General Notice Pursuant to the WRERA Regarding the Election to Freeze Zone Status

This document is about a notice from the Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 9 Pension Plan informing participants and beneficiaries that the plan has elected to freeze its "zone status" for the 2009-2010 plan year under the Worker, Retiree and Employer Recovery Act (WRERA) of 2008. The notice explains that due to significant market losses in 2008, the plan has fallen into "Critical" status, but the WRERA allows the plan to defer taking corrective action by freezing the prior year's "Endangered" status for one year.