and Subpart D, 

Documentation and Support, NIC’s 

government product accessibility 

template (see www.nicic.gov/section508) 

outlines the agency’s minimum criteria 

for meeting this requirement; a 

completed form attesting to the 

accessibility of project deliverables 

should accompany all submissions. 

Note Concerning Catalog of Federal 

Domestic Assistance Number: The 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) should be entered into box 10 

of the SF 424. The CFDA number for 

this solicitation is 16.602, Research and 

Policy Formulation. You are not subject 

to Executive Order 12372 and should 

check box b under section 16. 

Robert M. Brown, Jr., 

Acting Director, National Institute of 

Corrections. 

[FR Doc. 2013–17500 Filed 7–19–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–36–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request; National 

Longitudinal Study of Unemployment 

Insurance Recipients (NLS–UI) 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Policy/Chief Evaluation 

Office, Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor 

(DOL), as part of its continuing effort to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden, conducts a preclearance 

consultation program to provide the 

general public and Federal agencies 

with an opportunity to comment on 

proposed and/or continuing collections 

of information in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. This 

program helps to ensure that required 

data can be provided in the desired 

format, reporting burden (time and 

financial resources) is minimized, 

collection instruments are clearly 

understood, and the impact of collection 

requirements on respondents can be 

properly assessed. 

A copy of the proposed ICR can be 

obtained by contacting the office listed 

below in the addresses section of this 

notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

addresses section below on or before 

September 20, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either one of the following methods: 

Email: Pavosevich.Robert@dol.gov; Mail 

or Courier: Robert Pavosevich, U.S. 

Department of Labor ETA/OUI/DFAS, 

Room S–4231, 200 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Washington DC 20210. 

Instructions: Please submit one copy of 

your comments by only one method. All 

submissions received must include the 

agency name and OMB Control Number 

identified above for this information 

collection. Because we continue to 

experience delays in receiving mail in 

the Washington, DC area, commenters 

are strongly encouraged to transmit their 

comments electronically via email or to 

submit them by mail early. Comments, 

including any personal information 

provided, become a matter of public 

record. They will also be summarized 

and/or included in the request for OMB 

approval of the information collection 

request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert Pavosevich by telephone at 202– 

693–2935 (this is not a toll-free number) 

or by email at 

Pavosevich.Robert@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background: The unemployment 

insurance (UI) program was designed to 

reduce financial hardships for 

unemployed workers, assist with 

reemployment, and ameliorate the 

negative effects of unemployment on the 

economy as a whole. By providing 

temporary income support, UI benefits 

can smooth the transition to new 

circumstances, reduce financial distress, 

and provide workers with a buffer while 

they search for jobs. Furthermore, to 

reduce the potential incentive for UI 

recipients to prolong their 

unemployment, UI benefits are timelimited and provide only a partial 

replacement of lost earnings. 

Understanding how workers adjust to 

the changes in income during and after 

UI claim spells would enable 

policymakers to assess how well the 

program is serving the nation’s workers 

and refine it to meet the needs of 

unemployed workers while encouraging 

them to return to work. However, 

information about UI recipients is 

generally obtained from retrospective 

surveys, which might not provide 

sufficient insight into the dynamic 

adjustments after job loss or the 

recipients’ satisfaction with the program 

structure. 

The National Longitudinal Study of 

Unemployment Insurance Recipients 

(NLS–UI), funded by the U.S. 

Department of Labor, Office of the 

Assistant Secretary for Policy, Chief 

Evaluation Office, will help 

policymakers and program 

administrators gain information about 

the experiences of UI recipients. The 

study will examine the extent to which 

the UI program reduces recipients’ 

financial hardships, the ways in which 

job search and reemployment 

expectations change during and after 

benefit collection, and customers’ 

satisfaction levels with the UI program. 

The study will address research 

questions in six broad topic areas: (1) 

Adequacy of UI benefits, (2) 

reemployment expectations, (3) job 

search, (4) total UI benefit usage, (5) 

employment outcomes, and (6) UI 

recipients’ satisfaction with the UI 

program. 

This package requests clearance for 

three surveys of UI recipients that will 

take place over approximately nine 

months. The surveys will be timed to 

coincide with the early, middle, and 

post-UI collection experiences of about 

2,800 UI recipients in two states who 

filed to receive a first payment during 

2013. Each survey will take about 25 

minutes, on average, and they will be 

administered by web and computerassisted telephone interviewing. 

Administrative UI claims data will also 

be collected from both states to obtain 

identifying and contact information 

about UI recipients who will be 

surveyed and to learn about their UI 

benefit collection experiences. 

II. Desired Focus of Comments: 

Currently, the Department of Labor is 

soliciting comments concerning the 

above data collection for the National 

Longitudinal Study of Unemployment 

Insurance Recipients (NLS–UI). 

Comments are requested to: 

* evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is 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 burden of the 

proposed collection 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 

information collection on those who are 

to respond, including the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 


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1The Department has considered exemption 

applications received prior to December 27, 2011 

under the exemption procedures set forth in 29 CFR 

Part 2570, Subpart B (55 FR 32836, 32847, August 

10, 1990). 

2For purposes of this proposed exemption, 

references to section 406 of ERISA should be read, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submissions of responses. 

III. Current Actions: At this time, the 

Department of Labor is requesting 

clearance to conduct three surveys of 

about 2,800 UI recipients for the 

National Longitudinal Study of 

Unemployment Insurance Recipients 

(NLS–UI). 

Type of review: New information 

collection request. 

