Qualified Domestic Relations Orders

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration

29 CFR Part 2530

Qualified Domestic Relations Orders

AGENCY: Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Reopening and extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: This document reopens and extends the comment period regarding

a request for information by the Department of Labor (the Department)

to assist it in assessing the need for a regulation clarifying certain

statutory requirements set forth in title I of the Employee Retirement

Income Security Act (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code (the Code)

with regard to qualified domestic relations orders (QDROs). The request

for information was published in the Federal Register on October 21,

1993 (58 FR 54444).

The Department has received a number of requests from members of

the public for additional time to prepare comments.

DATES: The comment period is reopened and extended through February 18,

1994.

ADDRESSES: Comments (preferably at least six copies) should be

addressed to the Office of Regulations and Interpretations, Pension and

Welfare Benefits Administration, room N-5669, U.S. Department of Labor,

Washington, DC 20210. Attention: QDRO RFI. All comments received will

be available for public inspection at the Public Disclosure Room,

Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration, U.S. Department of Labor,

room N-5507, 200 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20210.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Deborah Hobbs, Office of Regulations

and Interpretations, Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration, U.S.

Department of Labor, Washington, DC 20210, telephone (202) 219-7901; or

Susan Rees, Plan Benefits Security Division, Office of the Solicitor,

U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, DC 20210, telephone (202) 219-

9141. These are not toll-free numbers.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 21, 1993, the Department

published a request for information in the Federal Register (58 FR

54444) to assist it in assessing the need for a regulation clarifying

certain statutory requirements set forth in title I of ERISA and in the

Code with regard to qualified domestic relations orders. In that

notice, the Department invited all interested persons to submit written

comments concerning the request for information on or before December

20, 1993.

The Department has received a number of requests from members of

the public for additional time to prepare comments. In order to provide

the public with an additional opportunity to submit comments, the

Department believes that it is appropriate to reopen and extend the

comment period. Accordingly, this notice reopens and extends the period

during which comments on the request for information will be received

through Friday, February 18, 1994.

Notice of Reopening and Extension of Comment Period

Notice is hereby given that the period of time for submission of

public comments in response to the request for information concerning

qualified domestic relations orders, published in the Federal Register

on October 21, 1993, is reopened and extended through February 18,

1994.

Signed at Washington, DC, this 30th day of December, 1993.

Olena Berg,

Assistant Secretary for Pension and Welfare Benefits, U.S. Department

of Labor.

[FR Doc. 94-639 Filed 1-11-94; 8:45 am]

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