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contribute to research and development
of intervention programs aimed at
preventing accidents and fatalities in
the OCS.
Respondents who report equipment
failures will be asked to fill out a form
and submit pertinent supplemental
information as described in 30 CFR
250.730, 30 CFR 250.803 and cited
industry standards. Respondents will
have the option to mail or submit the
report electronically to BTS.
Respondents will be asked to provide
information such as: (1) Name and
contact information; (2) time and
location of the failure event; (3) a short
description of the failure event and
operating conditions that existed at the
time of the event; (4) contributing
factors to the event; (5) results of an
investigation or safety analysis report;
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a result of the reported equipment
failure; and (7) any other information
that might be useful in determining
ways to prevents such failures from
occurring.
III. Request for Public Comment
BTS requests comments on any
aspects of this information collection
request, including: (1) Ways to enhance
the quality, usefulness, and clarity of
the collected information; and (2) ways
to minimize the collection burden
without reducing the quality of the
information collected, including
additional use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology.
Patricia Hu,
Director, Bureau of Transportation Statistics,
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research
and Technology, U.S. Department of
Transportation.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Generic Clearance
for the Collection of Qualitative
Feedback on Agency Service Delivery
Financial Crimes Enforcement
Network (’’FinCEN’’), Department of the
Treasury.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
As part of our continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, we invite comment
on a proposed renewal, without change,
SUMMARY:
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to the generic clearance for the
collection of qualitative feedback on
agency service delivery. This request for
comments is being made pursuant to the
Paperwork Reduction Act (‘‘PRA’’) of
1995, Public Law 104–13, 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A).
Written comments are welcome
and must be received on or before May
30, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: Policy Division,
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network,
P.O. Box 39, Vienna, VA 22183,
‘‘Attention: Comments on generic
clearance for the collection of
qualitative feedback on agency service
delivery.’’ Comments also may be
submitted by electronic mail to the
following Internet address:
regcomments@fincen.gov, again with a
caption, in the body of the text,
‘‘Attention: Comments on generic
clearance for the collection of
qualitative feedback on agency service
delivery.’’ Please submit by one method
only.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The
FinCEN Resource Center at 800–767–
2825 or electronically at frc@fincen.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Abstract: The Director of FinCEN is
the delegated administrator of the Bank
Secrecy Act (‘‘Act’’). The Act authorizes
the Director to issue regulations to
require all financial institutions defined
as such in the Act to maintain certain
records or file certain reports that have
been determined to have a high degree
of usefulness in criminal, tax, or
regulatory investigations or proceedings,
or in the conduct of intelligence or
counter-intelligence activities, including
analysis, to protect against international
terrorism, and to implement anti-money
laundering programs and compliance
procedures.1 FinCEN periodically
surveys its stakeholders to collect
qualitative customer and stakeholder
feedback in an efficient, timely manner,
in accordance with the Agency’s
commitment to improving service
delivery.
Title: Generic Clearance for the
Collection of Qualitative Feedback on
Agency Service Delivery.
Office of Management and Budget
Control Number: 1506–0062.
DATES:
1 Public Law 91–508, as amended and codified at
12 U.S.C. 1829b, 12 U.S.C. 1951–1959 and 31 U.S.C.
5311–5332. Language expanding the scope of the
BSA to intelligence or counter-intelligence
activities to protect against international terrorism
was added by section 358 of the Uniting and
Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate
Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
(‘‘USA PATRIOT’’) Act of 2001, Public Law 107–
56.
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Abstract: FinCEN is renewing,
without change, the bureau’s capability
to solicit feedback from the public with
respect to timeliness, appropriateness,
accuracy of information, courtesy,
efficiency of service delivery, and
resolution of issues with service
delivery. Responses will be assessed to
plan and inform efforts to improve or
maintain the quality of service offered to
the public. If this information is not
collected, vital feedback from customers
and stakeholders on the Agency’s
services will be unavailable.
