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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 248 / Thursday, December 30, 2021 / Rules and Regulations court explained that absent circumstances involving dominant control over the trusts use of union members funds or union members funds constituting the trusts predominant revenues, a report on the trusts financial condition and operations would not reflect on the related unions financial condition and operations. Id. at 390. For this reason, while acknowledging that there are circumstances under which the Secretary may require a report, the court disapproved of a broader application of the rule to require reports by any labor organization simply because the labor organization satisfied a reporting threshold a labor organization with annual receipts of at least $250,000 that contributes at least $10,000 to a section 3l trust with annual receipts of at least $250,000. Id.
In light of the decision by the D.C.
Circuit, the Department issued a revised Form T1 final rule on September 29, 2006. 71 FR 57716 Sept. 29, 2006
2006 Form T1 rule. Following an ensuing lawsuit, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia vacated this rule due to a failure to provide a new notice and comment period. AFLCIO v.
Chao, 496 F. Supp. 2d 76 D.D.C. 2007.
The district court did not engage in a substantive review of the 2006 rule, but the court noted that the AFLCIO
demonstrated that the absence of a fresh comment period . . . constituted prejudicial error and that the AFLCIO
objected with reasonable specificity to warrant relief vacating the rule. Id. at 9092.
The Department issued a proposed rule for a revised Form T1 on March 4, 2008. 73 FR 11754 Mar. 4, 2008.
After notice and comment, the 2008
Form T1 final rule was issued on October 2, 2008. 73 FR 57412. The 2008
Form T1 rule took effect on January 1, 2009. Under that rule, Form T1 reports would have been filed no earlier than March 31, 2010, for fiscal years that began no earlier than January 1, 2009.
Following dicta in AFLCIO v. Chao, the 2008 Form T1 rule stated that labor organizations with total annual receipts of $250,000 or more must file a Form T
1 for those section 3l trusts in which the labor organization, either alone or in combination with other labor organizations, had management control or financial dominance. 73 FR at 57412.
For purposes of the rule, a labor organization had management control if the labor organization alone, or in combination with other labor organizations, selected or appointed the majority of the members of the trusts governing board. Further, for purposes of the rule, a labor organization had
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financial dominance if the labor organization alone, or in combination with other labor organizations, contributed more than 50 percent of the trusts receipts during the annual reporting period. Significantly, the rule treated contributions made to a trust by an employer pursuant to CBA as constituting contributions by the labor organization that was party to the agreement.
Additionally, the 2008 Form T1 rule provided exemptions to the Form T1
filing requirements. No Form T1 was required for a trust: 1 Established as a political action committee PAC fund if publicly available reports on the PAC
fund were filed with Federal or state agencies; 2 established as a political organization for which reports were filed with the IRS under section 527 of the IRS code; 3 required to file a Form 5500 under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ERISA; or 4 constituting a federal employee health benefit plan that was subject to the provisions of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act FEHBA, 5 U.S.C.
8901 et seq. Similarly, the rule clarified that no Form T1 was required for any trust that met the statutory definition of a labor organization, 29 U.S.C. 402i, and filed a Form LM2, Form LM3, or Form LM4, constituted a subsidiary organization i.e., a separate organization that is wholly owned, controlled, and financed by a single labor organization, or was an entity that the LMRDA exempts from reporting. Id.
In the Spring 2009 and Fall 2009
Regulatory Agendas, the Department notified the public of its intent to initiate rulemaking proposing to rescind the Form T1 and to require reporting of wholly owned, wholly controlled, and wholly financed subsidiary organizations on their Form LM2 or LM3 reports. See http
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgenda ViewRule?pubId=200904&RIN=1215AB75 and http www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=
200904&RIN=1215-AB75.
Due to the proposed rescission, on December 3, 2009, the Department issued a notice of proposed extension of filing due date to delay for one calendar year the filing due dates for Form T1
reports required to be filed during calendar year 2010. 74 FR 63335. On December 30, 2009, following comment, the Department published a rule extending for one year the filing due date of all Form T1 reports required to be filed during calendar year 2010. 74
FR 69023.
Subsequently, on February 2, 2010, the Department published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking NPRM

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proposing to rescind the Form T1. 75
FR 5456. After notice and comment, the Department published the final rule on December 1, 2010. In its rescission, the Department stated that it considered the reporting required under the rule to be overly broad and not necessary to prevent circumvention or evasion of Title II reporting requirements. The Department concluded that the scope of the 2008 Form T1 rule was overbroad because it covered many trusts, such as those funded by employer contributions, without an adequate showing that reporting for such trusts is necessary to prevent the circumvention or evasion of the Title II reporting requirements. See 75 FR 74936.
In the Spring and Fall Regulatory Agendas for 2017 and 2018, the Department notified the public of its intent to initiate rulemaking reinstating the Form T1 Trust Annual Report. See https www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
eAgendaViewRule?pubId=201704&
RIN=1245-AA09, https
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
eAgendaViewRule?pubId=201710&
RIN=1245-AA09, https
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgenda ViewRule?pubId=201804&RIN=1245AA09, and https www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=
201810&RIN=1245-AA09. On May 30, 2019 the Department proposed to establish a Form T1 Trust Annual Report to capture financial information pertinent to trusts in which a labor organization is interested section 3l trusts. See 84 FR 25130. After notice and comment, the Department published the 2020 Form T1 final rule on March 6, 2020. 85 FR 13414.
Under the 2020 rule, and similar to the 2008 rule, the Department requires a labor organization with total annual receipts of $250,000 or more and, which therefore is obligated to file a Form LM2 Labor Organization Annual Report to file a Form T1, under certain circumstances, for each trust of the type defined by section 3l of the LMRDA, 29 U.S.C. 402l defining trust in which a labor organization is interested. 85 FR 13417. Such labor organizations must file where the labor organization during the reporting period, either alone or in combination with other labor organizations, 1
selects or appoints the majority of the members of the trusts governing board or 2 contributes more than 50 percent of the trusts receipts. Id. When applying this financial or managerial dominance test, contributions made pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement CBA shall be considered the labor organizations contributions. Id. In its final rule, the Department stated that
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