87 FR 66 pgs. 19932-19933 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Announcement of Board Approval Under Delegated Authority and Submission to OMB
Type: NOTICEVolume: 87Number: 66Pages: 19932 - 19933
Pages: 19932, 19933FR document: [FR Doc. 2022-07226 Filed 4-5-22; 8:45 am]
Agency: Federal Reserve System
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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Agency Information Collection Activities: Announcement of Board Approval Under Delegated Authority and Submission to OMB
AGENCY:
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
SUMMARY:
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) is adopting a proposal to extend for three years, without revision, the Recordkeeping Requirements of Regulation H and Regulation K Associated with the Procedures for Monitoring Bank Secrecy Act Compliance (FR K; OMB No. 7100-0310).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Federal Reserve Board Clearance Officer-Nuha Elmaghrabi-Office of the Chief Data Officer, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC 20551, (202) 452-3829.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Desk Officer for the Federal Reserve Board, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20503, or by fax to (202) 395-6974.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
On June 15, 1984, OMB delegated to the Board authority under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) to approve and assign OMB control numbers to collections of information conducted or sponsored by the Board. Board-approved collections of information are incorporated into the official OMB inventory of currently approved collections of information. The OMB inventory, as well as copies of the PRA Submission, supporting statements, and approved collection of information instrument(s) are available at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. These documents are also available on the Federal Reserve Board's public website at https://www.federalreserve.gov/apps/reportforms/review.aspx or may be requested from the agency clearance officer, whose name appears above.
Final Approval Under OMB Delegated Authority of the Extension for Three Years, Without Revision, of the Following Information Collection
Report title: Recordkeeping Requirements of Regulation H and Regulation K Associated with the Procedures for Monitoring Bank Secrecy Act Compliance.
Agency form number: FR K.
OMB control number: 7100-0310.
Frequency: Annual.
Respondents: State member banks; Edge Act and agreement corporations; and U.S. branches, agencies, and representative offices of foreign banks supervised by the Board, except for a federal branch or a federal agency or a state branch that is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
Estimated number of respondents: Establish compliance program-1; Maintenance of compliance program-906.
Estimated average hours per response: Establish compliance program-16; Maintenance of compliance program-4.
[top] Estimated annual burden hours: Establish compliance program-16; Maintenance of compliance program-3,624.
General description of report: Section 208.63 of the Board's Regulation H-Membership of State Banking Institutions in the Federal Reserve System (12 CFR part 208) requires state member banks to establish and maintain in writing procedures reasonably designed to ensure and monitor compliance with the provisions of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)? 1 and its implementing regulations. Sections 211.5(m)(1) and 211.24(j)(1) of the Board's Regulation K-International Banking Operations (12 CFR part 211) impose those same requirements on Edge Act and agreement corporations and, except for a federal branch or a federal agency? 2 or a state branch that is insured by the FDIC, the U.S. branches, agencies, and representative offices of foreign banks supervised by the Board.
Footnotes:
1 ?See 31 U.S.C. 5311 et seq.
2 ?The terms "federal agency" and "federal branch" have the same meanings as in section 1 of the International Banking Act of 1978 (12 U.S.C. 3101). See 12 CFR 211.21.
Legal authorization and confidentiality: The FR K is authorized pursuant to section 8(s) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA), which requires the federal banking agencies, including the Board, to (1) prescribe regulations requiring the institutions they regulate to establish and maintain procedures reasonably designed to assure and monitor compliance with the BSA and (2) to review such procedures during the course of their examinations (12 U.S.C. 1818(s)). 3 The FR K is mandatory.
Footnotes:
3 ?Section 8(s) of the FDIA authorizes the Board to prescribe regulations covering the entities required to comply with section 208.63 of the Board's Regulation H (12 CFR 208.63) and sections 211.5(m)(1) and 211.24(j)(1) of the Board's Regulation K (12 CFR 211.5(m)(1) and 12 CFR 211.24(j)(1)). See 12 U.S.C. 1813(c)(3), 1818(b)(3), and 1818(b)(4).
Because the records required by the FR K will be retained at banking organizations, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) would only be implicated if the Board's examiners obtained a copy of the records as part of the examination or supervision of a banking institution. In that case, the records may be exempt from disclosure under exemption 8 of the FOIA, which protects examination materials from disclosure (5 U.S.C. 552(b)(8)). To the extent that information retained in response to the FR K constitutes nonpublic commercial or financial information, which is both customarily and actually treated as private by the respondent, it may also be kept confidential under exemption 4 of the FOIA (5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4)). Exemption 4 protects "trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person [that is] privileged or confidential."
Current actions: On December 10, 2021, the Board published a notice in the Federal Register (86 FR 70496) requesting public comment for 60 days on the extension, without revision, of the FR K. The comment period for this notice expired on February 8, 2022. The Board did not receive any comments.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, April 1, 2022.
Ann Misback,
Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2022-07226 Filed 4-5-22; 8:45 am]
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