[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 183 (Tuesday, September 22, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50586-50587]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-25258]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary


Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans; 
Reopening and Extending the Time for Receipt of Nominations for 
Vacancies Until October 30, 1998

    Section 512 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 
(ERISA), 88 Stat. 895, 29 U.S.C. 1142, provides for the establishment 
of an ``Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit 
Plans'' (the Council), which is to consist of 15 members to be 
appointed by the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) as follows: Three 
representatives of employee organizations (at least one of whom shall 
be representative of an organization whose members are participants in 
a multiemployer plan); three representatives of employers (at least one 
of whom shall be

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representative of employers maintaining or contributing to 
multiemployer plans); one representative each from the fields of 
insurance, corporate trust, actuarial counseling, investment 
counseling, investment management and accounting; and three 
representatives from the general public (one of whom shall be a person 
representing those receiving benefits from a pension plan). No more 
than eight members of the Council shall be members of the same 
political party.
    Members shall be persons qualified to appraise the programs 
instituted under ERISA. Appointments are for terms of three years. The 
prescribed duties of the Council are to advise the Secretary with 
respect to the carry out of his or her functions under ERISA, and to 
submit to the Secretary, or his or her designee, recommendations with 
respect thereto. The Council will meet at least four times each year, 
and recommendations of the Council to the Secretary will be included in 
the Secretary's annual report to the Congress on ERISA.
    The terms of five members of the Council expire on November 14, 
1998. The groups or fields they represented are as follows: employee 
organizations (multiemployer plans), accounting field, insurance field, 
employers and the general public.
    Accordingly, notice is hereby given that any person or organization 
desiring to recommend one or more individuals for appointment to the 
ERISA Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans to 
represent any of the groups or fields specified in the preceding 
paragraph, may submit recommendations to Sharon Morrissey, Executive 
Secretary, ERISA Advisory Council, Frances Perkins Building, U.S. 
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Suite N-5677, 
Washington, DC 20210. This notice is being issued to reopen and further 
extend the period in which recommendations can be delivered or mailed. 
The new date for receipt of recommendations is on or before October 30, 
1998. Nominations for a particular category of membership should come 
from organizations on individuals within the category. A summary of the 
candidate's qualifications should be included with the nomination.

    Signed at Washington, DC. This 16th day of September, 1998.
Meredith Miller,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor Pension and Welfare Benefits 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 98-25258 Filed 9-21-98; 8:45 am]
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