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to the DFO at the contact information 

above via email (preferred) or in hard 

copy with original signature. Submitters 

are requested to provide a signed and 

unsigned version of each document 

because the SAB Staff Office does not 

publish documents with signatures on 

its Web sites. Members of the public 

should be aware that their personal 

contact information, if included in any 

written comments, may be posted to the 

SAB Web site. Copyrighted material will 

not be posted without explicit 

permission of the copyright holder. 

Accessibility: For information on 

access or services for individuals with 

disabilities, please contact Mr. 

Carpenter at the phone number or email 

address noted above, preferably at least 

ten days prior to the meeting, to give the 

EPA as much time as possible to process 

your request. 

Dated: February 22, 2016. 

Christopher Zarba, 

Director, EPA Science Advisory Board Staff 

Office. 

[FR Doc. 2016–04451 Filed 2–29–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2015–0335; FRL–9943–13– 

OW] 

Request for Public Comment on the 

Draft EPA–USGS Technical Report: 

Protecting Aquatic Life From Effects of 

Hydrologic Alteration 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) and United States 

Geological Survey (USGS). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) and the United States 

Geological Survey are releasing a draft 

technical report: Protecting Aquatic Life 

from Effects of Hydrologic Alteration, 

for a 60-day public comment period. 

This report was developed because 

hydrologic alteration can be a 

contributor of impairment for water 

bodies that are designated to support 

aquatic life. Stresses on aquatic life 

associated with hydrologic alteration 

may be further exacerbated through 

climate change. Recent climate trends 

have included the change in frequency 

and duration of extreme weather events, 

such as droughts and floods, which can 

have an impact on flow and affect 

aquatic life. 

The report is a nonprescriptive 

framework with information to help 

states, tribes, territories, water resource 

managers, and other stakeholders 

responsible for the maintenance of 

hydrologic flow regime to quantify flow 

targets for the preservation of aquatic 

life and habitat. This report also 

provides information on the 

relationship between hydrologic 

condition and water quality and gives 

examples of what some states and 

authorized tribes have done to address 

flow concerns using the Clean Water 

Act. The framework can also be used to 

translate narrative criteria and develop 

flow targets to protect aquatic life and 

habitat. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before May 2, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OW–2015–0335, to the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Once submitted, comments cannot be 

edited or withdrawn. EPA may publish 

any comment received to its public 

docket. Do not submit electronically any 

information you consider to be 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

or other information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Multimedia 

submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. EPA will generally not consider 

comments or comment contents located 

outside of the primary submission (i.e., 

on the web, cloud, or other file sharing 

system). For additional submission 

methods, the full EPA public comment 

policy, information about CBI or 

multimedia submissions, and general 

guidance on making effective 

comments, please visit http://

www2.epa.gov/dockets/commentingepa-dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Diana Eignor, Health and Ecological 

Criteria Division, Office of Water (Mail 

Code 4304T), Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone 

number: (202) 566–1143; email address: 

eignor.diana@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. How can I Get Copies of This 

Document and Other Related 

Information? 

1. Docket: All documents in the 

docket are listed in the 

www.regulations.gov index. Although 

listed in the index, some information is 

not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Certain other 

material, such as copyrighted material, 

will be publicly available only in hard 

copy. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either 

electronically in www.regulations.gov or 

in hard copy at the Water Docket, EPA/ 

DC, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, 

DC. The Public Reading Room is open 

from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

Public Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, 

and the telephone number for the Water 

Docket is (202) 566–2426. For additional 

information about EPA’s public docket, 

visit EPA Docket Center homepage at 

http://www.epa.gov/epahome/

dockets.htm. 

II. How will this document be used? 

This draft report is a nonprescriptive 

framework that can be used to help 

quantify targets for flow regime 

components that are protective of 

aquatic life and their habitats. Flow 

targets can help states, tribes, and 

territories to prepare for changes in 

historic flow patterns. Maintaining flow 

targets may help increase a stream’s 

resilience to climate change by reducing 

or avoiding intensification of existing 

stresses. This document, even after 

issued in final form, is not a rule, and 

it is therefore not mandatory for states 

and authorized tribes to adopt this 

framework into their water quality 

standards. Once the comment period 

has ended, EPA and the USGS will 

consider the comments, revise the 

document, as appropriate, and then 

publish a final document that will serve 

as a source of information for states, 

tribes, territories, and other 

stakeholders. 

III. Solicitation of Scientific Views 

EPA and USGS are soliciting 

additional scientific views, data, and 

information regarding the science and 

technical approach used in the 

derivation of this draft technical 

document on hydrologic alteration. 

IV. Additional Information 

EPA and USGS each conducted 

internal peer reviews of the report, and 

EPA managed a contractor-led 

independent external peer review of the 

Draft EPA–USGS Technical Report: 

Protecting Aquatic Life from Effects of 

Hydrologic Alteration. EPA will make 

the external peer review comments and 

Agency responses to these comments 

available in the docket with the revised 

draft technical document at http://

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1See 79 FR 69365 (November 21, 2014). 

2 78 FR 55340 (September 10, 2013). 

3 79 FR 20754 (April 14, 2014). 

Dated: February 22, 2016. 

Joel Beauvais, 

Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of 

Water. 

