Proposed Collection; Comment Request, 95592-95593 [2016-31389]

Download as PDF 95592 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 249 / Wednesday, December 28, 2016 / Notices Dated: December 21, 2016. Wendy M. Payne, Executive Director. FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY [No. 2016–N–14] [FR Doc. 2016–31378 Filed 12–27–16; 8:45 am] Proposed Collection; Comment Request BILLING CODE 1610–02–P FEDERAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS ADVISORY BOARD Notice of Request for Comment on the Exposure Draft Titled Budget and Accrual Reconciliation: Amending Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standards (SFFAS) 7, SFFAS 22, and SFFAS 24 Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board. AGENCY: ACTION: Notice. Board Action: Pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3511(d), the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463), as amended, and the FASAB Rules Of Procedure, as amended in October 2010, notice is hereby given that the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) has issued an exposure draft of a proposed Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standards (SFFAS) titled Budget and Accrual Reconciliation: Amending Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standards (SFFAS) 7, SFFAS 22, and SFFAS 24. The exposure draft is available on the FASAB Web site at https:// www.fasab.gov/documents-forcomment/. Copies can be obtained by contacting FASAB at (202) 512–7350. Respondents are encouraged to comment on any part of the exposure draft. Written comments are requested by March 14, 2017, and should be sent to fasab@fasab.gov or Wendy M. Payne, Executive Director, Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board, 441 G Street NW., Suite 6814, Mailstop 6H19, Washington, DC 20548. Ms. Wendy M. Payne, Executive Director, 441 G Street NW., Mailstop 6H19, Washington, DC 20548, or call (202) 512–7350. sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Authority: Federal Advisory Committee Act, Pub. L. 92–463. Dated: December 21, 2016. Wendy M. Payne, Executive Director. [FR Doc. 2016–31399 Filed 12–27–16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 1610–02–P VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:54 Dec 27, 2016 Jkt 241001 Federal Housing Finance Agency. ACTION: 30-Day notice of submission of information collection for approval from Office of Management and Budget. AGENCY: In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA or the Agency) is seeking public comments concerning the information collection known as ‘‘Federal Home Loan Bank Capital Stock,’’ which has been assigned control number 2590–0002 by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) (the collection was previously known as ‘‘Capital Requirements for the Federal Home Loan Banks’’). FHFA intends to submit the information collection to OMB for review and approval of a threeyear extension of the control number, which is due to expire on December 31, 2016. DATES: Interested persons may submit comments on or before January 27, 2017. SUMMARY: Submit comments to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of the Office of Management and Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Washington, DC 20503, Fax: (202) 395– 3047, Email: OIRA_submission@ omb.eop.gov. Please also submit comments to FHFA, identified by ‘‘Proposed Collection; Comment Request: ‘Federal Home Loan Bank Capital Stock (No. 2016–N–14)’ ’’ by any of the following methods: • Agency Web site: www.fhfa.gov/ open-for-comment-or-input. • Federal eRulemaking Portal: https:// www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments. If you submit your comment to the Federal eRulemaking Portal, please also send it by email to FHFA at RegComments@fhfa.gov to ensure timely receipt by the agency. • Mail/Hand Delivery: Federal Housing Finance Agency, Eighth Floor, 400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20219, ATTENTION: Proposed Collection; Comment Request: ‘‘Federal Home Loan Bank Capital Stock (No. 2016–N–14).’’ • U.S. Mail, United Parcel Service, Federal Express, or Other Mail Service: The mailing address for comments is: Alfred M. Pollard, General Counsel, ADDRESSES: PO 00000 Frm 00038 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Attention: Comments/2016–N–14, Federal Housing Finance Agency, 400 Seventh Street SW., Eighth Floor, Washington, DC 20219. We will post all public comments we receive without change, including any personal information you provide, such as your name and address, email address, and telephone number, on the FHFA Web site at https://www.fhfa.gov. In addition, copies of all comments received will be available for examination by the public on business days between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Eighth Floor, 400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20219. To make an appointment to inspect comments, please call the Office of General Counsel at (202) 649–3804. