Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 199 / Wednesday, October 15, 2014 / Notices 61903 

1977 sections 101(a)(7) and 103(h) 

authorize this information collection. 

See 30 U.S.C. 811(a)(7), 813(h). 

This information collection is subject 

to the PRA. A Federal agency generally 

cannot conduct or sponsor a collection 

of information, and the public is 

generally not required to respond to an 

information collection, unless it is 

approved by the OMB under the PRA 

and displays a currently valid OMB 

Control Number. In addition, 

notwithstanding any other provisions of 

law, no person shall generally be subject 

to penalty for failing to comply with a 

collection of information that does not 

display a valid Control Number. See 5 

CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6. The DOL 

obtains OMB approval for this 

information collection under Control 

Number 1219–0133. 

OMB authorization for an ICR cannot 

be for more than three (3) years without 

renewal, and the current approval for 

this collection is scheduled to expire on 

October 31, 2014. The DOL seeks to 

extend PRA authorization for this 

information collection for three (3) more 

years, without any change to existing 

requirements. The DOL notes that 

existing information collection 

requirements submitted to the OMB 

receive a month-to-month extension 

while they undergo review. For 

additional substantive information 

about this ICR, see the related notice 

published in the Federal Register on 

June 5, 2014 (79 FR 32576). 

Interested parties are encouraged to 

send comments to the OMB, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs at 

the address shown in the ADDRESSES

section within thirty (30) days of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. In order to help ensure 

appropriate consideration, comments 

should mention OMB Control Number 

1219–0133. The OMB is particularly 

interested in comments that: 

• 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 

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: DOL–MSHA. 

Title of Collection: Hazard 

Communication. 

OMB Control Number: 1219–0133. 

Affected Public: Private Sector— 

businesses or other for-profits. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 23,834. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Responses: 1,093,530. 

Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 

187,230 hours. 

Total Estimated Annual Other Costs 

Burden: $13,281. 

Dated: October 8, 2014. 

Michel Smyth, 

Departmental Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2014–24458 Filed 10–14–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–43–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration 

Proposed Extension of Information 

Collection Requests Submitted for 

Public Comment 

AGENCY: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (the 

Department), in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA 

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

the general public and Federal agencies 

with an opportunity to comment on 

proposed and continuing collections of 

information. This helps the Department 

assess the impact of its information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand the 

Department’s information collection 

requirements and provide the requested 

data in the desired format. The 

Employee Benefits Security 

Administration (EBSA) is soliciting 

comments on the proposed extension of 

the information collection requests 

(ICRs) contained in the documents 

described below. A copy of the ICRs 

may be obtained by contacting the office 

listed in the ADDRESSES section of this 

notice. ICRs also are available at 

reginfo.gov (http://www.reginfo.gov/

public/do/PRAMain). 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office shown in the 

Addresses section on or before 

December 15, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: G. Christopher Cosby, 

Department of Labor, Employee Benefits 

Security Administration, 200 

Constitution Avenue NW., Room N– 

5718, Washington, DC 20210, (202) 693– 

8410, FAX (202) 693–4745 (these are not 

toll-free numbers). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice requests public comment on the 

Department’s request for extension of 

the Office of Management and Budget’s 

(OMB) approval of ICRs contained in 

the rules and prohibited transactions 

described below. The Department is not 

proposing any changes to the existing 

ICRs at this time. An agency may not 

conduct or sponsor, and a person is not 

required to respond to, an information 

collection unless it displays a valid 

OMB control number. A summary of the 

ICRs and the current burden estimates 

follows: 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: Prohibited Transaction 

Exemption 86–128. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection of 

information. 

OMB Number: 1210–0059. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profits; Not-for-profit institutions. 

Respondents: 27,900. 

Responses: 1,199,800. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

63,800. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): $736,800. 

Description: Prohibited Transaction 

Class Exemption 86–128 permits 

persons who serve as fiduciaries for 

employee benefit plans to effect or 

execute securities transactions on behalf 

of employee benefit plans. The 

exemption also allows sponsors of 

pooled separate accounts and other 

pooled investment funds to use their 

affiliates to effect or execute securities 

transactions for such accounts in order 

to recapture brokerage commissions for 

the benefit of employee benefit plans 

whose assets are maintained in pooled 

separate accounts managed by insurance 

companies. This exemption provides 

relief from certain prohibitions in 

section 406(b) of the Employee 

Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 

(ERISA) and from the taxes imposed by 

section 4975(a) and (b) of the Internal 

Revenue Code of 1986 (the Code) by 

reason of Code section 4975(c)(1)(E) or 

(F). 