[FR Doc. 2016–04448 Filed 2–29–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE 

CORPORATION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request (3064– 

0189) 

AGENCY: Federal Deposit Insurance 

Corporation (FDIC). 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The FDIC, 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 the renewal of an existing 

information collection, as required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

On December 15, 2015, (80 FR 77631), 

the FDIC requested comment for 60 days 

on a proposal to renew the information 

collection described below. No 

comments were received. The FDIC 

hereby gives notice of its plan to submit 

to OMB a request to approve the 

renewal of this collection, and again 

invites comment on this renewal. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before March 31, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are 

invited to submit written comments to 

the FDIC by any of the following 

methods: 

• http://www.FDIC.gov/regulations/

laws/federal/. 

• Email: comments@fdic.gov Include 

OMB control number ‘‘3064–0189’’ in 

the subject line of the message. 

• Mail: Gary A. Kuiper 

(202.898.3877), Counsel, Room MB– 

3016, or Manuel E. Cabeza, 

(202.898.3767), Counsel, Room MB– 

3105, Federal Deposit Insurance 

Corporation, 550 17th Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20429. 

• Hand Delivery: Comments may be 

hand-delivered to the guard station at 

the rear of the 17th Street Building 

(located on F Street), on business days 

between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. 

All comments should refer to OMB 

control number ‘‘3064–0189.’’ A copy of 

the comments may also be submitted to 

the OMB desk officer for the FDIC: 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, New Executive Office Building, 

Washington, DC 20503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary 

A. Kuiper or Manuel E. Cabeza, at the 

FDIC address above. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Proposal 

to renew the following currentlyapproved collection of information: 

1. Title: Annual Stress Test Reporting; 

Over $50 Billion Templates. 

OMB Number: 3064–0189. 

Affected Public: Insured state 

nonmember banks. 

Frequency of Response: Annually. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 4. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 1. 

Estimated Time per Response: 1,114 

hours. 

Total Annual Burden: 4,456 hours. 

General Description: Section 165(i)(2) 

of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform 

and Consumer Protection Act (‘‘DoddFrank Act’’) requires certain financial 

companies, including state nonmember 

banks and state savings associations, to 

conduct annual stress tests and requires 

the primary financial regulatory agency 

of those financial companies to issue 

regulations implementing the stress test 

requirements. A state nonmember bank 

or state savings association is a ‘‘covered 

bank’’ and therefore subject to the stress 

test requirements if its total 

consolidated assets are more than $10 

billion. Under section 165(i)(2), a 

covered bank is required to submit to 

the Board of Governors of the Federal 

Reserve System (‘‘Board’’) and to its 

primary financial regulatory agency a 

report at such time, in such form, and 

containing such information as the 

primary financial regulatory agency 

shall require. 

The revisions to the DFAST–14A 

reporting templates consist of clarifying 

instructions, adding data items, deleting 

data items, and redefining existing data 

items. The proposed revisions also 

include a shift of the as-of date in 

accordance with modifications to the 

FDIC’s stress testing rule.1 These 

revisions also reflect the 

implementation of the final Basel III 

regulatory capital rule. On July 9, 2013, 

the FDIC approved an interim final rule 

that will revise and replace the FDIC’s 

risk-based and leverage capital 

requirements to be consistent with 

agreements reached by the Basel 

Committee on Banking Supervision in 

‘‘Basel III: A Global Regulatory 

Framework for More Resilient Banks 

and Banking Systems’’ (Basel III).2 The 

final rule was published in the Federal 

Register on April 14, 2014 (‘‘Revised 

Capital Framework’’).3 The revisions 

include implementation of a new 

definition of regulatory capital, a new 

common equity tier 1 minimum capital 

requirement, a higher minimum tier 1 

capital requirement, and, for banking 

organizations subject to the Advanced 

Approaches capital rules, a 

supplementary leverage ratio that 

incorporates a broader set of exposures 

in the denominator measure. In 

addition, the rule will amend the 

methodologies for determining risk 

weighted assets. All banking 

organizations that are not subject to the 

Advanced Approaches Rule were 

required to comply with the Revised 

Capital Framework, as of January 1, 

2015. 

The proposed changes would (1) 

increase consistency between the 

DFAST–14A with the FR Y–14A, CALL 

Report, FFIEC 101, and FFIEC 102; (2) 

remove the requirement to calculate tier 

1 common capital and the tier 1 

common ratio; and (3) shift the as-of 

dates by one quarter in accordance with 

the modifications to the stress test rules. 

Furthermore, the FDIC understands that 

the Board is currently collecting 

information for the Summary Schedule 

via XML technology, and the FDIC 

would use a similar format to enhance 

consistency and reduce regulatory 

burden. Technical details on these 

forms would be provided separately. 

Schedule A (Summary)—A.1.c.1 

(General RWA) 

This schedule would be removed in 

accordance with the proposed revisions 

to eliminate use of the tier 1 common 

ratio, effective for the 2016 DFAST 

submission. 

Schedule A (Summary)—Revisions to 

Schedule A.1.c.2 (Standardized RWA) 

This schedule would be modified to 

increase consistency with the FFIEC 

102. Specifically, the items of the 

existing market risk-weighted asset 

portion would be replaced with the 

appropriate items from the FFIEC 102. 

Schedule A (Summary)—Revisions to 

Schedule A.1.d (Capital) 

The FDIC removed certain items 

related to tier 1 common capital, 

effective for the 2016 DFAST 

submission. Additionally, the FDIC 

added one item that captures the 

aggregate non-significant investments in 

the capital of unconsolidated financial 

institutions in the form of common 

stock and breaking out two items related 

to deferred tax assets into the amount 

before valuation allowances and the 

associated valuation allowance. The 

additional information from these 

changes would result in two existing 

items converting to derived items based 


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