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan F. Curtis, Financial Analyst, Division of Federal Home Loan Bank Regulation, by email at Jonathan.Curtis@fhfa.gov or by telephone at (202) 649–3321; or Eric Raudenbush, Associate General Counsel, by email at Eric.Raudenbush@ fhfa.gov or by telephone at (202) 649– 3084 (these are not toll-free numbers), Federal Housing Finance Agency, 400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20219. The Telecommunications Device for the Hearing Impaired is (800) 877– 8339. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A. Need For and Use of the Information Collection The Federal Home Loan Bank System consists of eleven regional Federal Home Loan Banks (Banks) and the Office of Finance (a joint office that issues and services the Banks’ debt securities). The Banks are wholesale financial institutions, organized under authority of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act (Bank Act) to serve the public interest by enhancing the availability of residential housing finance and community lending credit through their member institutions and, to a limited extent, through certain eligible nonmembers. Each Bank is structured as a regional cooperative that is owned and controlled by member institutions located within its district, which are also its primary customers. An institution that is eligible for membership in a particular Bank must purchase and hold a prescribed minimum amount of the Bank’s capital stock in order to become and remain a member of that Bank. With limited exceptions, only an institution that is a member of a Bank may obtain access to low cost secured loans, known as E:\FR\FM\28DEN1.SGM 28DEN1 sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 249 / Wednesday, December 28, 2016 / Notices advances, or other products provided by that Bank. Section 6 of the Bank Act establishes capital requirements for the Banks and requires FHFA to issue regulations prescribing uniform capital standards applicable to all of the Banks.1 Section 6 also establishes parameters relating to the Banks’ capital structures and requires that each Bank adopt a ‘‘capital structure plan’’ (capital plan) to establish, within those statutory parameters, its own capital structure and to establish requirements for, and govern transactions in, the Bank’s capital stock.2 FHFA has designated 12 CFR part 1277 as the location for its regulations on Bank Capital Requirements, Capital Stock, and Capital Plans. Part 1277 currently includes regulations establishing requirements for the Banks’ capital stock (Subpart C; §§ 1277.20–1277.27) and for the Banks’ capital plans (Subpart D; §§ 1277.28–1277.29). Regulations governing the Banks’ capital requirements are currently located at 12 CFR parts 930 and 932 (in the regulations of the former Federal Housing Finance Board), but will be moved into part 1277 in the near future. Both the Bank Act and FHFA’s regulations state that a Bank’s capital plan must require its members to maintain a minimum investment in the Bank’s capital stock, but both permit each Bank to determine for itself what that minimum investment is and how each member’s required minimum investment is to be calculated.3 Although each Bank’s capital plan establishes a slightly different method for calculating the required minimum stock investment for its members, each Bank’s method is tied to some degree to both the level of assets held by the member institution (typically referred to as a ‘‘membership stock purchase requirement’’) and the amount of advances or other business engaged in between the member and the Bank (typically referred to as an ‘‘activitybased stock purchase requirement’’). A Bank must collect information from its members to determine the minimum capital stock investment each member is required to maintain at any point in time. Although the information needed to calculate a member’s required minimum investment and the precise method through which it is collected differ somewhat from Bank to Bank, the Banks typically collect two types of information. First, in order to calculate 1 See 12 U.S.C. 1426(a). 