75108 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 240 / Wednesday, December 15, 2004 / Notices 

required to respond to an information 

collection, unless the information 

collection displays a currently valid 

OMB control number. As part of the 

approval process, we invite comments 

on the following information collection. 

Comments should address one or 

more of the following points: 

a. Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of OTS; 

b. The accuracy of OTS’s estimate of 

the burden of the proposed information 

collection; 

c. Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; 

d. Ways to minimize the burden of the 

information collection on respondents, 

including through the use of 

information technology. 

We will summarize the comments 

that we receive and include them in the 

OTS request for OMB approval. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. In this notice, OTS is 

soliciting comments concerning the 

following information collection. 

Title of Proposal: Application for 

Issuance of Subordinated Debt 

Securities/Notice of Issuance of 

Subordinated Debt or Mandatorily 

Redeemable Preferred Stock. 

OMB Number: 1550–0030. 

Form Number: OTS Forms 1344 and 

1561. 

Regulation requirement: 12 CFR 

563.81. 

Description: The information 

provided to OTS is used to determine if 

the proposed issuance of securities will 

benefit the thrift industry or create an 

unreasonable risk to the Savings 

Association Insurance Fund. 

Type of Review: Reinstatement. 

Affected Public: Savings Associations. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 9 

(Standard—3; Expedited—6). 

Estimated Burden Hours per 

Response: Standard—60 hours; 

Expedited—1 hour. 

Estimated Frequency of Response:

Annually. 

Estimated Total Burden: 186 hours 

(Standard—180 hours; Expedited—6 

hours). 

Clearance Officer: Marilyn K. Burton, 

(202) 906–6467, Office of Thrift 

Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20552. 

OMB Reviewer: Mark Menchik, (202) 

395–3176, Office of Management and 

Budget, Room 10236, New Executive 

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: December 9, 2004.

By the Office of Thrift Supervision. 

Richard M. Riccobono, 

Deputy Director.

[FR Doc. 04–27381 Filed 12–14–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6720–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Thrift Supervision 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Activities; Comment 

Request—Management Official 

Interlocks

AGENCY: Office of Thrift Supervision 

(OTS), Treasury.

ACTION: Notice and request for comment.

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Treasury, as part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden, invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to comment on 

proposed and continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 

U.S.C. 3507. The Office of Thrift 

Supervision within the Department of 

the Treasury will submit the proposed 

information collection requirement 

described below to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. Today, OTS is soliciting 

public comments on its proposal to 

reinstate this information collection.

DATES: Submit written comments on or 

before February 14, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Send comments, referring to 

the collection by title of the proposal or 

by OMB approval number, to 

Information Collection Comments, Chief 

Counsel’s Office, Office of Thrift 

Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20552; send a facsimile 

transmission to (202) 906–6518;

or send an e-mail to

infocollection.comments@ots.treas.gov.

OTS will post comments and the related 

index on the OTS Internet site at

http://www.ots.treas.gov. In addition, 

interested persons may inspect 

comments at the Public Reading Room, 

1700 G Street, NW., by appointment. To 

make an appointment, call (202) 906–

5922, send an e-mail to 

publicinfo@ots.treas.gov, or send a 

facsimile transmission to (202) 906–

7755.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You 

can request additional information 

about this proposed information 

collection from Marilyn K. Burton, 

Senior Paralegal (Regulations), (202) 

906–6467, Office of Thrift Supervision, 

1700 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20552.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OTS may 

not conduct or sponsor an information 

collection, and respondents are not 

required to respond to an information 

collection, unless the information 

collection displays a currently valid 

OMB control number. As part of the 

approval process, we invite comments 

on the following information collection. 

Comments should address one or 

more of the following points: 

a. Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of OTS; 

b. The accuracy of OTS’s estimate of 

the burden of the proposed information 

collection; 

c. Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; 

d. Ways to minimize the burden of the 

information collection on respondents, 

including through the use of 

information technology. 

We will summarize the comments 

that we receive and include them in the 

OTS request for OMB approval. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. In this notice, OTS is 

soliciting comments concerning the 

following information collection. 

Title of Proposal: Management 

Official Interlocks.

OMB Number: 1550–0051. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Regulation requirement: 12 CFR part 

563f. 

Description: OTS requires information 

to evaluate the merits of interlocks 

exemption applications. 12 CFR part 

563f sets forth several interlocking 

relationships that are prohibited. 

Generally, a management official of a 

depository institution or depository 

holding company may not serve as a 

management official of an unaffiliated 

depository institution or depository 

holding company if the entities in 

question (or a depository institution 

affiliate thereof) have offices in the same 

community or metropolitan statistical 

area or are of a certain asset size. 

Notwithstanding these general 

prohibitions, § 563f.4 provides that 

prohibited interlocking relationships 

will not apply in certain circumstances. 

Type of Review: Reinstatement. 

Affected Public: Savings Associations. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 8. 

Estimated Burden Hours per 

Response: 4 hours. 

Estimated Frequency of Response:

Event-generated. 

Estimated Total Burden: 32 hours. 

Clearance Officer: Marilyn K. Burton, 

(202) 906–6467, Office of Thrift 

Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20552. 

