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February 5, 2024

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The Department of Labor (the Department), in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, 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).

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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 24 (Monday, February 5, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7732-7736]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02176]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employee Benefits Security Administration

Agency Information Collection Activities; Request for Public
Comment

AGENCY: Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), Department of
Labor.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (the Department), in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act, 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 <a href="http://reginfo.gov">reginfo.gov</a> (<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>).

DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office shown in the

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ADDRESSES section on or before April 5, 2024.

ADDRESSES: James Butikofer, Department of Labor, Employee Benefits
Security Administration, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Room N-5718,
Washington, DC 20210, or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1f7a7d6c7e31706f6d5f7b707331787069"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2b4e49584a05445b596b4f4447054c445d">[email&#160;protected]</span></a>.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Current Actions

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. This action is not related to any pending rulemakings
and 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 burden
estimates follows:
Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of
Labor.
Title: Employee Retirement Income Security Act Section 408(b)(2)
Regulation.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of
information.
OMB Number: 1210-0133.
Affected Public: Private sector, Business or other for profits.
Respondents: 56,891.
Responses: 1,643,991.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 1,134,055.
Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $258,506.
Description: The prohibited transaction described in section
406(a)(1)(C) of ERISA generally prohibits the furnishing of goods,
services, or facilities between a plan and a party in interest to the
plan. Because ERISA defines any person furnishing services to the plan
as a ``party in interest'' to the plan, a service relationship between
a plan and a service provider would constitute a prohibited transaction
under section 406(a)(1)(C) in the absence of relief. Section 408(b)(2)
of ERISA provides relief, however, for service contracts or
arrangements if the contract or arrangement is ``reasonable,'' if the
services are necessary for the establishment or operation of the plan,
and if no more than ``reasonable'' compensation is paid for the
services. The Department's final rule under ERISA section 408(b)(2) (29
CFR 2550.408b-2) requires reasonable contracts or arrangements between
employee pension benefit plans and certain providers of services to
such plans include specified information to assist plan fiduciaries in
assessing the reasonableness of the compensation paid for services and
the conflicts of interest that may affect a service provider's
performance of services.
The Department also issued a class prohibited transaction exemption
as part of the final rule. The class exemption grants plan fiduciaries
relief from liability for a prohibited transaction resulting from the
service provider's failure to comply with the regulation's disclosure
requirements. The Department recognizes that a plan fiduciary may on
occasion unknowingly enter into a contract or arrangement that does not
meet the requirements of the regulation for relief under ERISA section
408(b)(2), in the reasonable belief that the service provider has
divulged the requisite information. If the requirements of the rule are
not satisfied, a prohibited transaction occurs for both the service
provider and the plan fiduciary, but for the availability of the class
exemption.
The Department has received approval from OMB for this ICR under
OMB Control No. 1210-0133. The current approval is scheduled to expire
on August 31, 2024.
Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of
Labor.
Title: Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008
Notices.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of
information.
OMB Number: 1210-0138.
Affected Public: Individuals or households, private sector, not-
for-profit institutions, businesses or other for-profits.
Respondents: 1,323,153.
Responses: 1,323,153.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 941,555.
Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance):
$1,091,047.
Description: The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health
Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) was enacted on October
3, 2008 as sections 511 and 512 of the Tax Extenders and Alternative
Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008 (division C of Pub. L. 110-343). MHPAEA
amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the
Public Health Service Act (PHS Act), and the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 (the Code). In 1996, Congress enacted the Mental Health Parity Act
of 1996, which required parity in aggregate lifetime and annual dollar
limits for mental health (MH) benefits and medical/surgical benefits,
and codified those provisions in section 712 of ERISA, section 2705 of
the PHS Act, and section 9812 of the Code. The changes made by MHPAEA
are codified in these same sections and include provisions to apply the
mental health parity requirements to substance use disorder (SUD)
benefits and impose additional requirements for financial requirements
and treatment limitations for group health plans and health insurance
coverage offered in connection with a group health plan. MHPAEA does
not apply to small employers that have between two and 50 employees.
MHPAEA and the final regulations (29 CFR 2590.712(d)) require plan
administrators to provide two disclosures regarding MH/SUD benefits--
one providing criteria for medical necessity determinations (medical
necessity disclosure) and the other providing the reason for denial of
claims reimbursement (claims denial disclosure).
Section 203 of title II of division BB of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act (CAA, 2021) was enacted on December 27, 2020 and
amended MHPAEA, in part, by requiring group health plans and health
insurance issuers offering group or individual health insurance
coverage that offer both medical/surgical benefits and MH/SUD benefits
and that impose NQTLs on MH/SUD benefits to perform and document their
comparative analyses of the design and application of NQTLs.
The CAA, 2021 also provides that the Departments of the Treasury,
Labor, and Health and Human Services (collectively, the Departments)
shall request that a group health plan or issuer submit the comparative
analyses for plans that involve potential violations of MHPAEA or
complaints regarding noncompliance with MHPAEA that concern NQTLs, and
any other instances in which the Departments determine appropriate. The
CAA, 2021 further requires the Departments, after review of the
comparative analyses, to share information on findings of compliance
and noncompliance with the State where the plan is located or the State
where the issuer is licensed to do business.
The Department has received approval from OMB for this ICR under
OMB Control No. 1210-0138. The

