Terms Used In CFR > Title 33 > Chapter I > Subchapter G - Regattas and Marine Parades

• Account balance: means the sum of the dollar balances for each source of contributions in each TSP Fund for an individual account. See 5 CFR 1690.1
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Board: means the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board established under 5 U. See 5 CFR 1690.1
• BRS: means the blended retirement system as established by the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2016, Public Law 114-92, secs. See 5 CFR 1690.1
• CSRS: means the Civil Service Retirement System established by 5 U. See 5 CFR 1690.1
• Employing agency: means the organization (or the payroll office that services the organization) that employs an individual eligible to contribute to the TSP and that has authority to make personnel compensation decisions for the individual. See 5 CFR 1690.1
• Executive Director: means the Executive Director of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board under 5 U. See 5 CFR 1690.1
• FERS: means the Federal Employees' Retirement System established by 5 U. See 5 CFR 1690.1
• Former spouse: means (as defined at 5 U. See 5 CFR 1690.1
• individual account: means the account established for a participant in the Thrift Savings Plan under 5 U. See 5 CFR 1690.1
• Label: A display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container (not including package liners) of any article. See 9 CFR 301.2
• Meat: (1) The part of the muscle of any cattle, sheep, swine, or goats which is skeletal or which is found in the tongue, diaphragm, heart, or esophagus, with or without the accompanying and overlying fat, and the portions of bone (in bone-in product such as T-bone or porterhouse steak), skin, sinew, nerve, and blood vessels which normally accompany the muscle tissue and that are not separated from it in the process of dressing. See 9 CFR 301.2
• Military service: means service that is creditable under 37 U. See 5 CFR 1603.1
• participant: means any person with an account (other than a beneficiary participant account) in the Thrift Savings Plan or who would have an account (other than a beneficiary account) but for an employing agency error. See 5 CFR 1690.1
• Plan: means the Thrift Savings Plan established under subchapters III and VII of the Federal Employees' Retirement System Act of 1986, 5 U. See 5 CFR 1690.1
• Prepared: Slaughtered, canned, salted, rendered, boned, cut up, or otherwise manufactured or processed. See 9 CFR 301.2
• Product: Any carcass, meat, meat byproduct, or meat food product, capable of use as human food. See 9 CFR 301.2
• Ready Reserve: means those members of the uniformed services described at 10 U. See 5 CFR 1690.1
• Spouse: means the person to whom a TSP participant is married on the date he or she signs a form on which the TSP requests spousal information. See 5 CFR 1690.1
• ThriftLine: means the automated voice response system by which TSP participants may, among other things, access their accounts by telephone. See 5 CFR 1690.1
• TSP record keeper: means the entities the Board engages to perform record keeping services for the Thrift Savings Plan. See 5 CFR 1690.1
• Uniformed services: means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps. See 5 CFR 1690.1
• Uniformed services: means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health Service, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as well as members of the Ready Reserve including the National Guard. See 5 CFR 1603.1
• Vested: means those amounts in an individual account which are nonforfeitable. See 5 CFR 1603.1
• Year of service: means one full calendar year of service. See 5 CFR 1603.1