[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 160 (Thursday, August 19, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 51484]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-19002]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary


Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans; 
Nominations for Vacancies

    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 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 carrying 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.
    The terms of five members of the Council expire on November 14, 
2004. The groups or fields they represent are as follows: (1) Employee 
organizations (representing an organization whose members participate 
in a multiemployer plan); (2) the insurance profession; (3) the 
accounting profession; (4) employers; and (5) the general public 
(representing persons actually receiving benefits from a private-sector 
plan). The Department of Labor is committed to equal opportunity in the 
workplace and seeks a broad-based and diverse ERISA Advisory Council.
    Accordingly, notice is hereby given that any person or organization 
desiring to recommend one or more individuals for appointment to the 
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 Debra Golding, ERISA Advisory 
Council, Frances Perkins Building, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Suite N-5656, Washington, DC 20210. 
Recommendations must be delivered or mailed on or before October 1, 
2004. Recommendations may be in the form of a letter, resolution or 
petition, signed by the person making the recommendation or, in the 
case of a recommendation by an organization, by an authorized 
representative of the organization.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 13th day of August 2004.
Ann L. Combs,
Assistant Secretary of Labor, Employee Benefits Security 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 04-19002 Filed 8-18-04; 8:45 am]
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