[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 137 (Wednesday, July 19, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33165-33166]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-15111]


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PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION


Proposed Submission of Information Collection for OMB Review; 
Comment Request; Annual Reporting (Form 5500 Series)

AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

ACTION: Notice of request for extension of OMB approval without change.

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SUMMARY: The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is requesting 
that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) extend approval without 
change, under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, of its collection of 
information for Annual Reporting (OMB control number 1212-0057, expires 
July 31, 2017). This notice informs the public of PBGC's request and 
solicits public comment on the collection of information.

DATES: Comments must be submitted by August 18, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to the Office of Informatioon and 
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Attention: Desk 
Officer for Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, via electronic mail 
at [email protected] or by fax to (202) 395-6974. A copy of the 
request will be posted at https://www.pbgc.gov/prac/pg/other/guidance/paperwork-notices. It may also be obtained without charge by writing to 
the Disclosure Division of the Office of the General Counsel, Pension 
Benefit Guaranty Corporation, 1200 K Street NW., Washington, DC 20005, 
or calling 202-326-4040 during normal business hours. TTY and TDD users 
may call the Federal relay service toll-free at 1 800-877-8339 and ask 
to be connected to 202-326-4040.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jo Amato Burns 
([email protected]), Regulatory Affairs Group, Office of the 
General Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, 1200 K Street 
NW., Washington, DC 20005, 202-326-4400, extension 3072, or Deborah 
Chase Murphy ([email protected]), Assistant General Counsel, same 
address and phone number, extension 3451. TTY and TDD users may call 
the Federal relay service toll-free at 800-877-8339

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and ask to be connected to 202-326-4400, extension 3072 or extension 
3451.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Employee Retirement Income Security Act 
of 1974 (ERISA) contains three separate sets of provisions--in Title I 
(Labor provisions), Title II (Internal Revenue Code provisions), and 
Title IV (PBGC provisions)--requiring administrators of employee 
pension and welfare benefit plans (collectively referred to as employee 
benefit plans) to file returns or reports annually with the federal 
government.
    PBGC, the Department of Labor (DOL), and the Internal Revenue 
Service (IRS) work together to produce the Form 5500 Annual Return/
Report for Employee Benefit Plan and Form 5500-SF Short Form Annual 
Return/Report for Small Employee Benefit Plan (Form 5500 Series), 
through which the regulated public can satisfy the combined reporting/
filing requirements applicable to employee benefit plans.
    The collection of information has been approved by OMB under 
control number 1212-0057 through July 31, 2017. PBGC is requesting that 
OMB extend its approval for another three years without change. An 
agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to 
respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently 
valid OMB control number.
    On May 1, 2017 (82 FR 20396), PBGC published a notice informing the 
public that it intended to request OMB approval and soliciting public 
comment. Only one comment was received and it supported the information 
collection.
    Estimates are that PBGC will receive approximately 23,700 filings 
per year under this collection of information. PBGC further estimates 
that the total annual burden of this collection of information will be 
1,200 hours and $1,655,000.

    Issued in Washington, DC.
Deborah Chase Murphy,
Assistant General Counsel for Regulatory Affairs, Pension Benefit 
Guaranty Corporation.
[FR Doc. 2017-15111 Filed 7-18-17; 8:45 am]
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