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not related to finalizing the proposed rules published on August 3,
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Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of
Labor.
Title: Pension Benefit Statement.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of
information.
OMB Number: 1210-0166.
Affected Public: Private sector, businesses or other for-profits,
not-for-profit institutions.
Respondents: 721,876.
Responses: 410,933,333.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 19,675.
Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance):
$498,958,393.
Description: Section 105(a) of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act (ERISA) requires administrators of defined contribution
plans and defined benefit plans to provide periodic pension benefit
statements to participants and certain beneficiaries. If a defined
contribution plan permits participants and beneficiaries to direct
their own investments, benefit statements must be provided at least
once each quarter. If the defined contribution plan does not permit
participants and beneficiaries to direct their own investments, benefit
statements must be provided at least once each year. In the case of
defined benefit plans, benefit statements generally must be provided at
least once every three years. Section 105(a)(2)(A)(i)(I) requires a
benefit statement to indicate the participant's or beneficiary's
``total benefits accrued.''
On December 20, 2019, ERISA section 105 was amended by section 203
of the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of
2019 (SECURE Act). As amended, ERISA section 105 requires, in relevant
part, that ``a lifetime income disclosure . . . be included in only one
pension benefit statement provided to participants of defined
contribution plans during any one 12-month period.'' A lifetime income
disclosure ``shall set forth the lifetime income stream equivalent of
the total benefits accrued with respect to the participant or
beneficiary.'' A lifetime income stream equivalent means the amount of
monthly payments the participant or beneficiary would receive if the
total accrued benefits of such participant or beneficiary were used to
provide a single life annuity and a qualified joint and survivor
annuity.
The Department has received approval from OMB for this ICR under
OMB Control No. 1210-0166. The current approval is scheduled to expire
on October 31, 2024.
Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of
Labor.
Title: Employee Retirement Income Security Act Procedure 1976-1;
Advisory Opinion Procedure.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of
information.
OMB Number: 1210-0066.
Affected Public: Private sector, Business or other for-profits,
Not-for-profit institutions.
Respondents: 18.
Responses: 18.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 182.
Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $477,089.
Description: In 1976, the Department issued ERISA Procedure 76-1,
the Procedure for ERISA Advisory Opinions (ERISA Procedure), in order
to establish a public process for requesting guidance from the Employee
Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) on the application of ERISA to
particular circumstances. The ERISA Procedure sets forth specific
administrative procedures for requesting either an advisory opinion or
an information letter and describes the types of questions that may be
submitted.
As part of the ERISA Procedure, requesters are instructed to
provide information to EBSA concerning the circumstances governing
their request. Section 6 of ERISA Procedure 76-1 lists the information
that must be supplied by the party requesting an advisory opinion. This
information includes identifying information (name, type of plan, EIN
Number, etc.), a detailed description of the act(s) or transaction(s)
with respect to which an advisory opinion is being requested, a
discussion of the issues presented by the act(s) or transaction(s), a
statement of the party's views concerning the issues to be resolved and
the legal basis for such views. The requesting party must also include
copies of the relevant documents and may also request a conference with
EBSA in the event that EBSA is considering issuing an adverse opinion.
The Department has received approval from OMB for this ICR under
OMB Control No. 1210-0066. The current approval is scheduled to expire
on November 30, 2024.
Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of
Labor.
Title: Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 Technical
Release 1991-1.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of
information.
OMB Number: 1210-0084.
Affected Public: Private sector, business or other for-profits.
Respondents: 6.
Responses: 18,419.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 623.
Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $839.
Description: Section 101(e) of ERISA establishes notice
requirements that must be satisfied before an employer may transfer
excess assets from a defined benefit pension plan to a retiree health
benefit account, as permitted under the conditions set forth in section
420 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code).
The notice requirements of ERISA section 101(e) are two-fold.
First, subsection (e)(1) requires plan administrators to provide
advance written notification of such transfers to participants and
beneficiaries. Second, subsection (e)(2)(A) requires employers to
provide advance written notification of such transfers to the
Secretaries of Labor and the Treasury, the plan administrator, and each
employee organization representing participants in the plan. Both
notices must be given at least 60 days before the transfer date. The
two subsections prescribe the information to be included in each type
of notice and further give the Secretary of Labor the authority to
prescribe how notice to participants and beneficiaries must be given,
and how any additional reporting requirements are deemed necessary.
On May 8, 1991, the Department published ERISA Technical Release
91-1, to provide guidance on how to satisfy the notice requirements
prescribed by ERISA section 101(e). The Technical Release made two
changes in the statutory requirements for the second type of notice.
First, it required the notice to include a filing date and the intended
asset transfer date. Second, it simplified the statutory filing
requirements by providing that filing with the Department of Labor
would be deemed sufficient notice to both the Department and the
Department of the Treasury as required under the statute.
The Department has received approval from OMB for this ICR under
OMB Control No. 1210-0084. The current approval is scheduled to expire
on November 30, 2024.
Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of
Labor.
Title: Disclosures by Insurers to General Account Policyholders.