In order to insure that the exemption 

is not abused, that the rights of 

participants and beneficiaries are 

protected, and that the exemption’s 

conditions are being complied with, the 

Department has included in the 

exemption five information collection 

requirements. The first requirement is 


tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
61904 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 199 / Wednesday, October 15, 2014 / Notices 

written authorization executed in 

advance by an independent fiduciary of 

the plan whose assets are involved in 

the transaction with the brokerfiduciary. The second requirement is, 

within three months of the 

authorization, the broker-fiduciary 

furnish the independent fiduciary with 

any reasonably available information 

necessary for the independent fiduciary 

to determine whether an authorization 

should be made. The information must 

include a copy of the exemption, a form 

for termination, and a description of the 

broker-fiduciary’s brokerage placement 

practices. The third requirement is that 

the broker-fiduciary must provide a 

termination form to the independent 

fiduciary annually so that the 

independent fiduciary may terminate 

the authorization without penalty to the 

plan; failure to return the form 

constitutes continuing authorization. 

The fourth requirement is for the brokerfiduciary to report all transactions to the 

independent fiduciary, either by 

confirmation slips or through quarterly 

reports. The fifth requirement calls for 

the broker-fiduciary to provide an 

annual summary of the transactions. 

The annual summary must contain all 

security transaction-related charges 

incurred by the plan, the brokerage 

placement practices, and a portfolio 

turnover ratio. The ICR was approved by 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) under OMB Control Number 

1210–0059 and is scheduled to expire 

on January 31, 2015. 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: Consent to Receive Employee 

Benefit Plan Disclosures Electronically. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

OMB Number: 1210–0121. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profits. 

Respondents: 37,086. 

Responses: 3,176,585. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

15,453. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): $158,829. 

Description: The Department 

established a safe harbor pursuant to 

which all pension and welfare benefit 

plans covered by Title I of ERISA may 

use electronic media to satisfy 

disclosure obligations under Title I of 

ERISA (29 CFR 2520.104b–1). Employee 

benefit plan administrators will be 

deemed to satisfy their disclosure 

obligations when furnishing documents 

electronically only if a participant who 

does not have access to the employer’s 

electronic information system in the 

normal course of his duties, or a 

beneficiary or other person entitled to 

documents, has affirmatively consented 

to receive disclosure documents. Prior 

to consenting, the participant or 

beneficiary must also be provided with 

a clear and conspicuous statement 

indicating the types of documents to 

which the consent would apply, that 

consent may be withdrawn at any time, 

procedures for withdrawing consent and 

updating necessary information, the 

right to obtain a paper copy, and any 

hardware and software requirements. In 

the event of a hardware or software 

change that creates a material risk that 

the individual will be unable to access 

or retain documents that were the 

subject of the initial consent, the 

individual must be provided with 

information concerning the revised 

hardware or software, and an 

opportunity to withdraw a prior 

consent. The ICR was approved by OMB 

under OMB Control Number 1210–0121 

and is scheduled to expire on January 

31, 2015. 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: Furnishing Documents to the 

Secretary of Labor on Request Under 

ERISA 104(a)(6). 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection of 

information. 

OMB Number: 1210–0112. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profits; Not-for-profit institutions. 

Respondents: 300. 

Responses: 300. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 22. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): $1,300. 

Description: As a result of the 

Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (TRA 97), 

the plan administrators of ERISAcovered employee benefit plans no 

longer need to file copies of the 

summary plan descriptions and 

summaries of material modifications 

that are publicly available. TRA 97 

added paragraph (6) to section 104(a) of 

ERISA. Prior to the TRA 97 

amendments, ERISA required certain 

documents be filed with the Department 

so that plan participants and 

beneficiaries could obtain the 

documents without having to turn to the 

plan administrator. The new section 

104(a)(6) authorizes the Department to 

request these documents on behalf of 

plan participants and beneficiaries. The 

Department issued a final implementing 

guidance on this matter on January 7, 

2002 (67 FR 772). The ICR was 

approved by OMB under OMB Control 

Number 1210–0112 and is scheduled to 

expire on February 28, 2015. 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: Affordable Care Act Section 

2715 Summary Disclosures. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection of 

information. 

OMB Number: 1210–0147. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profits; Not-for-profit institutions. 

