[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 246 (Monday, December 23, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 70542]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-27598]


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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM


Agency Information Collection Activities: Announcement of Board 
Approval Under Delegated Authority and Submission to OMB

AGENCY: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

SUMMARY: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) 
is adopting a proposal to extend for three years, without revision, the 
Transfer Agent Registration and Amendment Form (Form TA-1; OMB No. 
7100-0099).

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.
    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.
    A copy of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) OMB submission, 
including the reporting form and instructions, supporting statement, 
and other documentation will be placed into OMB's public docket files. 
These documents also are available on the Federal Reserve 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.

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. Board-
approved collections of information are incorporated into the official 
OMB inventory of currently approved collections of information. Copies 
of the PRA Submission, supporting statements, and approved collection 
of information instrument(s) are placed into OMB's public docket files.

Final Approval Under OMB Delegated Authority of the Extension for Three 
Years, Without Revision, of the Following Information Collection

    Report title: Transfer Agent Registration and Amendment Form.
    Agency form number: Form TA-1.
    OMB control number: 7100-0099.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondents: State member banks (SMBs) and subsidiaries thereof, 
bank holding companies (BHCs) and covered subsidiaries thereof, and 
savings and loan holding companies (SLHCs).
    Estimated number of respondents: Registrations, 1; amendments, 2; 
de-registrations, 1.
    Estimated average time per response: Registrations, 1.25 hours; 
amendments, 10 minutes (0.16 hours); de-registrations 30 minutes (0.5 
hours).
    Estimated annual burden hours: Registrations, 1.25 hours; 
amendments, 0.33 hours; de-registrations, 0.5 hours.
    General description of report: The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 
(Exchange Act) requires any person acting as a transfer agent \1\ to 
register as such with the appropriate regulatory agency (ARA). The 
Board is the ARA for the respondents listed above. Transfer agents for 
which the Board is the ARA must register with the Board using Form TA-
1.
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    \1\ Transfer agents are institutions that provide securities 
transfer, registration, monitoring, and other specified services on 
behalf of securities issuers. See 15 U.S.C. 78c(25) (defining 
``transfer agent'').
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    Legal authorization and confidentiality: Section 17A(c) of the 
Exchange Act \2\ requires all transfer agents for securities registered 
under section 12 of the Exchange Act to register ``by filing with the 
appropriate regulatory agency . . . an application for registration in 
such form and containing such information and documents . . . as such 
appropriate regulatory agency may prescribe as necessary or appropriate 
in furtherance of the purposes of this section.'' \3\ Under section 
3(a)(34)(B)(ii) of the Exchange Act,\4\ the Board is the appropriate 
regulatory agency with respect to any transfer agent that is a state 
member bank or a subsidiary thereof, a BHC or a covered subsidiary 
thereof, or a SLHC (together, ``Board-Registered Transfer Agents''). In 
addition, the Form TA-1 is authorized pursuant to sections 2, 17(a)(3), 
and 23(a) of the Exchange Act,\5\ which, among other things, authorize 
the Board to promulgate regulations and establish recordkeeping and 
reporting requirements with respect to Board-Registered Transfer 
Agents. Additionally, the Board also has broad authority to require 
reports from BHCs, SLHCs, and SMBs.\6\
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    \2\ 15 U.S.C. 78q-1(c).
    \3\ See 15 U.S.C. 78q-1(c)(1).
    \4\ 15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(34)(B)(ii).
    \5\ 15 U.S.C. 78b, 78q(a)(3), and 78w(a).
    \6\ See 12 U.S.C. 1844(c), 12 U.S.C. 1467a(b) and (g), and 12 
U.S.C. 248(a) and 324.
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    The Form TA-1 is mandatory. The information collected in the Form 
TA-1 is available to the public upon request and is not considered 
confidential.
    Current actions: On September 10, 2019, the Board published an 
initial notice in the Federal Register (84 FR 47512) requesting public 
comment for 60 days on the extension, without revision, of the Form TA-
1. The comment period for this notice expired on November 12, 2019. The 
Board did not receive any comments.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, December 17, 
2019.
Michele Taylor Fennell,
Assistant Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2019-27598 Filed 12-20-19; 8:45 am]
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