The Agency will only submit a
collection for approval under this
generic clearance if it meets the
following conditions:
• The collections are voluntary;
• The collections are low-burden for
respondents (based on considerations of
total burden hours, total number of
respondents, or burden-hours per
respondent) and are low-cost for both
the respondents and the Federal
government;
• The collections are noncontroversial and do not raise issues of
concern to other Federal agencies;
• Any collection is targeted to the
solicitation of opinions from
respondents who have experience with
the program or may have experience
with the program in the near future;
• Personally identifiable information
is collected only to the extent necessary
and is not retained;
• Information gathered is intended to
be used only internally for general
service improvement and program
management purposes and is not
intended for release outside of the
agency (if released, the agency must
indicate the qualitative nature of the
information);
• Information gathered will not be
used for the purpose of substantially
informing influential policy decisions;
and
• Information gathered will yield
qualitative information; the collections
will not be designed or expected to
yield statistically reliable results or used
as though the results are generalizable to
the population of study.
Current Action: Renewal without
change to an existing collection.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
Affected Public: Businesses and other
for-profit institutions.
Burden: Estimated Number of
Respondents: 162,188.2
2 This number includes depository institutions
(10,772), broker-dealers in securities (5,100), future
commission merchants (101), introducing brokers
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Estimated Number of Responses:
1,000. (Avg. 250 per request).3
Estimated Number of Hours: 10,000.
(30 minutes per response).4
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a valid control
number assigned by the Office of
Management and Budget (‘‘OMB’’).
Records required to be retained under
the BSA must be retained for five years.
Generally, information collected
pursuant to the BSA is confidential but
may be shared as provided by law with
regulatory and law enforcement
authorities.
Request for Comments: Comments
submitted in response to this notice will
be summarized and/or included in the
request for OMB approval. All
comments will become a matter of
public record. Comments are invited on:
(a) Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information shall have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden of the collection of
information; (c) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; (d) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including
through the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology; and (e) estimates of capital
or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance and purchase of services to
provide information.
Jamal El Hindi,
Deputy Director, Financial Crimes
Enforcement Network.
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in commodities (1,249), and open end mutual funds
(1,660), and money services businesses (44,300),
Residential Mortgage Lenders and Originators
(31,000), Dealers in precious metals, precious
stones, or jewels (20,000), insurance companies
(1,200), operators of credit card systems (6), and
entities required to report cash payments over
$10,000 received in a trade or business, form 8300
(46,800), each as defined under the BSA.
3 FinCEN has submitted, on average, four requests
per year each with 250 respondents.
4 The FinCEN surveys average 30 minutes to
complete. OMB has allocated 10,000 hours for the
three-year period covered by this notice.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
Proposed Renewal Without Change;
Comment Request; Anti-Money
Laundering Programs; Due Diligence
Programs for Correspondent Accounts
for Foreign Financial Institutions
Financial Crimes Enforcement
Network (‘‘FinCEN’’), Department of the
Treasury.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
As part of our continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, we invite comment
on a proposed renewal, without change,
to an information collection found in
existing regulations requiring U.S.
financial institutions to establish due
diligence policies, procedures, and
controls reasonably designed to detect
and report money laundering through
correspondent accounts that U.S.
financial institutions establish or
maintain for certain foreign financial
institutions. This request for comments
is being made pursuant to the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Written comments are welcome
and must be received on or before May
30, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to: Financial Crimes
Enforcement Network, P.O. Box 39,
Vienna, VA 22183, Attention:
Comments on Anti-Money Laundering
Program and Due Diligence Programs for
Correspondent Accounts for Foreign
Financial Institutions. Comments also
may be submitted by electronic mail to
the following Internet address:
regcomments@fincen.gov, again with a
caption, in the body of the text,
‘‘Attention: Comments on Anti-Money
Laundering Program and Due Diligence
Programs for Correspondent Accounts
for Foreign Financial Institutions.’’