OMB Reviewer: Mark Menchik, (202) 

395–3176, Office of Management and

Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 240 / Wednesday, December 15, 2004 / Notices 75109

Budget, Room 10236, New Executive 

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: December 9, 2004. 

By the Office of Thrift Supervision. 

Richard M. Riccobono, 

Deputy Director.

[FR Doc. 04–27382 Filed 12–14–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6720–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Thrift Supervision 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Activities; Comment 

Request—Application Processing Fees

AGENCY: Office of Thrift Supervision 

(OTS), Treasury.

ACTION: Notice and request for comment.

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Treasury, as part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden, invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to comment on 

proposed and continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 

U.S.C. 3507. The Office of Thrift 

Supervision within the Department of 

the Treasury will submit the proposed 

information collection requirement 

described below to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. Today, OTS is soliciting 

public comments on its proposal to 

reinstate this information collection.

DATES: Submit written comments on or 

before February 14, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Send comments, referring to 

the collection by title of the proposal or 

by OMB approval number, to 

Information Collection Comments, Chief 

Counsel’s Office, Office of Thrift 

Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20552; send a facsimile 

transmission to (202) 906–6518;

or send an e-mail to

infocollection.comments@ots.treas.gov.

OTS will post comments and the related 

index on the OTS Internet site at http:/

/www.ots.treas.gov. In addition, 

interested persons may inspect 

comments at the Public Reading Room, 

1700 G Street, NW., by appointment. To 

make an appointment, call (202) 906–

5922, send an e-mail to 

publicinfo@ots.treas.gov, or send a 

facsimile transmission to (202) 906–

7755.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You 

can request additional information 

about this proposed information 

collection from Marilyn K. Burton, 

Senior Paralegal (Regulations), (202) 

906–6467, Office of Thrift Supervision, 

1700 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20552.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OTS may 

not conduct or sponsor an information 

collection, and respondents are not 

required to respond to an information 

collection, unless the information 

collection displays a currently valid 

OMB control number. As part of the 

approval process, we invite comments 

on the following information collection. 

Comments should address one or 

more of the following points: 

a. Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of OTS; 

b. The accuracy of OTS’s estimate of 

the burden of the proposed information 

collection; 

c. Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; 

d. Ways to minimize the burden of the 

information collection on respondents, 

including through the use of 

information technology. 

We will summarize the comments 

that we receive and include them in the 

OTS request for OMB approval. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. In this notice, OTS is 

soliciting comments concerning the 

following information collection. 

Title of Proposal: Application 

Processing Fees. 

OMB Number: 1550–0053. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Regulation requirement: 12 CFR 502.5 

and 502.70. 

Description: Pursuant to Section 9 of 

the HOLA, 12 U.S.C. 1467, the Director 

of the Office of Thrift Supervision 

(‘‘OTS’’) is authorized to charge 

assessments to recover the costs of 

examining savings associations and 

their affiliates, to charge fees to recover 

the costs of processing applications and 

other filings, and to charge fees to cover 

OTS’s direct and indirect expenses in 

regulating savings associations and their 

affiliates. 

An institution must submit a fee with 

certain applications, including 

Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 

filings, notices, and requests (hereafter 

collectively referred to as 

‘‘applications’’), before such 

applications will be accepted for 

processing by OTS. 12 CFR 502.5. The 

institution is required to state how it 

calculates the appropriate fee, in 

accordance with OTS’s schedule. 12 

CFR 502.70. 

Type of Review: Reinstatement. 

Affected Public: Savings Associations. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

2,143. 

Estimated Burden Hours per 

Response: .036 hours. 

Estimated Frequency of Response:

Event-generated. 

Estimated Total Burden: 77 hours. 

Clearance Officer: Marilyn K. Burton, 

(202) 906–6467, Office of Thrift 

Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20552. 

OMB Reviewer: Mark Menchik, (202) 

395–3176, Office of Management and 

Budget, Room 10236, New Executive 

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: December 9, 2004. 

By the Office of Thrift Supervision. 

Richard M. Riccobono, 

Deputy Director.

[FR Doc. 04–27383 Filed 12–14–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6720–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Thrift Supervision 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Activities; Comment 

Request—Electronic Operations

AGENCY: Office of Thrift Supervision 

(OTS), Treasury.

ACTION: Notice and request for comment.

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Treasury, as part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden, invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to comment on 

proposed and continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 

U.S.C. 3507. The Office of Thrift 

Supervision within the Department of 

the Treasury will submit the proposed 

information collection requirement 

described below to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. Today, OTS is soliciting 

public comments on its proposal to 

reinstate this information collection.

DATES: Submit written comments on or 

before February 14, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Send comments, referring to 

the collection by title of the proposal or 

by OMB approval number, to 

Information Collection Comments, Chief 

Counsel’s Office, Office of Thrift 

Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20552; send a facsimile 

transmission to (202) 906–6518;

or send an e-mail to

infocollection.comments@ots.treas.gov.

OTS will post comments and the related 

index on the OTS Internet site at http:/

/www.ots.treas.gov. In addition, 

interested persons may inspect 

comments at the Public Reading Room, 

1700 G Street, NW., by appointment. To