Instructions for Form 5310 - Introductory Material
                           
                         
                      
                      
                   
                  
This is archived information that pertains only to the 2006 Tax Year. If you
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                     Schedule Q (Form 5300), Elective Determination Requests, is no longer required to be filed. Questions regarding the requirement under
                        section 401(a)(4) that a plan be nondiscriminatory in the amount of contributions or benefits, including the general test,
                        and questions regarding the
                        minimum coverage requirements of section 410(b), including the average benefit test, are now included on Form 5310. File Schedule
                        Q (Form 5300) only
                        to broaden the scope of the determination letter to include other nondiscrimination requirements addressed by the questions
                        on Schedule Q (Form 5300).
                        
                     
                   
                  
                     
                     Form 5310 is open to public inspection if there are more than 25 plan participants. The total number of participants must
                        be shown on line 4e. See
                        the instructions for line 4e for a definition of participant.
                        
                     
                   
                  
                     
                        
                           
                              Disclosure Request by Taxpayers
                              
                            
                         
                         
                      
                     The Tax Reform Act of 1976 allows a taxpayer to request the IRS to disclose and discuss the return and/or return information
                        with any person(s) the
                        taxpayer designates in a written request. Use Form 2848, Power of Attorney and Declaration of Representative, for this purpose.
                        
                     
                   
                  
                     
                        
                           
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