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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 

collection 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. 

Agency: Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA). 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Title: Reporting and Performance 

Standards System for Migrant and 

Seasonal Farmworker Programs Under 

Title I, Section 167 of the Workforce 

Investment Act (WIA). 

OMB Number: 1205–0425. 

Frequency: Quarterly; Annually. 

Affected Public: State, Local or Tribal 

government; Not-for-profit institutions. 

Type of Response: Recordkeeping; 

Reporting. 

Number of Respondents: 53. 

Annual Responses: 29,871. 

Average Response time: 60.25 hours—

combined annual time for filling out 

Form 9095 quarterly and Forms 9093 

and 9094 annually. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 70,562. 

Total Annualized Capital/Startup 

Costs: 0. 

Total Annual Costs (operating/ 

maintaining systems or purchasing 

services): 0. 

Description: This collection of 

information relates to the operation of 

employment and training programs for 

Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers 

under title I, section 167 of the 

Workforce Investment Act (WIA). It also 

contains the basis of the new 

performance standards system for WIA 

section 167 grantees, which is used for 

program oversight, evaluation and 

performance assessment. 

Ira L. Mills, 

Departmental Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 05–21598 Filed 10–28–05; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration 

Proposed Extension of Information 

Collection; Comment Request 

Disclosures by Insurers to General 

Account Policyholders 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA 

95) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), the 

Department of Labor (the Department) 

conducts a preclearance consultation 

program to provide the general public 

and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and continuing collections of 

information. This program helps to 

ensure that the data the Department 

gathers can be provided in the desired 

format, that the reporting burden on the 

public (time and financial resources) is 

minimized, that the public understands 

the Department’s collection 

instruments, and that the Department 

can accurately assess the impact of 

collection requirements on respondents. 

By this notice, the Department is 

soliciting comments concerning the 

information collection provisions of the 

regulation pertaining to section 401(c) of 

the Employee Retirement Income 

Security Act of 1974, as amended 

(ERISA). The statute and the regulatory 

provisions codified at 29 CFR 

2550.401c-1 require insurers that issue 

certain types of insurance policies to 

employee benefit plans to make specific 

one-time and annual disclosures to such 

plans if assets of the plan are held in the 

insurer’s general account. A copy of the 

ICR may be obtained by contacting the 

office listed in the ADDRESSES section of 

this notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office shown in the 

ADDRESSES section below on or before 

December 30, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are 

invited to submit written comments 

regarding the information collection 

request and burden estimates to: Gerald 

B. Lindrew, Office of Policy and 

Research, U.S. Department of Labor, 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, 200 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Room N–5647, 

Washington, DC 20210. Telephone: 

(202) 693–8410; Fax: (202) 219–4745. 

These are not toll-free numbers. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 1460 of the Small Business 

Job Protection Act of 1996 (Pub. L. 104–

188) amended ERISA by adding Section 

401(c), which clarified the extent to 

which assets of an insurer’s general 

account constitute assets of an employee 

benefit plan when that insurer has 

issued policies for the benefit of the 

plan and such policies are supported by 

assets of the general account. Section 

401(c) established certain requirements 

and disclosures for insurance 

companies that offer and maintain 

policies for employee benefit plans 

where the plans’ assets are held in the 

insurer’s general account. Section 401(c) 

also required the Secretary to provide 

guidance on the statutory requirements; 

such guidance was issued as a final 

rulemaking on January 5, 2000 (65 CFR 

614). The regulation includes 

information collection provisions 

pertaining to one-time and annual 

disclosure obligations of insurers. The 

information collection provisions in the 

final rulemaking were submitted for 

review by the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) in an information 

collection request (ICR) in connection 

with promulgation of the final 

rulemaking and were approved by OMB 

under OMB Control No. 1210–0114. The 

ICR approval is scheduled to expire on 

January 31, 2006. 

II. Desired Focus of Comments 

The Department is particularly 

interested in comments that: 

• Evaluate whether the collections of 

information are 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 

collections 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 

collection 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. 

III. Current Action 

The Employee Benefits Security 

Administration (EBSA) is requesting an 

extension of the currently approved ICR 

for the Disclosures by Insurers to 

General Account Policyholders. EBSA is 

not proposing or implementing changes 

to the regulation or to the existing ICR. 

A summary of the ICR and the current 

burden estimates follows: 

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Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection of 

information. 

