Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection Renewal; Comment Request, 72234-72238 [2021-27525]
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Dated at Washington, DC, on December 15,
2021.
James P. Sheesley,
Assistant Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021–27526 Filed 12–20–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6714–01–P
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Manny Cabeza, Regulatory Counsel,
202–898–3767, mcabeza@fdic.gov, MB–
3128, Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation, 550 17th Street NW,
Washington, DC 20429.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposal to renew the following
currently approved collections of
information:
1. Title: Certification of Compliance
with Mandatory Bars to Employment.
OMB Number: 3064–0121.
Form Number: 2120/16.
Affected Public: Individuals seeking
employment from the FDIC.
Burden Estimate:
comment on the request to renew the
existing information collections
described below (OMB Control No.
3064–0121; –0135; and –0185).
Comments must be submitted on
or before January 20, 2022.
DATES:
Interested parties are
invited to submit written comments to
the FDIC by any of the following
methods:
• https://www.fdic.gov/resources/
regulations/federal-registerpublications/.
• Email: comments@fdic.gov. Include
the name and number of the collection
in the subject line of the message.
• Mail: Manny Cabeza (202–898–
3767), Regulatory Counsel, MB–3128,
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
550 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
20429.
• Hand Delivery: Comments may be
hand-delivered to the guard station at
the rear of the 17th Street building
(located on F Street), on business days
between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
ADDRESSES:
FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE
CORPORATION
[OMB No. 3064–0121; –0135; –0185]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection
Renewal; Comment Request
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (FDIC).
ACTION: Agency information collection
activities: submission for OMB review;
comment request.
AGENCY:
The FDIC, as part of its
obligations under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to
SUMMARY:
ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN
[OMB 3064–0121]
Estimated
time per
response
(minutes)
Estimated
annual burden
(hours)
Type of burden
Form 2120/16 ....................................................................
Reporting ..........
528
1
10
88
Total Annual Burden ..................................................
...........................
........................
........................
........................
88
General Description of Collection:
This information collection arises from
the reporting requirements contained in
12 CFR part 336, subpart B, of the FDIC
Rules and Regulations entitled
‘‘Minimum Standards of Fitness for
Employment with the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation’’. This rule
implements Section 19 of the Resolution
Trust Corporation Completion Act
(Completion Act), Public Law 103–204,
by (among other things) prescribing a
certification, with attachments in some
cases, relating to job applicants’ fitness
and integrity. More specifically, the
statute provides that the FDIC shall
issue regulations implementing
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number of
responses per
respondent
Estimated
number of
respondents
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provisions that prohibit any person from
becoming employed by the FDIC who
has been convicted of any felony; has
been removed from, or prohibited from
participating in the affairs of, any
insured depository institution pursuant
to any final enforcement action by any
appropriate federal banking agency; has
demonstrated a pattern or practice of
defalcation regarding obligations to
insured depository institutions; or has
caused a substantial loss to federal
deposit insurance funds. This collection
of information implements these
mandatory bars to employment through
a certification, signed by job applicants
prior to an offer of employment using
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form 2120/16. There has been no change
in the method or substance of this
information collection. The change in
estimated annual burden is due to an
increase in the estimated number of new
hires from an annual average of 500 in
2018 to an annual average of 528
currently.
2. Title: Purchaser Eligibility
Certification.
OMB Number: 3064–0135.
Form Number: 7300–06.
Affected Public: Individuals and
entities wishing to purchase
receivership assets from the FDIC.
Burden Estimate:
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ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN
[OMB 3064–0135]
Information collection description
Purchaser Eligibility Certification
(Form No. 7300–06).
Total Estimated Annual Burden
(Hours).
Type of burden
(obligation to
respond)
Frequency
of response
Number of
responses per
respondent
Reporting (Voluntary to obtain a benefit).
On occasion .......
380
1
30
190
............................
............................
........................
........................
........................
190
Number of
respondents
Hours per
response
(minutes)
Estimated
annual burden
(hours)
Source: FDIC.
General Description of Collection: The
FDIC is statutorily prohibited from
selling assets held by insured depository
institutions that have been placed under
the conservatorship or receivership of
the FDIC to individuals or entities that
profited or engaged in wrongdoing at
the expense of those failed institutions,
or seriously mismanaged those failed
institutions.1 This statutory prohibition
is implemented by regulation.2 The
FDIC uses Form No. 7300–06: Purchaser
Eligibility Certification (PEC) to
determine an entity or person’s
eligibility to purchase assets. This
Information Collection (IC) pertains to
the voluntary submission of the PEC by
persons seeking to certify their
eligibility to be able to purchase
receivership assets. Potential
respondents to this IC include any
entity or individual that wishes to bid
on or purchase assets held by insured
depository institutions that have been
placed under the conservatorship or
receivership of the FDIC. This IC
contains one reporting requirement. The
FDIC arrived at the estimated time to
respond estimate of 30 minutes per PEC
form, through observation of individuals
completing these forms at open-outcry
auction events. Since the form has not
been revised, the FDIC believes this
estimate remains reasonable and
appropriate for this ICR. The FDIC
estimated the number of respondents by
tabulating the number of PECs received
in each year between 2015 and 2020.
Over that period, the FDIC received
2,282 PECs, or approximately 380 PECs
per year on average.
3. Title: Resolution plans required for
insured depository institutions with
$100 billion or more in total assets.
OMB Number: 3064–0185.
Form Number: None.
Affected Public: FDIC insured
depository institutions with $50 billion
or more in total assets.
