[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 122 (Monday, June 25, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 33719]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-15828]


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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT


Proposed Collection; Comment Request for Review of an Existing 
Information Collection: Court Orders Affecting Retirement Benefits

AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Public 
Law 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of 
Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of 
Management and Budget a request for review of an existing information 
collection. The regulations describe how former spouses give us written 
notice of a court order requiring us to pay benefits to the former 
spouse. Specific information is needed before OPM can make court-
ordered benefit payments.
    Approximately 19,000 former spouses apply for benefits based on 
court orders annually. We estimate it takes approximately 30 minutes to 
collect the information. The annual burden is 9,500 hours.
    Comments are particularly invited on:

--Whether this collection of information is necessary for the proper 
performance of functions of OPM, and whether it will have practical 
utility;
--Whether our estimate of the public burden of this collection is 
accurate, and based on valid assumptions and methodology; and
--Ways in which we can minimize the burden of the collection of 
information on those who are to respond, through use of the appropriate 
technological collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.

    For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on 
(202) 606-8358, or E-mail to [email protected].

DATES: Comments on this proposal should be received within 60 calendar 
days from the date of this publication.

ADDRESSES: Send or deliver comments to--Ronald W. Melton, Chief, 
Operations Support Division, Retirement and Insurance Service, U.S. 
Office of Personnel Management, 1900 E Street, NW., Room 3349A, 
Washington, DC 20415-3450.

FOR INFORMATION REGARDING ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATION--CONTACT: Donna 
G. Lease, Team Leader, Forms Analysis and Design, Budget and 
Administrative Services Division, (202) 606-0623.

U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

Steven R. Cohen,
Acting Director.
[FR Doc. 01-15828 Filed 6-22-01; 8:45 am]
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