12 U.S.C. 1426(b), (c). 3 See 12 U.S.C. 1426(c)(1); 12 CFR 1277.22, 1277.28(a). 2 See VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:54 Dec 27, 2016 Jkt 241001 and monitor compliance with its membership stock purchase requirement, a Bank typically requires each member to provide and/or confirm an annual report on the amount and types of assets held by that institution. Second, each time a Bank engages in a business transaction with a member, the Bank typically confirms with the member the amount of additional Bank capital stock, if any, the member must acquire in order to satisfy the Bank’s activity-based stock purchase requirement and the method through which the member will acquire that stock. The OMB number for the information collection is 2590–0002, which is due to expire on December 31, 2016. The likely respondents include current and former Bank members and institutions applying for Bank membership. B. Burden Estimate FHFA has analyzed the time burden imposed on respondents by the two collections under this control number and estimates that the average total annual hour burden imposed on all respondents over the next three years will be 15,230 hours. The estimate for each collection was calculated as follows: I. Membership Stock Purchase Requirement Submissions FHFA estimates that the average annual number of current and former members and applicants for membership required to report information needed to calculate a membership stock purchase requirement will be 7,320, and that each institution will submit one report per year, resulting in an estimated total of 7,320 submissions annually. The estimate for the average time required to prepare, review, and submit each report is 0.5 hours. Accordingly, the estimate for the annual hour burden associated with membership stock purchase requirement submissions is (7,320 reports × 0.5 hours per report) = 3,660 hours. II. Activity-Based Stock Purchase Requirement Submissions FHFA estimates that the average number of daily transactions between Banks and members that will require the exchange of information to confirm the member’s activity-based stock purchase requirement will be 341, and that there will be an average of 261 working days per year, resulting in an estimated 89,001 submissions annually. The estimate for the average preparation time per submission is 0.13 hours. Accordingly, the estimate for the annual PO 00000 Frm 00039 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 95593 hour burden associated with activitybased stock purchase requirement submissions is (89,001 submissions × 0.13 hours per submission) = 11,570 hours. C. Comment Request In accordance with the requirements of 5 CFR 1320.8(d), FHFA published an initial notice requesting comments regarding this information collection in the Federal Register on October 7, 2016.4 The 60 day comment period closed on December 6, 2016. No comments were received. However, during the pendency of the comment period, FHFA consulted with several of the Banks regarding the burden estimates for this information collection. As a result of the Banks’ input, FHFA has made some revisions to the burden estimates, so that those appearing above differ from those that appeared in the 60-day notice. In accordance with the requirements of 5 CFR 1320.10(a), FHFA is publishing this second notice to request comments regarding the following: (1) Whether the collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of FHFA functions, including whether the information has practical utility; (2) the accuracy of FHFA’s estimates of the burdens of the collection of information; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information collected; and (4) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on members and project sponsors, including through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology. Comments should be submitted in writing to both OMB and FHFA as instructed above in the Comments section. Dated: December 22, 2016. Kevin Winkler, Chief Information Officer, Federal Housing Finance Agency. [FR Doc. 2016–31389 Filed 12–27–16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8070–01–P FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY [No. 2016–N–15] Proposed Collection; Comment Request Federal Housing Finance Agency. ACTION: 30-Day notice of submission of information collection for approval from Office of Management and Budget. AGENCY: 4 See E:\FR\FM\28DEN1.SGM 81 FR 69819 (Oct. 7, 2016). 28DEN1

