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transactions, as well as, certain banks,
broker-dealers, and domestic affiliates
thereof. The ICR was approved by OMB
under OMB Control Number 1210–0111
and is scheduled to expire on June 30,
2014.
Agency: Employee Benefits Security
Administration, Department of Labor.
Title: Delinquent Filer Voluntary
Compliance Program.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection of
information.
OMB Number: 1210–0089.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profits.
Respondents: 12,322.
Responses: 12,322.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 616.
Estimated Total Burden Cost
(Operating and Maintenance): $676,712.
Description: The Secretary of Labor
has the authority, under section
502(c)(2) of ERISA, to assess civil
penalties of up to $1,000 a day against
plan administrators who fail or refuse to
file complete and timely annual reports
(Form 5500 Series Annual Return/
Reports) as required under section
101(b)(4) of ERISA-related regulations.
Pursuant to 29 CFR 2560.502c–2 and
2570.60 et seq., EBSA has maintained a
program for the assessment of civil
penalties for noncompliance with the
annual reporting requirements. Under
this program, plan administrators filing
annual reports after the date on which
the report was required to be filed may
be assessed $50 per day for each day an
annual report is filed after the date on
which the annual report(s) was required
to be filed, without regard to any
extensions for filing.
Plan administrators who fail to file an
annual report may be assessed a penalty
of $300 per day, up to $30,000 per year,
until a complete annual report is filed.
Penalties are applicable to each annual
report required to be filed under Title I
of ERISA. The Department may, in its
discretion, waive all or part of a civil
penalty assessed under section 502(c)(2)
upon a showing by the administrator
that there was reasonable cause for the
failure to file a complete and timely
annual report.
The Department has determined that
the possible assessment of these civil
penalties may deter certain delinquent
filers from voluntarily complying with
the annual reporting requirements
under Title I of ERISA. In an effort to
encourage annual reporting compliance,
therefore, the Department implemented
the Delinquent Filer Voluntary
Compliance (DFVC) Program (the
Program) on April 27, 1995 (60 FR
20873). Under the Program,

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administrators otherwise subject to the
assessment of higher civil penalties are
permitted to pay reduced civil penalties
for voluntarily complying with the
annual reporting requirements under
Title I of ERISA.
This ICR covers the requirement of
providing data necessary to identify the
plan along with the penalty payment.
This data is the means by which each
penalty payment is associated with the
appropriate plan. With respect to most
pension plans and welfare plans, the
requirement is satisfied by sending a
photocopy of the delinquent Form 5500
annual report that has been filed, along
with the penalty payment.
Under current regulations,
apprenticeship and training plans may
be exempted from the reporting and
disclosure requirements of Part 1 of
Title I, and certain pension plans
maintained for highly compensated
employees, commonly called ‘‘top hat’’
plans, may comply with these reporting
and disclosure requirements by using an
alternate method by filing a one-time
identifying statement with the
Department. The DFVC Program
provides that apprenticeship and
training plans and top hat plans may, in
lieu of filing any past due annual
reports and paying otherwise applicable
civil penalties, complete and file
specific portions of a Form 5500, file the
identifying statements that were
required to be filed, and pay a one-time
penalty. The ICR was approved by OMB
under OMB Control Number 1210–0089
and is scheduled to expire on July 31,
2014.
II. Focus of Comments
The Department is particularly
interested in comments that:
• Evaluate whether the collections of
information are necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
• Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the collections of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., by permitting electronic
submissions of responses.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the ICRs for OMB approval

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of the extension of the information
collection; they will also become a
matter of public record.
Dated: November 15, 2013.
Joseph S. Piacentini,
Director, Office of Policy and Research,
Employee Benefits Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 2013–28568 Filed 11–27–13; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Mine Safety and Health Administration
[OMB Control No. 1219–0143]

Proposed Information Collection;
Qualification/Certification Program
Request for MSHA Individual
Identification Number (MIIN)
Mine Safety and Health
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
AGENCY:

The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a pre-clearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and continuing collections of
information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44
U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A). This program
helps to assure that requested data can
be provided in the desired format,
reporting burden (time and financial
resources) is minimized, collection
instruments are clearly understood, and
the impact of collection requirements on
respondents can be properly assessed.
Currently, the Mine Safety and Health
Administration (MSHA) is soliciting
comments concerning the extension of
the information collection for updating
Qualification/Certification Program
Request for MSHA Individual
Identification Number (MIIN).
DATES: All comments must be
postmarked or received by midnight
Eastern Standard Time on January 28,
2014.
ADDRESSES: Comments concerning the
information collection requirements of
this notice may be sent by any of the
methods listed below.
• Federal E-Rulemaking Portal:
http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
on-line instructions for submitting
comments for docket number [MSHA–
2013–0030].
• Regular Mail: Send comments to
MSHA, Office of Standards,
Regulations, and Variances, 1100
Wilson Boulevard, Room 2350,
Arlington, VA 22209–3939.
SUMMARY:

