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1The government survey may be distributed to 

federal government agencies in addition to state and 

local governments and U.S. territories, but 

collections of information from federal government 

agencies are not subject to the Paperwork Reduction 

Act and, thus, are not included in this discussion. 

U.S. territories include American Samoa, Guam, 

Midway Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto 

Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands. 

from issuers of governmentadministered, general-use prepaid cards 

including information on the pre-paid 

card program, the number of cards 

outstanding, card funding, ATM 

transactions, purchase transactions, fees 

paid by issuers to third parties, 

interchange fees, and cardholder fees. 

The issuer survey (FR 3063a) is 

mandatory. The government survey (FR 

3063b), which is being discontinued, 

was designed to collect data from state 

governments, the District of Columbia, 

and U.S. territories (collectively ‘‘state 

governments’’), and municipal 

government offices located within the 

United States (local government offices) 

that administer general-use prepaid card 

payment programs.1 It was intended 

that the FR 3063b survey would collect 

similar information from state 

governments and local government 

offices to supplement the information 

collected from card issuers in the FR 

3063a survey on the usage of generaluse prepaid cards in federal, state or 

local government-administered payment 

programs. However, the FR 3063b was 

voluntary, and the Board has not issued 

this survey to state governments or local 

government offices in the past three 

years because relevant information on 

the use of prepaid cards was obtained 

from the FR 3063a survey. 

The Board uses data from the FR 

3063a survey to support an annual 

report to Congress on the prevalence of 

use of general-use prepaid cards in 

federal, state, and local governmentadministered payment programs and on 

the interchange and cardholder fees 

charged with respect to such use of such 

cards. 

Legal authorization and 

confidentiality: The issuer survey is 

authorized by subsection 920(a)(7) of 

the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, 15 

U.S.C. 1693o–2(a)(7), which was added 

by section 1075(a) of the Dodd-Frank 

Wall Street Reform and Consumer 

Protection Act. This subsection requires 

the Board to submit an annual report to 

Congress on the prevalence of the use of 

general-use prepaid cards in federal, 

state, or local government-administered 

payment programs and the interchange 

transaction fees and card-holder fees 

charged with respect to the use of such 

general-use prepaid cards (15 U.S.C. 

1693o–2(a)(7)(D)). It also provides the 

Board with authority to require issuers 

to provide information to enable the 

Board to carry out the provisions of the 

subsection (15 U.S.C. 1693o–2(a)(3)(B)). 

The obligation of issuers to respond to 

the issuer survey is mandatory. The 

Board generally regards the information 

collected from each individual issuer on 

the FR 3063a survey as confidential 

commercial and financial information, 

which may be protected by exemption 

4 of the Freedom of Information Act (5 

U.S.C. 552(b)(4)). The Board, however, 

may publicly release aggregate or 

summary information in a way that does 

not reveal the individual issuer. 

Current actions: On November 19, 

2020, the Board published a notice in 

the Federal Register (85 FR 73708) 

requesting public comment for 60 days 

on the extension, with revision, of the 

Government-Administered, General-Use 

Prepaid Card Surveys. The Board 

proposed to revise and streamline the 

FR 3063a reporting structure to reduce 

burden on respondents by deleting 

various questions, which are no longer 

necessary to support the Board’s annual 

report. In addition, the Board proposed 

to discontinue the FR 3063b. The 

comment period for this notice expired 

on January 19, 2021. The Board did not 

receive any comments. The revisions 

will be implemented as proposed. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, March 2, 2021. 

Michele Taylor Fennell, 

Deputy Associate Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2021–04689 Filed 3–5–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Activities; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Board of Governors of the 

Federal Reserve System. 

ACTION: Notice, request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Board of Governors of the 

Federal Reserve System (Board) invites 

comment on a proposal to extend for 

three years, without revision, the 

Recordkeeping Requirements 

Associated with Regulation GG (FR GG; 

OMB No. 7100–0317). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before May 7, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by FR GG, by any of the 

following methods: 

• Agency Website: https://

www.federalreserve.gov/. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments at 

https://www.federalreserve.gov/apps/ 

foia/proposedregs.aspx. 

• Email: regs.comments@

federalreserve.gov. Include the OMB 

number in the subject line of the 

message. 

• FAX: (202) 452–3819 or (202) 452– 

3102. 

• Mail: Ann E. Misback, Secretary, 

Board of Governors of the Federal 

Reserve System, 20th Street and 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20551. 

All public comments are available 

from the Board’s website at https://

www.federalreserve.gov/apps/foia/ 

proposedregs.aspx as submitted, unless 

modified for technical reasons or to 

remove personally identifiable 

information at the commenter’s request. 

Accordingly, comments will not be 

edited to remove any identifying or 

contact information. Public comments 

may also be viewed electronically or in 

paper in Room 146, 1709 New York 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006, 

between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on 

weekdays. For security reasons, the 

Board requires that visitors make an 

appointment to inspect comments. You 

may do so by calling (202) 452–3684. 

Upon arrival, visitors will be required to 

present valid government-issued photo 

identification and to submit to security 

screening in order to inspect and 

photocopy comments. 

Additionally, commenters may send a 

copy of their comments to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) Desk 

Officer—Shagufta Ahmed—Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 

725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 

20503, or by fax to (202) 395–6974. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Federal Reserve Board Clearance 

Officer—Nuha Elmaghrabi—Office of 

the Chief Data Officer, Board of 

Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, Washington, DC 20551, (202) 

452–3829. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 

15, 1984, OMB delegated to the Board 

authority under the PRA to approve and 

assign OMB control numbers to 

collections of information conducted or 

sponsored by the Board. In exercising 

this delegated authority, the Board is 

directed to take every reasonable step to 

solicit comment. In determining 

whether to approve a collection of 

information, the Board will consider all 

comments received from the public and 

other agencies. 