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FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY

[No. 2016-N-14]


Proposed Collection; Comment Request

AGENCY: Federal Housing Finance Agency.

ACTION: 30-Day notice of submission of information collection for 
approval from Office of Management and Budget.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA or the Agency) is 
seeking public comments concerning the information collection known as 
``Federal Home Loan Bank Capital Stock,'' which has been assigned 
control number 2590-0002 by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
(the collection was previously known as ``Capital Requirements for the 
Federal Home Loan Banks''). FHFA intends to submit the information 
collection to OMB for review and approval of a three-year extension of 
the control number, which is due to expire on December 31, 2016.

DATES: Interested persons may submit comments on or before January 27, 
2017.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments to the Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs of the Office of Management and Budget, Attention: Desk Officer 
for the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Washington, DC 20503, Fax: 
(202) 395-3047, Email: OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov. Please also submit 
comments to FHFA, identified by ``Proposed Collection; Comment Request: 
`Federal Home Loan Bank Capital Stock (No. 2016-N-14)' '' by any of the 
following methods:
     Agency Web site: www.fhfa.gov/open-for-comment-or-input.
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments. If you submit your 
comment to the Federal eRulemaking Portal, please also send it by email 
to FHFA at RegComments@fhfa.gov to ensure timely receipt by the agency.
     Mail/Hand Delivery: Federal Housing Finance Agency, Eighth 
Floor, 400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20219, ATTENTION: 
Proposed Collection; Comment Request: ``Federal Home Loan Bank Capital 
Stock (No. 2016-N-14).''
     U.S. Mail, United Parcel Service, Federal Express, or 
Other Mail Service: The mailing address for comments is: Alfred M. 
Pollard, General Counsel, Attention: Comments/2016-N-14, Federal 
Housing Finance Agency, 400 Seventh Street SW., Eighth Floor, 
Washington, DC 20219.
    We will post all public comments we receive without change, 
including any personal information you provide, such as your name and 
address, email address, and telephone number, on the FHFA Web site at 
https://www.fhfa.gov. In addition, copies of all comments received will 
be available for examination by the public on business days between the 
hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, 
Eighth Floor, 400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20219. To make an 
appointment to inspect comments, please call the Office of General 
Counsel at (202) 649-3804.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan F. Curtis, Financial Analyst, 
Division of Federal Home Loan Bank Regulation, by email at 
Jonathan.Curtis@fhfa.gov or by telephone at (202) 649-3321; or Eric 
Raudenbush, Associate General Counsel, by email at 
Eric.Raudenbush@fhfa.gov or by telephone at (202) 649-3084 (these are 
not toll-free numbers), Federal Housing Finance Agency, 400 Seventh 
Street SW., Washington, DC 20219. The Telecommunications Device for the 
Hearing Impaired is (800) 877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Need For and Use of the Information Collection

    The Federal Home Loan Bank System consists of eleven regional 
Federal Home Loan Banks (Banks) and the Office of Finance (a joint 
office that issues and services the Banks' debt securities). The Banks 
are wholesale financial institutions, organized under authority of the 
Federal Home Loan Bank Act (Bank Act) to serve the public interest by 
enhancing the availability of residential housing finance and community 
lending credit through their member institutions and, to a limited 
extent, through certain eligible nonmembers. Each Bank is structured as 
a regional cooperative that is owned and controlled by member 
institutions located within its district, which are also its primary 
customers. An institution that is eligible for membership in a 
particular Bank must purchase and hold a prescribed minimum amount of 
the Bank's capital stock in order to become and remain a member of that 
Bank. With limited exceptions, only an institution that is a member of 
a Bank may obtain access to low cost secured loans, known as

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advances, or other products provided by that Bank.
    Section 6 of the Bank Act establishes capital requirements for the 
Banks and requires FHFA to issue regulations prescribing uniform 
capital standards applicable to all of the Banks.\1\ Section 6 also 
establishes parameters relating to the Banks' capital structures and 
requires that each Bank adopt a ``capital structure plan'' (capital 
plan) to establish, within those statutory parameters, its own capital 
structure and to establish requirements for, and govern transactions 
in, the Bank's capital stock.\2\ FHFA has designated 12 CFR part 1277 
as the location for its regulations on Bank Capital Requirements, 
Capital Stock, and Capital Plans. Part 1277 currently includes 
regulations establishing requirements for the Banks' capital stock 
(Subpart C; Sec. Sec.  1277.20-1277.27) and for the Banks' capital 
plans (Subpart D; Sec. Sec.  1277.28-1277.29). Regulations governing 
the Banks' capital requirements are currently located at 12 CFR parts 
930 and 932 (in the regulations of the former Federal Housing Finance 
Board), but will be moved into part 1277 in the near future.
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    \1\ See 12 U.S.C. 1426(a).
    \2\ See 12 U.S.C. 1426(b), (c).
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    Both the Bank Act and FHFA's regulations state that a Bank's 
capital plan must require its members to maintain a minimum investment 
in the Bank's capital stock, but both permit each Bank to determine for 
itself what that minimum investment is and how each member's required 
minimum investment is to be calculated.\3\ Although each Bank's capital 
plan establishes a slightly different method for calculating the 
required minimum stock investment for its members, each Bank's method 
is tied to some degree to both the level of assets held by the member 
institution (typically referred to as a ``membership stock purchase 
requirement'') and the amount of advances or other business engaged in 
between the member and the Bank (typically referred to as an 
``activity-based stock purchase requirement'').
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    \3\ See 12 U.S.C. 1426(c)(1); 12 CFR 1277.22, 1277.28(a).
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    A Bank must collect information from its members to determine the 
minimum capital stock investment each member is required to maintain at 
any point in time. Although the information needed to calculate a 
member's required minimum investment and the precise method through 
which it is collected differ somewhat from Bank to Bank, the Banks 
typically collect two types of information. First, in order to 
calculate and monitor compliance with its membership stock purchase 
requirement, a Bank typically requires each member to provide and/or 
confirm an annual report on the amount and types of assets held by that 
institution. Second, each time a Bank engages in a business transaction 
with a member, the Bank typically confirms with the member the amount 
of additional Bank capital stock, if any, the member must acquire in 
order to satisfy the Bank's activity-based stock purchase requirement 
and the method through which the member will acquire that stock.
    The OMB number for the information collection is 2590-0002, which 
is due to expire on December 31, 2016. The likely respondents include 
current and former Bank members and institutions applying for Bank 
membership.