AGENCY: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: Disclosures by Insurers to 

General Account Policyholders. 

OMB Number: 1210–0114. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; Business or other for-profit; 

Not-for-profit institutions. 

Respondents: 104. 

Frequency of Response: One-time; 

Annual. 

Responses: 123,500. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

466,667. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of the information collection 

request; they will also become a matter 

of public record. 

Dated: October 25, 2005. 

Susan G. Lahne, 

Senior Pension Law Specialist, Office of 

Policy and Research, , Employee Benefits 

Security Administration. 

[FR Doc. 05–21597 Filed 10–28–05; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

[TA–W–57,711] 

Baxter; Deerfield, Illinois; Notice of 

Termination of Investigation 

Pursuant to Section 221 of the Trade 

Act of 1974, as amended, an 

investigation was initiated on August 

11, 2005 in response to a petition filed 

by company official on behalf of 

workers of Baxter, Deerfield, Illinois. 

The petitioner has requested that the 

petition be withdrawn. Consequently, 

the investigation has been terminated. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 20th day of 

September 2005. 

Linda G. Poole, 

Certifying Officer, Division of Trade 

Adjustment Assistance. 

[FR Doc. E5–6009 Filed 10–28–05; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

[TA–W–57,939] 

CMOR Manufacturing, Inc., Rocklin, 

CA; Notice of Termination of 

Investigation 

Pursuant to Section 221 of the Trade 

Act of 1974, an investigation was 

initiated on September 12, 2005 in 

response to a worker petition which was 

filed by the California ESS on behalf of 

workers at CMOR Manufacturing, 

Rocklin, California. 

The Department has been unable to 

locate company officials of the subject 

firm or to obtain the information 

necessary to reach a determination on 

worker group eligibility. 

Consequently, further investigation in 

this case would serve no purpose and 

the investigation has been terminated. 

Signed in Washington, DC, this 26th day of 

September 2005. 

Richard Church, 

Certifying Officer, Division of Trade 

Adjustment Assistance. 

[FR Doc. E5–6007 Filed 10–28–05; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

[TA–W–57,980] 

Collins Supply & Equipment Co. Inc., 

Scranton, PA; Notice of Termination of 

Investigation 

Pursuant to section 221 of the Trade 

Act of 1974, as amended, an 

investigation was initiated on 

September 15, 2005 in response to a 

petition filed by a company official on 

behalf of workers at Collins Supply & 

Equipment Co. Inc., Scranton, 

Pennsylvania. 

All workers were separated from the 

subject firm more than one year before 

the date of the petition. Section 223(b) 

of the Act specifies that no certification 

may apply to any worker whose last 

separation occurred more than one year 

before the date of the petition. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 26th day of 

September, 2005. 

Linda G. Poole 

Certifying Officer, Division of Trade 

Adjustment Assistance. 

[FR Doc. E5–6005 Filed 10–28–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–30–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Investigations Regarding Certifications 

of Eligibility To Apply for Worker 

Adjustment Assistance 

Petitions have been filed with the 

Secretary of Labor under section 221(a) 

of the Trade Act of 1974 (‘‘the Act’’) and 

are identified in the Appendix to this 

notice. Upon receipt of these petitions, 

the Director of the Division of Trade 

Adjustment Assistance, Employment 

and Training Administration, has 

instituted investigations pursuant to 

section 221(a) of the Act. 

The purpose of each of the 

investigations is to determine whether 

the workers are eligible to apply for 

adjustment assistance under Title II, 

Chapter 2, of the Act. The investigations 

will further relate, as appropriate, to the 

determination of the date on which total 

or partial separations began or 

threatened to begin and the subdivision 

of the firm involved. 

The petitioners or any other persons 

showing a substantial interest in the 

subject matter of the investigations may 

request a public hearing, provided such 

request is filed in writing with the 

Director, Division of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance, at the address shown below, 

not later than November 10, 2005. 

Interested persons are invited to 

submit written comments regarding the 

subject matter of the investigations to 

the Director, Division of Trade 

Adjustment Assistance, at the address 

shown below, not later than November 

10, 2005. 

The petitions filed in this case are 

available for inspection at the Office of 

the Director, Division of Trade 

Adjustment Assistance, Employment 

and Training Administration, U.S. 

Department of Labor, Room C–5311, 200 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20210. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 19th day of 

October 2005. 

Douglas F. Small, 

Acting Director, Division of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance.