[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 12, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-639]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration

29 CFR Part 2530

 

Qualified Domestic Relations Orders

AGENCY: Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Reopening and extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: This document reopens and extends the comment period regarding 
a request for information by the Department of Labor (the Department) 
to assist it in assessing the need for a regulation clarifying certain 
statutory requirements set forth in title I of the Employee Retirement 
Income Security Act (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code (the Code) 
with regard to qualified domestic relations orders (QDROs). The request 
for information was published in the Federal Register on October 21, 
1993 (58 FR 54444).
    The Department has received a number of requests from members of 
the public for additional time to prepare comments.

DATES: The comment period is reopened and extended through February 18, 
1994.

ADDRESSES: Comments (preferably at least six copies) should be 
addressed to the Office of Regulations and Interpretations, Pension and 
Welfare Benefits Administration, room N-5669, U.S. Department of Labor, 
Washington, DC 20210. Attention: QDRO RFI. All comments received will 
be available for public inspection at the Public Disclosure Room, 
Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 
room N-5507, 200 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20210.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Deborah Hobbs, Office of Regulations 
and Interpretations, Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration, U.S. 
Department of Labor, Washington, DC 20210, telephone (202) 219-7901; or 
Susan Rees, Plan Benefits Security Division, Office of the Solicitor, 
U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, DC 20210, telephone (202) 219-
9141. These are not toll-free numbers.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 21, 1993, the Department 
published a request for information in the Federal Register (58 FR 
54444) to assist it in assessing the need for a regulation clarifying 
certain statutory requirements set forth in title I of ERISA and in the 
Code with regard to qualified domestic relations orders. In that 
notice, the Department invited all interested persons to submit written 
comments concerning the request for information on or before December 
20, 1993.
    The Department has received a number of requests from members of 
the public for additional time to prepare comments. In order to provide 
the public with an additional opportunity to submit comments, the 
Department believes that it is appropriate to reopen and extend the 
comment period. Accordingly, this notice reopens and extends the period 
during which comments on the request for information will be received 
through Friday, February 18, 1994.

Notice of Reopening and Extension of Comment Period

    Notice is hereby given that the period of time for submission of 
public comments in response to the request for information concerning 
qualified domestic relations orders, published in the Federal Register 
on October 21, 1993, is reopened and extended through February 18, 
1994.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 30th day of December, 1993.
Olena Berg,
Assistant Secretary for Pension and Welfare Benefits, U.S. Department 
of Labor.
[FR Doc. 94-639 Filed 1-11-94; 8:45 am]
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