[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 125 (Monday, June 29, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38895-38896]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-13857]


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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 
Compensation and Salary Surveys (FR 29a and FR 29b; OMB No. 7100-0290).

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: Compensation and Salary Surveys.
    Agency form number: FR 29a, FR 29b.
    OMB control number: 7100-0290.
    Frequency: FR 29a, annually; FR 29b, on occasion.
    Respondents: Employers considered competitors of the Board.
    Estimated number of respondents: FR 29a, 35; FR 29b, 10.
    Estimated average hours per response: FR 29a, 6 hours; FR 29b, 1 
hour.
    Estimated annual burden hours: FR 29a, 210 hours; FR 29b, 50 hours.
    General description of report: The FR 29a and FR 29b collect 
information on salaries, employee compensation policies, and other 
employee programs from employers that are considered competitors of the 
Board. The data from the surveys primarily are used to determine the 
appropriate salary structure and salary adjustments for Board 
employees. The Board, along with other Financial Institutions Reform, 
Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) agencies,\1\ conduct the 
FR 29a survey jointly. The FR 29b is collected by the Board only.
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    \1\ For purposes of this proposal, the FIRREA agencies consist 
of the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of the Comptroller of the 
Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the National 
Credit Union Administration, the Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission, the Farm Credit Administration, and the Securities and 
Exchange Commission.
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    Legal authorization and confidentiality: The FR 29 is authorized by 
sections 10(4) and 11(1) of the Federal Reserve Act,\2\ which 
authorizes the Board to determine employees' compensation. Survey 
submissions are voluntary. The FR 29a survey is conducted by an outside 
consultant that only submits to the Board a report of aggregate data. 
Because the Board does not collect or have access to the individual 
respondent data, no confidentiality issue arises with respect to the 
individual responses to the FR 29a. Individual responses to the FR 29b 
may be kept confidential on a case-by-case basis. The Board will 
consider whether information collected through these surveys may be 
kept confidential

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under exemption 4 of the Freedom of Information Act (``FOIA''), which 
protects privileged or confidential commercial or financial 
information,\3\ exemption 6, which protects information ``the 
disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of 
personal privacy,'' \4\ or any other applicable FOIA exemption.
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    \2\ 12 U.S.C. 244 and 248(l).
    \3\ 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4).
    \4\ 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(6).
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    Current actions: On March 13, 2020, the Board published a notice in 
the Federal Register (85 FR 14679) requesting public comment for 60 
days on the extension, without revision, of the Compensation and Salary 
Surveys. The comment period for this notice expired on May 12, 2020. 
The Board did not receive any comments.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, June 23, 2020.
Michele Taylor Fennell,
Assistant Secretary of the Board
[FR Doc. 2020-13857 Filed 6-26-20; 8:45 am]
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