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159 TAA PETITIONS INSTITUTED BETWEEN 6/5/17 AND 8/18/17—Continued 

TA–W Subject firm (petitioners) Location Date of 

institution 

Date of 

petition 

93072 ...... National Oilwell Varco (Workers) ...................................... Claremore, OK ................................... 08/14/17 08/09/17 

93073 ...... Norpac Foods Inc. (State/One-Stop) ................................ Salem, OR .......................................... 08/14/17 08/11/17 

93074 ...... Philips Medical Systems (Cleveland) Inc. (Company) ...... Aurora, IL ............................................ 08/14/17 08/11/17 

93075 ...... Yanfeng US Automotive II LLC (Union) ........................... Lansing, MI ......................................... 08/14/17 08/11/17 

93076 ...... API Heat Transfer (Union) ................................................ Cheektowaga, NY .............................. 08/16/17 08/07/17 

93077 ...... Fargo Assembly of Mississippi, LLC (Workers) ................ Kosciusko, MS .................................... 08/17/17 08/16/17 

93078 ...... Health Care Service Corporation (State/One-Stop) ......... Downers Grove, IL ............................. 08/17/17 08/16/17 

93079 ...... Travelport (State/One-Stop) .............................................. Kansas City, MO ................................ 08/17/17 08/16/17 

93080 ...... Affinity Apparel (Workers) ................................................. Moultrie, GA ....................................... 08/18/17 08/17/17 

93081 ...... Casamba (an affiliate of Source Medical) (Workers) ....... Rome, GA ........................................... 08/18/17 08/17/17 

93082 ...... DART Aerospace (State/One-Stop) .................................. Eugene, OR ........................................ 08/18/17 08/17/17 

93083 ...... Hitachi Metals Automotive Components, LLC (State/ 

One-Stop).

Wellsboro, PA ..................................... 08/18/17 08/17/17 

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BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Secretary 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request; Prohibited 

Transaction Class Exemption 1998–54 

Relating to Certain Employee Benefit 

Plan Foreign Exchange Transactions 

Executed Pursuant to Standing 

Instructions 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor 

(DOL) is submitting the Employee 

Benefits Security Administration 

(EBSA) sponsored information 

collection request (ICR) titled, 

‘‘Prohibited Transaction Class 

Exemption 1998–54 Relating to Certain 

Employee Benefit Plan Foreign 

Exchange Transactions Executed 

Pursuant to Standing Instructions,’’ to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval for 

continued use, without change, in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). Public 

comments on the ICR are invited. 

DATES: The OMB will consider all 

written comments that agency receives 

on or before October 30, 2017. 

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 of charge from the 

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

reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_

nbr=201707-1210-001 (this link will 

only become active on the day following 

publication of this notice) or by 

contacting Michel Smyth by telephone 

at 202–693–4129, TTY 202–693–8064, 

(these are not toll-free numbers) or by 

email at DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov. 

Submit comments about this request 

by mail to the Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk 

Officer for DOL–EBSA, Office of 

Management and Budget, Room 10235, 

725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 

20503; by Fax: 202–395–5806 (this is 

not a toll-free number); or by email: 

OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov. 

Commenters are encouraged, but not 

required, to send a courtesy copy of any 

comments by mail or courier to the U.S. 

Department of Labor—OASAM, Office 

of the Chief Information Officer, Attn: 

Departmental Information Compliance 

Management Program, Room N1301, 

200 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20210; or by email: 

DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michel Smyth by telephone at 202–693– 

4129, TTY 202–693–8064, (these are not 

toll-free numbers) or by email at DOL_

PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This ICR 

seeks to extend PRA authority for the 

information collection requirements 

contained in Prohibited Transaction 

Class Exemption (PTE) 1998–54 that 

relates to certain employee benefit plan 

foreign exchange transactions executed 

pursuant to standing instructions. More 

specifically, the PTE permits certain 

foreign exchange transactions between 

employee benefit plans and certain 

banks and broker-dealers that are parties 

in interest with respect to such plans. In 

order that such transactions be 

consistent with Employee Retirement 

Income Security Act (ERISA) section 

408(a), 29 U.S.C. 1108/(a), requirements, 

the PTE imposes the following 

conditions at the time the foreign 

exchange transaction is entered into: (a) 

The terms of the transaction must not be 

less favorable than those available in 

comparable arm’s-length transactions 

between unrelated parties or those 

afforded by the bank or the brokerdealer in comparable arm’s-length 

transactions involving unrelated parties; 

