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Department of Housing and Urban

Development

General Deputy Assistant Secretary

for Housing to the Assistant Secretary

for Housing-Federal Housing

Commissioner. Effective October 4,

2000.

Intergovernmental Relations

Specialist to the Deputy Assistant

Secretary for Congressional and

Intergovernmental Relations. Effective

October 13, 2000.

Department of Justice

Assistant to the Attorney General

(Director of Scheduling). Effective

October 27, 2000.

Department of Labor

Advisor to the Secretary of Labor.

Effective October 24, 2000.

Staff Assistant to the Director of

Scheduling and Advance. Effective

October 27, 2000.

Director of Scheduling and Advance

to the Chief of Staff. Effective October

27, 2000.

Department of State

Staff Assistant to the Senior Advisor

to the Secretary and White House

Liaison. Effective October 27, 2000.

Department of Transportation

Deputy Assistant Administrator to the

Assistant Administrator for Government

and Industry Affairs. Effective October

4, 2000.

Office of National Drug Control Policy

Staff Assistant (Office Automation) to

the Chief of Staff, Office of National

Drug Control Policy. Effective October 4,

2000.

Staff Assistant (Office Automation) to

the Director, Office of National Drug

Control Policy. Effective October 4,

2000.

Small Business Administration

Senior Advisor to the Associate

Administrator for Veteran’s Business

Development. Effective October 11,

2000.

Confidential Advisor to the Deputy

Administrator and Director of External

Affairs. Effective October 16, 2000.

Speechwriter and Special Assistant to

the Associate Administrator for

Communications and Public Liaison.

Effective October 27, 2000.

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 3301 and 3302; E.O.

10577, 3 CFR 1954–1958 Comp., p. 218

Office of Personnel Management.

Janice R. Lachance,

Director.

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BILLING CODE 6325–01–P

OFFICE OF PERSONNEL

MANAGEMENT

Privacy Act of 1974; Computer

Matching Program Between the Office

of Personnel Management and the

Social Security Administration

AGENCY: Office of Personnel

Management (OPM).

ACTION: Notice of a computer matching

program between the OPM and the

Social Security Administration (SSA)

for public comment.

SUMMARY: OPM is publishing notice of

its computer matching program with

SSA to meet the reporting and

publication requirements of Public Law

100–503, the Computer Matching and

Privacy Protection Act of 1988. In this

match, SSA records are used in

redetermining and recomputing certain

annuitants’ benefits where

computations are based, in part, on

military service performed after

December 1956 under the Civil Service

Retirement System (CSRS) and for

annuitants under the Federal

Employees’ Retirement System (FERS)

who have a CSRS component in their

FERS annuity computation. The

purpose of this match is to identify

these beneficiaries.

DATES: This matching program will

become effective in November 2000, or

40 days after the agreements by the

parties participating in the match have

been submitted to Congress and the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB), unless either the Congress or

OMB objects thereto. Any public

comment on this matching program

must be submitted on or before January

8, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Any interested party may

submit written comments to William J.

Washington, Acting Assistant Director

for Systems, Finance and

Administration, Retirement and

Insurance Service, Office of Personnel

Management, 1900 E Street NW., Room

4312, Washington, DC 20415.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Marc Flaster, (202) 606–2115.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OPM and

SSA have concluded an agreement to

conduct a computer matching program

between the two agencies. The purpose

of the agreement is to establish the

conditions under which SSA agrees to

the disclosure of Social Security benefit

and/or tax information to OPM. OPM, as

specified in 5 U.S.C. 8332(j)(1), has an

obligation to use post 1956 earnings

data in redetermining and recomputing

annuities for certain CSRS and FERS

annuitants. Section 1106 of the Social

Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1306) requires

that SSA disclose the needed data to

OPM.

Office of Personnel Management.

Janice R. Lachance,

Director.

