[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 198 (Monday, October 18, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57674-57675]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-22591]


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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 
Basel II Interagency Pillar 2 Supervisory Guidance (Pillar 2 Guidance) 
(FR 4199; OMB No. 7100-0320).

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 for the Federal 
Reserve Board, 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.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 15, 1984, OMB delegated to the Board 
authority under the Paperwork Reduction Act (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. The OMB inventory, as well as copies of the 
PRA Submission, supporting statements, and approved collection of 
information instrument(s) are available at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. These documents are also 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.

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

    Report title: Basel II Interagency Pillar 2 Supervisory Guidance.
    Agency form number: FR 4199.
    OMB control number: 7100-0320.
    Frequency: As needed.
    Respondents: State member banks and bank holding companies (BHCs) 
that use the advanced approaches framework.
    Estimated number of respondents: 15.

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    Estimated average hours per response: 420.
    Estimated annual burden hours: 6,300.
    General description of report: The Pillar 2 Guidance is intended to 
assist banking organizations that are subject to the Basel II advanced 
approaches capital adequacy framework (advanced approaches framework) 
in applying that framework. Advanced approaches banking organizations 
are required 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. Banking organizations are required to meet certain 
qualification requirements before they can use the advanced approaches 
framework for risk-based capital purposes. The Pillar 2 Guidance sets 
the expectation that such organizations maintain certain documentation 
as described in paragraphs 37, 41, 43, and 46 of this portion of the 
guidance.
    Legal authorization and confidentiality: The collection of 
information is authorized pursuant to sections 9 and 11 of the Federal 
Reserve Act, section 5 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, and 
section 161 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer 
Protection Act. The FR 4199 is voluntary.
    Because the collections of information associated with the guidance 
are maintained by each institution, the Freedom of Information Act 
(FOIA) would only be implicated if the Board obtained such records as 
part of the examination or supervision of a banking organization. In 
the event the records are obtained by the Board as part of the 
examination or supervision of a financial institution, this information 
may be considered confidential pursuant to exemption 8 of the FOIA, 
which protects information contained in ``examination, operating, or 
condition reports'' obtained in the bank supervisory process. In 
addition, the information may also be kept confidential under exemption 
4 of the FOIA, which protects trade secrets and commercial or financial 
information obtained from a person that is both customarily and 
actually treated as private by the respondent.
    Current actions: On June 9, 2021, the Board published a notice in 
the Federal Register (86 FR 30603) requesting public comment for 60 
days on the extension, without revision, of the Pillar 2 Guidance. The 
comment period for this notice expired on August 9, 2021. The Board did 
not receive any comments.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, October 12, 
2021.
Michele Taylor Fennell,
Deputy Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2021-22591 Filed 10-15-21; 8:45 am]
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