[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 67 (Tuesday, April 8, 1997)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 17004]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-8933]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Internal Revenue Service

26 CFR Part 54

[TD 8716]
RIN 1545-AV05

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration

29 CFR Part 2590

RIN 1210-AA54


Interim Rules for Health Insurance Portability for Group Health 
Plans

AGENCIES: Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury; Pension 
and Welfare Benefits Administration, Department of Labor.

ACTION: Interim rules: Correction.

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SUMMARY: This document contains a correction regarding the preamble to 
the interim rules governing access, portability and renewability 
requirements for group health plans and issuers of health insurance 
coverage offered in connection with a group health plan that were 
published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register. A sentence 
in the preamble to the interim rules was inadvertently dropped. This 
document adds this sentence.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 1, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Connor, Office of Regulations and 
Interpretations, Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration, 
Department of Labor, at 202-219-4377; Diane Pedulla, Plan Benefits 
Security Division, Office of the Solicitor, Department of Labor, at 
202-219-4377; or Russ Weinheimer, Internal Revenue Service, at 202-622-
4695. These are not toll-free numbers.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The last sentence of the first paragraph of 
the preamble to the interim rules entitled section ``M. Paperwork 
Reduction Act--Department of Labor and Department of the Treasury'' is 
inadvertently missing. This document adds this sentence to the preamble 
to the interim rules. The sentence reads ``An agency may not conduct or 
sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of 
information unless it displays a valid control number assigned by the 
Office of Management and Budget''.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 3rd day of April, 1997.
Olena Berg,
Assistant Secretary, Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration, U.S. 
Department of Labor.
Dale D. Goode,
Federal Register Liaison, Assistant Chief Counsel (Corporate), U.S. 
Department of the Treasury.
[FR Doc. 97-8933 Filed 4-3-97; 12:49 pm]
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