3588 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 15 / Monday, January 24, 2022 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration 

[Exemption Application No. D–12002] 

Withdrawal of Notice of Proposed 

Exemption Involving the Retirement 

System of the American National Red 

Cross Located in Washington, DC 

AGENCY: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of withdrawal of 

proposed exemption. 

SUMMARY: This document provides 

withdrawal of a notice of pendency 

before the Department of Labor (the 

Department) of a proposed individual 

exemption from certain of the 

prohibited transaction restrictions of the 

Employee Retirement Income Security 

Act of 1974 (ERISA) and/or the Internal 

Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Anna Vaughan of the Department at 

(202) 693–8565. (This is not a toll-free 

number.) 

Withdrawal of Proposed Exemption 

In the Federal Register dated 

November 18, 2021 (86 FR 64688), the 

Department of Labor (the Department) 

published a notice of proposed 

exemption (the Notice) from ERISA and 

the Code. 

The Notice proposed the following 

transactions: (a) The in-kind 

contribution (the Contribution) by the 

American National Red Cross (the Red 

Cross) of nine condominium units 

located at 2025 E Street NW, 

Washington DC to the Retirement 

System of The American National Red 

Cross (the Plan); and (b) the assignment 

of certain rights and obligations from 

the Red Cross to the Plan in connection 

with the Contribution. 

Subsequent to the publication of the 

Notice in the Federal Register, the Red 

Cross informed the Department that the 

Red Cross had decided not to pursue the 

requested exemption, due to changed 

circumstances. 

Therefore, under the authority of 

ERISA Section 408(a) and Code Section 

4975(c)(2) the Department is hereby 

withdrawing the Notice from the 

Federal Register. 

Signed at Washington, DC. 

George Christopher Cosby, 

Acting Director, Office of Exemption 

Determinations, Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. 

[FR Doc. 2022–01236 Filed 1–21–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–29–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; 

Unemployment Insurance Data 

Validation (DV) Program 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor’s 

(DOL) Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA) is soliciting 

comments concerning a proposed 

extension for the authority to conduct 

the information collection request (ICR) 

titled, ‘‘Unemployment Insurance Data 

Validation (DV) Program.’’ This 

comment request is part of continuing 

Departmental efforts to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

written comments received by March 

25, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: A copy of this ICR with 

applicable supporting documentation, 

including a description of the likely 

respondents, proposed frequency of 

response, and estimated total burden, 

may be obtained free by contacting 

Rachel Beistel by telephone at 202–693– 

2736 (this is not a toll-free number), 

TTY 1–877–889–5627 (this is not a tollfree number), or by email at 

Beistel.Rachel@dol.gov. 

Submit written comments about, or 

requests for a copy of, this ICR by mail 

or courier to the U.S. Department of 

Labor, Employment and Training 

Administration, Office of 

Unemployment Insurance Room S– 

4519, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20210, by email: 

Beistel.Rachel@dol.gov, or by Fax 202– 

693–3975. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rachel Beistel by telephone at 202–693– 

2746 (this is not a toll-free number) or 

by email at beistel.rachel@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOL, as 

part of continuing efforts to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 

conducts a pre-clearance consultation 

program to provide the general public 

and Federal agencies an opportunity to 

comment on proposed and/or 

continuing collections of information 

before submitting them to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for final 

approval. This program helps to ensure 

requested 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 can be properly assessed. 

Section 303(a)(6) of the Social 

Security Act specifies that the Secretary 

of Labor will not certify State UI 

programs to receive administrative 

grants unless the State’s law includes 

provisions for ‘‘making of such reports 

. . . as the Secretary of Labor may from 

time to time require, and compliance 

with such provisions as the Secretary 

may from time to time find necessary to 

assure the correctness and verification 

of such reports.’’ DOL considers DV to 

be one of those ‘‘provisions . . . 

necessary to assure the correctness and 

verification’’ of the reports submitted by 

states. 

The Government Performance and 

Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) requires 

Federal agencies to develop annual and 

strategic performance plans that 

establish performance goals, have 

concrete indicators of the extent that 

goals are achieved, and set performance 

targets. Each year, the agency is to issue 

a report that ‘‘evaluate[s] the 

performance plan for the current fiscal 

year relative to the performance 

achieved toward the performance goals 

in the fiscal year covered by the report.’’ 

DOL emphasizes the importance of 

complete and accurate information for 

program monitoring and improving 

program performance ‘‘. . . as a 

framework for agencies to communicate 

progress in achieving their missions.’’ 

(OMB Circular A–11, Section 15.5). 

The UI DV program employs a refined 

and automated approach to review 363 

elements reported on 15 UI Benefits 

reports and 1 UI Tax report. DOL uses 

many of these elements for key 

performance measures and for workload 

analysis. 

The validation process assesses the 

accuracy of the counts of transactions. 

Guided by a detailed handbook, the 

state UI agency first constructs extract 

files containing all pertinent individual 

transactions for the desired report 

period to be validated. These 

transactions are grouped into 16 UI 

Benefits and 5 UI Tax populations. Each 

transaction record contains the 

necessary characteristics or dimensions 

that enable it to be summed into an 

independent recount of what the state 

has already reported. DOL provides 

state agencies with software that edits 

the extract file (to identify and remove 

duplicate transactions and improperly 

built records, for example), then 

aggregates the transactions to produce 

an independent reconstruction or 

‘‘validation count’’ of the reported 

figure. The reported count is considered 

valid by this ‘‘quantity’’ validation test 

if it is within plus or minus two percent 


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