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photocopy comments.
Additionally, commenters may send a
copy of their comments to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) Desk
Officer—Shagufta Ahmed—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.
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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June
15, 1984, OMB delegated to the Board
authority under the PRA to approve and
assign OMB control numbers to
collections of information conducted or
sponsored by the Board. In exercising
this delegated authority, the Board is
directed to take every reasonable step to
solicit comment. In determining
whether to approve a collection of
information, the Board will consider all
comments received from the public and
other agencies.
A copy of the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) OMB submission, including
the reporting form and instructions,
supporting statement, and other
documentation will be available at
https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain, if approved. These
documents will also be made available
on the 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.
Request for Comment on Information
Collection Proposal
The Board invites public comment on
the following information collection,
which is being reviewed under
authority delegated by the OMB under
the PRA. Comments are invited on the
following
a. Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the Board’s functions,
including whether the information has
practical utility;
b. The accuracy of the Board’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
information collection, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
c. Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected;
d. Ways to minimize the burden of
information collection on respondents,
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including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology; and
e. Estimates of capital or startup costs
and costs of operation, maintenance,
and purchase of services to provide
information.
At the end of the comment period, the
comments and recommendations
received will be analyzed to determine
the extent to which the Board should
modify the proposal.
Proposal Under OMB Delegated
Authority To Extend for Three Years,
Without Revision, the Following
Information Collection
Report title: Quarterly Report of
Interest Rates on Selected Direct
Consumer Installment Loans and
Quarterly Report of Credit Card Plans.
Agency form number: FR 2835; FR
2835a.
OMB control number: 7100–0085.
Frequency: Quarterly.
Respondents: Commercial banks.
Estimated number of respondents: FR
2835: 150; FR 2835a: 50.
Estimated average hours per response:
FR 2835: .29; FR 2835a: .50.
Estimated annual burden hours: FR
2835: 176; FR 2835a: 100.
General description of report: The FR
2835 collects information from a sample
of commercial banks on interest rates
charged on loans for new vehicles and
loans for other consumer goods and
personal expenses. The FR 2835a
collects information on two measures of
credit card interest rates from a sample
of commercial banks with $1 billion or
more in credit card receivables and a
representative group of smaller issuers.
The data from these reports help the
Board analyze current household
financial conditions and the
implications of these conditions for
household spending and, as such, these
data provide valuable input to the
monetary policymaking process.
Legal authorization and
confidentiality: The FR 2835 and the FR
2835a are authorized by sections 2A and
11 of the Federal Reserve Act (‘‘FRA’’).
Section 2A of the FRA requires that the
Board and the Federal Open Market
Committee maintain long-run growth of
the monetary and credit aggregates
commensurate with the economy’s long
run potential to increase production, so
as to promote effectively the goals of
maximum employment, stable prices,
and moderate long-term interest rates.1
Section 11 of the FRA authorizes the
Board to require reports from each
member bank as it may deem necessary
and authorizes the Board to prescribe
reports of liabilities and assets from
insured depository institutions to enable
the Board to discharge its responsibility
to monitor and control monetary and
credit aggregates.2 The obligation to
respond to both the FR 2835 and FR
2835a is voluntary.
Most of the information collected
through the FR 2835 is not considered
confidential; however, to the extent
narrative information submitted to
explain large fluctuations in reported
data contains nonpublic commercial or
financial information, which is both
customarily and actually treated as
private by the respondent, such
information may be kept confidential
pursuant to exemption 4 of the Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA).3 Individual
respondent data collected through the
FR 2835a may be considered
confidential pursuant to FOIA
exemption 4 to the extent the response
contains nonpublic commercial or
financial information, which is both
customarily and actually treated as
private by the respondent.4
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, November 16, 2020.
Michele Taylor Fennell,
Deputy Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2020–25581 Filed 11–18–20; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210–01–P
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Proposed Agency Information
Collection Activities; Comment
Request
Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System.
ACTION: Notice, request for comment.
AGENCY:
The Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System (Board) invites
comment on a proposal to extend for
three years, with revision, the
Government-Administered, General-Use
Prepaid Card Surveys.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before January 19, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by FR 3063, by any of the
following methods:
• Agency Website: https://
www.federalreserve.gov/. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments at
https://www.federalreserve.gov/apps/
foia/proposedregs.aspx.
