[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR1640.1]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
         CHAPTER VI--FEDERAL RETIREMENT THRIFT INVESTMENT BOARD
 
PART 1640--PERIODIC PARTICIPANT STATEMENTS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1640.1  Definitions.

    As used in this Subpart:
    Board means the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, 
established pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 8472;
    C Fund means the Common Stock Index Investment Fund established 
under 5 U.S.C. 8438(b)(1)(C);
    Executive Director means the Executive Director of the Board 
described in 5 U.S.C. 8474;
    F Fund means the Fixed Income Investment Fund established under 5 
U.S.C. 8438(b)(1)(B);
    G Fund means the Government Securities Investment Fund established 
under 5 U.S.C. 8438(b)(1)(A);
    Individual account means the account established for a participant 
in the Thrift Savings Plan under 5 U.S.C. 8439(a);
    Investment fund means either the G Fund, the F Fund, or the C Fund, 
or any other Thrift Savings Plan investment fund created after June 24, 
1997;
    Open season means the period during which participants may choose to 
begin making contributions to the Thrift Savings Plan, to change or 
discontinue the amount they are currently contributing to the Thrift 
Savings Plan (without losing the right to recommence contributions the 
next open season), or to allocate prospective contributions to the 
Thrift Savings Plan among the investment funds;
    Participant means any person with an individual account in the 
Thrift Savings Plan, or who would have an account in the Thrift Savings 
Plan but for an employing agency error;
    Record keeper means the entity that is engaged by the Board to 
perform record keeping services for the Thrift Savings Plan. As of June 
24, 1997, the record keeper is the National Finance Center, Office of 
the Chief Financial Officer, United States Department of Agriculture, 
located in New Orleans, Louisiana.
    Source of contributions means either agency automatic (1%) 
contributions under 5 U.S.C. 8432(c)(1) or 8432(c)(3), agency matching 
contributions under 5 U.S.C. 8432(c)(2), or employee contributions under 
5 U.S.C. 8351, or 8440(a) through 8440d;
    Thrift Savings Plan means the Federal Retirement Thrift Savings Plan 
established by the Federal Employees' Retirement System Act of 1986 
(FERSA), Public Law 99-335, 100 Stat. 514, which has been codified, as 
amended, largely at 5 U.S.C. 8401-8479.

[52 FR 20371, June 1, 1987, as amended at 62 FR 34154, June 24, 1997]