Burden Estimate:
SUMMARY OF ESTIMATED ANNUAL IMPLEMENTATION BURDENS
[OMB No. 3064–0185]
Type of burden
(obligation to
respond)
Description
Resolution Plan Updates by GSIB
specified CIDIs.
Resolution Plan Updates non-GSIB
specified CIDIs.
Resolution Plans by New Filers ......
Notice of Material Change ..............
Exemption Request .........................
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Frequency of
response
Number of
responses/ respondent
Number of
respondents
Reporting (Mandatory).
Reporting (Mandatory).
Reporting (Mandatory).
Reporting (Mandatory).
Reporting (Required to obtain benefit).
Annual (3 year
cycle).
Annual (3 year
cycle).
Annual (3 year
cycle).
On occasion .......
............................
Time per
response
(hours)
Estimated
annual burden
(hours)
9
1
21,920
197,280
22
1
3785.5
83,281
2
1
4430.7
8,861.4
2
1
120
240
On occasion .......
1
1
1
1
............................
........................
........................
........................
289,663.4
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Source: FDIC.
General Description of Collection: In
2012, the FDIC issued a rule requiring
covered insured depository institutions
(CIDIs) 3 to submit resolution plans to
the FDIC (Rule).4 The Rule was
established to facilitate the FDIC’s
readiness to resolve a CIDI under the
Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDI
1 12
U.S.C. 1821(p).
CFR 340.
3 According to 12 CFR 360.10(b)(4), covered
insured depository institution means an insured
depository institution with $50 billion or more in
2 12
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Act).5 Since issuing the Rule in 2012,
the FDIC and CIDIs have been through
multiple resolution plan submission
cycles. Through this experience, the
FDIC has learned what aspects of the
resolution planning process are most
valuable and what could be clarified or
exempted. Furthermore, the FDIC has
total assets, as determined based upon the average
of the institution’s four most recent Reports of
Condition and Income or Thrift Financial Reports
(Call Report), as applicable to the insured
depository institution.
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gained additional resolution capabilities
relevant to IDI resolution through
separate rulemakings subsequent to the
issuance of the IDI Rule.6
In November 2018, FDIC Chairman
McWilliams announced that the agency
planned to revise the IDI Rule, and that
the next round of resolution plans
77 FR 3075.
12 U.S.C. 1811, et seq.
6 See, e.g., 12 CFR parts 370 & 371.
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submitted pursuant to the IDI Rule
would not be required until the
rulemaking process was complete.7 The
FDIC partially lifted the resolution plan
moratorium for CIDIs with $100 billion
or more in assets on January 19, 2021.8
On June 25, 2021, the FDIC issued a
statement (Statement) that outlined a
modified approach to implementing the
Rule.9 The modified approach applies to
IDIs with $100 billion or more in total
assets (specified CIDIs) and announces
the FDIC’s intent to extend the
submission frequency to a three-year
cycle, streamline content requirements,
and place greater emphasis on
engagement with firms. In the
Statement, the FDIC stated that it
intends to send a letter to each specified
CIDI advising it of the timing of its next
resolution plan submission during the
three-year cycle. To streamline content
requirements, the FDIC has exempted
all specified CIDIs from including in
their resolution plans the provision,
identification, description, or discussion
of the following topics: Least Costly
Resolution Method; Asset Valuation and
Sales, Major Counterparties; Material
Entity Financial Statements;
Systemically Important Functions;
Backup Plans; Assessment of the
Resolution Plan; and High-Level
Description of Resolution Strategy.10 In
addition, the FDIC plans to exempt
certain specified CIDIs from additional
content items required under the Rule;
these exemptions are tailored to the
specified CIDI’s own circumstances and
will be communicated to each specified
CIDI in the FDIC’s letter. Specified CIDIs
may also submit written requests to the
FDIC for exemptions from additional
categories of information, which should
include a description of why the
information would not be useful or
material to the FDIC in planning to
resolve the specified CIDI. The
Statement also clarifies the postsubmission engagement process and
contemplates one such engagement per
specified CIDI per three-year resolution
plan cycle. At present, CIDIs with less
than $100 billion in total assets are not
7 See FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams,
‘‘Keynote Remarks,’’ speech before the 2018 Annual
Conference of The Clearing House (TCH) and Bank
Policy Institute (BPI) (November 28, 2018),
available at https://www.fdic.gov/news/news/
speeches/spnov2818.html.
8 See FDIC Announces Lifting IDI Plan
Moratorium (January 19, 2021), available at https://
www.fdic.gov/resauthority/idi-statement-01-192021.pdf.
9 See Statement on Resolution Plans for Insured
Depository Institutions, available at https://
www.fdic.gov/resauthority/idi-statement-06-252021.pdf.
10 Id. at page 9.
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expected to submit resolution plans
during the period of this IC.
The Rule contains ‘‘collections of
information’’ as defined by the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
1995. As such, the FDIC must obtain
approval by the Office of Management
and Budget prior to collecting said
collections of information. This IC was
last approved for renewal on December
6, 2018 for an estimated 43 annual
responses and a total estimated annual
burden estimate of 572,791 hours.
Given the changes to the PRA
requirements of the Rule since the 2018
ICR, the FDIC has revised the
delineation of burdens. As per their
changes, the IC now comprises the
following line items:
1. Resolution Plan Updates by
specified CIDIs whose top tier parent
company is a U.S. global systemically
important bank as defined in 12 CFR
217.402 (GSIB specified CIDIs).
2. Resolution Plan Updates by
specified CIDIs whose top tier parent
company is not a U.S. global
systemically important bank (non-GSIB
specified CIDIs).
