[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 206 (Tuesday, October 27, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55289-55290]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-25760]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Thrift Supervision


Risk-Based Capital Standards: Advanced Capital Adequacy Framework

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

ACTION: Notice and request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The proposed information collection request (ICR) described 
below has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
for review and approval, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995. OTS is soliciting public comments on the proposal.

DATES: Submit written comments on or before November 27, 2009. A copy 
of this ICR, with applicable supporting documentation, can be obtained 
from RegInfo.gov at http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.

ADDRESSES: Send comments, referring to the collection by title of the 
proposal or by OMB approval number, to OMB and OTS at these addresses: 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Desk Officer 
for OTS, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street, NW., 
Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, or by fax to (202) 395-6974; 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 public.info@ots.treas.gov">public.info@ots.treas.gov, or send a facsimile transmission to 
(202) 906-7755.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information or to obtain a 
copy of the submission to OMB, please contact Ira L. Mills at 
[email protected], (202) 906-6531, 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: Risk-Based Capital Standards: Advanced Capital 
Adequacy Framework.
    OMB Number: 1550-0115.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Description: On December 7, 2007, the Office of Thrift Supervision, 
the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors 
of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance 
Corporation issued the joint final rule titled Risk-Based Capital 
Standards: Advanced Capital Adequacy Framework (rule) implementing a 
new risk-based regulatory capital framework for institutions in the 
United States (72 FR 69288). The rule is based on the June 2004 Basel 
Committee on Banking Supervision's document, ``International 
Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards: A Revised 
Framework'' (New Accord).
    The OTS is now issuing a 30-Day Federal Register Notice to 
implement Basel II for institutions in the United States. The rule sets 
forth a new risk-based capital adequacy framework that would require 
some savings associations and allow other qualifying savings 
associations to use an internal ratings-based approach to calculate 
regulatory credit risk capital requirements and advanced measurement 
approaches to calculate regulatory operational risk capital 
requirements. Information collection requirements in the proposed rule 
are found in Appendix F, Sections 21-23, 42, 44, 53, and 71. The 
collections of information are necessary in order to implement Basel 
II.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 3.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 3.

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    Estimated Burden Hours per Response: 4,000 hours per response.
    Estimated Frequency of Response: Quarterly; annually.
    Estimated Total Burden: 12,000 hours.
    Clearance Officer: Ira L. Mills, (202) 906-6531, Office of Thrift 
Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 20552.

    Date: October 21, 2009.
Ira L. Mills,
Paperwork Clearance Officer, Office of Thrift Supervision.
[FR Doc. E9-25760 Filed 10-26-09; 8:45 am]
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