• Email: regs.comments@
federalreserve.gov. Include the OMB
number in the subject line of the
message.
SUMMARY:
2 12
U.S.C. 248(a).
U.S.C. 552(b)(4).
4 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4).
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• Fax: (202) 452–3819 or (202) 452–
3102.
• Mail: Ann E. Misback, Secretary,
Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System, 20th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20551.
All public comments are available
from the Board’s website at https://
www.federalreserve.gov/apps/foia/
proposedregs.aspx as submitted, unless
modified for technical reasons or to
remove personally identifiable
information at the commenter’s request.
Accordingly, comments will not be
edited to remove any identifying or
contact information. Public comments
may also be viewed electronically or in
paper in Room 146, 1709 New York
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006,
between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on
weekdays. For security reasons, the
Board requires that visitors make an
appointment to inspect comments. You
may do so by calling (202) 452–3684.
Upon arrival, visitors will be required to
present valid government-issued photo
identification and to submit to security
screening in order to inspect and
photocopy comments.
Additionally, commenters may send a
copy of their comments to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) Desk
Officer—Shagufta Ahmed—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.
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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June
15, 1984, OMB delegated to the Board
authority under the PRA to approve and
assign OMB control numbers to
collections of information conducted or
sponsored by the Board. In exercising
this delegated authority, the Board is
directed to take every reasonable step to
solicit comment. In determining
whether to approve a collection of
information, the Board will consider all
comments received from the public and
other agencies.
A copy of the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA) OMB submission, including
the reporting form and instructions,
supporting statement, and other
documentation will be available at
https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain, if approved. These
documents will also be made available
on the Board’s public website at https://
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www.federalreserve.gov/apps/
reportforms/review.aspx or may be
requested from the agency clearance
officer, whose name appears above.
Request for Comment on Information
Collection Proposal
The Board invites public comment on
the following information collection,
which is being reviewed under
authority delegated by the OMB under
the PRA. Comments are invited on the
following:
a. Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the Board’s functions,
including whether the information has
practical utility;
b. The accuracy of the Board’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
information collection, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
c. Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected;
d. Ways to minimize the burden of
information collection on respondents,
including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology; and
e. Estimates of capital or startup costs
and costs of operation, maintenance,
and purchase of services to provide
information.
At the end of the comment period, the
comments and recommendations
received will be analyzed to determine
the extent to which the Board should
modify the proposal.
Proposal Under OMB Delegated
Authority To Extend for Three Years,
With Revision, the Following
Information Collection
Report title: GovernmentAdministered, General-Use Prepaid
Card Surveys.
Agency form number: FR 3063.
OMB control number: 7100–0343.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondents: Depository institutions
that administer general-use prepaid
cards.
Estimated number of respondents: 15.
Estimated average hours per response:
10.
Estimated annual burden hours: 150.
General description of report: The
issuer survey (FR 3063a) collects data
from issuers of governmentadministered, general-use prepaid cards
including information on the pre-paid
card program, the number of cards
outstanding, card funding, ATM
transactions, purchase transactions, fees
paid by issuers to third parties,
interchange fees, and cardholder fees.
The issuer survey (FR 3063a) is
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mandatory. The government survey (FR
3063b), which is being discontinued,
was originally designed to collect data
from state governments, the District of
Columbia, and U.S. territories
(collectively ‘‘state governments’’), and
municipal government offices located
within the United States (local
government offices) that administer
general-use prepaid card payment
programs. It was intended that the FR
3063b survey would collect similar
information from state governments and
local government offices to supplement
the information collected from card
issuers in the FR 3063a survey on the
usage of general-use prepaid cards in
federal, state or local governmentadministered payment programs.
However, the government survey was
voluntary and, ultimately, did not end
up being utilized to collect information
from state governments or local
government offices because relevant
information on the use of prepaid cards
was obtained from the issuer survey.
The Board uses data from the FR
3063a survey to support an annual
report to Congress on the prevalence of
use of general-use prepaid cards in
federal, state, and local governmentadministered payment programs and on
the interchange and cardholder fees
charged with respect to such use of such
cards.