3. Resolution Plans by New Filers.
4. Notices of Material Change.
5. Exemption Requests.
Potential respondents to this IC, as
defined by the Rule under the modified
approach described in the Statement,
are specified CIDIs, or IDIs with total
assets greater than or equal to $100
billion, based upon the average of the
IDI’s four most recent Call Reports. As
of March 31, 2021, there are 33 IDIs
meeting those requirements.11 The FDIC
anticipates that one of these Specified
CIDIs will cease to exist due to its
pending merger with another specified
CIDI.12 The FDIC also anticipates that a
new specified CIDI will be created due
to the pending merger of two IDIs with
expected combined assets over $100
billion.13 Thus, on net, the FDIC
anticipates that there will be 33
potential respondents to this IC. The
estimated number of respondents will
vary by line item.
Resolution Plan Updates:
Of the set of potential respondents,
the FDIC estimates that 9 GSIB
FDIC Call Report Data, March 31, 2021.
See FRB Order No. 2021–04 (May 14, 2021),
available at https://www.federalreserve.gov/
newsevents/pressreleases/files/
orders20210514a1.pdf, last accessed on July 16,
2021.
13 See First Citizens BancShares, Inc., ‘‘First
Citizens, CIT Receive FDIC Approval of Proposed
Merger,’’ July 14, 2021, available at https://
www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/07/14/
2262762/0/en/First-Citizens-CIT-Receive-FDICApproval-of-Proposed-Merger.html, last accessed on
July 16, 2021.
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Specified CIDIs and 22 non-GSIB
specified CIDIs will submit Resolution
Plan Updates.14 To estimate the burden
imposed by the Rule under the modified
approach described in the Statement,
FDIC started with the methodology used
in the 2018 ICR. That methodology
relied on results from a survey of seven
banks to estimate an average PRA
burden per submission of 65 hours per
billion dollars of assets. FDIC then made
the following adjustments to the burden
estimate to reflect the modified
approach described in the Statement:
• Reduced the estimated average PRA
burden by five hours per billion dollars
of assets to reflect the exclusion of
content the Statement announced the
FDIC would exempt from the specified
CIDIs’ resolution plans.15
• Reduced the estimated average PRA
burden by two hours per billion dollars
of assets to reflect the rescission of
guidance that had requested that each
CIDI provide information on how a
failure scenario would impact its
creditor stack.16
• Increased the estimated average
PRA burden by 2 hours per billion of
assets to reflect the anticipated
engagement contemplated in the
Statement, which contemplates one
such engagement per specified CIDI
over the three-year filing period.17
• Reduced the estimated average
burdens for GSIB specified CIDIs by four
percent to reflect expected exemptions
tailored to each GSIB specified CIDI.
The four percent reduction was
estimated by dividing the total number
of such exemptions across all GSIB
specified CIDIs (8) by the total number
of required content items across all
GSIB specified CIDIs (198).
• Further reduced the estimated
average burdens for non-GSIB specified
CIDIs by 20 percent to reflect expected
exemptions tailored to each non-GSIB
specified CIDI. The 20 percent reduction
was estimated by dividing the total
number of such exemptions across all
non-GSIB specified CIDIs (97) by the
total number of required content items
across all non-GSIB specified CIDIs
(484).
Based on the above methodology,
FDIC estimates that the burden hours
per submission would be 57.6 hours per
billion dollars for Resolution Plan
Updates by GSIB specified CIDIs.18
Using assets reported on Call Reports for
the nine GSIB specified CIDIs, we
14 Based on FDIC Call Report Data, March 31,
2021.
15 See Statement, at page 9.
16 Id.
17 Id. at page 10.
18 57.6 hours = (65 hours¥5 hours¥2 hours + 2
hours) × (100 percent¥4 percent).
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estimate a total burden of 591,840 hours
for Resolution Plan Updates by GSIB
specified CIDIs, or an average of 65,760
hours per submission.19
Using the same methodology, FDIC
estimates that the burden hours per
submission to be 48 hours per billion
dollars for non-GSIB specified CIDIs.20
Using the assets reported on the latest
Call Report for the 22 non-GSIB
specified CIDIs, we estimate a total
burden of 249,840 hours for Resolution
Plan Updates by non-GSIB specified
CIDIs, or an average of 11,356 hours per
submission.21
Under the modified approach
described in the Statement, each
respondent is expected to prepare a
single submission in the upcoming
three-year renewal cycle, resulting in a
response rate of one in three years (or
1⁄3 per year). Because the OMB’s PRA
renewal system limits annual responses
to values greater than or equal to one,
however, FDIC uses an annual rate of
one response by both GSIB specified
CIDIs and non-GSIB specified CIDIs
(rather than 1⁄3). To estimate the annual
hourly burden incurred by a
respondent, we divide the estimated
burden hours per submission by three to
arrive at the estimated burden hours per
year. Thus, FDIC estimates that
Resolution Plan Updates by GSIB
specified CIDIs will incur 21,920 hours
per year 22 and Resolution Plan Updates
by non-GSIB specified CIDIs will incur
3,785.5 hours per year.23
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Resolution Plans by New Filers
Of the set of potential respondents,
the FDIC estimates that two Specified
CIDIs will each submit a new Resolution
Plan (i.e., submit a plan for the first
time).24 To estimate the burden imposed
by the Rule under the modified
approach described in the Statement,
FDIC started with the methodology used
in the 2018 ICR. That methodology
assumed that IDIs that cross the $50
19 65,760 hours per submission = 591,840 hours
for nine submissions/9 submissions. 591,840 hours
= 57.6 hours per submission per billion dollars in
asset × $10,275 billion in assets, as reported in the
March 31, 2021 Call Report.