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Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of
information.
OMB Number: 1210-0114.
Affected Public: Private sector, business or other for-profits.
Respondents: 353.
Responses: 26,981.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 114,670.
Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $10,792.
Description: Section 1460 of the Small Business Job Protection Act
of 1996 (Pub. L. 104-188) (SBJPA) amended ERISA by adding section
401(c). This section requires the Department to promulgate a regulation
providing guidance, applicable only to insurance policies issued on or
before December 31, 1998, to or for the benefit of employee benefit
plans, to clarify the extent to which assets held in an insurer's
general account under such contracts are ``plan assets'' within the
meaning of ERISA, because the policies are not ``guaranteed benefit
policies'' within the meaning of section 401(b) of ERISA. SBJPA further
directed the Department to set standards for how insurers should manage
the specified insurance policies (called Transition Policies). Pursuant
to the authority and direction given under SBJPA, the Department
promulgated a final rule on January 5, 2000 (65 FR 714) that is
codified at 29 CFR 2550.401c-1.
Regulation section 29 CFR 2550.401(c)-1 imposes specific
requirements on insurers that are parties to Transition Policies in
order to ensure that the fiduciaries acting on behalf of plans have
adequate information and understanding of how the Transition Policies
work. This information collection requires that an insurer that issues
and maintains a Transition Policy to or for the benefit of an employee
benefit plan must disclose to the plan fiduciary, initially upon
issuance of the policy and on an annual basis, to the extent that the
policy is not a guaranteed benefit policy: (1) the methods by which
income and expenses of the insurer's general account are allocated to
the policy, the actual annual return to the plan, and other pertinent
information; (2) the extent to which alternative arrangements supported
by the assets of the insurer's separate accounts are available; (3) any
rights under the policy to transfer funds to a separate account and the
terms governing such right; and (4) the extent to which support by
assets of the insurer's separate accounts might pose differing risks to
the plan.
The Department has received approval from OMB for this ICR under
OMB Control No. 1210-0114. The current approval is scheduled to expire
on November 30, 2024.
Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of
Labor.
Title: Registration for EFAST-2 Credentials.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of
information.
OMB Number: 1210-0117.
Affected Public: Private sector, not-for-profit institutions,
businesses or other for-profits.
Respondents: 248,985.
Responses: 248,985.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 82,995.
Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $0.
Description: The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
(ERISA) section 104 requires administrators of employee benefits plans
(pension and welfare plans) and employers sponsoring certain fringe
benefit plans and other plans of deferred compensation to file returns/
reports annually with the Secretary of Labor concerning the financial
condition and operation of plans. Reporting requirements are satisfied
by filing the Form 5500 in accordance with its instructions and the
related regulations. Form 5500 filings are processed under the ERISA
Filing Acceptance System 2 (EFAST-2), which is designed to simplify and
expedite the receipt and processing of the Form 5500 by relying on
internet-based forms and electronic filing technologies.
In order to file electronically, employee benefit plan Filing
authors, Schedule authors, Filing signers, Form 5500 transmitters, and
entities developing software to complete and/or transmit the Form 5500
are required to register for EFAST-2 credentials through the EFAST2
website. The information requested for registration includes: Applicant
type (Filing Author, Filing Signer, Schedule Author, Transmitter, or
software developer); mailing address; fax number (optional); email
address; company name, contact person; and daytime telephone number.
Registrants must also provide an answer to a challenge question (``What
is your date of birth?'' or ``Where is your place of birth?''), which
