Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 228 / Monday, November 29, 2004 / Notices 69447

Clearance Officer: R. Joseph Durbala, 

Internal Revenue Service, Room 6516, 

1111 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20224, (202) 622–3634. 

OMB Reviewer: Joseph F. Lackey, Jr., 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Room 10235, New Executive Office 

Building, Washington, DC 20503, (202) 

395–7316.

Lois K. Holland, 

Treasury PRA Clearance Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency (OCC), Treasury.

ACTION: Notice and request for comment.

SUMMARY: The OCC, as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on a continuing information 

collection, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. An agency may 

not conduct or sponsor, and a 

respondent is not required to respond 

to, an information collection unless the 

information collection displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

The OCC is soliciting comment 

concerning its information collection 

titled, ‘‘Assessments—12 CFR 8.’’ The 

OCC also gives notice that it has sent the 

information collection to OMB for 

review and approval.

DATES: You should submit your 

comments to the OCC and the OMB 

Desk Officer by December 29, 2004.

ADDRESSES: You should direct your 

comments to: 

Communications Division, Office of 

the Comptroller of the Currency, Public 

Information Room, Mailstop 1–5, 

Attention: 1557–0223, 250 E Street, 

SW., Washington, DC 20219. In 

addition, comments may be sent by fax 

to (202) 874–4448, or by electronic mail 

to regs.comments@occ.treas.gov. You 

can inspect and photocopy the 

comments at the OCC’s Public 

Information Room, 250 E Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20219. You can make 

an appointment to inspect the 

comments by calling (202) 874–5043. 

Mark Menchik, OMB Desk Officer, 

Office of Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, Room 3208, 

Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You 

can request additional information or a 

copy of the collection from Mary 

Gottlieb, OCC Clearance Officer, or 

Camille Dixon, (202) 874–5090, 

Legislative and Regulatory Activities 

Division, Office of the Comptroller of 

the Currency, 250 E Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20219.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The OCC 

is requesting extension of OMB 

approval, with revision, of the following 

information collection: 

Title: Assessments—12 CFR 8. 

OMB Number: 1557–0223. 

Description: The National Bank Act 

authorizes the OCC to collect 

assessments, fees, and other charges as 

necessary or appropriate to carry out the 

responsibilities of the OCC. The OCC 

will require national banks to provide 

the OCC with receivables attributable 

data from independent credit card 

banks, that is, national banks that 

primarily engage in credit card 

operations and are not affiliated with a 

full service national bank. Receivables 

attributable are the total amount of 

outstanding balances due on credit card 

accounts owned by an independent 

credit card bank (the receivables 

attributable to those accounts) on the 

last day of an assessment period, minus 

receivables retained on the bank’s 

balance sheet as of that day. The OCC 

will use the information to verify the 

accuracy of each bank’s assessment 

computation and to adjust the 

assessment rate for independent credit 

card banks over time. 

Type of Review: Extension, without 

change, of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profit (national banks). 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

35. 

Estimated Total Annual Responses:

70. 

Frequency of Response:

Semiannually. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 1 

hour. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 70 

hours. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and 

included in the request for OMB 

approval. All comments will become a 

matter of public record. 

Comments are invited on: 

(a) Whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information has practical utility; 

(b) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the collection 

of information; 

(c) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; 

(d) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection on respondents, including 

through the use of automated collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology; and 

(e) Estimates of capital or startup costs 

and costs of operation, maintenance, 

and purchase of services to provide 

information.

Stuart Feldstein, 

Assistant Director, Legislative and Regulatory 

Activities Division.

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