20 48 hours = (65 hours¥5 hours¥2 hours + 2
hours) × (100 percent¥20 percent).
21 11,356 hours per submission = 249,840 hours
for twenty-two submissions/22 submissions.
249,840 hours = 48 hours per submission per
billion dollars in asset × $5,205 billion in assets, as
reported in the March 31, 2021 Call Report. We
adjust the assets of one non-GSIB specified CIDI to
include the assets of the IDI that merged with it.
22 21,920 hours per year = 65,760 hours per
submission/3 years per submission.
23 3,785 hours per year = 11,356 hours per
submission/3 years per submission.
24 Based on FDIC Call Report Data, March 31,
2021, one specified CIDI has not previously
submitted a plan and two CIDIs will merge to
become a specified CIDI.
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billion threshold will incur
approximately 7,200 hours to prepare
and submit their first resolution plan.
This estimate is substantially higher
than a comparative CIDI completing an
annual update due to the higher costs of
preparing a resolution plan for the first
time.25 Given that, under modified
approach described in the Statement,
the total asset threshold is $100 billion
in assets rather than $50 billion in
assets, as was the case in the 2018 ICR,
and the submission moratorium on
CIDIs with less than $100 billion in total
assets remains in place, the FDIC
believes that 14,400 hours (7,200 hours
× 2) is a reasonable and appropriate
estimate for the burden of first time
submissions under the Rule for
purposes of this IC. Furthermore, note
that the non-individual streamlined
content exemptions and engagement
changes described above, taken together,
reduce the estimated average burden
hours of Resolution Plan Updates by 7.7
percent.26 The FDIC believes that these
changes would also reduce the burden
of first time submissions by the same
percentage. Thus, FDIC estimates that
that each first time Resolution Plan
submission will take 13,292 hours to
prepare.27
As stated above, each respondent is
expected to prepare a single submission
in the upcoming three-year cycle,
resulting in a response rate equal to 1⁄3
per year. Because the OMB’s PRA
renewal system limits annual responses
to values greater than or equal to one,
however, FDIC uses an annual rate of
one response by New Filers. To estimate
the annual hourly burden incurred by a
respondent, FDIC divides the estimated
burden hours per submission by three to
arrive at the estimated burden hours per
year. Thus, FDIC estimates that
Resolution Plans by New Filers will
incur 4,430.7 hours per year.28
Notice of Material Change
According to the Rule, a CIDI shall
file with the FDIC a notice no later than
45 days after any event, occurrence,
change in conditions or circumstances
or other change that results in, or could
reasonably be foreseen to have, a
material effect on the resolution plan of
the CIDI.29 The 2018 ICR estimated one
annual respondent, two annual
For example, using the 65 hours per billion
dollars parameter, a CIDI with $50 billion in assets
is estimated to incur 3,250 hours to prepare and
submit a Resolution Plan Update.
26 7.7 percent = 5 hours/65 hours * 100 percent.
27 13,292 hours = 14,400 × (100 percent¥7.7
percent).
28 4,430.7 hours per year = 13,292 hours per
submission/3 years per submission.
29 See 12 CFR 360.10(c)(1)(v).
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responses per respondent, and 120
hours of burden per response, for this
Notice of Material Change. The FDIC
believes that two annual respondents
each with one annual response per
respondent is a more reasonable and
appropriate estimate, and this estimate
reflects that change. Thus FDIC
estimates two annual respondents, one
annual response per respondent, and
120 hours of burden per response for the
line item Notice of Material Change.
Exemption Request
As described above, the Rule and the
Statement permit a specified CIDI to
seek exemptions from the informational
requirements of the Rule beyond those
described in the Statement or in the
letter from the FDIC to the specified
CIDI. Such a request should be in
writing and include a ‘‘description of
why the information would not be
useful or material to the FDIC . . . .’’ 30
Since the FDIC does not have access to
information that would enable it to
estimate how many institutions will
seek to submit an exemption request or
how long it would take to prepare such
a request, the FDIC uses placeholder
estimates of one such exemption request
and one burden hour to complete it.31
Thus FDIC estimates one annual
respondent, one annual response per
respondent, and one hour of burden per
response for the line item Exemption
Request.
Request for Comment
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the FDIC’s functions, including whether
the information has practical utility; (b)
the accuracy of the estimates of the
burden of the 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; and (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. All comments will become
a matter of public record.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
See Statement at page 10.
The SMEs considered basing an estimate for a
§ 360.10 exemption request on the estimate of 20
burden hours recently used for an exemption
request under § 360.9. The SMEs ultimately
determined that the exemption requests under the
two provisions were unlikely to be analogous,
however, and that the breadth and variability of
§ 360.10 exemption requests made it impracticable
for the FDIC to develop a meaningful estimate
without additional information that is not currently
available.
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Dated at Washington, DC, on December 15,
2021.
James P. Sheesley,
Assistant Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021–27525 Filed 12–20–21; 8:45 am]
Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Change in Bank Control Notices;
Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or
Bank Holding Company
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A. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
(Karen Smith, Director, Applications)
2200 North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas
75201–2272:
1. Brittany Broke Lane, Jonestown,
Texas; by retaining voting shares of
Shelby Bancshares, Inc., and thereby
indirectly retaining voting shares of
Shelby Savings Bank, SSB, both of
Center, Texas.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, December 16, 2021.
Michele Taylor Fennell,
Deputy Associate Secretary of the Board.
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and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:
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 January 5, 2022.
