Rules and Regulations. Notice and request for comment

Agency: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Treasury
Action: Notice and request for comment
Citation: FR Doc. 03-2027

Summary

The OCC, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on a continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a respondent is not required to respond to, an information collection unless the information collection displays a currently valid OMB control number. The OCC is soliciting comment concerning its information collection titled, “Recordkeeping Requirements for Securities Transactions—12 CFR 12.” The OCC also gives notice that it has sent the information collection to OMB for review and approval.

Dates

You should submit your comments to the OCC and the OMB Desk Officer by February 28, 2003.

Supplementary Information

The OCC is proposing to extend OMB approval of the following information collection: Title: Recordkeeping Requirements for Securities Transactions—12 CFR 12. OMB Number: 1557-0142. Description: This submission covers an existing regulation and involves no change to the regulation or to the information collection requirements. The OCC requests only that OMB extend its approval of the information collection. The information collection requirements in 12 CFR part 12 are required to ensure national bank compliance with securities laws and to improve the protection afforded persons who purchase and sell securities through banks. The transaction confirmation information provides customers with a record regarding the transaction and provides banks and the OCC with records to ensure compliance with banking and securities laws and regulations. The OCC uses the required information in its examinations to, among other things, evaluate a bank's compliance with the antifraud provisions of the Federal securities laws. The information collection requirements contained in 12 CFR part 12 are as follows: Section 12.3 requires a national bank effecting securities transactions for customers to maintain records for at least three years. The records required by this section must clearly and accurately reflect the information required and provide an adequate basis for the audit of the information. Section 12.4 requires a national bank to give or send to the customer a written notification of transaction or a copy of the registered broker/dealer confirmation relating to the securities transaction. Sections 12.5(a), (b), (c), and (e) require a national bank, as an alternative to complying with § 12.4, to provide notification to customers of trust transactions, agency transactions, and periodic plan transactions. Sections 12.7(a)(1) through (a)(3) require a national bank to develop and maintain written securities trading policies and procedures. Section 12.7(a)(4) requires bank officers and employees to report to the bank all personal transactions in securities made by them or on their behalf in which they have a beneficial interest. Section 12.8 requires a national bank to file a written request with the OCC for a waiver of one or more of the requirements set forth in §§ 12.2 through 12.7. Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection. Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit. Estimated Number of Respondents: 685. Estimated Total Annual Responses: 685. Frequency of Response: On occasion. Estimated Total Annual Burden: 3,713 hours. Dated: January 21, 2003. Mark J. Tenhundfeld, Assistant Director, Legislative and Regulatory Activities Division. [FR Doc. 03-2027 Filed 1-28-03; 8:45 am]