[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 50 (Thursday, March 14, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11517-11518]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-6164]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary


Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans; 
Nominations for Vacancy of Un-expired Term of Investment Counseling 
Member

    Section 512 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 
(ERISA), 88 Stat. 895, 20 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

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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.
    The un-expired term of one member of the Council who has been 
serving as the investment-counseling representative is now open to 
nominations as the member has resigned from the Advisory Council. There 
are two years remaining of the un-expired term. 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 April 10, 
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 11th day of March 2002.
Ann L. Combs,
Assistant Secretary of Labor Pension and Welfare Benefits 
Administration
[FR Doc. 02-6164 Filed 3-13-02; 8:45 am]
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