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**TO:** Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks, Federal Branches
and Agencies, Department and Division Heads, and All Examining Personnel

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) published the
attached interim rule in the *Federal Register* on April 14, 2003, with
a request for comments, amending its rules, policies, and procedures for
corporate activities. The effective date of the interim rule is April
14, 2003.

**Electronic Filings** The interim rule amends 12 CFR 5.2 to expressly
provide that the OCC may permit national banks to make any class of
filings electronically and refers national banks to the Comptroller's
Licensing Manual to find information about the filings that are
available for electronic submission. Beginning in March 2003, all
national banks may use the OCC's Web-based electronic applications to
submit electronically certain types of corporate filings to the OCC for
approval. Currently those filings include separate applications to:
establish a branch, relocate a branch, relocate a main office within a
30-mile radius (*within* current city, town, or village limits), and
relocate a main office within a 30-mile radius (*outside* current city,
town, or village limits).

**Other Changes to Part 5** The interim rule amends section 5.2(b),
which provides that, after giving appropriate notice to the applicant
and, at the OCC's discretion, to others, the OCC may adopt materially
different procedures for a particular filing, or a class of filings, in
exceptional circumstances, such as natural disasters or unusual
transactions. The example of natural disasters may be misleading and has
been removed. Thus, section 5.2(b) simply permits the OCC to adopt
materially different procedures in exceptional circumstances or for
unusual transactions. The interim rule also makes technical changes to
section 5.2 to reflect the recent replacement of the Comptroller's
Corporate Manual with the Comptroller's Licensing Manual and to inform
national banks that the manual is available on the OCC's Internet Web
site.

For further information, contact Jean Campbell, attorney, Legislative
and Regulatory Activities Division at (202) 874-5090; or Darrell Sheets,
licensing data manager, Licensing, Policy and Systems Division at (202)
874-5060.

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Julie L. Williams

First Senior Deputy Comptroller and Chief Counsel

Attachment -- [68 FR
17890](http://www.occ.treas.gov/fr/fedregister/68fr17890.pdf)