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• Hand Delivery: MSHA, 1100 Wilson
Boulevard, Room 2176, Arlington, VA.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sheila McConnell, Deputy Director,
Office of Standards, Regulations, and
Variances, MSHA, at
McConnell.Sheila.A@dol.gov (email);
202–693–9440 (voice); or 202–693–9441
(facsimile).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
Section 101(a) of the Federal Mine
Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine
Act) requires the Secretary to develop,
promulgate, and revise as may be
appropriate, improved mandatory
health or safety standards for the
protection of life and prevention of
injuries in coal or other mines. Under
section 103(a)(2), authorized
representatives of the Secretary of Labor
or Secretary of Health and Human
Services must make frequent
inspections and investigations in coal or
other mines each year for the purpose of
gathering information with respect to
mandatory health or safety standards.
The Mine Safety and Health
Administration (MSHA) issues
certifications, qualifications and
approvals to the nation’s miners to
conduct specific work within the mines.
Miners requiring qualification or
certification from MSHA will register
for an ‘‘MSHA Individual Identification
Number’’ (MIIN). This unique number is
used in place of individual Social
Security numbers (SSNs) for all MSHA
collections. The MIIN identifier fulfills
Executive Order 13402, Strengthening
Federal Efforts Against Identity Theft,
which requires Federal agencies to
better secure government held data.

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II. Desired Focus of Comments
MSHA is particularly interested in
comments that:
• Evaluate whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information has practical utility;
• Evaluate the accuracy of the
MSHA’s estimate of the burden of the
collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,

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e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
OMB clearance requests are available
on MSHA’s Web site at http://
www.msha.gov under ‘‘Federal Register
Documents’’ on the right side of the
screen by selecting ‘‘New and Existing
Information Collections and Supporting
Statements’’. The document will be
available on MSHA’s Web site for 60
days after the publication date of this
notice, and on http://
www.regulations.gov. Because
comments will not be edited to remove
any identifying or contact information,
MSHA cautions the commenter against
including any information in the
submission that should not be publicly
disclosed.
The public may also examine publicly
available documents at MSHA, Office of
Standards, Regulations, and Variances,
1100 Wilson Boulevard, Room 2350,
Arlington VA.
Questions about the information
collection requirements may be directed
to the person listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION section of this notice.
III. Current Actions
This request for collection of
information contains provisions for the
extension of the Information Collection
Request Submitted for Public Comment
and Recommendations; Qualification/
Certification Program Request for MSHA
Individual Identification Number
(MIIN). MSHA does not intend to
publish the results from this
information collection and will display
the expiration date on the instrument.
There are no certification exceptions
identified and this information
collection and the collection of this
information does not employ statistical
methods.
Type of Review: Extension.
Agency: Mine Safety and Health
Administration.
Title: Qualification/Certification
Program Request for MSHA Individual
Identification Number (MIIN).
OMB Number: 1219–0143.
Affected Public: Business of other forprofit.
Total Number of Respondents: 16,000.
Frequency: On occasion.
Total Number of Responses: 16,000.
Total Burden Hours: 1,333 hours.
Total Annual Respondent or
Recordkeeper Cost Burden: $752.
MSHA Forms: MSHA Form 5000–46,
MSHA Individual Identification
Number Request (MIIN).
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they will
also become a matter of public record.

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Dated: November 25, 2013.
George F. Triebsch,
Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013–28634 Filed 11–27–13; 8:45 am]
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS
ADMINISTRATION
[NARA–2014–005]

Advisory Committee on the Records of
Congress; Meeting
National Archives and Records
Administration.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, the
National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) announces a
meeting of the Advisory Committee on
the Records of Congress. The committee
advises NARA on the full range of
programs, policies, and plans for the
Center for Legislative Archives in the
Office of Legislative Archives,
Presidential Libraries, and Museum
Services (LPM).
DATES: The meeting will be held on
December 9, 2013, from 10 a.m. to 11:30
a.m.
ADDRESSES: National Archives, 700
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Room 105
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

Agenda
(1) Chair’s Opening Remarks—Clerk of
the U.S. House of Representatives
(2) Recognition of Co-chair—Secretary
of the U.S. Senate
(3) Recognition of the Archivist of the
United States
(4) Approval of the minutes of the last
meeting
(5) Senate Archivist’s report—Karen
Paul
(6) House Archivist’s report—Robin
Reeder
(7) Center Update—Richard Hunt
(8) Other current issues and new
business
The meeting is open to the public.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Center for Legislative Archives (202)
357–5350, Sharon Fitzpatrick for NARA
location: sharon.fitzpatrick@nara.gov.
Dated: November 25, 2013.
Patrice Murray,
Acting Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013–28691 Filed 11–27–13; 8:45 am]
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