(b) neither the bank nor the brokerdealer has any discretionary authority 

with respect to the investment of the 

assets involved in the transaction; (c) 

the bank or broker-dealer maintains at 

all times written policies and 

procedures regarding the handling of 

foreign exchange transactions for plans 

for which it is a party in interest which 

ensure that the party acting for the bank 

or the broker-dealer knows it is dealing 

with a plan; (d) the transactions are 

performed in accordance with a written 

authorization executed in advance by an 

independent fiduciary of the plan 

whose assets are involved in the 

transaction and who is independent of 

the bank or broker-dealer engaging in 

the covered transaction; (e) transactions 

are executed within one business day of 

receipt of funds; (f) the bank or the 

broker-dealer, at least once a day at a 

time specified in written procedures, 

establishes a rate or range of rates of 

exchange to be used for the transactions 

covered by this exemption and executes 

transactions at either the next scheduled 

time or no later than twenty-four (24) 

hours after receipt of notice of receipt of 

funds; (g) prior to execution of a 

transaction, the bank or the brokerdealer provides the authorizing 

fiduciary with a copy of the applicable 

written policies and procedures for 

foreign exchange transactions involving 

income item conversions and de 

minimis purchases and sale 

transactions; (h) the bank or the brokerdealer furnishes the authorizing 

fiduciary a written confirmation 

statement with respect to each covered 

transaction within five (5) days of 

execution; (i) the bank or the brokerdealer maintains records necessary for 


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plan fiduciaries, participants, and the 

DOL and Internal Revenue Service to 

determine whether the conditions of the 

exemption have been met for a period 

of six years from the date of execution 

of a transaction. Internal Revenue Code 

of 1986 section 4975 and ERISA section 

408 authorize this information 

collection. See 26 U.S.C. 4975; 29 U.S.C. 

1108. 

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 1210–0111. 

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 

September 30, 2017. 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 

May 22, 2017 (82 FR 23303). 

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 

1210–0111. 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–EBSA. 

Title of Collection: Prohibited 

Transaction Class Exemption 1998–54 

Relating to Certain Employee Benefit 

Plan Foreign Exchange Transactions 

Executed Pursuant to Standing 

Instructions. 

OMB Control Number: 1210–0111. 

Affected Public: Private Sector— 

businesses or other for-profits. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 35. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Responses: 420,000. 

Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 

4,200 hours. 

Total Estimated Annual Other Costs 

Burden: $0. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D). 

Dated: September 15, 2017. 

Michel Smyth, 

Departmental Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20916 Filed 9–28–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–29–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

[Agency Docket Number: DOL–2017–0003] 

Request for Information on Potential 

Stay-at-Work/Return-to-Work 

Demonstration Projects 

AGENCY: Office of Disability 

Employment Policy, DOL. 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: Washington State’s workers’ 

compensation system runs several 

promising early intervention programs 

including the Centers of Occupational 

Health and Education (COHE) and the 

Early Return to Work and the Stay at 

Work programs, which provide early 

intervention and return-to-work services 

for individuals with work-related health 

conditions and their employers. The 

President’s FY2018 budget proposed 

that the Office of Disability Employment 

Policy (ODEP) at the U.S. Department of 

Labor (DOL) and the Social Security 

Administration (SSA) jointly conduct a 

demonstration testing the effects of 

implementing key features of these 

programs in other states and/or for a 

broader population beyond workers’ 

compensation. To do that, we anticipate 

funding two to three states to operate 

projects with key elements drawn from 

the Washington State programs 

mentioned above, with an increased 

emphasis on access to employmentrelated supports, or fund the expansion 

of existing programs to include 

increased access to employment-related 

supports. The ultimate policy goal is to 

increase employment and labor force 

participation of individuals who have or 

are developing work disabilities. This 

request for information (RFI) seeks 

public input on how the proposed 

demonstration projects can best be 

designed to promote labor force 

attachment, coordinate employment and 

health services, and support injured and 

ill workers in returning to and 

remaining at work. The input we receive 

will inform our deliberations about the 

possible design of a future 

demonstration project. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

October 30, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any one of three methods—Internet, 

fax, or mail. Do not submit the same 

comments multiple times or by more 

than one method. Regardless of which 

method you choose, please refer to 

Docket No. DOL–2017–0003in your 

comment pages so that we may associate 

your comments with the correct docket. 

Caution: In your comments, you 

should be careful to include only the 

information that you wish to make 

publicly available. We strongly urge you 

not to include in your comments any 

personal information, such as Social 

Security numbers or medical 

information. 

1. Internet: We strongly recommend 

that you submit your comments via the 

Internet. Please visit the Federal 

eRulemaking portal at http://

www.regulations.gov. Use the ‘‘Search’’ 

function to find docket number DOL– 

2017–0003. The system will issue a 

tracking number to confirm your 

submission. You will not be able to 

view your comment immediately 

because we must post each comment 

manually. It may take up to a week for 

your comment to be viewable. 

2. Fax: Fax comments to (202) 693– 

7888. 

3. Mail: Mail your comments to the 

Office of Disability Employment Policy, 

U.S. Department of Labor, 200 

Constitution Avenue NW., S–1303, 

Washington, DC 20210. 

Comments are available for public 

viewing on the Federal eRulemaking 

portal at http://www.regulations.gov or 

in person, during regular business 


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