Notice2025-09501
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Alternative Reporting Methods for Apprenticeship and Training Plans and Top Hat Plans
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Published
May 28, 2025
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 90, Number 101 (Wednesday, May 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22517-22518]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-09501]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Alternative Reporting Methods for
Apprenticeship and Training Plans and Top Hat Plans
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 June 27, 2025.
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Howell by telephone at 202-
693-6782, or by email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f9bdb6b5a6a9abb8a6a9acbbb5b0bab99d9695d79e968f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c0848f8c9f9092819f9095828c898380a4afaceea7afb6">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 2520.104-22 provides an exemption to
the reporting and provision of part 1 of title I of ERISA for employee
welfare benefit plans that provide exclusively apprenticeship and
training benefits if the plan administrator meets the following
requirements: (1) Files a notice with the Secretary that provides the
name of the plan, the plan sponsor's Employer Identification Number,
the plan administrator's name, and the name and location of an office
or person from whom interested individuals can obtain certain info
about courses offered by the plan; and (2) takes steps reasonably
designed to ensure that the information required to be contained in the
notice is disclosed to employees of employers contribution to the plan
who may be eligible to enroll in any course of study sponsored or
establish by the plan; (3) and makes the notice available to employees
upon request.
Under 2520.14-23, the Department provides an alternative method of
compliance with the reporting and disclosure of Title I of ERISA for
unfunded or insured plan established for a select group of management
of highly compensated employees (i.e., top hat plans). In order to
satisfy the alternative method of compliance, the plan administrator
must file a statement with the Secretary of Labor that includes the
name and address of the employer, the employer EIN, a declaration that
the employer maintains a plan or plans primarily for the purpose of
providing deferred compensation for a select group of management or
highly compensated employees, and a statement of the number of such
plans and the employees covered by each. Plan documents must be made
available to the Secretary upon request, and only one statement needs
to be filed for each employer maintaining one or more of the plans. The
2019 final rule requires electronic filing with the Secretary through
EBSA's website in accordance with instructions published by the
Department. For additional substantive information about this ICR, see
the related notice published in the Federal Register on January 6, 2025
(90 FR 671).
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
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have practical utility; (2) 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; (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity of the information collection; and (4)
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.
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: Alternative Reporting Methods for
Apprenticeship and Training Plans and Top Hat Plans.
OMB Control Number: 1210-0153.
Affected Public: Private sector.
Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 86.
Total Estimated Number of Responses: 86.
Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 14 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $0.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D))
Michael Howell,
Senior Paperwork Reduction Act Analyst.
[FR Doc. 2025-09501 Filed 5-27-25; 8:45 am]
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