Respondents: 858. 

Responses: 79,500,000. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

622,750. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): 

$4,842,500. 

Description: Section 2715 of the PHS 

Act directs the Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS), the 

Department of Labor (DOL), and the 

Department of the Treasury 

(collectively, the Departments), in 

consultation with the National 

Association of Insurance Commissioners 

(NAIC) and a working group comprised 

of stakeholders, to ‘‘develop standards 

for use by a group health plan and a 

health insurance issuer in compiling 

and providing to applicants, enrollees, 

and policyholders and certificate 

holders a summary of benefits and 

coverage explanation that accurately 

describes the benefits and coverage 

under the applicable plan or coverage.’’ 

To implement these disclosure 

requirements, collection of information 

requests relate to the provision of the 

following: Summary of benefits and 

coverage, which includes coverage 

examples; a uniform glossary of health 

coverage and medical terms; and a 

notice of modifications. The ICR was 

approved by OMB under OMB Control 

Number 1210–0147 and is scheduled to 

expire on February 28, 2015. 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: ERISA Section 408(b)(2) 

Regulation. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection of 

information. 

OMB Number: 1210–0133. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profits. 

Respondents: 62,137. 

Responses: 1,274,255. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

1,643,941. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): 

$4,199,584. 

Description: On February 3, 2012, the 

Department published a final regulation 

under ERISA section 408(b)(2) (the 

‘‘408(b)(2) regulation’’), requiring that 

certain service providers to pension 


tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 199 / Wednesday, October 15, 2014 / Notices 61905 

plans disclose information about the 

service providers’ compensation and 

potential conflicts of interest. These 

disclosure requirements were 

established to provide guidance for 

compliance with a statutory exemption 

from ERISA’s prohibited transaction 

provisions. If the disclosure 

requirements of the 408(b)(2) regulation 

are not satisfied, a prohibited provision 

of services under ERISA section 

406(a)(1)(C) will occur, with 

consequences for both the responsible 

plan fiduciary and the covered service 

provider. The ICR was approved by 

OMB under OMB Control Number 

1210–0133 and is scheduled to expire 

on March 31, 2015. Note: The 

Department issued a proposed 

amendment to this ICR on March 12, 

2014, that would, upon adoption, 

require covered service providers to 

furnish a guide to assist plan fiduciaries 

in reviewing the disclosures required by 

the final rule if the disclosures are 

contained in multiple or lengthy 

documents. The comment period for the 

proposal closed on June 10, 2014, and 

the Department currently is reviewing 

the comments. 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: ERISA Procedure 76–1 Advisory 

Opinion Procedure. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection of 

information. 

OMB Number: 1210–0066. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profits. 

Respondents: 56. 

Responses: 56. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 573. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): 

$1,250,218. 

Description: Under ERISA, the 

Department has responsibility to 

administer the reporting, disclosure, 

fiduciary and other standards for 

pension and welfare benefit plans. In 

1976, the Department issued ERISA 

Procedure 76–1, Procedure for ERISA 

Advisory Opinions (ERISA Procedure), 

in order to establish a public process for 

requesting guidance from EBSA on the 

application of ERISA to particular 

circumstances. The ERISA Procedure 

sets forth specific administrative 

procedures for requesting either an 

advisory opinion or an information 

letter and describes the types of 

questions that may be submitted. As 

part of the ERISA Procedure, requesters 

are instructed to provide information to 

EBSA concerning the circumstances 

governing their request. EBSA relies on 

the information provided by the 

requester to analyze the issue presented 

and provide guidance. The ERISA 

Procedure has been in use since 1976, 

and the Department has issued 

hundreds of advisory opinions and 

information letters under its rules. The 

ICR was approved by OMB under OMB 

Control Number 1210–0066 and is 

scheduled to expire on June 30, 2015. 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: ERISA Technical Release 91–1. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection of 

information. 

OMB Number: 1210–0084. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profits. 

Respondents: 12. 

Responses: 82,518. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 1,392. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): $20,715. 

Description: The information 

collection requirements arise from 

ERISA section 101(e), which establishes 

notice requirements that must be 

satisfied before an employer may 

transfer excess assets from a defined 

benefit pension plan to a retiree health 

benefit account, as permitted under the 

conditions set forth in section 420 of the 

Internal Revenue Code of 1986. 