Report of Computer Matching

Agreement Between the Office of

Personnel Management and the Social

Security Administration

A. Participating Agencies

OPM and SSA

B. Purpose of the Matching Program

Chapters 83 and 84 of title 5, United

States Code (U.S.C.), provide the basis

for computing annuities under the Civil

Service Retirement System and the

Federal Employees’ Retirement System

respectively, and require release of

information by SSA in order to

administer post 1956 data exchanges. In

this match, SSA records are used in

redetermining and recomputing certain

annuitants’ benefits where

computations are based, in part, on

military service performed after

December 1956 under the Civil Service

Retirement System (CSRS) and for

annuitants under the Federal

Employees’ Retirement System (FERS)

who have a CSRS component in their

FERS annuity calculation. The purpose

of this match is to identify these

beneficiaries.

C. Authority for Conducting the Match

Program

Chapters 83 and 84, title 5, United

States Code, section 1106 of the Social

Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1306) and the

Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. 6103).

D. Categories of Records and

Individuals Covered by the Match

SSA will disclose information from its

Master Beneficiary Record (MBR) and

its Earnings Recording and SelfEmployment Income System (MEF) and

manually extracted post 1956 military

wage information from SSA’s ‘‘1086’’

microfilm file when required. SSA has

published routine uses for these systems

of records, last published for the MBR,

60–0090 (SSA/OSR) on January 6, 1995

at 60 FR 2144 and for the MEF, 60–0059

(SSA/OSR), on December 5, 1994 at 59

FR 62407.

OPM’s records consist of annuity data

from its system of records entitled OPM/

Central-1, Civil Service Retirement and

Insurance Records, last published in the

Federal Register at 64 FR 54930,

October 8, 1999, as amended May 3,

2000 (65 FR 25775).

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E. Description of Matching Program

OPM provides a monthly electronic

finder file to SSA containing data on

those individuals for whom OPM

requests post 1956 military service

benefit information. These elements will

be matched against SSA records. SSA

furnishes OPM by electronic reply file

benefit information on these

individuals, including the amount of the

SSA benefit attributable to the post 1956

military service (which constitutes the

CSRS or FERS annuity reduction

amount).

F. Privacy Safeguards and Security

The personal privacy of the

individuals whose names are included

in the tapes is protected by strict

adherence to the provisions of the

Privacy Act of 1974 and OMB’s

‘‘Guidance Interpreting the Provisions of

Public Law 100–503, the Computer

Matching and Privacy Protection Act of

1988’’. Access to the records used in the

data exchange is restricted to only those

authorized employees and officials who

need it to perform their official duties.

Records matched or created will be

stored in an area that is physically safe

from access by unauthorized personnel

during duty hours as well as nonduty

hours or when not in use. Records used

in this exchange and any records

created by this exchange will be

processed under the immediate

supervision and control of authorized

personnel in a manner which will

protect the confidentiality of the

records.

Both OPM and SSA have the right to

make onsite inspections or make other

provisions to ensure that adequate

safeguards are being maintained by the

other agency.

F. Inclusive Dates of the Matching

Program

This computer matching program is

subject to review by the Congress and

OMB. OPM’s report to these parties

must be received at least 40 days prior

to the initiation of any matching

activity. If no objections are raised by

either Congress or OMB, and the

mandatory 30 day public notice period

for comment for this Federal Register

notice expires, with no significant

receipt of adverse public comments

resulting in a contrary determination,

then this computer matching program

becomes effective. By agreement

between OPM and SSA, the matching

program will be in effect and continue

for 18 months with an option to renew

for 12 additional months under the

terms set forth in 5 U.S.C. 552a(o)(2)(D).

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BILLING CODE 6325–01–P

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE

COMMISSION

[Release No. IC–24778; File No. 812–12194]

Advantus Series Fund, Inc., et al.

November 30, 2000.

AGENCY: Securities and Exchange

Commission (the ‘‘Commission’’).

ACTION: Notice of application for an

order under Section 6(c) of the

Investment Company Act of 1940, as

amended (the ‘‘1940 Act’’), for

exemptions from the provisions of

Sections 9(a), 13(a), 15(a), and 15(b) of

the 1940 Act and Rules 6e–2(b)(15) and

6e–3(T)(b)(15) thereunder.

