[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 33 (Thursday, February 17, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9054-9055]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-03469]


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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 
Domestic Branch Application (FR 4001; OMB No. 7100-0097).

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.

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

    Report title: Domestic Branch Application.
    Agency form number: FR 4001.
    OMB control number: 7100-0097.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondents: State member banks (SMBs).
    Estimated number of respondents: Expedited notifications, 55; 
nonexpedited notifications, 169; disclosures, 224.
    Estimated average hours per response: Expedited notifications, 1; 
nonexpedited notifications, 1.5; disclosures, 0.5.
    Estimated annual burden hours: Expedited notifications, 55; 
nonexpedited notifications, 254; disclosures, 112.
    General description of report: The Federal Reserve Act and the 
Board's Regulation H require an SMB to seek prior approval of the 
Federal Reserve System before establishing or acquiring a domestic 
branch. Such requests for approval must be filed as applications at the 
appropriate Reserve Bank for the SMB. Due to the limited information 
that an SMB generally has to provide for branch proposals, there is no 
reporting form for a domestic branch application. An SMB is required to 
notify the Federal Reserve by letter of its intent to establish one or 
more new branches and provide evidence that public notice of the 
proposed branch(es) has been published by the SMB in the appropriate 
newspaper(s). The Federal Reserve uses the information provided to 
fulfill its statutory obligation to review branch applications before 
acting on the proposals and to otherwise supervise SMBs.
    Legal authorization and confidentiality: The filing requirements 
under the FR 4001 are authorized by section 9(3) of the Federal Reserve 
Act.\1\ The filing requirements under the FR 4001 are required to 
obtain a benefit.
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    \1\ 12 U.S.C. 321 (requiring state member banks to obtain Board 
approval prior to establishing a domestic branch).
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    The information in an SMB's domestic branch application is public. 
An SMB may request that portions of its application be kept 
confidential pursuant to exemption 4 of the Freedom of Information Act 
(FOIA) if they contain commercial or financial information that is both 
customarily and actually treated as private.\2\ Information provided by 
an SMB as part of its domestic branch application may also be 
considered confidential under FOIA exemption 6 if the application 
contains information, the disclosure of which would ``constitute a 
clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy,'' \3\ and under FOIA 
exemption 8 if the application is obtained as part of an examination or 
supervision of a financial institution.\4\
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    \2\ 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4).
    \3\ 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(6).
    \4\ 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(8).
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    Current actions: On October 18, 2021, the Board published a notice 
in the Federal Register (86 FR 57673) requesting public comment for 60 
days on the extension, without revision, of the Domestic Branch 
Application. The comment period for this notice expired on December 17, 
2021. The Board did not receive any comments.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, February 14, 
2022.
Michele Taylor Fennell,
Deputy Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2022-03469 Filed 2-16-22; 8:45 am]
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