The notice requirements of section 

101(e) are two-fold. First, subsection 

(e)(1) requires plan administrators to 

provide advance written notification of 

such transfers to participants and 

beneficiaries. Second, subsection 

(e)(2)(A) requires employers to provide 

advance written notification of such 

transfers to the Secretaries of Labor and 

the Treasury, the plan administrator, 

and each employee organization 

representing participants in the plan. 

Both notices must be given at least 60 

days before the transfer date. The two 

subsections prescribe the information to 

be included in each type of notice and 

further give the Secretary of Labor the 

authority to prescribe how notice to 

participants and beneficiaries must be 

given and any additional reporting 

requirements deemed necessary. 

Although the Department of Labor has 

not issued regulations under section 

101(e), on May 8, 1991, the Department 

published ERISA Technical Release 91– 

1, to provide guidance on how to satisfy 

the notice requirements prescribed by 

this section. 

The Technical Release made two 

changes in the statutory requirements 

for the second type of notice. First, it 

required the notice to include a filing 

date and the intended asset transfer 

date. Second, it simplified the statutory 

filing requirements by providing that 

filing with the Department of Labor 

would be deemed sufficient notice to 

both the Department and the 

Department of the Treasury as required 

under the statute. The ICR was 

approved by OMB under OMB Control 

Number 1210–0084 and is scheduled to 

expire on June 30, 2015. 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: Disclosures by Insurers to 

General Account Policyholders. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection of 

information. 

OMB Number: 1210–0114. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profits. 

Respondents: 104. 

Responses: 96,223. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

408,948. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): $33,678. 

Description: Section 1460 of the Small 

Business Job Protection Act of 1996 

(Pub. L. 104–188) (SBJPA) amended 

added a new section 401(c) to the 

Employee Income Security Act of 1974 

(ERISA). This new section, inter alia, 

required the Department to promulgate 

a regulation providing guidance, 

applicable only to insurance policies 

issued on or before December 31, 1998, 

to or for the benefit of employee benefit 

plans, to clarify the extent to which 

assets held in an insurer’s general 

account under such contracts are ‘‘plan 

assets’’ within the meaning of the 

Employee Retirement Income Security 

Act (ERISA), because the policies are 

not ‘‘guaranteed benefit policies’’ within 

the meaning of section 401(b) of ERISA. 

SBJPA further directed the Department 

to set standards for how insurers should 

manage the specified insurance policies 

(called Transition Policies). Pursuant to 

the authority and direction given under 

SBJPA, the Department promulgated a 

regulation, issued in final form on 

January 5, 2000 (65 FR 714), and 

codified at 29 CFR 2550.401c–1. This 

regulation has not been amended 

subsequently. The ICR was approved by 

OMB under OMB Control Number 

1210–0114 and is scheduled to expire 

on June 30, 2015. 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: Registration for EFAST–2 

Credentials. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection of 

information. 

OMB Number: 1210–0117. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profits. 

Respondents: 400,000. 


tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
61906 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 199 / Wednesday, October 15, 2014 / Notices 

Responses: 400,000. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

133,333. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): $0. 

Description: ERISA Section 104 

requires administrators of pension and 

welfare benefit plans (collectively, 

employee benefit plans), and employers 

sponsoring certain fringe benefit plans 

and other plans of deferred 

compensation, to file returns/reports 

annually with the Secretary of Labor 

(the Secretary) concerning the financial 

condition and operation of the plans. 

Reporting requirements are satisfied by 

filing the Form 5500 in accordance with 

its instructions and the related 

regulations. Beginning with plan year 

filings for 1999, Form 5500 filings were 

processed under the ERISA Filing 

Acceptance System (EFAST), which was 

designed to simplify and expedite the 

receipt and processing of the Form 5500 

by relying on computer scannable forms 

and electronic filing technologies. 

Beginning with plan year filings for 

2009, Form 5500 filings are processed 

under a new system, the ERISA Filing 

Acceptance System 2 (EFAST–2), which 

is designed to simplify and expedite the 

receipt and processing of the Form 5500 

by relying on Internet-based forms and 

electronic filing technologies. In order 

to file electronically, employee benefit 

plan filing authors, schedule authors, 

filing signers, Form 5500 transmitters, 

and entities developing software to 

complete and/or transmit the Form 5500 

are required to register for EFAST–2 

credentials through the EFAST–2 Web 

site. Requested information includes: 

Applicant type (filing author, filing 

signer, schedule author, transmitter, or 

software developer); mailing address; 

fax number (optional); email address; 

company name, contact person; and 

daytime telephone number. Registrants 

must also provide an answer to a 

challenge question (‘‘What is your date 

of birth?’’ or ‘‘Where is your place of 

birth?’’), which enables users to retrieve 

forgotten credentials. In addition, 

registrants must accept a Privacy 

Agreement; PIN Agreement; and, under 

penalty of perjury, a Signature 

Agreement. The ICR was approved by 

OMB under OMB Control Number 

1210–0117 and is scheduled to expire 

on June 30, 2015. 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: Notice of Blackout Period Under 

ERISA. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection of 

information. 