Please submit by one method only.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The
FinCEN Resource Center at 800–767–
2825 or electronically at frc@fincen.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Abstract:
The Director FinCEN is the delegated
administrator of the Bank Secrecy Act
(‘‘Act’’). The Act authorizes the Director
to issue regulations to require all
financial institutions defined as such in
the Act to maintain or file certain
reports or records that have been
determined to have a high degree of
usefulness in criminal, tax, or regulatory
investigations or proceedings, or in the
conduct of intelligence or counterintelligence activities, including
analysis, to protect against international
SUMMARY:
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terrorism, and to implement anti-money
laundering programs and compliance
procedures.1
Title: Anti-Money Laundering
Programs and Due Diligence Programs
for Correspondent Accounts for Foreign
Financial Institutions (31 CFR
1010.610).
Office of Management and Budget
Control Number: 1506–0046.
Abstract: FinCEN is renewing,
without change, the regulation
implementing section 5318(i)(1) and (2)
of the Act, found at 31 CFR 1010.610.
In general, the regulation requires
covered financial institutions, as
defined in 31 CFR 1010.605(e)(1), to
establish due diligence and, in some
circumstances, enhanced due diligence
policies, procedures, and controls
reasonably designed to detect and report
money laundering through
correspondent accounts that covered
U.S. financial institutions establish or
maintain for certain foreign financial
institutions.
Current Action: Renewal without
change to existing regulations.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
Affected Public: Businesses and other
for-profit institutions.
Burden: Estimated Number of
Respondents: 18,882.2
Estimated Number of Responses:
18,882.
Estimated Number of Hours: 37,764.
(Two hours per response).
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a valid control
number assigned by the Office of
Management and Budget (‘‘OMB’’).
Records required to be retained under
the BSA must be retained for five years.
Generally, information collected
pursuant to the BSA is confidential but
may be shared as provided by law with
regulatory and law enforcement
authorities.
Request for Comments: Comments
submitted in response to this notice will
be summarized and/or included in the
1 Public Law 91–508, as amended and codified at
12 U.S.C. 1829b, 12 U.S.C. 1951–1959 and 31 U.S.C.
5311–5332. Language expanding the scope of the
BSA to intelligence or counter-intelligence
activities to protect against international terrorism
was added by section 358 of the Uniting and
Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate
Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
(‘‘USA PATRIOT’’) Act of 2001, Public Law 107–
56.
2 This number includes depository institutions
(10,772), broker-dealers in securities (5,100), future
commission merchants (101), introducing brokers
in commodities (1,249), and open-end mutual funds
(1,660), each as defined under the BSA.
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[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 2017-06301]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative
Feedback on Agency Service Delivery
AGENCY: Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (''FinCEN''), Department
of the Treasury.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: As part of our continuing effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, we invite comment on a proposed renewal, without
change, to the generic clearance for the collection of qualitative
feedback on agency service delivery. This request for comments is being
made pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act (``PRA'') of 1995, Public
Law 104-13, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A).
DATES: Written comments are welcome and must be received on or before
May 30, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to: Policy Division,
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, P.O. Box 39, Vienna, VA 22183,
``Attention: Comments on generic clearance for the collection of
qualitative feedback on agency service delivery.'' Comments also may be
submitted by electronic mail to the following Internet address:
regcomments@fincen.gov, again with a caption, in the body of the text,
``Attention: Comments on generic clearance for the collection of
qualitative feedback on agency service delivery.'' Please submit by one
method only.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The FinCEN Resource Center at 800-767-
2825 or electronically at frc@fincen.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Abstract: The Director of FinCEN is the delegated administrator of
the Bank Secrecy Act (``Act''). The Act authorizes the Director to
issue regulations to require all financial institutions defined as such
in the Act to maintain certain records or file certain reports that
have been determined to have a high degree of usefulness in criminal,
tax, or regulatory investigations or proceedings, or in the conduct of
intelligence or counter-intelligence activities, including analysis, to
protect against international terrorism, and to implement anti-money
laundering programs and compliance procedures.\1\ FinCEN periodically
surveys its stakeholders to collect qualitative customer and
stakeholder feedback in an efficient, timely manner, in accordance with
the Agency's commitment to improving service delivery.
