[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 48 (Thursday, March 11, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 11711]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-5423]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Thrift Supervision


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request--Savings and Loan 
Holding Company Report H-(b)11

AGENCY: Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), Treasury.

ACTION: Notice and request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Treasury, as part of its continuing 
effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general 
public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed and continuing 
information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507. The Office of Thrift Supervision within the 
Department of the Treasury will submit the proposed information 
collection described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
for review and approval, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. 
Today, OTS is soliciting public comments on the Savings Association 
Holding Company Report H0-(b)11 proposal.

DATES: Submit written comments on or before April 12, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Send comments, referring to the collection by title (Savings 
Association Holding Company Report H-(b)11) or by OMB approval number 
(1550-0060), to OMB and OTS at these addresses: Joseph F. Lackey, Jr., 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and 
Budget, Room 10235, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 
20503, or e-mail to [email protected]; and Information 
Collection Comments, Chief Counsel's Office, Office of Thrift 
Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 20552, by fax to (202) 
906-6518, or by e-mail to [email protected]. OTS 
will post comments and the related index on the OTS Internet site at 
http://www.ots.treas.gov. In addition, interested persons may inspect 
comments at the Public Reading Room, 1700 G Street, NW., by 
appointment. To make an appointment, call (202) 906-5922, send an e-
mail to [email protected], or send a facsimile transmission to 
(202) 906-7755.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To obtain a copy of the submission to 
OMB, contact Marilyn K. Burton at [email protected], (202) 
906-6467, or facsimile number (202) 906-6518, Regulations and 
Legislation Division, Chief Counsel's Office, Office of Thrift 
Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 20552.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OTS may not conduct or sponsor an 
information collection, and respondents are not required to respond to 
an information collection, unless the information collection displays a 
currently valid OMB control number. As part of the approval process, we 
invite comments on the following information collection.
    Title of Proposal: Savings and Loan Holding Company Report H-(b)11.
    OMB Number: 1550-0060.
    Form Number: H-(b)11.
    Regulation requirement: 12 CFR 584.1(a)(2).
    Description: The H-(b)11 form is used by OTS to monitor savings and 
loan holding companies. As part of modernizing its supervision of 
savings and loan holding companies, OTS proposes to streamline and 
modernize its existing H-(b)11 form. The attached form reduces the 
amount of information items from 22 to four. Further, we are reducing 
the amount of ``hard copy'' submissions to only one, with another copy 
to be submitted in PDF format. OTS intends to substantially reduce the 
burden of the H-(b)11 by reducing duplication, and relying more on the 
expanded holding company information to be gathered in Schedule HC of 
the 2004 quarterly Thrift Financial Report (TFR), as well as 
examination scoping materials provided in the holding company Pre-
Examination Response Kit (PERK). For holding companies that do not have 
a thrift subsidiary that files Schedule HC of the TFR, the holding 
company is to complete and file a quarterly Schedule HC. By 
transferring much of the needed information collection from the H-(b)11 
to the PERK, OTS eliminates the duplication of effort in supplying the 
same information at two different times in the same year.
    Type of Review: Renewal with revisions.
    Affected Public: Savings association holding companies.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,007.
    Estimated Frequency of Response: Quarterly (using the current 
form).
    Estimated Burden Hours per Response: 2 hours.
    Estimated Total Burden: 8,056 hours.
    Clearance Officer: Marilyn K. Burton, (202) 906-6467, Office of 
Thrift Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 20552.
    OMB Reviewer: Joseph F. Lackey, Jr., (202) 395-7316, Office of 
Management and Budget, Room 10235, New Executive Office Building, 
Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: March 1, 2004.
    By the Office of Thrift Supervision.
Richard M. Riccobono,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 04-5423 Filed 3-10-04; 8:45 am]
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