A copy of the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA) OMB submission, including 

the reporting form and instructions, 

supporting statement, and other 

documentation will be available at 


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1 12 CFR 233.5(a). 

2 12 CFR 233.5(b). 

3See 12 CFR 233.6. 

https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain, if approved. These 

documents will also be made available 

on the Board’s public website at https:// 

www.federalreserve.gov/apps/ 

reportforms/review.aspx or may be 

requested from the agency clearance 

officer, whose name appears above. 

Request for Comment on Information 

Collection Proposal 

The Board invites public comment on 

the following information collection, 

which is being reviewed under 

authority delegated by the OMB under 

the PRA. Comments are invited on the 

following: 

a. Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the Board’s functions, 

including whether the information has 

practical utility; 

b. The accuracy of the Board’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

information collection, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; 

c. Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; 

d. Ways to minimize the burden of 

information 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. 

At the end of the comment period, the 

comments and recommendations 

received will be analyzed to determine 

the extent to which the Board should 

modify the proposal. 

Proposal Under OMB Delegated 

Authority To Extend for Three Years, 

Without Revision, the Following 

Information Collection 

Report title: Recordkeeping 

Requirements Associated with 

Regulation GG. 

Agency form number: FR GG. 

OMB control number: 7100–0317. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Respondents: Depository institutions, 

credit unions, card system operators, 

and money transmitting business 

operators. 

Estimated number of respondents: 

Depository institutions: 2,331; credit 

unions: 2,575; card system operators: 7; 

money transmitting business operators: 

62; and new or de novo institutions: 3. 

Estimated average hours per response: 

Ongoing annual burden of 8 hours per 

recordkeeper for depository institutions, 

credit unions, card system operators, 

and money transmitting business 

operators. Onetime burden of 100 hours 

for new or de novo institutions. 

Estimated annual burden hours: 

Ongoing burden: 39,800; one-time 

burden: 300. 

General description of report: Section 

5 of Regulation GG, Prohibition on 

Funding of Unlawful internet Gambling, 

requires all non-exempt participants in 

the designated payment systems to 

establish and implement policies and 

procedures reasonably designed to 

identify and block, or otherwise prevent 

or prohibit, transactions restricted by 

the Unlawful internet Gambling 

Enforcement Act of 2006.1 In addition, 

section 5 states that a participant in a 

designated payment system may rely on 

policies and procedures established by 

the designated payment system if the 

system’s policies and procedures 

otherwise comply with the requirements 

of the regulation.2

Section 6 of Regulation GG sets out 

non-exclusive examples of policies and 

procedures for each designated payment 

system that the Board and the 

Department of the Treasury believe are 

reasonably designed to prevent or 

prohibit restricted transactions for nonexempt participants in the system.3

The internal agency tracking number 

previously assigned by the Board to this 

information collection was ‘‘FR 4026.’’ 

The Board is changing the internal 

agency tracking number to ‘‘FR GG’’ for 

the purpose of consistency. 

Legal authorization and 

confidentiality: FR GG is authorized by 

section 802 of the Unlawful internet 

Gambling Enforcement Act, which 

permits the Board to prescribe 

regulations requiring designated 

payment systems and participants 

therein to establish policies and 

procedures to identify and block or 

otherwise prevent and prohibit 

restricted transactions (31 U.S.C. 

5364(a)). The obligation to respond is 

mandatory. 

The policies and procedures required 

by Regulation GG are not required to be 

submitted to the Board. To the extent 

such policies and procedures are 

obtained by the Board through the 

examination process, they may be kept 

confidential under exemption 8 of the 

Freedom of Information Act, which 

protects information contained in or 

related to an examination of a financial 

institution (5 U.S.C. 552(b)(8)). 

Consultation outside the agency: The 

Board has consulted with the 

Department of the Treasury regarding 

this information collection renewal. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, March 1, 2021. 

Michele Taylor Fennell, 

Deputy Associate Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2021–04660 Filed 3–5–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Activities; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Board of Governors of the 

Federal Reserve System. 

ACTION: Notice, request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Board of Governors of the 

Federal Reserve System (Board) invites 

comment on a proposal to extend for 

three years, without revision, the 

Application for a Foreign Organization 

to Acquire a U.S. Bank or Bank Holding 

Company (FR Y–3F; OMB No. 7100– 

0119). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before May 7, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by FR Y–3F, by any of the 

following methods: 

• Agency Website: https://

www.federalreserve.gov/. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments at 

https://www.federalreserve.gov/apps/ 

foia/proposedregs.aspx. 

• Email: regs.comments@

federalreserve.gov. Include the OMB 

number in the subject line of the 

message. 

• FAX: (202) 452–3819 or (202) 452– 

3102. 

• Mail: Ann E. Misback, Secretary, 

Board of Governors of the Federal 

Reserve System, 20th Street and 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20551. 

All public comments are available 

from the Board’s website at https://

www.federalreserve.gov/apps/foia/ 

proposedregs.aspx as submitted, unless 

modified for technical reasons or to 

remove personally identifiable 

information at the commenter’s request. 

Accordingly, comments will not be 

edited to remove any identifying or 

contact information. Public comments 

may also be viewed electronically or in 

paper in Room 146, 1709 New York 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006, 

between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on 

weekdays. For security reasons, the 

Board requires that visitors make an 

appointment to inspect comments. You 

may do so by calling (202) 452–3684. 

Upon arrival, visitors will be required to 

present valid government-issued photo 

identification and to submit to security 


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