Proposed revisions: The Board
proposes to revise and streamline the FR
3063a reporting structure to reduce
burden on respondents by deleting
various questions, which are no longer
necessary to support the Board’s annual
report. The Board believes that the
proposed structure would reduce
reporting burden without significantly
compromising the value of the data
collected. The proposed revisions to the
FR 3063a would be effective for the data
collection administered during the first
half of 2021 for calendar year 2020 data.
In addition, the Board proposes to
discontinue the FR 3063b.
Legal authorization and
confidentiality: The issuer survey is
authorized by subsection 920(a)(7) of
the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, 15
U.S.C. 1693o–2(a)(7), which was added
by section 1075(a) of the Dodd-Frank
Wall Street Reform and Consumer
Protection Act. This subsection requires
the Board to submit an annual report to
Congress on the prevalence of the use of
general-use prepaid cards in federal,
state or local government-administered
payment programs and the interchange
transaction fees and card-holder fees
charged with respect to the use of such
general-use prepaid cards (15 U.S.C.
1693o–2(a)(7)(D)). It also provides the
Board with authority to require issuers
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to provide information to enable the
Board to carry out the provisions of the
subsection (15 U.S.C. 1693o–2(a)(3)(B)).
The obligation of issuers to respond to
the issuer survey is mandatory. The
Board generally regards the information
collected from each individual issuer on
the FR 3063a survey as confidential
commercial and financial information,
which is protected by exemption 4 of
the Freedom of Information Act (5
U.S.C. 552(b)(4)). The Board, however,
may publicly release aggregate or
summary information in a way that does
not reveal the individual issuer.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, November 16, 2020.
Michele Taylor Fennell,
Deputy Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2020–25582 Filed 11–18–20; 8:45 am]
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, November 16, 2020.
Michele Taylor Fennell,
Deputy Associate Secretary of the Board.
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Change in Bank Control Notices;
Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or
Bank Holding Company
[FR Doc. 2020–25569 Filed 11–18–20; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210–01–P
The notificants listed below have
applied under the Change in Bank
Control Act (Act) (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and
§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12
CFR 225.41) to acquire shares of a bank
or bank holding company. The factors
that are considered in acting on the
applications are set forth in paragraph 7
of the Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)).
The public portions of the
applications listed below, as well as
other related filings required by the
Board, if any, are available for
immediate inspection at the Federal
Reserve Bank(s) indicated below and at
the offices of the Board of Governors.
This information may also be obtained
on an expedited basis, upon request, by
contacting the appropriate Federal
Reserve Bank and from the Board’s
Freedom of Information Office at
https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/
request.htm. Interested persons may
express their views in writing on the
standards enumerated in paragraph 7 of
the Act.
Comments regarding each of these
applications must be received at the
Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of
the Board of Governors, Ann E.
Misback, Secretary of the Board, 20th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20551–0001, not later
than December 4, 2020.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
(Kathryn Haney, Assistant Vice
President) 1000 Peachtree Street NE,
Atlanta, Georgia 30309. Comments can
also be sent electronically to
Applications.Comments@atl.frb.org:
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1. Jeremy Francis Gilpin, South Lake
Tahoe, California, and Jeffrey Alan
Smith, Atlanta, Georgia, as a group
acting in concert; to acquire voting
shares of Community Bankshares, Inc.,
and thereby indirectly acquire voting
shares of Community Bank and Trust—
West Georgia, both of LaGrange,
Georgia.
B. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
(Robert L. Triplett III, Senior Vice
President) 2200 North Pearl Street,
Dallas, Texas 75201–2272:
1. Elizabeth L. Morgan, Austin, Texas,
as trust protector of fifteen trusts
associated with Mr. James W. Collins,
McAllen, Texas; to acquire control of
voting shares of VBT Financial
Corporation, and thereby indirectly
acquire control of voting shares of
Vantage Bank Texas, both of San
Antonio, Texas.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Supplemental Evidence and Data
Request on Integrated Pain
Management Programs
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ), HHS.
ACTION: Request for Supplemental
Evidence and Data Submissions.