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Prevention
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce public
burden and maximize the utility of
government information, invites the
general public and other federal
agencies the opportunity to comment on
a proposed and/or continuing
information collection, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
This notice invites comments on a
proposed information collection project
titled Characteristics of Patients with
Environmentally-derived Triazoleresistant Aspergillus fumigatus. This
case report form collects information on
demographics, underlying conditions,
treatments, and outcomes of patients
with triazole-resistant A. fumigatus to
inform clinical and public health
practice.
SUMMARY:
CDC must receive written
comments on or before February 22,
2022.
DATES:
You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2021–
0131 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information
Collection Review Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 1600
Clifton Road NE, MS H21–8 Atlanta,
Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
Docket Number. CDC will post, without
change, all relevant comments to
regulations.gov.
Please note: Submit all comments
through the Federal eRulemaking portal
(regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the
address listed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the information collection plan and
instruments, contact Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and
ADDRESSES:
PO 00000
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H21–8, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone:
404–639–7570; Email: omb@cdc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), federal agencies
must obtain approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for each
collection of information they conduct
or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also
requires federal agencies to provide a
60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed
extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of
previously approved information
collection before submitting the
collection to the OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are
publishing this notice of a proposed
data collection as described below.
The OMB is particularly interested in
comments that will help:
1. Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
2. Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected;
4. Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses; and
5. Assess information collection costs.
Proposed Project
Characteristics of Patients with
Environmentally-derived Triazoleresistant Aspergillus fumigatus—New—
National Center for Emerging and
Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID),
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The environmental mold Aspergillus
fumigatus (A. fumigatus) is the primary
cause of invasive aspergillosis and is
associated with ∼50% mortality in highrisk patients, including stem cell and
organ transplant recipients. The use of
triazole antifungals has greatly
improved survival. However, triazoleresistant A. fumigatus infections are
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 242 (Tuesday, December 21, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72234-72238]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
[OMB No. 3064-0121; -0135; -0185]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection
Renewal; Comment Request
AGENCY: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
ACTION: Agency information collection activities: submission for OMB
review; comment request.
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SUMMARY: The FDIC, as part of its obligations under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, invites the general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the request to renew
the existing information collections described below (OMB Control No.
3064-0121; -0135; and -0185).
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before January 20, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties are invited to submit written comments to
the FDIC by any of the following methods:
https://www.fdic.gov/resources/regulations/federal-register-publications/.
Email: [email protected]. Include the name and number of
the collection in the subject line of the message.
Mail: Manny Cabeza (202-898-3767), Regulatory Counsel, MB-
3128, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 550 17th Street NW,
Washington, DC 20429.
Hand Delivery: Comments may be hand-delivered to the guard
station at the rear of the 17th Street building (located on F Street),
on business days between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Manny Cabeza, Regulatory Counsel, 202-
898-3767, [email protected], MB-3128, Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation, 550 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20429.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposal to renew the following currently approved collections of
information:
1. Title: Certification of Compliance with Mandatory Bars to
Employment.
OMB Number: 3064-0121.
Form Number: 2120/16.
Affected Public: Individuals seeking employment from the FDIC.
Burden Estimate:
Estimated Annual Burden
[OMB 3064-0121]
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Estimated
Estimated number of Estimated time Estimated
Information collection description Type of burden number of responses per per response annual burden
respondents respondent (minutes) (hours)
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Form 2120/16................................... Reporting.............................. 528 1 10 88
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Total Annual Burden........................ ....................................... .............. .............. .............. 88
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General Description of Collection: This information collection
arises from the reporting requirements contained in 12 CFR part 336,
subpart B, of the FDIC Rules and Regulations entitled ``Minimum
Standards of Fitness for Employment with the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation''. This rule implements Section 19 of the Resolution Trust
Corporation Completion Act (Completion Act), Public Law 103-204, by
(among other things) prescribing a certification, with attachments in
some cases, relating to job applicants' fitness and integrity. More
specifically, the statute provides that the FDIC shall issue
regulations implementing provisions that prohibit any person from
becoming employed by the FDIC who has been convicted of any felony; has
been removed from, or prohibited from participating in the affairs of,
any insured depository institution pursuant to any final enforcement
action by any appropriate federal banking agency; has demonstrated a
pattern or practice of defalcation regarding obligations to insured
depository institutions; or has caused a substantial loss to federal
deposit insurance funds. This collection of information implements
these mandatory bars to employment through a certification, signed by
job applicants prior to an offer of employment using form 2120/16.
There has been no change in the method or substance of this information
collection. The change in estimated annual burden is due to an increase
in the estimated number of new hires from an annual average of 500 in
2018 to an annual average of 528 currently.
2. Title: Purchaser Eligibility Certification.
OMB Number: 3064-0135.
Form Number: 7300-06.
Affected Public: Individuals and entities wishing to purchase
receivership assets from the FDIC.
Burden Estimate:
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Estimated Annual Burden
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Number of Hours per Estimated
Information collection description Type of burden Frequency of response Number of responses per response annual burden
(obligation to respond) respondents respondent (minutes) (hours)
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Purchaser Eligibility Certification Reporting (Voluntary to On occasion............ 380 1 30 190
(Form No. 7300-06). obtain a benefit).
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Total Estimated Annual Burden ........................ ....................... .............. .............. .............. 190
(Hours).
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Source: FDIC.
General Description of Collection: The FDIC is statutorily
prohibited from selling assets held by insured depository institutions
that have been placed under the conservatorship or receivership of the
FDIC to individuals or entities that profited or engaged in wrongdoing
at the expense of those failed institutions, or seriously mismanaged
those failed institutions.\1\ This statutory prohibition is implemented
by regulation.\2\ The FDIC uses Form No. 7300-06: Purchaser Eligibility
Certification (PEC) to determine an entity or person's eligibility to
purchase assets. This Information Collection (IC) pertains to the
voluntary submission of the PEC by persons seeking to certify their
eligibility to be able to purchase receivership assets. Potential
respondents to this IC include any entity or individual that wishes to
bid on or purchase assets held by insured depository institutions that
have been placed under the conservatorship or receivership of the FDIC.
