[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 9 (Thursday, January 13, 2000)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 2080-2081]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-844]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
20 CFR Part 604
RIN 1205-AB21
Birth and Adoption Unemployment Compensation; Extension of
Comment Period
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: This document extends by 15 days the period for filing
comments regarding a notice of proposed
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rulemaking intended to implement the Birth and Adoption Unemployment
Compensation program. This action is taken to permit additional comment
from interested persons.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before February 2, 2000.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments to Grace A. Kilbane, Director,
Unemployment Insurance Service, Employment and Training Administration
(ETA), U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room S-
4231, Washington, DC 20210, or by e-mail to the following address:
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gerard Hildebrand, Unemployment
Insurance Service, ETA, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution
Avenue, N.W., Room S-4231, Washington, DC 20210. Telephone: (202) 219-
5200 (this is not a toll-free number); facsimile: (202) 219-8506.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Federal Register of December 3, 1999
(64 FR 67971), the Department of Labor published a notice of proposed
rulemaking intended to add 20 CFR Part 604, which concerns the
establishment of a Birth and Adoption Unemployment Compensation
program. Interested persons were requested to submit comments on or
before January 18, 2000.
The Department has received a number of requests for extensions of
the comment period. The Department believes that it is reasonable to
extend the comment period an additional 15 days for all interested
persons. Therefore, the comment period for the notice of proposed
rulemaking, adding 20 CFR Part 604 (Regulations for Birth and Adoption
Unemployment Compensation), is extended to February 2, 2000.
Signed at Washington, DC, on January 10, 2000.
Raymond L. Bramucci,
Assistant Secretary of Labor.
[FR Doc. 00-844 Filed 1-12-00; 8:45 am]
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