OMB Number: 1210–0122. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profits. 

Respondents: 46,200. 

Responses: 6,100,000. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

195,800. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): 

$1,900,000. 

Description: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act 

(SOA), enacted on July 30, 2002, added 

ERISA section 101(i), which requires 

individual account pension plans to 

furnish a written notice to participants 

and beneficiaries in advance of any 

‘‘blackout period’’ during which their 

existing rights to direct or diversify their 

investments under the plan, or obtain a 

loan or distribution from the plan will 

be temporarily suspended. Under 

306(b)(2) of SOA, the Secretary of Labor 

was directed to issue interim final rules 

necessary to implement the SOA 

amendments. The Department’s 

regulation for this purpose is codified at 

29 CFR 2520.101–3. The ICR was 

approved by OMB under OMB Control 

Number 1210–0122 and is scheduled to 

expire on June 30, 2015. 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: Affordable Care Act Internal 

Claims and Appeals and External 

Review Procedures for NonGrandfathered Plans. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection of 

information. 

OMB Number: 1210–0144. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profits; Not-for-profit institutions. 

Respondents: 1,020,074. 

Responses: 117,864. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 886. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): $642,461. 

Description: The Patient Protection 

and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 

111–148, (the Affordable Care Act) was 

enacted by President Obama on March 

23, 2010. As part of the Act, Congress 

added Public Health Service Act (PHS 

Act) section 2719, which provides rules 

relating to internal claims and appeals 

and external review processes. The 

Department, in conjunction with the 

Departments of the Treasury and 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (collectively, the Departments), 

issued interim final regulations on July 

23, 2010 (75 FR 43330), which set forth 

rules implementing PHS Act section 

2719 for internal claims and appeals 

and external review processes. With 

respect to internal claims and appeals 

processes for group health coverage, 

PHS Act section 2719 and paragraph 

(b)(2)(i) of the interim final regulations 

provide that group health plans and 

health insurance issuers offering group 

health insurance coverage must comply 

with the internal claims and appeals 

processes set forth in 29 CFR 2560.503– 

1 (the DOL claims procedure regulation) 

and update such processes in 

accordance with standards established 

by the Secretary of Labor in paragraph 

(b)(2)(ii) of the regulations. 

Also, PHS Act section 2719 and the 

interim final regulations provide that 

group health plans and issuers offering 

group health insurance coverage must 

comply either with a State external 

review process or a Federal review 

process. The regulations provide a basis 

for determining when plans and issuers 

must comply with an applicable State 

external review process and when they 

must comply with the Federal external 

review process. 

The claims procedure regulation 

imposes information collection 

requirements as part of the reasonable 

procedures that an employee benefit 

plan must establish regarding the 

handling of a benefit claim. These 

requirements include third-party notice 

and disclosure requirements that the 

plan must satisfy by providing 

information to participants and 

beneficiaries of the plan. 

On June 24, 2011, the Department 

amended the interim final regulations. 

Two amendments revised the ICR. The 

first amendment provides that plans no 

longer are required to include diagnosis 

and treatment codes on notices of 

adverse benefit determination and final 

internal adverse benefit determination. 

Instead, they must notify claimants of 

the opportunity to receive the codes on 

request and plans and issuers must 

provide the codes upon request. 

The second amendment also changes 

the method plans and issuers must use 

to determine who is eligible to receive 

a notice in a culturally and 

linguistically appropriate manner, and 

the information that must be provided 

to such persons. The previous rule was 

based on the number of employees at a 

firm. The new rule is based on whether 

a participant or beneficiary resides in a 

county where ten percent or more of the 

population residing in the county is 

literate only in the same non-English 

language. 

The ICR was approved by OMB under 

OMB Control Number 1210–0144 and is 

scheduled to expire on July 31, 2015. 