OMB Control Number: 1205–0NEW. 

Affected Public: UI benefit recipients 

in two states who filed to receive a first 

payment during 2013. 

Frequency: Three interviews. 

Total Responses: 5,694 (1,898 per 

three survey waves). 

Average Time per Response: 25 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 2,372 

hours. 

Average Annual Other Burden Cost: 

$0. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this request will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval; they 

will also become a matter of public 

record. 

James H. Moore, Jr., 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. 

Department of Labor. 

[FR Doc. 2013–17523 Filed 7–19–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–23–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration 

Proposed Exemptions From Certain 

Prohibited Transaction Restrictions 

AGENCY: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of Proposed Exemptions. 

SUMMARY: This document contains 

notices of pendency before the 

Department of Labor (the Department) of 

proposed exemptions from certain of the 

prohibited transaction restrictions of the 

Employee Retirement Income Security 

Act of 1974 (ERISA or the Act) and/or 

the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the 

Code). This notice includes the 

following proposed exemptions: D– 

11506, UBS AG and Its Current and 

Future Affiliates and Subsidiaries 

(collectively, UBS or the Applicant); D– 

11742 thru D–11746, The ABB Inc. Cash 

Balance Pension Plan (the Cash Balance 

Plan); the Cash Balance Pension Plan for 

Certain Represented Employees of ABB 

Inc. (the Union Cash Balance Plan); the 

Pension Plan for Employees of the 

Process Analytics Division of ABB Inc. 

Represented by the Laborer’s 

International Union of North America 

(AFL–CIO), Local No. 1304 (the Process 

Analytics Plan); the Pension Plan of 

Fischer & Porter Company (the Fisher & 

Porter Plan); and the ABB Inc. Pension 

Plan (UE 625 & 626) (the UE 625 & 626 

Plan) (each a Plan, and collectively, the 

Plans); and D–11767, D–11768 and D– 

11769, American International Group, 

Inc. Incentive Savings Plan (the Savings 

Plan), American General Agents’ & 

Managers’ Thrift Plan (the Thrift Plan), 

and Chartis Insurance Company— 

Puerto Rico Capital Growth Plan (the 

Chartis Plan)(collectively, the Plans). 

DATES: All interested persons are invited 

to submit written comments or requests 

for a hearing on the pending 

exemptions, unless otherwise stated in 

the Notice of Proposed Exemption, 

within 45 days from the date of 

publication of this Federal Register 

Notice. 

ADDRESSES: Comments and requests for 

a hearing should state: (1) The name, 

address, and telephone number of the 

person making the comment or request, 

and (2) the nature of the person’s 

interest in the exemption and the 

manner in which the person would be 

adversely affected by the exemption. A 

request for a hearing must also state the 

issues to be addressed and include a 

general description of the evidence to be 

presented at the hearing. 

All written comments and requests for 

a hearing (at least three copies) should 

be sent to the Employee Benefits 

Security Administration (EBSA), Office 

of Exemption Determinations, Room N– 

5700, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20210. Attention: Application No., 

stated in each Notice of Proposed 

Exemption. Interested persons are also 

invited to submit comments and/or 

hearing requests to EBSA via email or 

FAX. Any such comments or requests 

should be sent either by email to: 

moffitt.betty@dol.gov, or by FAX to 

(202) 219–0204 by the end of the 

scheduled comment period. The 

applications for exemption and the 

comments received will be available for 

public inspection in the Public 

Documents Room of the Employee 

Benefits Security Administration, U.S. 

Department of Labor, Room N–1513, 

200 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20210. 

Warning: All comments will be made 

available to the public. Do not include any 

personally identifiable information (such as 

Social Security number, name, address, or 

other contact information) or confidential 

business information that you do not want 

publicly disclosed. All comments may be 

posted on the Internet and can be retrieved 

by most Internet search engines. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Notice to Interested Persons 

Notice of the proposed exemptions 

will be provided to all interested 

persons in the manner agreed upon by 

the applicant and the Department 

within 15 days of the date of publication 

in the Federal Register. Such notice 

shall include a copy of the notice of 

proposed exemption as published in the 

Federal Register and shall inform 

interested persons of their right to 

comment and to request a hearing 

(where appropriate). 

The proposed exemptions were 

requested in applications filed pursuant 

to section 408(a) of the Act and/or 

section 4975(c)(2) of the Code, and in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

29 CFR Part 2570, Subpart B (76 FR 

66637, 66644, October 27, 2011).1

Effective December 31, 1978, section 

102 of Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 

1978, 5 U.S.C. App. 1 (1996), transferred 

the authority of the Secretary of the 

Treasury to issue exemptions of the type 

requested to the Secretary of Labor. 

Therefore, these notices of proposed 

exemption are issued solely by the 

Department. 

The applications contain 

representations with regard to the 

proposed exemptions which are 

summarized below. Interested persons 

are referred to the applications on file 

with the Department for a complete 

statement of the facts and 

representations. 

UBS AG and Its Current and Future 

Affiliates and Subsidiaries 

(Collectively, UBS or the Applicant) 

Located in New York, New York 

[Application No. D–11506] 

Proposed Exemption 

The Department is considering 

granting an exemption under the 

authority of section 408(a) of the 

Employee Retirement Income Security 

Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA or the 

Act) and section 4975(c)(2) of the 

Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as 

amended (the Code), and in accordance 

with the procedures set forth in 29 CFR 

Part 2570, Subpart B (76 FR 66637, 

66644, October 27, 2011).2


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