This IC contains one reporting requirement. The FDIC arrived at the
estimated time to respond estimate of 30 minutes per PEC form, through
observation of individuals completing these forms at open-outcry
auction events. Since the form has not been revised, the FDIC believes
this estimate remains reasonable and appropriate for this ICR. The FDIC
estimated the number of respondents by tabulating the number of PECs
received in each year between 2015 and 2020. Over that period, the FDIC
received 2,282 PECs, or approximately 380 PECs per year on average.
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\1\ 12 U.S.C. 1821(p).
\2\ 12 CFR 340.
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3. Title: Resolution plans required for insured depository
institutions with $100 billion or more in total assets.
OMB Number: 3064-0185.
Form Number: None.
Affected Public: FDIC insured depository institutions with $50
billion or more in total assets.
Burden Estimate:
Summary of Estimated Annual Implementation Burdens
[OMB No. 3064-0185]
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Number of Time per Estimated
Description Type of burden Frequency of response Number of responses/ response annual burden
(obligation to respond) respondents respondent (hours) (hours)
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Resolution Plan Updates by GSIB Reporting (Mandatory)... Annual (3 year cycle).. 9 1 21,920 197,280
specified CIDIs.
Resolution Plan Updates non-GSIB Reporting (Mandatory)... Annual (3 year cycle).. 22 1 3785.5 83,281
specified CIDIs.
Resolution Plans by New Filers....... Reporting (Mandatory)... Annual (3 year cycle).. 2 1 4430.7 8,861.4
Notice of Material Change............ Reporting (Mandatory)... On occasion............ 2 1 120 240
Exemption Request.................... Reporting (Required to On occasion............ 1 1 1 1
obtain benefit).
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Total Estimated Annual Burden.... ........................ ....................... .............. .............. .............. 289,663.4
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Source: FDIC.
General Description of Collection: In 2012, the FDIC issued a rule
requiring covered insured depository institutions (CIDIs) \3\ to submit
resolution plans to the FDIC (Rule).\4\ The Rule was established to
facilitate the FDIC's readiness to resolve a CIDI under the Federal
Deposit Insurance Act (FDI Act).\5\ Since issuing the Rule in 2012, the
FDIC and CIDIs have been through multiple resolution plan submission
cycles. Through this experience, the FDIC has learned what aspects of
the resolution planning process are most valuable and what could be
clarified or exempted. Furthermore, the FDIC has gained additional
resolution capabilities relevant to IDI resolution through separate
rulemakings subsequent to the issuance of the IDI Rule.\6\
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\3\ According to 12 CFR 360.10(b)(4), covered insured depository
institution means an insured depository institution with $50 billion
or more in total assets, as determined based upon the average of the
institution's four most recent Reports of Condition and Income or
Thrift Financial Reports (Call Report), as applicable to the insured
depository institution.
\4\ 77 FR 3075.
\5\ 12 U.S.C. 1811, et seq.
\6\ See, e.g., 12 CFR parts 370 & 371.
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In November 2018, FDIC Chairman McWilliams announced that the
agency planned to revise the IDI Rule, and that the next round of
resolution plans
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submitted pursuant to the IDI Rule would not be required until the
rulemaking process was complete.\7\ The FDIC partially lifted the
resolution plan moratorium for CIDIs with $100 billion or more in
assets on January 19, 2021.\8\ On June 25, 2021, the FDIC issued a
statement (Statement) that outlined a modified approach to implementing
the Rule.\9\ The modified approach applies to IDIs with $100 billion or
more in total assets (specified CIDIs) and announces the FDIC's intent
to extend the submission frequency to a three-year cycle, streamline
content requirements, and place greater emphasis on engagement with
firms. In the Statement, the FDIC stated that it intends to send a
letter to each specified CIDI advising it of the timing of its next
resolution plan submission during the three-year cycle. To streamline
content requirements, the FDIC has exempted all specified CIDIs from
including in their resolution plans the provision, identification,
description, or discussion of the following topics: Least Costly
Resolution Method; Asset Valuation and Sales, Major Counterparties;
Material Entity Financial Statements; Systemically Important Functions;
Backup Plans; Assessment of the Resolution Plan; and High-Level
Description of Resolution Strategy.\10\ In addition, the FDIC plans to
exempt certain specified CIDIs from additional content items required
under the Rule; these exemptions are tailored to the specified CIDI's
own circumstances and will be communicated to each specified CIDI in
the FDIC's letter. Specified CIDIs may also submit written requests to
the FDIC for exemptions from additional categories of information,
which should include a description of why the information would not be
useful or material to the FDIC in planning to resolve the specified
CIDI. The Statement also clarifies the post-submission engagement
process and contemplates one such engagement per specified CIDI per
three-year resolution plan cycle. At present, CIDIs with less than $100
billion in total assets are not expected to submit resolution plans
during the period of this IC.
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\7\ See FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams, ``Keynote Remarks,''
speech before the 2018 Annual Conference of The Clearing House (TCH)
and Bank Policy Institute (BPI) (November 28, 2018), available at
https://www.fdic.gov/news/news/speeches/spnov2818.html.
\8\ See FDIC Announces Lifting IDI Plan Moratorium (January 19,
2021), available at https://www.fdic.gov/resauthority/idi-statement-01-19-2021.pdf.
