Notice2022-03757
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Bank Collective Investment Funds; Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 1991-38
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Published
February 23, 2022
Issuing agencies
Labor Department
Abstract
The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting this Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)-sponsored information collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). Public comments on the ICR are invited.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 36 (Wednesday, February 23, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10252-10253]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-03757]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Bank Collective Investment Funds; Prohibited
Transaction Class Exemption 1991-38
ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting this Employee
Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)-sponsored information
collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
for review and approval 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 the agency
receives on or before March 25, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether the collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the
Department, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (2) if the information will be processed and used in a timely
manner; (3) the accuracy of the agency's estimates of the burden and
cost of the collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (4) ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information collection; and (5) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are
to respond, including the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mara Blumenthal by telephone at 202-
693-8538, or by email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#9bdfd4d7c4cbc9dac4cbced9d7d2d8dbfff4f7b5fcf4ed"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b7f3f8fbe8e7e5f6e8e7e2f5fbfef4f7d3d8db99d0d8c1">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 408(a) of the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) gives the Secretary of Labor the
authority to ``grant a conditional or unconditional exemption of any
fiduciary or transaction, or class of fiduciaries or transactions, from
all or part of the restrictions imposed by sections 406 and 407(a).''
Prohibited
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Transaction Class Exemption (PTE) 91-38 provides an exemption from the
restrictions of sections 406(a), 406(b)(2), and 407(a) of ERISA for
certain transactions between a bank collective investment fund in which
an employee benefit plan has invested assets and persons who are
parties in interest to the employee benefit plan, as long as the plan's
total participation in the collective investment fund does not exceed
10 percent of the total assets in the collective investment fund. For
additional substantive information about this ICR, see the related
notice published in the Federal Register on November 9, 2021 (86 FR
62208).
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 the OMB approves it 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
OMB Control Number. See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6.
DOL seeks PRA authorization for this information collection for
three (3) years. OMB authorization for an ICR cannot be for more than
three (3) years without renewal. The DOL notes that information
collection requirements submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs receive
a month-to-month extension while they undergo review.
Agency: DOL-EBSA.
Title of Collection: Bank Collective Investment Funds; Prohibited
Transaction Class Exemption 1991-38.
OMB Control Number: 1210-0082.
Affected Public: Private Sector--Businesses or other for-profits
and not-for-profit institutions.
Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 9,332.
Total Estimated Number of Responses: 9,332.
Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 1,555 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $0.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D))
Dated: February 15, 2022.
Mara Blumenthal,
Senior PRA Analyst.
[FR Doc. 2022-03757 Filed 2-22-22; 8:45 am]
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