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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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technical information relevant to 

program planning. 

DATES: Monday, October 30, 2017, 1:15 

p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time 

(EDT). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

KarShelia Henderson, Science Mission 

Directorate, NASA Headquarters, 

Washington, DC 20546, (202) 358–2355, 

or khenderson@nasa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

meeting will be open to the public 

telephonically and by WebEx. You must 

use a touch-tone phone to participate in 

this meeting. Any interested person may 

dial the USA toll free conference call 

number (888) 677–3055, passcode 

4301862, followed by the # sign, to 

participate in this meeting by telephone. 

The WebEx link is https://

nasa.webex.com/; the meeting number 

is 999 796 469 and the password is 

y7hj4Xj* . 

The agenda for the meeting will be 

focused on the following topic: 

• Continuity Study 

It is imperative that the meeting be 

held on this date to accommodate the 

scheduling priorities of the key 

participants. 

Patricia D. Rausch, 

Advisory Committee Management Officer, 

National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2017–21969 Filed 10–11–17; 8:45 am] 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Sunshine Act Meeting; National 

Science Board 

The National Science Board’s ad hoc 

Committee on Nominating the NSB 

Class of 2018–2024, pursuant to NSF 

regulations (45 CFR part 614), the 

National Science Foundation Act, as 

amended (42 U.S.C. 1862n–5), and the 

Government in the Sunshine Act (5 

U.S.C. 552b), hereby gives notice of 

change in the scheduling of a 

teleconference for the transaction of 

National Science Board business. 

FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION OF PREVIOUS

ANNOUNCEMENT: The original notice for 

this meeting was published at 82 FR 

47029, October 10, 2017. 

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED TIME AND DATE OF

MEETING: Friday, October 13, 2017 at 

5:00–7:00 p.m. EDT. 

CHANGES IN MEETING: The teleconference 

meeting will be held on October 14, 

2017 from 4:00–6:00 p.m. EDT. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Point of contact for this meeting is: Brad 

Gutierrez, bgutierr@nsf.gov, 703–292– 

7000. 

Chris Blair, 

Executive Assistant to the NSB Office. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22261 Filed 10–10–17; 4:15 pm] 

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NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION 

SAFETY BOARD 

SES Performance Review Board 

AGENCY: National Transportation Safety 

Board. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the 

appointment of members of the National 

Transportation Safety Board, 

Performance Review Board (PRB). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Emily T. Carroll, Chief, Human 

Resources Division, Office of 

Administration, National Transportation 

Safety Board, 490 L’Enfant Plaza SW., 

Washington, DC 20594–0001, (202) 314– 

6233. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

4314(c)(1) through (5) of Title 5, United 

States Code requires each agency to 

establish, in accordance with 

regulations prescribed by the Office of 

Personnel Management, one or more 

SES Performance Review Boards. The 

board reviews and evaluates the initial 

appraisal of a senior executive’s 

performance by the supervisor and 

considers recommendations to the 

appointing authority regarding the 

performance of the senior executive. 

The following have been designated 

as members of the 2017 Performance 

Review Board of the National 

Transportation Safety Board (NTSB): 

The Honorable Earl F. Weener; Member, 

National Transportation Safety Board, 

PRB Chair. 

The Honorable T. Bella Dinh-Zarr, 

Member, National Transportation 

Safety Board. 

Mr. Edward Benthall, Chief Financial 

Officer, National Transportation 

Safety Board. 

Ms. Florence A.P. Carr, Director, Bureau 

of Trade Analysis, Federal Maritime 

Commission. 

Ms. Susan A. Kantrowitz, Director, 

Office of Administration, National 

Transportation Safety Board (will 

review Edward Benthall’s appraisal). 

Ms. Jerold Gidner, Principal Deputy 

Special Trustee, Office of the Special 

Trustee for American Indians 

Department of the Interior. 

Ms. Claudia J. Postell, Deputy Associate 

Commissioner, Office of Civil Rights 

and Equal Opportunity, Social 

Security Administration, PRB 

Alternate Member. 

Dated: October 5, 2017. 

Candi R. Bing, 

Federal Register Liaison. 

[FR Doc. 2017–21985 Filed 10–11–17; 8:45 am] 

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POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket No. CP2018–5] 

New Postal Products 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission is noticing a 

recent Postal Service filing for the 

Commission’s consideration concerning 

a negotiated service agreement. This 

notice informs the public of the filing, 

invites public comment, and takes other 

administrative steps. 

DATES: Comments are due: October 16, 

2017. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

electronically via the Commission’s 

Filing Online system at http://

www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit 

comments electronically should contact 

the person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section by 

telephone for advice on filing 

alternatives. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at 

202–789–6820. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Introduction 

II. Docketed Proceeding(s) 

I. Introduction 

The Commission gives notice that the 

Postal Service filed request(s) for the 

Commission to consider matters related 

to negotiated service agreement(s). The 

request(s) may propose the addition or 

removal of a negotiated service 

agreement from the market dominant or 

the competitive product list, or the 

modification of an existing product 

currently appearing on the market 

dominant or the competitive product 

list. 

Section II identifies the docket 

number(s) associated with each Postal 

Service request, the title of each Postal 

Service request, the request’s acceptance 

date, and the authority cited by the 

Postal Service for each request. For each 

request, the Commission appoints an 

officer of the Commission to represent 

the interests of the general public in the 

proceeding, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505 


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