\9\ See Statement on Resolution Plans for Insured Depository
Institutions, available at https://www.fdic.gov/resauthority/idi-statement-06-25-2021.pdf.
\10\ Id. at page 9.
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The Rule contains ``collections of information'' as defined by the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995. As such, the FDIC must obtain
approval by the Office of Management and Budget prior to collecting
said collections of information. This IC was last approved for renewal
on December 6, 2018 for an estimated 43 annual responses and a total
estimated annual burden estimate of 572,791 hours.
Given the changes to the PRA requirements of the Rule since the
2018 ICR, the FDIC has revised the delineation of burdens. As per their
changes, the IC now comprises the following line items:
1. Resolution Plan Updates by specified CIDIs whose top tier parent
company is a U.S. global systemically important bank as defined in 12
CFR 217.402 (GSIB specified CIDIs).
2. Resolution Plan Updates by specified CIDIs whose top tier parent
company is not a U.S. global systemically important bank (non-GSIB
specified CIDIs).
3. Resolution Plans by New Filers.
4. Notices of Material Change.
5. Exemption Requests.
Potential respondents to this IC, as defined by the Rule under the
modified approach described in the Statement, are specified CIDIs, or
IDIs with total assets greater than or equal to $100 billion, based
upon the average of the IDI's four most recent Call Reports. As of
March 31, 2021, there are 33 IDIs meeting those requirements.\11\ The
FDIC anticipates that one of these Specified CIDIs will cease to exist
due to its pending merger with another specified CIDI.\12\ The FDIC
also anticipates that a new specified CIDI will be created due to the
pending merger of two IDIs with expected combined assets over $100
billion.\13\ Thus, on net, the FDIC anticipates that there will be 33
potential respondents to this IC. The estimated number of respondents
will vary by line item.
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\11\ FDIC Call Report Data, March 31, 2021.
\12\ See FRB Order No. 2021-04 (May 14, 2021), available at
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/files/orders20210514a1.pdf, last accessed on July 16, 2021.
\13\ See First Citizens BancShares, Inc., ``First Citizens, CIT
Receive FDIC Approval of Proposed Merger,'' July 14, 2021, available
at https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/07/14/2262762/0/en/First-Citizens-CIT-Receive-FDIC-Approval-of-Proposed-Merger.html,
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Resolution Plan Updates:
Of the set of potential respondents, the FDIC estimates that 9 GSIB
Specified CIDIs and 22 non-GSIB specified CIDIs will submit Resolution
Plan Updates.\14\ To estimate the burden imposed by the Rule under the
modified approach described in the Statement, FDIC started with the
methodology used in the 2018 ICR. That methodology relied on results
from a survey of seven banks to estimate an average PRA burden per
submission of 65 hours per billion dollars of assets. FDIC then made
the following adjustments to the burden estimate to reflect the
modified approach described in the Statement:
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Reduced the estimated average PRA burden by five hours per
billion dollars of assets to reflect the exclusion of content the
Statement announced the FDIC would exempt from the specified CIDIs'
resolution plans.\15\
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Reduced the estimated average PRA burden by two hours per
billion dollars of assets to reflect the rescission of guidance that
had requested that each CIDI provide information on how a failure
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Increased the estimated average PRA burden by 2 hours per
billion of assets to reflect the anticipated engagement contemplated in
the Statement, which contemplates one such engagement per specified
CIDI over the three-year filing period.\17\
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Reduced the estimated average burdens for GSIB specified
CIDIs by four percent to reflect expected exemptions tailored to each
GSIB specified CIDI. The four percent reduction was estimated by
dividing the total number of such exemptions across all GSIB specified
CIDIs (8) by the total number of required content items across all GSIB
specified CIDIs (198).
Further reduced the estimated average burdens for non-GSIB
specified CIDIs by 20 percent to reflect expected exemptions tailored
to each non-GSIB specified CIDI. The 20 percent reduction was estimated
by dividing the total number of such exemptions across all non-GSIB
specified CIDIs (97) by the total number of required content items
across all non-GSIB specified CIDIs (484).
Based on the above methodology, FDIC estimates that the burden
hours per submission would be 57.6 hours per billion dollars for
Resolution Plan Updates by GSIB specified CIDIs.\18\ Using assets
reported on Call Reports for the nine GSIB specified CIDIs, we
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estimate a total burden of 591,840 hours for Resolution Plan Updates by
GSIB specified CIDIs, or an average of 65,760 hours per submission.\19\
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\18\ 57.6 hours = (65 hours-5 hours-2 hours + 2 hours) x (100
percent-4 percent).
\19\ 65,760 hours per submission = 591,840 hours for nine
submissions/9 submissions. 591,840 hours = 57.6 hours per submission
per billion dollars in asset x $10,275 billion in assets, as
reported in the March 31, 2021 Call Report.
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Using the same methodology, FDIC estimates that the burden hours
per submission to be 48 hours per billion dollars for non-GSIB
specified CIDIs.\20\ Using the assets reported on the latest Call
Report for the 22 non-GSIB specified CIDIs, we estimate a total burden
of 249,840 hours for Resolution Plan Updates by non-GSIB specified
CIDIs, or an average of 11,356 hours per submission.\21\
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\20\ 48 hours = (65 hours-5 hours-2 hours + 2 hours) x (100
percent-20 percent).
\21\ 11,356 hours per submission = 249,840 hours for twenty-two
submissions/22 submissions. 249,840 hours = 48 hours per submission
per billion dollars in asset x $5,205 billion in assets, as reported
in the March 31, 2021 Call Report. We adjust the assets of one non-
GSIB specified CIDI to include the assets of the IDI that merged
with it.
