[United States Government Manual] [July 01, 1995] [Pages 705-708] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]THRIFT DEPOSITOR PROTECTION OVERSIGHT BOARD 808 Seventeenth Street NW., Washington, DC 20232 Phone, 202-416-2650 Chairman Robert E. Rubin Board of Directors: (Secretary of the Treasury) Robert E. Rubin (Chairman of the Board of Alan Greenspan Governors of the Federal Reserve System) (Director, Office of Thrift Jonathan L. Fiechter, Supervision) Acting [[Page 706]] (Chief Executive Officer, John E. Ryan, Acting Resolution Trust Corporation) (Chairman, Federal Deposit Ricki T. Helfer Insurance Corporation) Independent Member Robert C. Larson (vacancy) Executive Director Dietra L. Ford General Counsel Richard H. Farina Deputy Executive Directors: Government Affairs and Public Kenneth Colburn Liaison Finance Thomas Elzey Oversight and Evaluation Neal Peterson ________________________________________________________________________ The principal duties of the Oversight Board are to review and evaluate the overall strategies, policies, and goals of the Resolution Trust Corporation and to approve, prior to implementation, the Corporation's financial plans, budgets, and periodic financing requests. The Oversight Board also reviews the Resolution Trust Corporation's overall performance, including its management activities, internal controls, and performance relative to budget plans. In addition, the Board monitors the implementation by the Corporation of the 10-point Management Reform Program instituted by the Secretary of the Treasury in his role as Oversight Board Chairman. It also regularly reports to Congress on the Resolution Trust Corporation's programs, progress, and funding needs. The Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board, formerly the Oversight Board (of the Resolution Trust Corporation), was established as an instrumentality of the United States on August 9, 1989, by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (12 U.S.C. 1441a). The Board is governed by a seven-member directorate consisting of the Secretary of the Treasury, who is its Chairperson; the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; the Chief Executive Officer of the Resolution Trust Corporation; the Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision; and two independent members appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate. The day-to-day operations of the Board are conducted through its Executive Director and other officers and staff. The Board is required to transmit periodic reports to the Congress and the President, including: reports under the Inspector General Act; annual audits of Resolution Trust Corporation's financial statements; annual reports on Oversight Board and Corporation operations; semiannual reports (which are followed by appearances before the Senate and House Banking Committees); quarterly submissions of the Corporation's operating plans; quarterly reports on severely troubled institutions supervised by the Office of Thrift Supervision; and quarterly budget reports. Activities The Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board: --reviews and evaluates overall strategies, policies, and goals of the RTC for case resolutions, management and disposition of assets, and use of private contractors; --approves, prior to implementation, RTC financial plans, budgets, and periodic financing requests; --reviews RTC's regulations and procedures, not including its internal administrative practices or procedures or its determinations or actions with respect to case-specific matters; --reviews RTC's overall performance including its management activities, internal controls, and performance relative to approved budget plans; [[Page 707]] [[Page 708]] --establishes and maintains a national advisory board to advise the Oversight Board on policies and programs for the disposition of real property assets of RTC institutions; --directs the operations of six regional advisory boards and a national advisory board, which provide advice to RTC and the Oversight Board on the disposition of real estate acquired from insolvent savings and loans; --provides support for the Affordable Housing Advisory Board on policies and programs related to the provision of affordable housing, including the operation of affordable housing programs; --provides advice regarding the merger of RTC's Affordable Housing Disposition Program into the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation at the termination of RTC operations in December 1995; --maintains an Audit Committee to monitor RTC internal controls, monitors audit findings and recommendations of the RTC Inspector General and the General Accounting Office and RTC's responses to such findings, monitors the financial operations of RTC, and regularly reports findings and recommendations to RTC and the Oversight Board; and --directs activities of the Resolution Funding Corporation (REFCORP), a mixed-ownership Government corporation established with the sole purpose of providing financing for RTC. For further information, contact the Director of Government and Public Affairs, Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board, 808 Seventeenth Street NW., Washington, DC 20232. Phone, 202-416-2622. ________________________________________________________________________