5884 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 22 / Tuesday, February 3, 2015 / Notices 

1The FFIEC is a formal interagency body 

empowered to prescribe uniform principles, 

standards, and report forms for the examination of 

financial institutions by the Board of Governors of 

the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit 

Insurance Corporation, the National Credit Union 

Administration, the OCC, the Consumer Financial 

Protection Bureau, and to make recommendations 

to promote uniformity in the supervision of 

financial institutions. In 2006, the State Liaison 

Committee (SLC) was added to the Council as a 

voting member. The SLC includes representatives 

from the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, the 

American Council of State Savings Supervisors, and 

the National Association of State Credit Union 

Supervisors. 

Natural Gas Deepwater Port License, 

published in the Federal Register on 

December 16, 2014 (79 FR 74808), from 

February 17, 2015, to March 16, 2015. 

This 30-day extension of the public 

comment period is in response to 

numerous requests submitted by State 

and local officials as well as citizens, in 

the affected areas, for additional time to 

review and comment on the Liberty 

Natural Gas Port Ambrose Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

Privacy Act 

The electronic form of all comments 

received into the Federal Docket 

Management System can be searched by 

the name of the individual submitting 

the comment (or signing the comment, 

if submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). The DOT 

Privacy Act Statement can be viewed in 

the Federal Register published on April 

11, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 70, pages 

19477–78) or you may visit http://

www.regulations.gov. 

Authority: 49 CFR 1.93 

Dated: January 29, 2015. 

By Order of the Maritime Administrator. 

Thomas M. Hudson, 

Assistant Secretary, Maritime Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02085 Filed 2–2–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–81–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Activities; Comment 

Request; Interest-Rate-Risk Vendor 

Questionnaire 

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 (PRA). 

Under the PRA, Federal agencies are 

required to publish notice in the 

Federal Register concerning each 

proposed collection of information and 

allow 60 days for public comment in 

response to the notice. 

In accordance with the requirements 

of the PRA, the OCC may not conduct 

or sponsor, and the respondent is not 

required to respond to, an information 

collection unless it displays a currently 

valid Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) control number. 

Currently, the OCC is soliciting 

comment concerning its proposed 

information collection entitled, ‘‘Interest 

Rate Risk Vendor Questionnaire.’’ 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before April 6, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Because paper mail in the 

Washington, DC area and at the OCC is 

subject to delay, commenters are 

encouraged to submit comments by 

email, if possible. Comments may be 

sent to: Legislative and Regulatory 

Activities Division, Office of the 

Comptroller of the Currency, Attention: 

1557–NEW, 400 7th Street SW., Suite 

3E–218, Mail Stop 9W–11, Washington, 

DC 20219. In addition, comments may 

be sent by fax to (571) 465–4326 or by 

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

You may personally inspect and 

photocopy comments at the OCC, 400 

7th Street SW., Washington, DC 20219. 

For security reasons, the OCC requires 

that visitors make an appointment to 

inspect comments. You may do so by 

calling (202) 649–6700. 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. 

All comments received, including 

attachments and other supporting 

materials, are part of the public record 

and subject to public disclosure. Do not 

enclose any information in your 

comment or supporting materials that 

you consider confidential or 

inappropriate for public disclosure. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary Gottlieb, OCC Clearance Officer, 

(202) 649–5490, for persons who are 

deaf or hard of hearing, TTY, (202) 649– 

5597, Legislative and Regulatory 

Activities Division, Office of the 

Comptroller of the Currency, 400 7th 

Street SW., Washington, DC 20219. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The OCC 

is proposing to adopt the following new 

information collection: 

Title: Interest Rate Risk Vendor 

Questionnaire. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Frequency of Response: Annually. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. 

Respondents: Asset-Liability 

Management Software Vendors (model 

developers and consultants). 

Total Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 73 (33 model developers; 

40 consultants). 

Estimated Time per Response: 8 hours 

for model developers; 4 hours for 

consultants. 

Total Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

424 hours. 

Type of Review: Regular. 

Abstract 

In June 2014, the Federal Financial 

Institutions Examination Council 

(FFIEC) 1 Task Force on Supervision 

(TFOS) established a working group to 

discuss supervisory processes and 

strategies for monitoring and addressing 

interest rate risk at insured depository 

institutions. One of the group’s key 

priorities is to complete a questionnaire 

of asset-liability management software 

vendors, both model developers and 

consultants. The questionnaire is 

designed to inform examiners of the 

mechanics and underlying assumptions 

of specific interest rate risk models with 

the goal of helping examiners gain a 

better understanding of financial 

institutions’ rate sensitivity modeling. 

The questionnaire captures information 

ranging from basic aspects of each 

vendor or consultant’s interest rate risk 

model, for instance, its client base to 

more complex components, including 

modeling capability. The complex 

modeling components will provide a 

baseline level of regulatory knowledge 

about each vendor or consultant’s 

ability to measure interest rate risk 

under a variety of approaches, capture 

data, and measure the risk, including 

optionality. Staff is recommending that 

the questionnaire cover approximately 

73 vendors comprised of 33 model 

developers and 40 consultants. The 

questionnaire should take 

approximately 8 hours for each model 

developer to complete and 4 hours for 

each consultant as consultants are not 

required to answer questions related to 

a model with the same granularity as the 

model developers. 

The OCC will serve as the sponsoring 

or central collection agency for this 

information collection. The information 

will be collected by the OCC and made 

available to the FFIEC’s TFOS in order 

to support its discussions concerning 

supervisory processes and strategies for 

monitoring and addressing interest rate 

risk at insured depository institutions. 