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\1\ Public Law 91-508, as amended and codified at 12 U.S.C.
1829b, 12 U.S.C. 1951-1959 and 31 U.S.C. 5311-5332. Language
expanding the scope of the BSA to intelligence or counter-
intelligence activities to protect against international terrorism
was added by section 358 of the Uniting and Strengthening America by
Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct
Terrorism (``USA PATRIOT'') Act of 2001, Public Law 107-56.
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Title: Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback
on Agency Service Delivery.
Office of Management and Budget Control Number: 1506-0062.
Abstract: FinCEN is renewing, without change, the bureau's
capability to solicit feedback from the public with respect to
timeliness, appropriateness, accuracy of information, courtesy,
efficiency of service delivery, and resolution of issues with service
delivery. Responses will be assessed to plan and inform efforts to
improve or maintain the quality of service offered to the public. If
this information is not collected, vital feedback from customers and
stakeholders on the Agency's services will be unavailable.
The Agency will only submit a collection for approval under this
generic clearance if it meets the following conditions:
The collections are voluntary;
The collections are low-burden for respondents (based on
considerations of total burden hours, total number of respondents, or
burden-hours per respondent) and are low-cost for both the respondents
and the Federal government;
The collections are non-controversial and do not raise
issues of concern to other Federal agencies;
Any collection is targeted to the solicitation of opinions
from respondents who have experience with the program or may have
experience with the program in the near future;
Personally identifiable information is collected only to
the extent necessary and is not retained;
Information gathered is intended to be used only
internally for general service improvement and program management
purposes and is not intended for release outside of the agency (if
released, the agency must indicate the qualitative nature of the
information);
Information gathered will not be used for the purpose of
substantially informing influential policy decisions; and
Information gathered will yield qualitative information;
the collections will not be designed or expected to yield statistically
reliable results or used as though the results are generalizable to the
population of study.
Current Action: Renewal without change to an existing collection.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved information
collection.
Affected Public: Businesses and other for-profit institutions.
Burden: Estimated Number of Respondents: 162,188.\2\
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\2\ This number includes depository institutions (10,772),
broker-dealers in securities (5,100), future commission merchants
(101), introducing brokers in commodities (1,249), and open end
mutual funds (1,660), and money services businesses (44,300),
Residential Mortgage Lenders and Originators (31,000), Dealers in
precious metals, precious stones, or jewels (20,000), insurance
companies (1,200), operators of credit card systems (6), and
entities required to report cash payments over $10,000 received in a
trade or business, form 8300 (46,800), each as defined under the
BSA.
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Estimated Number of Responses: 1,000. (Avg. 250 per request).\3\
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\3\ FinCEN has submitted, on average, four requests per year
each with 250 respondents.
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Estimated Number of Hours: 10,000. (30 minutes per response).\4\
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\4\ The FinCEN surveys average 30 minutes to complete. OMB has
allocated 10,000 hours for the three-year period covered by this
notice.
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An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required
to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a valid
control number assigned by the Office of Management and Budget
(``OMB''). Records required to be retained under the BSA must be
retained for five years. Generally, information collected pursuant to
the BSA is confidential but may be shared as provided by law with
regulatory and law enforcement authorities.
Request for Comments: Comments submitted in response to this notice
will be summarized and/or included in the request for OMB approval. All
comments will become a matter of public record. Comments are invited
on: (a) Whether the collection of information is necessary for the
proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether
the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency's estimate of the burden of the collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and (e)
estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance and purchase of services to provide information.
Jamal El Hindi,
Deputy Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
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