[Federal Register: June 5, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 108)]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary

 
Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans; 
Nominations for Vacancy of Unexpired Term of Employer Organization 
(Multiemployer Plan) Member

    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 multi employer plan); three representatives of employers (at least 
one of whom shall be representative of employers maintaining or 
contributing to multi employer 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, 
and recommendations of the Council to the Secretary will be included in 
the Secretary's annual report to the Congress on ERISA.
    Thomas McMahon, who had been serving as the employer organization 
(multiemployer plan) representative, recently passed away and 
nominations for the remaining two years of the term are being sought. 
The Department of Labor is committed to equal opportunity in the 
workplace and seeks a broad-based and diverse ERISA Advisory Council 
membership.
    Accordingly, notice is hereby given that any person or organization 
desiring to recommend one or more individuals for appointment to the 
ERISA Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans to 
represent the field specified in the preceding paragraph, may submit 
recommendations to Sharon Morrissey, Executive Secretary, ERISA 
Advisory Council, Frances Perkins Building, U.S. Department of Labor, 
200 Constitution Avenue, NW., suite N-5677, Washington, DC 20210. 
Recommendations must be delivered or mailed on or before June 28, 2002. 
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 30th day of May, 2002.
Ann L. Combs,
Assistant Secretary of Labor, Pension and Welfare Benefits 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-14031 Filed 6-4-02; 8:45 am]
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