Birth and adoption unemployment compensation,

[Federal Register: January 13, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 9)]

[Proposed Rules]

[Page 2080-2081]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

20 CFR Part 604

RIN 1205-AB21

Birth and Adoption Unemployment Compensation; Extension of Comment Period

AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; extension of comment period.

SUMMARY: This document extends by 15 days the period for filing comments regarding a notice of proposed

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rulemaking intended to implement the Birth and Adoption Unemployment Compensation program. This action is taken to permit additional comment from interested persons.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before February 2, 2000. ADDRESSES: Send written comments to Grace A. Kilbane, Director, Unemployment Insurance Service, Employment and Training Administration (ETA), U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room S- 4231, Washington, DC 20210, or by e-mail to the following address: commentonbaauc@doleta.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gerard Hildebrand, Unemployment Insurance Service, ETA, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Room S-4231, Washington, DC 20210. Telephone: (202) 219- 5200 (this is not a toll-free number); facsimile: (202) 219-8506.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Federal Register of December 3, 1999 (64 FR 67971), the Department of Labor published a notice of proposed rulemaking intended to add 20 CFR Part 604, which concerns the establishment of a Birth and Adoption Unemployment Compensation program. Interested persons were requested to submit comments on or before January 18, 2000.

The Department has received a number of requests for extensions of the comment period. The Department believes that it is reasonable to extend the comment period an additional 15 days for all interested persons. Therefore, the comment period for the notice of proposed rulemaking, adding 20 CFR Part 604 (Regulations for Birth and Adoption Unemployment Compensation), is extended to February 2, 2000.

Signed at Washington, DC, on January 10, 2000. Raymond L. Bramucci, Assistant Secretary of Labor.

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