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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 22 / Tuesday, February 3, 2015 / Notices 5885 

Request for Comment 

Public comment is requested on all 

aspects of this joint notice. Comments 

are invited on: 

(a) Whether the proposed revisions to 

the collections of information that are 

the subject of this notice are necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

agencies’ functions, including whether 

the information has practical utility; 

(b) The accuracy of the agencies’ 

estimates of the burden of the 

information collections as they are 

proposed to be revised, 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 collections on respondents, 

including through the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology; and 

(e) Estimates of capital or start-up 

costs and costs of operation, 

maintenance, and purchase of services 

to provide information. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this joint notice will be shared among 

the agencies. All comments will become 

a matter of public record. 

Dated: January 27, 2015. 

Stuart E. Feldstein, 

Director, Legislative and Regulatory Activities 

Division. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02001 Filed 2–2–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4810–33–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency 

[Docket ID: OCC–2015–0001 

Minority Depository Institutions 

Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency, Department of the Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Office of the Comptroller 

of the Currency (OCC) announces a 

meeting of the Minority Depository 

Institutions Advisory Committee 

(MDIAC). 

DATES: The OCC MDIAC will hold a 

public meeting on Wednesday, February 

18, 2015, beginning at 8:30 a.m. Eastern 

Standard Time (EST). 

ADDRESSES: The OCC will hold the 

February 18, 2015 meeting of the 

MDIAC at the Office of the Comptroller 

of the Currency, 400 7th Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20219. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Beverly Cole, Designated Federal Officer 

and Senior Advisor to the Senior 

Deputy Comptroller for Midsize and 

Community Bank Supervision, (202) 

649–5420, Office of the Comptroller of 

the Currency, Washington DC, 20219. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: By this 

notice, the OCC is announcing that the 

MDIAC will convene a meeting at 8:30 

a.m. EST on Wednesday, February 18, 

2015, at the Office of the Comptroller of 

the Currency, 400 7th Street SW., 

Washington DC, 20219. Agenda items 

will include current topics of interest to 

the industry. The purpose of the 

meeting is for the MDIAC to advise the 

OCC on steps the agency may be able to 

take to ensure the continued health and 

viability of minority depository 

institutions and other issues of concern 

to minority depository institutions. 

Members of the public may submit 

written statements to the MDIAC by any 

one of the following methods: 

• Email to: MDIAC@OCC.treas.gov. 

• Mail to: Beverly Cole, Designated 

Federal Officer, Office of the 

Comptroller of the Currency, 400 7th 

Street SW., Washington DC, 20219. 

The OCC must receive written 

statements no later than Wednesday, 

February 11, 2015. Members of the 

public who plan to attend the meeting 

should contact the OCC by 5:00 p.m. 

EST on Thursday, February 12, 2015 to 

inform the OCC of their desire to attend 

the meeting and to provide information 

that will be required to facilitate entry 

into the meeting. Members of the public 

may contact the OCC via email at 

MDIAC@OCC.treas.gov or by telephone 

at (202) 649–5402. Attendees should 

provide their full name, email address, 

and organization, if any. For security 

reasons, members of the public will be 

subject to security screening procedures 

and must present a valid government 

issued form of identification to enter the 

building. Members of the public who 

are deaf or hard of hearing should call 

(202) 649–5597 (TTY) at least five days 

before the meeting to make necessary 

arrangements. The OCC will provide 

attendees with auxiliary aids (e.g., sign 

language interpretation) required for 

this meeting. 

Dated: January 28, 2015. 

Thomas J. Curry, 

Comptroller of the Currency. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02005 Filed 2–2–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4810–33–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

Additional Designations, Foreign 

Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act 

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets 

Control, Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the 

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets 

Control (OFAC) is publishing the names 

of two individuals whose property and 

interests in property have been blocked 

pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics 

Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act) 

(21 U.S.C. 1901–1908, 8 U.S.C. 1182). 

DATES: The designation by the Director 

of OFAC of the two individuals 

identified in this notice pursuant to 

section 805(b) of the Kingpin Act is 

effective on January 27, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Assistant Director, Sanctions 

Compliance & Evaluation, Office of 

Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department 

of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220, 

Tel: (202) 622–2490. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic and Facsimile Availability 

This document and additional 

information concerning OFAC are 

available on OFAC’s Web site at 

http://www.treasury.gov/ofac or via 

facsimile through a 24-hour fax-ondemand service at (202) 622–0077. 

Background 

The Kingpin Act became law on 

December 3, 1999. The Kingpin Act 

establishes a program targeting the 

activities of significant foreign narcotics 

traffickers and their organizations on a 

worldwide basis. It provides a statutory 

framework for the imposition of 

sanctions against significant foreign 

narcotics traffickers and their 

organizations on a worldwide basis, 

with the objective of denying their 

businesses and agents access to the U.S. 

financial system and the benefits of 

trade and transactions involving U.S. 

companies and individuals. 

The Kingpin Act blocks all property 

and interests in property, subject to U.S. 

jurisdiction, owned or controlled by 

significant foreign narcotics traffickers 

as identified by the President. In 

addition, the Secretary of the Treasury, 

in consultation with the Attorney 

General, the Director of the Central 

Intelligence Agency, the Director of the 

Federal Bureau of Investigation, the 

Administrator of the Drug Enforcement 

Administration, the Secretary of 

Defense, the Secretary of State, and the 


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