AGENCY:
The Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) is seeking
scientific information submissions from
the public. Scientific information is
being solicited to inform our review on
Integrated Pain Management Programs,
which is currently being conducted by
the AHRQ’s Evidence-based Practice
Centers (EPC) Program. Access to
published and unpublished pertinent
scientific information will improve the
quality of this review.
DATES: Submission Deadline on or
before December 21, 2020.
ADDRESSES:
Email submissions: epc@
ahrq.hhs.gov.
Print submissions:
Mailing Address: Center for Evidence
and Practice Improvement, Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality,
ATTN: EPC SEADs Coordinator, 5600
Fishers Lane, Mail Stop 06E53A,
Rockville, MD 20857.
SUMMARY:
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Shipping Address (FedEx, UPS, etc.):
Center for Evidence and Practice
Improvement, Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality, ATTN: EPC
SEADs Coordinator, 5600 Fishers Lane,
Mail Stop 06E77D, Rockville, MD
20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jenae Benns, Telephone: 301–427–1496
or Email: epc@ahrq.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality has commissioned the
Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPC)
Program to complete a review of the
evidence for Integrated Pain
Management Programs. AHRQ is
conducting this systematic review
pursuant to Section 902 of the Public
Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. 299a.
The EPC Program is dedicated to
identifying as many studies as possible
that are relevant to the questions for
each of its reviews. In order to do so, we
are supplementing the usual manual
and electronic database searches of the
literature by requesting information
from the public (e.g., details of studies
conducted). We are looking for studies
that report on Integrated Pain
Management Programs, including those
that describe adverse events. The entire
research protocol is available online at:
https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/
products/integrated-pain-management/
protocol.
This is to notify the public that the
EPC Program would find the following
information on Integrated Pain
Management Programs helpful:
D A list of completed studies that
your organization has sponsored for this
indication. In the list, please indicate
whether results are available on
ClinicalTrials.gov along with the
ClinicalTrials.gov trial number.
D For completed studies that do not
have results on ClinicalTrials.gov, a
summary, including the following
elements: Study number, study period,
design, methodology, indication and
diagnosis, proper use instructions,
inclusion and exclusion criteria,
primary and secondary outcomes,
baseline characteristics, number of
patients screened/eligible/enrolled/lost
to follow-up/withdrawn/analyzed,
effectiveness/efficacy, and safety results.
D A list of ongoing studies that your
organization has sponsored for this
indication. In the list, please provide the
ClinicalTrials.gov trial number or, if the
trial is not registered, the protocol for
the study including a study number, the
study period, design, methodology,
indication and diagnosis, proper use
instructions, inclusion and exclusion
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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Proposed Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment
Request
AGENCY: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
ACTION: Notice, request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board)
invites comment on a proposal to extend for three years, with revision,
the Government-Administered, General-Use Prepaid Card Surveys.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before January 19, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by FR 3063, by any of
the following methods:
Agency Website: https://www.federalreserve.gov/. Follow
the instructions for submitting comments at https://www.federalreserve.gov/apps/foia/proposedregs.aspx.
Email: [email protected]. Include the OMB
number in the subject line of the message.
[[Page 73709]]
Fax: (202) 452-3819 or (202) 452-3102.
Mail: Ann E. Misback, Secretary, Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System, 20th Street and Constitution Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20551.
All public comments are available from the Board's website at
https://www.federalreserve.gov/apps/foia/proposedregs.aspx as
submitted, unless modified for technical reasons or to remove
personally identifiable information at the commenter's request.
Accordingly, comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or
contact information. Public comments may also be viewed electronically
or in paper in Room 146, 1709 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006,
between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on weekdays. For security reasons, the
Board requires that visitors make an appointment to inspect comments.
You may do so by calling (202) 452-3684. Upon arrival, visitors will be
required to present valid government-issued photo identification and to
submit to security screening in order to inspect and photocopy
comments.
Additionally, commenters may send a copy of their comments to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Desk Officer--Shagufta Ahmed--
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.
