[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 136 (Friday, July 16, 1999)]
[Rules and Regulations]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-18404]



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Part V





Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation





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29 CFR Part 4044



Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans; Interest Assumptions for 
Valuing Benefits; Correction; Final Rule

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PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION

29 CFR Part 4044


Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans; Interest 
Assumptions for Valuing Benefits; Correction

AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

ACTION: Final rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: This document corrects a final rule document published by the 
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation on July 15, 1999 (at 64 FR 38114). 
The rule prescribes interest assumptions for valuing benefits under 
terminating single-employer plans.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 1, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Harold J. Ashner, Assistant General 
Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty 
Corporation, 1200 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005, 202-326-4024. 
(For TTY/TDD users, call the Federal relay service toll-free at 1-800-
877-8339 and ask to be connected to 202-326-4024.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PBGC's regulation on Allocation of 
Assets in Single-Employer Plans (29 CFR part 4044) prescribes actuarial 
assumptions for valuing plan benefits of terminating single-employer 
plans covered by title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security 
Act of 1974. Among the actuarial assumptions prescribed in part 4044 
are interest assumptions. On July 15, 1999, the PBGC published in the 
Federal Register (at 64 FR 38114) a final rule amending the regulation 
to adopt interest assumptions for plans with valuation dates in August 
1999. In that final rule document, the i1 rate was 
erroneously published as 4.00 percent rather than 4.25 percent.
    Accordingly, the final rule document is corrected as follows:
    1. In the preamble, the last two sentences in the second full 
paragraph on page 38115 are corrected to read as follows: ``For 
benefits to be paid as lump sums, the interest assumptions to be used 
by the PBGC will be 5.00 percent for the period during which a benefit 
is in pay status, 4.25 percent during the seven-year period directly 
preceding the benefit's placement in pay status, and 4.00 percent 
during any other years preceding the benefit's placement in pay status. 
The lump sum interest assumptions represent an increase (from those in 
effect for July 1999) of 0.50 percent for the period during which a 
benefit is in pay status and 0.25 percent for the seven years directly 
preceding that period; they are otherwise unchanged.''

Appendix B to Part 4044 [Corrected]

    2. On page 38115, the entry in Table II is corrected to read as 
follows:

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                   For plans with a valuation date     Immediate                                 Deferred annuities (percent)
    Rate set     ----------------------------------   annuity rate  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    On or after         Before         (percent)            i1               i2               i3               n1               n2
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                   *                  *                  *                  *                  *                  *                  *
           70           08-1-99          09-1-99             5.00             4.25             4.00             4.00                7                8
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    Issued in Washington, DC on this 15th day of July 1999.
David M. Strauss,
Exercutive Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
[FR Doc. 99-18404 Filed 7-15-99; 10:19 am]
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