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4. Affected public who will be asked 

or required to respond, as well as a brief 

abstract: 

Affected public: Business or other forprofit. 

Abstract: Section 307 of the 

Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 

827) requires controlled substance 

manufacturers and distributors to make 

periodic reports to the DEA regarding 

the sale, delivery, and other disposal of 

certain controlled substances. These 

reports help ensure a closed system of 

distribution for controlled substances, 

and are used to comply with 

international treaty obligations. 

5. An estimate of the total number of 

respondents and the amount of time 

estimated for an average respondent to 

respond: The below table presents 

information regarding the number of 

respondents, responses and associated 

burden hours. 

Number of 

annual 

respondents 

Number of 

annual 

responses 

Average time 

per response 

(hours) 

Total annual 

hours 

DEA–333 (paper) ............................................................................................. 70 379 1 379 

DEA–333 (electronic) ....................................................................................... 1,552 11,777 * 0.1667 1,963 

Total .......................................................................................................... 1,622 12,156 ........................ 2,342 

*10 Minutes. 

6. An estimate of the total public 

burden (in hours) associated with the 

proposed collection: The DEA estimates 

that this collection takes 2,342 annual 

burden hours. 

If additional information is required 

please contact: Melody Braswell, 

Department Clearance Officer, United 

States Department of Justice, Justice 

Management Division, Policy and 

Planning Staff, Two Constitution 

Square, 145 N Street NE., Suite 3E.405B, 

Washington, DC 20530. 

Dated: October 5, 2017. 

Melody Braswell, 

Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. 

Department of Justice. 

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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), 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 11, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: G. Christopher Cosby, 

Department of Labor, Employee Benefits 

Security Administration, 200 

Constitution Avenue NW., Room N– 

5718, Washington, DC 20210, ebsa.opr@

dol.gov, (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 transaction 

exemptions 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: 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: 35,000. 

Responses: 4,305,000. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

15,000. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): $215,000. 

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, 

which is scheduled to expire on March 

31, 2018. 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: Furnishing Documents to the 

Secretary of Labor on Request Under 

ERISA 104(a)(6). 


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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: 558. 

Responses: 558. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 41. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): $2,732. 

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, which is scheduled 

to expire on April 30, 2018. 

Agency: Employee Benefits Security 

Administration, Department of Labor. 

Title: Annual Funding Notice for 

Defined Benefit Pension Plans. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection of 

information. 

OMB Number: 1210–0126. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profits, Not-for-profit institutions. 

Respondents: 39,061. 

Responses: 77,100,000. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

576,000. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): 

$29,600,000. 

Description: Section 101(f) of the 

Employee Retirement Income Security 

Act of 1974 (ERISA) sets forth 

requirements applicable to furnishing 

annual funding notices. Before the 

enactment of the Pension Protection Act 

of 2006 (PPA), section 101(f) applied 

only to multiemployer defined benefit 

plans. The Department has issued 

multiple final regulations with regard to 

this provision, most recently on 

February 2, 2015 (80 FR 5625). 

Section 501(a) of the PPA amended 

section 101(f) of ERISA and made 

significant changes to the annual 

funding notice requirements. These 

amendments require administrators of 

all defined benefit plans that are subject 

to title IV of ERISA, not only 

multiemployer plans, to provide an 

annual funding notice to the Pension 

Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), to 

each plan participant and beneficiary, to 

each labor organization representing 

such participants or beneficiaries, and, 

in the case of a multiemployer plan, to 

each employer that has an obligation to 

contribute to the plan. An annual 

funding notice must include, among 

other things, the plan’s funding 

percentage, a statement of the value of 

the plan’s assets and liabilities and a 

description of how the plan’s assets are 

invested as of specific dates, and a 

description of the benefits under the 

plan that are eligible to be guaranteed by 

the PBGC. 

The ICR was approved by OMB under 

OMB Control Number 1210–0126, 

which is scheduled to expire on April 

30, 2018. 

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: 51,000. 

Responses: 1,472,000. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

1,040,000. 

Estimated Total Burden Cost 

(Operating and Maintenance): 

$1,336,000. 

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 

plans disclose information about the 

service providers’ compensation and 

potential conflicts of interest. The 

disclosed information is intended to 

assist plan fiduciaries in assessing the 

reasonableness of contracts or 

arrangements, including the 

reasonableness of the service providers’ 

compensation and potential conflicts of 

interest that may affect the service 

providers’ performance. 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, which is scheduled to 

expire on May 31, 2018. 

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 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. 2017–22043 Filed 10–11–17; 8:45 am] 

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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[Notice (17–074)] 

Applied Sciences Advisory Committee; 

Meeting 

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended, the National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration (NASA) 

announces a meeting of the Applied 

Sciences Advisory Committee (ASAC). 

This Committee functions in an 

advisory capacity to the Director, Earth 

Science Division, in the NASA Science 

Mission Directorate. The meeting will 

be held for the purpose of soliciting, 

from the applied sciences community 

and other persons, scientific and 


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