27182 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 108 / Monday, June 8, 2009 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Secretary 

Submission for OMB Review: 

Comment Request 

June 2, 2009. 

The Department of Labor (DOL) 

hereby announces the submission of the 

following public information collection 

requests (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval in accordance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(Pub. L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C. chapter 35). 

A copy of each ICR, with applicable 

supporting documentation; including 

among other things a description of the 

likely respondents, proposed frequency 

of response, and estimated total burden 

may be obtained from the RegInfo.gov 

Web site at http://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain or by contacting 

Darrin King on 202–693–4129 (this is 

not a toll-free number)/e-mail: 

DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov. 

Interested parties are encouraged to 

send comments to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attn: OMB Desk Officer for the 

Department of Labor—Employee 

Benefits Security Administration 

(EBSA), Office of Management and 

Budget, Room 10235, Washington, DC 

20503, Telephone: 202–395–7316/Fax: 

202–395–5806 (these are not toll-free 

numbers), E-mail: 

OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov within 

30 days from the date of this publication 

in the Federal Register. In order to 

ensure the appropriate consideration, 

comments should reference the OMB 

Control Number (see below). 

The OMB is particularly interested in 

comments which: 

• 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: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of a currently approved 

collection. 

Title of Collection: Definition of Plan 

Assets—Participant Contributions. 

OMB Control Number: 1210–0100. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profits. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 1. 

Total Estimated Annual Burden 

Hours: 1. 

Total Estimated Annual Costs Burden 

(excludes hourly wage costs): $1,025. 

Description: The Department’s 

regulation at 29 CFR 2510.3–102 states 

that monies that a participant pays to, 

or has withheld by, an employer for 

contribution to an employee benefit 

plan become ‘‘plan assets’’ for purposes 

of Title I of Employee Retirement 

Income and Security Act of 1974 

(ERISA) and the related prohibited 

transaction provisions of the Internal 

Revenue Code (the Code) as of the 

earliest date on which such monies can 

be reasonably segregated from the 

employer’s general assets. With respect 

to employee pension benefit plans, the 

regulation further sets a maximum time 

limit for such contributions: the 15th 

business day following the end of the 

month in which the participant 

contribution amounts are received or 

withheld by the employer. Under 

ERISA, ‘‘plan assets’’ cannot be held by 

the employer as part of its general 

assets, but must be contributed to the 

employee benefit plan to which they 

belong and, with few exceptions, held 

in trust. 

The regulation includes a procedure 

through which an employer receiving or 

withholding participant contributions 

for an employee pension benefit plan 

may obtain a 10-business-day extension 

of the 15-day maximum time period if 

certain requirements, including 

information collection requirements, are 

met. The regulation requires, among 

other things, that the employer provide 

written notice to plan participants, 

within 5 business days after the end of 

the extension period and the employer’s 

transfer of the contributions to the plan, 

which the employer elected to take the 

extension for that month. The notice 

must explain why the employer could 

not transfer the participant 

contributions within the maximum time 

period, state that the participant 

contributions in question have in fact 

been transmitted to the plan, and 

provide the date on which this was 

done. The employer must also provide 

a copy of the participant notice to the 

Secretary, along with a certification that 

the notice was distributed to 

participants and that the other 

requirements under the extension 

procedure were met, within 5 business 

days after the end of the extension 

period. The information collections 

imposed under the regulation include 

third-party disclosures and disclosures 

to the government. 

The information collection is 

intended to protect participants by 

ensuring that they and the Department 

are aware of an employer’s failure to 

meet the regulatory time limits for 

transferring participant contributions to 

the employee pension benefit plan they 

are intended to fund. The Department 

and the affected participants can then 

take appropriate action to protect the 

plan assets. Requiring employers to 

make the disclosures also ensures that 

they follow the protective requirements 

that are part of the extension procedure. 

For additional information, see 

related notice published at Vol. 74 

FR13476 on March 27, 2009. 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of a currently approved 

collection. 

Title of Collection: Termination of 

Abandoned Individual Account Plans. 

OMB Control Number: 1210–0127. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profits. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

100. 

Total Estimated Annual Burden 

Hours: 7,433. 

Total Estimated Annual Costs Burden 

(excludes hourly wage costs): 

$3,366,300. 

Description: This ICR is for three final 

regulations under the Employee 

Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 

(ERISA) that facilitate the termination 

of, and distribution of benefits from, 

individual account pension plans that 

have been abandoned by their 

sponsoring employers. The first 

regulation establishes a procedure for 

financial institutions holding the assets 

of an abandoned individual account 

plan to terminate the plan and distribute 

benefits to the plan’s participants and 

beneficiaries, with limited liability. The 

second regulation provides a fiduciary 

safe harbor for making distributions 

from terminated plans on behalf of 

participants and beneficiaries who fail 

to make an election regarding a form of 

benefit distribution. The third 

regulation establishes a simplified 

method for filing a terminal report for 

abandoned individual account plans. 

The ICR also takes into account to a 

class prohibited transaction exemption 

(PTE 2006–06) that permits a ‘‘qualified 

termination administrator’’ (QTA) of an 


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individual account plan that has been 

abandoned by its sponsoring employer 

to select itself or an affiliate to provide 

services to the plan in connection with 

the termination of the plan, to pay itself 

or an affiliate fees for those services, and 

to pay itself for services provided prior 

to the plan’s deemed termination, and 

class Prohibited Transaction Exemption 

2004–16, which permits a pension plan 

fiduciary that is a financial institution 

and is also the employer maintaining an 

individual account pension plan for its 

employees to establish, on behalf of its 

separated employees, an IRA at a 

financial institution that is either the 

employer or an affiliate, which IRA 

would receive mandatory distributions 

that the fiduciary ‘‘rolls over’’ from the 

plan when an employee terminates 

employment. 