B. Burden Estimate

    FHFA has analyzed the time burden imposed on respondents by the two 
collections under this control number and estimates that the average 
total annual hour burden imposed on all respondents over the next three 
years will be 15,230 hours. The estimate for each collection was 
calculated as follows:

I. Membership Stock Purchase Requirement Submissions

    FHFA estimates that the average annual number of current and former 
members and applicants for membership required to report information 
needed to calculate a membership stock purchase requirement will be 
7,320, and that each institution will submit one report per year, 
resulting in an estimated total of 7,320 submissions annually. The 
estimate for the average time required to prepare, review, and submit 
each report is 0.5 hours. Accordingly, the estimate for the annual hour 
burden associated with membership stock purchase requirement 
submissions is (7,320 reports x 0.5 hours per report) = 3,660 hours.

II. Activity-Based Stock Purchase Requirement Submissions

    FHFA estimates that the average number of daily transactions 
between Banks and members that will require the exchange of information 
to confirm the member's activity-based stock purchase requirement will 
be 341, and that there will be an average of 261 working days per year, 
resulting in an estimated 89,001 submissions annually. The estimate for 
the average preparation time per submission is 0.13 hours. Accordingly, 
the estimate for the annual hour burden associated with activity-based 
stock purchase requirement submissions is (89,001 submissions x 0.13 
hours per submission) = 11,570 hours.

C. Comment Request

    In accordance with the requirements of 5 CFR 1320.8(d), FHFA 
published an initial notice requesting comments regarding this 
information collection in the Federal Register on October 7, 2016.\4\ 
The 60 day comment period closed on December 6, 2016. No comments were 
received. However, during the pendency of the comment period, FHFA 
consulted with several of the Banks regarding the burden estimates for 
this information collection. As a result of the Banks' input, FHFA has 
made some revisions to the burden estimates, so that those appearing 
above differ from those that appeared in the 60-day notice.
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    \4\ See 81 FR 69819 (Oct. 7, 2016).
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    In accordance with the requirements of 5 CFR 1320.10(a), FHFA is 
publishing this second notice to request comments regarding the 
following: (1) Whether the collection of information is necessary for 
the proper performance of FHFA functions, including whether the 
information has practical utility; (2) the accuracy of FHFA's estimates 
of the burdens of the collection of information; (3) ways to enhance 
the quality, utility and clarity of the information collected; and (4) 
ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on members 
and project sponsors, including through the use of automated collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology. Comments should be 
submitted in writing to both OMB and FHFA as instructed above in the 
Comments section.

    Dated: December 22, 2016.
Kevin Winkler,
Chief Information Officer, Federal Housing Finance Agency.
[FR Doc. 2016-31389 Filed 12-27-16; 8:45 am]
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