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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 15, 1984, OMB delegated to the Board
authority under the PRA to approve and assign OMB control numbers to
collections of information conducted or sponsored by the Board. In
exercising this delegated authority, the Board is directed to take
every reasonable step to solicit comment. In determining whether to
approve a collection of information, the Board will consider all
comments received from the public and other agencies.
A copy of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) OMB submission,
including the reporting form and instructions, supporting statement,
and other documentation will be available at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain, if approved. These documents will also be made
available on the 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.
Request for Comment on Information Collection Proposal
The Board invites public comment on the following information
collection, which is being reviewed under authority delegated by the
OMB under the PRA. Comments are invited on the following:
a. Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for
the proper performance of the Board's functions, including whether the
information has practical utility;
b. The accuracy of the Board's estimate of the burden of the
proposed information collection, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
c. Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected;
d. Ways to minimize the burden of information collection on
respondents, including through the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information technology; and
e. Estimates of capital or startup costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information.
At the end of the comment period, the comments and recommendations
received will be analyzed to determine the extent to which the Board
should modify the proposal.
Proposal Under OMB Delegated Authority To Extend for Three Years, With
Revision, the Following Information Collection
Report title: Government-Administered, General-Use Prepaid Card
Surveys.
Agency form number: FR 3063.
OMB control number: 7100-0343.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondents: Depository institutions that administer general-use
prepaid cards.
Estimated number of respondents: 15.
Estimated average hours per response: 10.
Estimated annual burden hours: 150.
General description of report: The issuer survey (FR 3063a)
collects data from issuers of government-administered, general-use
prepaid cards including information on the pre-paid card program, the
number of cards outstanding, card funding, ATM transactions, purchase
transactions, fees paid by issuers to third parties, interchange fees,
and cardholder fees. The issuer survey (FR 3063a) is mandatory. The
government survey (FR 3063b), which is being discontinued, was
originally designed to collect data from state governments, the
District of Columbia, and U.S. territories (collectively ``state
governments''), and municipal government offices located within the
United States (local government offices) that administer general-use
prepaid card payment programs. It was intended that the FR 3063b survey
would collect similar information from state governments and local
government offices to supplement the information collected from card
issuers in the FR 3063a survey on the usage of general-use prepaid
cards in federal, state or local government-administered payment
programs. However, the government survey was voluntary and, ultimately,
did not end up being utilized to collect information from state
governments or local government offices because relevant information on
the use of prepaid cards was obtained from the issuer survey.
The Board uses data from the FR 3063a survey to support an annual
report to Congress on the prevalence of use of general-use prepaid
cards in federal, state, and local government-administered payment
programs and on the interchange and cardholder fees charged with
respect to such use of such cards.
Proposed revisions: The Board proposes to revise and streamline the
FR 3063a reporting structure to reduce burden on respondents by
deleting various questions, which are no longer necessary to support
the Board's annual report. The Board believes that the proposed
structure would reduce reporting burden without significantly
compromising the value of the data collected. The proposed revisions to
the FR 3063a would be effective for the data collection administered
during the first half of 2021 for calendar year 2020 data. In addition,
the Board proposes to discontinue the FR 3063b.
Legal authorization and confidentiality: The issuer survey is
authorized by subsection 920(a)(7) of the Electronic Fund Transfer Act,
15 U.S.C. 1693o-2(a)(7), which was added by section 1075(a) of the
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. This
subsection requires the Board to submit an annual report to Congress on
the prevalence of the use of general-use prepaid cards in federal,
state or local government-administered payment programs and the
interchange transaction fees and card-holder fees charged with respect
to the use of such general-use prepaid cards (15 U.S.C. 1693o-
2(a)(7)(D)). It also provides the Board with authority to require
issuers
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to provide information to enable the Board to carry out the provisions
of the subsection (15 U.S.C. 1693o-2(a)(3)(B)). The obligation of
issuers to respond to the issuer survey is mandatory. The Board
generally regards the information collected from each individual issuer
on the FR 3063a survey as confidential commercial and financial
information, which is protected by exemption 4 of the Freedom of
Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4)). The Board, however, may publicly
release aggregate or summary information in a way that does not reveal
the individual issuer.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, November 16,
2020.
Michele Taylor Fennell,
Deputy Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2020-25582 Filed 11-18-20; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-P