For additional information, see 

related notice published at Vol. 74 

FR13478. 

Dated: March 27, 2009. 

Darrin A. King, 

Departmental Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–13299 Filed 6–5–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–29–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Secretary 

Combating Exploitive Child Labor 

Through Education in Guatemala, 

Indonesia, Nepal, and Rwanda 

AGENCY: Bureau of International Labor 

Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor. 

ACTION: New. Notice of Availability of 

Funds and Solicitation for Cooperative 

Agreement Applications (SGA). The full 

announcement is posted on http:// 

www.grants.gov and USDOL/ILAB’s 

Web site at http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/ 

grants/main.htm. 

Funding Opportunity Number: SGA 

09–06. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: Not 

applicable. 

Summary: The U.S. Department of 

Labor (USDOL), Bureau of International 

Labor Affairs (ILAB) will award up to 

USD 18.45 million through 4 or more 

cooperative agreements to one or more 

qualifying organizations and/or 

Associations to combat exploitive child 

labor in the following 4 countries: 

Guatemala (up to USD 4.2 million), 

Indonesia (up to USD 5.5 million), 

Nepal (up to USD 4.25 million) and 

Rwanda (up to USD 4.5 million). 

Projects funded under SGA 09–06 will 

seek to ensure children’s long-term 

withdrawal and prevention from 

exploitive child labor, including 

through the provision of direct 

educational services, and build capacity 

in target countries to eliminate 

exploitive child labor. 

Application and Submission 

Information: The full-text version of 

SGA 09–06 is available on http:// 

www.grants.gov and USDOL/ILAB’s 

Web site at http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/ 

grants/main.htm 

All applications in response to this 

solicitation may be submitted in hard 

copy or electronically via http:// 

www.grants.gov. Applications submitted 

by other means, including e-mail, 

telegram, or facsimile (FAX) will not be 

accepted. Irrespective of submission 

method, all applications must be 

received by USDOL by 5 p.m. Eastern 

Standard Time (EST) on July 27, 2009. 

Applicants electing to submit hard 

copies must submit one (1) blue inksigned original, complete application, 

plus three (3) additional copies of the 

application. Applicants electing to 

submit electronically must submit one 

electronic copy of the complete 

application via http://www.grants.gov 

no later than 5 p.m. Eastern Standard 

Time (EST) on July 27, 2009. Hard copy 

applications must be delivered to: U.S. 

Department of Labor, Office of 

Procurement Services, 200 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Room S–4307, 

Washington, DC 20210, Attention: Lisa 

Harvey, Reference: Solicitation 09–06. 

Applicants submitting via http:// 

www.grants.gov are responsible for 

ensuring that their applications are 

received by http://www.grants.gov by 

the deadline. Applicants are advised to 

submit their applications in advance of 

the deadline. 

Key Dates: The deadline for 

submission of applications is July 27, 

2009. All technical questions regarding 

SGA 09–06 must be sent by June 30, 

2009 in order to receive a response. 

USDOL will make all cooperative 

agreement awards on or before 

September 30, 2009. 

Agency Contacts: All technical 

questions regarding SGA 09–06 should 

be sent to Lisa Harvey, Grant Officer, 

U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of 

Procurement Services, via e-mail (e-mail 

address: harvey.lisa@dol.gov, with a 

copy to Georgiette Nkpa at 

nkpa.georgiette@dol.gov; telephone: 

(202) 693–4570)—please note that this is 

not a toll-free-number). 

Background Information: Since 1995, 

the U.S. Congress has appropriated over 

USD 720 million to ILAB for efforts to 

combat exploitive child labor 

internationally. This funding has been 

used to support technical cooperation 

projects to combat exploitive child 

labor, including the worst forms, in 

more than 80 countries around the 

world. Technical cooperation projects 

funded by USDOL range from targeted 

action programs in specific sectors of 

work to more comprehensive programs 

that support national efforts to eliminate 

the worst forms of child labor, as 

defined by International Labor 

Organization (ILO) Convention 182. 

Projects funded by USDOL to combat 

exploitive child labor internationally 

seek to achieve the following five goals: 

1. Withdraw and prevent children 

from involvement in exploitive child 

labor through the provision of direct 

educational and training services; 

2. Strengthen policies on child labor 

and education, the capacity of national 

institutions to combat child labor, and 

formal and transitional education 

systems that encourage working 

children and those at risk of working to 

attend school; 

3. Raise awareness of the importance 

of education for all children and 

mobilize a wide array of actors to 

improve and expand education 

infrastructures; 

4. Support research and the collection 

of reliable data on child labor; and 

5. Ensure the long-term sustainability 

of these efforts. 

Since 1995, USDOL-funded projects 

have withdrawn or prevented over 1.3 

million children from exploitive labor. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 3rd day of 

June, 2009. 

Lisa Harvey, 

Grant Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–13319 Filed 6–5–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–28–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2009–0018] 

Federal Advisory Council on 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(FACOSH) 

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration (OSHA), Labor. 

ACTION: Announcement of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Advisory Council 

on Occupational Safety and Health 

(FACOSH) will meet June 25, 2009, in 

Washington, DC. 

DATES: 

FACOSH meeting: FACOSH will meet 

from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday, June 

25, 2009. 

Submission of comments and requests 

to speak: Comments and requests to 


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