enables users to retrieve forgotten credentials. In addition,
registrants must accept a Privacy Agreement; PIN Agreement; and, under
penalty of perjury, a Signature Agreement.
The Department has received approval from OMB for this ICR under
OMB Control No. 1210-0117. The current approval is scheduled to expire
on November 30, 2024.
Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of
Labor.
Title: Employee Retirement Income Security Act Blackout Period
Notice.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of
information.
OMB Number: 1210-0122.
Affected Public: Private sector, businesses or other for-profits,
not-for-profit institutions.
Respondents: 47,250.
Responses: 7,409,220.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 88,905.
Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $324,524.
Description: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA), enacted on July 30,
2002, amended ERISA to include a blackout period disclosure requirement
in subsection 101(i). This information collection requires
administrators of individual account pension plans (e.g., a profit
sharing plan, 401(k) type plan or money purchase pension plan) to
provide at least 30 days advance written notice to the affected
participants and beneficiaries in advance of any ``blackout period''
during which their existing rights to direct or diversify their
investments under the plan, or obtain a loan or distribution from the
plan will be temporarily suspended. The term ``blackout period'' is
generally defined as any period of more than three consecutive business
days during which time the ability of plan participants and
beneficiaries to direct or diversify investments or to obtain loans or
distributions is suspended, limited or restricted.
The Department has received approval from OMB for this ICR under
OMB Control No. 1210-0122. The current approval is scheduled to expire
on November 30, 2024.
Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of
Labor.
Title: Coverage of Certain Preventive Services under the Affordable
Care Act--Private Sector.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of
information.
OMB Number: 1210-0150.
Affected Public: Individuals or households, private sector,
businesses or other for-profits, not-for-profit institutions.
Respondents: 114.
Responses: 777,363.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 181.
Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $194,963.
Description: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public
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111-148, (the Affordable Care Act) was enacted on March 23, 2010 and
amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010,
Public Law 111-152 on March 30, 2010. The Affordable Care Act added
section 2713 to the Public Health Service (PHS) Act and incorporated
this provision into ERISA and the Code. The Departments of Health and
Human Services, Labor, and Treasury first published interim final rules
on July 19, 2010, which implements the requirements of PHS Act section
2713, including the requirement that non-grandfathered group health
insurance coverage to provide benefits for certain preventive services
without cost sharing, including benefits for certain women's preventive
health services as provided for in comprehensive guidelines supported
by the Health Resources and Services Administration. The Departments
subsequently published regulations establishing an exemption for
certain religious objectors with respect to the requirement to cover
contraception pursuant to comprehensive guidelines supported by HRSA.
In 2013, the Department issued final rules, which clarified the
definition of religious employer for purposes of the religious employer
exemption and also provided accommodations for health coverage
established or maintained or arranged by certain nonprofit religious
organizations with religious objections to contraceptive services
(eligible organizations). The 2018 final rules expanded the exemption
to include additional entities (any kind of employer) and persons that
object based on religious beliefs or moral convictions objecting to
contraceptive or sterilization coverage, and by making the
accommodation compliance process optional for eligible organizations
instead of mandatory. The regulations contain the following collections
of information. First, each organization seeking to be treated as an
eligible organization for the optional accommodation process offered