APPLICANTS: Advantus Series Fund, Inc.

(‘‘Advantus Fund’’), an open-end,

management investment company, and

Advantus Capital Management, Inc.

(‘‘Advantus Capital’’), the investment

adviser of Advantus Fund.

SUMMARY OF APPLICATION: Applicants

seek an order granting exemptions from

the provisions of Sections 9(a), 13(a),

15(a), and 15(b) of the 1940 Act, and

Rules 6e–2(b)(15) and 6e–3(T)(b)(15)

thereunder, to the extent necessary to

permit shares of any current or future

series of the Advantus Fund and of any

future open-end investment companies

for which Advantus Capital or any

affiliated person of Advantus Capital

serves as investment adviser, manager,

principal underwriter, or sponsor

(collectively, ‘‘the Future Funds,’’

collectively with Advantus Fund, the

‘‘Funds’’ or individually a ‘‘Fund’’) to be

sold to and held by (a) separate accounts

funding variable annuity and variable

life insurance contracts issued by both

affiliated and unaffiliated life insurance

companies (the separate accounts,

hereinafter ‘‘Separate Accounts,’’ and

the life insurance companies,

hereinafter ‘‘Participating Life Insurance

Companies’’), and (b) qualified plans

outside of the separate account context

(including, without limitation, those

trusts, plans, accounts, contracts or

annuities described in Sections 401(a),

403(a), 403(b), 408(a), 408(b), 414(d),

457(b), 408(k), or 501(c)(18) of the

Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as

amended (the ‘‘Code’’)), and any other

trust, plan, account, contract or annuity

that is determined to be within the

scope of Treasury Regulation

1.817.5(f)(3)(iii) (‘‘Qualified Plans’’ or

‘‘Plans’’). Applicants request that the

exemptive relief being requested apply

to any series of shares of the Funds that

may be created in the future. The only

registered open-end management

investment company that currently

intends to rely on the requested order is

Advantus Fund.

Filing Date: The application was filed

on July 31, 2000, and amended and

restated on November 15, 2000 and

November 28, 2000.

Hearing or Notification of Hearing: An

order granting the application will be

issued unless the Commission orders a

hearing. Interested persons may request

a hearing by writing to the Secretary of

the Commission and serving Applicants

with a copy of the request, personally or

by mail. Hearing requests must be

received by the Commission by 5:30

p.m. on December 26, 2000, and should

be accompanied by proof of service on

Applicants in the form of an affidavit or,

for lawyers, a certificate of service.

Hearing requests should state the nature

of the requester’s interest, the reason for

the request, and the issues contested.

Persons who wish to be notified of a

hearing may request notification by

writing to the Secretary of the

Commission.

ADDRESSES: Secretary, Securities and

Exchange Commission, 450 Fifth Street,

NW., Washington, DC 20549–0609.

Applicants, Minnesota Life Insurance

Company, c/o Donald F. Gruber, Esq.,

Assistant General Counsel, 400 Robert

Street North, St. Paul, Minnesota

55101–2098.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ann

L. Vlcek, Senior Counsel, or Lorna J.

MacLeod, Branch Chief, Office of

Insurance Products, Division of

Investment Management at (202) 942–

0670.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

following is a summary of the

application. The complete application is

available for a fee from the SEC’s Public

Reference Branch, 450 Fifth Street, NW.,

Washington, DC 20549–0102 (202–942–

8090).

Applicants’ Representations

1. Advantus Fund is a no-load, openend, management investment company

registered under the 1940 Act. Advantus

Fund is organized as a Minnesota

corporation established under

Minnesota law on February 21, 1985.

Prior to a change in Advantus Fund’s

name in 1997, Advantus Fund was

known as the MIMLIC Series Fund, Inc.

2. Advantus Fund is a series

company, consisting of nineteen

separate portfolios, each with its own

investment objectives (each a

‘‘Portfolio’’). Each Portfolio issues a