[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 11 (Friday, January 16, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 3101]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-961]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employee Benefits Security Administration

[Exemption Application No. D-11467]


Withdrawal of Notice of Proposed Exemption Involving the Merritts 
Antiques, Inc. Employees Pension Plan (Plan); Located in Douglasville, 
PA

    In the Federal Register dated September 3, 2008 (73 FR 51525), the 
Department of Labor (the Department) published a notice of proposed 
exemption (the Notice) from the prohibited transaction restrictions of 
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and from certain 
taxes imposed by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. The Notice, for 
which relief has been requested, concerned the sale of real property 
from the Plan (the Property) to its sponsoring employer Merritts 
Antiques, Inc. (the Applicant). By letter dated August 29, 2008, the 
Applicant informed the Department that it wished to withdraw the Notice 
because the Property had been sold to a third party buyer.
    Accordingly, the Notice is hereby withdrawn.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 13th day of January, 2009.
Ivan L. Strasfeld,
Director of Exemption Determinations, Employee Benefits Security 
Administration, U.S. Department of Labor.
 [FR Doc. E9-961 Filed 1-15-09; 8:45 am]
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