under the regulation must either notify an issuer or third-party
administrator using the EBSA Form 700 method of self-certification or
provide notice to HHS of its religious or moral objection to coverage
of all or a subset of contraceptive services. Second, a health
insurance issuer or third-party administrator providing or arranging
separate payments for contraceptive services for participants and
beneficiaries in insured plans (or student enrollees and covered
dependents in student health insurance coverage) of eligible
organizations is required to provide a written notice to plan
participants and beneficiaries (or student enrollees and covered
dependents) informing them of the availability of such payments. The
notice must be separate from but, contemporaneous with (to the extent
possible) any application materials distributed in connection with
enrollment (or re-enrollment) in group or student coverage of the
eligible organization in any plan year to which the accommodation is to
apply and will be provided annually. To satisfy the notice requirement,
issuers may, but are not required to, use the model language set forth
in the 2018 final rules or substantially similar language. Third, an
eligible organization may also revoke its use of the accommodation
process and must provide participants and beneficiaries written notice
of such revocation as soon as possible.
The Department has received approval from OMB for this ICR under
OMB Control No. 1210-0150. The current approval is scheduled to expire
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Agency: Employee Benefits Security Administration, Department of
Labor.
Title: EBSA Participant Assistance Program Customer Survey.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection of
information.
OMB Number: 1210-0161.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Respondents: 11,200.
Responses: 11,200.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 1,867.
Estimated Total Burden Cost (Operating and Maintenance): $0.
Description: EBSA conducts the surveys to evaluate the Participant
Assistance Program (PAP) provided by the benefits advisor staff
nationwide to understand how well the Agency is meeting service
delivery goals by; (1) assessing EBSA's customers' perception of the
services provided by the EBSA benefit advisors, and (2) determining
what actions the performance data indicate could enable each regional
office to provide the best possible participant assistance service; and
(3) establishing a current baseline for EBSA's (Government Performance
and Accountability Act GPRA) measurement. EBSA will use the data from
the survey to track the agency's progress on accomplishing it's GPRA
measurement goal.
The PAP Customer Survey collects customer satisfaction data for a
sample of private citizens who call into the participant assistance
program to ask about their private sector employer provided benefits
such as pensions, retirement savings, and health benefits. Three types
of callers are queried: (1) those who need benefit claim assistance,
(2) those who have a valid benefit claim, and (3) those who have an
invalid benefit claim will be queried. The results of the survey will
be analyzed to provide actionable data that could be used to improve
program performance. The study includes data from the EBSA regional
offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Kansas City,
Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, as well as the
District offices in Miami, Seattle, and Washington.
The Department has received approval from OMB for this ICR under
OMB Control No. 1210-0161. The current approval is scheduled to expire
on November 30, 2024.

II. Focus of Comments

The Department is particularly interested in comments that:
<bullet> 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;
<bullet> Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the
collections of information, including the validity of the methodology
and assumptions used;
<bullet> Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
<bullet> 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 ICR for OMB approval of the information
collection; they will also become a matter of public record.

Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of January 2024.
Lisa M. Gomez,
Assistant Secretary, Employee Benefits Security Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor.
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