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Under the modified approach described in the Statement, each
respondent is expected to prepare a single submission in the upcoming
three-year renewal cycle, resulting in a response rate of one in three
years (or \1/3\ per year). Because the OMB's PRA renewal system limits
annual responses to values greater than or equal to one, however, FDIC
uses an annual rate of one response by both GSIB specified CIDIs and
non-GSIB specified CIDIs (rather than \1/3\). To estimate the annual
hourly burden incurred by a respondent, we divide the estimated burden
hours per submission by three to arrive at the estimated burden hours
per year. Thus, FDIC estimates that Resolution Plan Updates by GSIB
specified CIDIs will incur 21,920 hours per year \22\ and Resolution
Plan Updates by non-GSIB specified CIDIs will incur 3,785.5 hours per
year.\23\
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\22\ 21,920 hours per year = 65,760 hours per submission/3 years
per submission.
\23\ 3,785 hours per year = 11,356 hours per submission/3 years
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Resolution Plans by New Filers
Of the set of potential respondents, the FDIC estimates that two
Specified CIDIs will each submit a new Resolution Plan (i.e., submit a
plan for the first time).\24\ To estimate the burden imposed by the
Rule under the modified approach described in the Statement, FDIC
started with the methodology used in the 2018 ICR. That methodology
assumed that IDIs that cross the $50 billion threshold will incur
approximately 7,200 hours to prepare and submit their first resolution
plan. This estimate is substantially higher than a comparative CIDI
completing an annual update due to the higher costs of preparing a
resolution plan for the first time.\25\ Given that, under modified
approach described in the Statement, the total asset threshold is $100
billion in assets rather than $50 billion in assets, as was the case in
the 2018 ICR, and the submission moratorium on CIDIs with less than
$100 billion in total assets remains in place, the FDIC believes that
14,400 hours (7,200 hours x 2) is a reasonable and appropriate estimate
for the burden of first time submissions under the Rule for purposes of
this IC. Furthermore, note that the non-individual streamlined content
exemptions and engagement changes described above, taken together,
reduce the estimated average burden hours of Resolution Plan Updates by
7.7 percent.\26\ The FDIC believes that these changes would also reduce
the burden of first time submissions by the same percentage. Thus, FDIC
estimates that that each first time Resolution Plan submission will
take 13,292 hours to prepare.\27\
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\24\ Based on FDIC Call Report Data, March 31, 2021, one
specified CIDI has not previously submitted a plan and two CIDIs
will merge to become a specified CIDI.
\25\ For example, using the 65 hours per billion dollars
parameter, a CIDI with $50 billion in assets is estimated to incur
3,250 hours to prepare and submit a Resolution Plan Update.
\26\ 7.7 percent = 5 hours/65 hours * 100 percent.
\27\ 13,292 hours = 14,400 x (100 percent-7.7 percent).
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As stated above, each respondent is expected to prepare a single
submission in the upcoming three-year cycle, resulting in a response
rate equal to \1/3\ per year. Because the OMB's PRA renewal system
limits annual responses to values greater than or equal to one,
however, FDIC uses an annual rate of one response by New Filers. To
estimate the annual hourly burden incurred by a respondent, FDIC
divides the estimated burden hours per submission by three to arrive at
the estimated burden hours per year. Thus, FDIC estimates that
Resolution Plans by New Filers will incur 4,430.7 hours per year.\28\
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Notice of Material Change
According to the Rule, a CIDI shall file with the FDIC a notice no
later than 45 days after any event, occurrence, change in conditions or
circumstances or other change that results in, or could reasonably be
foreseen to have, a material effect on the resolution plan of the
CIDI.\29\ The 2018 ICR estimated one annual respondent, two annual
responses per respondent, and 120 hours of burden per response, for
this Notice of Material Change. The FDIC believes that two annual
respondents each with one annual response per respondent is a more
reasonable and appropriate estimate, and this estimate reflects that
change. Thus FDIC estimates two annual respondents, one annual response
per respondent, and 120 hours of burden per response for the line item
Notice of Material Change.
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\29\ See 12 CFR 360.10(c)(1)(v).
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Exemption Request
As described above, the Rule and the Statement permit a specified
CIDI to seek exemptions from the informational requirements of the Rule
beyond those described in the Statement or in the letter from the FDIC
to the specified CIDI. Such a request should be in writing and include
a ``description of why the information would not be useful or material
to the FDIC . . . .'' \30\ Since the FDIC does not have access to
information that would enable it to estimate how many institutions will
seek to submit an exemption request or how long it would take to
prepare such a request, the FDIC uses placeholder estimates of one such
exemption request and one burden hour to complete it.\31\ Thus FDIC
estimates one annual respondent, one annual response per respondent,
and one hour of burden per response for the line item Exemption
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\30\ See Statement at page 10.
\31\ The SMEs considered basing an estimate for a Sec. 360.10
exemption request on the estimate of 20 burden hours recently used
for an exemption request under Sec. 360.9. The SMEs ultimately
determined that the exemption requests under the two provisions were
unlikely to be analogous, however, and that the breadth and
variability of Sec. 360.10 exemption requests made it impracticable
for the FDIC to develop a meaningful estimate without additional
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Request for Comment
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance of the FDIC's functions,
including whether the information has practical utility; (b) the
accuracy of the estimates of the burden of the 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; and (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. All
comments will become a matter of public record.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
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Dated at Washington, DC, on December 15, 2021.
James P. Sheesley,
Assistant Executive Secretary.
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