II. 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 


tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 199 / Wednesday, October 15, 2014 / Notices 61907 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

• Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate 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., by permitting electronic 

submissions of responses. 

Comments submitted in response to this 

notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the ICRs for OMB approval 

of the extension of the information 

collection; they will also become a 

matter of public record. 

Joseph S. Piacentini, 

Director, Office of Policy and Research, 

Employee Benefits Security Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2014–24447 Filed 10–14–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–29–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Investigations Regarding 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 Office 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, Office of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance, at the address shown below, 

not later than October 27, 2014. 

Interested persons are invited to 

submit written comments regarding the 

subject matter of the investigations to 

the Director, Office of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance, at the address shown below, 

not later than October 27, 2014. 

The petitions filed in this case are 

available for inspection at the Office of 

the Director, Office of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance, Employment and Training 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor, Room N–5428, 200 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210. 

Signed at Washington, DC this 2nd day of 

October 2014. 

Michael W. Jaffe, 

Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance. 

Appendix 

16 TAA PETITIONS INSTITUTED BETWEEN 9/22/14 AND 9/26/14 

TA–W Subject firm 

(petitioners) Location Date of institution 

Date of 

petition 

85545 .. Rural Metro Ambulance (Workers) ........................................ Indianapolis, IN .................................. 09/22/14 09/22/14 

85546 .. Boston Scientific (Workers) ................................................... San Clemente, CA ............................. 09/23/14 09/22/14 

85547 .. Foxconn Assembly LLC/Hon Hai Logistics LLC (Workers) .. Houston, TX ....................................... 09/23/14 09/22/14 

85548 .. Trega Corporation (Company) ............................................... Hamburg, PA ..................................... 09/23/14 09/22/14 

85549 .. Humana (State/One-Stop) ..................................................... Louisville, KY ..................................... 09/23/14 09/22/14 

85550 .. Rcad Milling (Company) ........................................................ Champaign, IL ................................... 09/24/14 09/23/14 

85551 .. Harte Hanks Market Intelligence (State/One-Stop) ............... San Diego, CA ................................... 09/25/14 09/24/14 

85552 .. Ferrara Candy Company (Company) .................................... Chattanooga, TN ............................... 09/25/14 09/24/14 

85553 .. YUSA Corporation (Company) .............................................. Washington Court House, OH ........... 09/25/14 09/24/14 

85554 .. Caraustar (State/One-Stop) ................................................... Rogersville, AL .................................. 09/25/14 09/24/14 

85555 .. Arcic Timber Inc. (State/One-Stop) ....................................... Cosmopolis, WA ................................ 09/25/14 09/24/14 

85556 .. Optiscan (State/One-Stop) .................................................... Phoenix, AZ ....................................... 09/26/14 09/25/14 

85557 .. Conesys Aero-Electric (State/One-Stop) ............................... Torrance, CA ..................................... 09/26/14 09/25/14 

85558 .. Speedline Technologies Inc. (State/One-Stop) ..................... Franklin, MA ...................................... 09/26/14 09/25/14 

85559 .. Weatherford International LLC (State/One-Stop) .................. Houston, TX ....................................... 09/26/14 09/25/14 

85560 .. Heraeus Shin Etsu America (State/One-Stop) ...................... Camas, WA ....................................... 09/26/14 09/23/14 

[FR Doc. 2014–24449 Filed 10–14–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[Notice 14–101] 

NASA Advisory Council; Science 

Committee; Planetary Science 

Subcommittee; Meeting 

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public 

Law 92–463, as amended, the National 

Aeronautics and Space Administration 

(NASA) announces a meeting of the 

Planetary Science Subcommittee of the 

NASA Advisory Council (NAC). This 

Subcommittee reports to the Science 

Committee of the NAC. The meeting 

will be held for the purpose of 

soliciting, from the scientific 

community and other persons, scientific 

and technical information relevant to 

program planning. 

DATES: Friday, November 21, 2014, 

12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m., Local Time. 

ADDRESSES: This meeting will take place 

telephonically and by WebEx. Any 

interested person may call the USA toll 

free conference call number 888–989– 

3378, passcode 4988706, to participate 

in this meeting by telephone. The 

WebEx link is https://nasa.webex.com/; 

the meeting is 993 684 123, password is 

PSS@Nov21. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Ann Delo, Science Mission Directorate, 

NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC 

20546, (202) 358–0750, fax (202) 358– 

2779, or ann.b.delo@nasa.gov. 


tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES