13312 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 57 / Thursday, March 26, 2009 / Notices 

Additionally, you should send a copy 

of your comments to: OCC Desk Officer, 

1557–0142, by mail to U.S. Office of 

Management and Budget, 725, 17th 

Street, NW., #10235, Washington, DC 

20503, or by fax to (202) 395–6974. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You 

can request additional information or a 

copy of the collection from Mary H. 

Gottlieb, OCC Clearance Officer, (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 proposing to extend OMB approval of 

the following information collection: 

Title: Recordkeeping Requirements 

for Securities Transactions—12 CFR 

part 12. 

OMB Number: 1557–0142. 

Description: This submission covers 

an existing regulation and involves no 

change to the regulation or to the 

information collection requirements. 

The only revisions to the submission are 

the revised estimates, which have been 

updated. 

The information collection 

requirements in 12 CFR part 12 are 

required to ensure national bank 

compliance with securities laws and to 

improve the protection afforded persons 

who purchase and sell securities 

through banks. The transaction 

confirmation information provides 

customers with a record regarding each 

transaction and provides banks and the 

OCC with records to ensure compliance 

with banking and securities laws and 

regulations. The OCC uses the required 

information in its examinations to, 

among other things, evaluate a bank’s 

compliance with the antifraud 

provisions of the Federal securities 

laws. 

The information collection 

requirements contained in 12 CFR part 

12 are as follows: 

• Section 12.3 requires a national 

bank effecting securities transactions for 

customers to maintain records for at 

least three years. The records required 

by this section must clearly and 

accurately reflect the information 

required and provide an adequate basis 

for the audit of the information. 

• Section 12.4 requires a national 

bank to give or send to the customer a 

written notification of the transaction or 

a copy of the registered broker/dealer 

confirmation relating to the transaction. 

• Sections 12.5(a), (b), (c), and (e) 

describe notification procedures a 

national bank may use as an alternative 

to complying with § 12.4, to notify 

customers of transactions in which the 

bank does not exercise investment 

discretion, trust transactions, agency 

transactions and certain securities 

transactions for periodic plans. 

• Sections 12.7(a)(1) through (a)(3) 

require a national bank to maintain and 

adhere to policies and procedures that 

assign responsibility for supervision of 

employees who perform securities 

trading functions; provide for the fair 

and equitable allocation of securities 

and prices to accounts; and provide for 

the crossing of buy and sell orders on 

a fair and equitable basis. 

• Section 12.7(a)(4) requires certain 

bank officers and employees involved in 

the securities trading process to report 

to the bank within ten business days 

after the end of the calendar quarter all 

personal transactions in securities made 

by them or on their behalf in which they 

have a beneficial interest. 

• Section 12.8 requires a national 

bank seeking a waiver of one or more of 

the requirements of §§ 12.2 through 12.7 

to file a written request for waiver with 

the OCC. 

Type of Review: Regular. 

Affected Public: Individuals; 

businesses or other for-profit. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

497. 

Estimated Total Annual Responses: 

2,501. 

Estimated Frequency of Response: On 

occasion. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

2,711 hours. 

The OCC issued a 60-day notice for 

comment on January 13, 2009. 74 FR 

1762. No comments were received. 

Comments continued to be 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. 

Dated: March 20, 2009. 

Michele Meyer, 

Assistant Director, Legislative and Regulatory 

Activities Division. 

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory 

Committee; Notice of Meeting 

The Department of Veterans Affairs 

(VA) gives notice under Public Law 92– 

463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) 

that a meeting of the Geriatrics and 

Gerontology Advisory Committee will 

be held on April 23–24, 2009, in Room 

530, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 

Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC. On April 23, the session will begin 

at 8:30 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. On April 

24, the session will begin at 8 a.m. and 

end at 12 p.m. This meeting is open to 

the public. 

The purpose of the Committee is to 

provide advice to the Secretary of 

Veterans Affairs and the Under 

Secretary for Health on all matters 

pertaining to geriatrics and gerontology. 

The Committee assesses the capability 

of VA health care facilities and 

programs to meet the medical, 

psychological, and social needs of older 

Veterans and evaluates VA programs 

designated as Geriatric Research, 

Education, and Clinical Centers. 

The meeting will feature 

presentations and discussions on VA’s 

aging research activities, update on the 

VA’s geriatric workforce (to include 

training, recruitment and retention 

approaches), Veterans Health 

Administration (VHA) Geriatric Primary 

Care, VHA strategic planning activities 

in geriatrics and extended care, recent 

VHA efforts regarding dementia and the 

long term care needs of recently 

returning Veterans, program advances in 

Community Living Centers and 

palliative care, and policy guidance and 

performance oversight of the VA 

Geriatric Research, Education, and 

Clinical Centers. 

No time will be allocated at this 

meeting for receiving oral presentations 

from the public. Interested parties 

should provide written comments for 

review by the Committee not less than 

ten days in advance of the meeting to 

Mrs. Marcia Holt-Delaney, Office of 

Geriatrics and Extended Care (114), 

Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 

Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 

20420. Individuals who wish to attend 

the meeting should contact Mrs. HoltDelaney, Program Analyst, at (202) 461– 

6769. 

Dated: March 23, 2009. 

By direction of the Secretary. 

E. Philip Riggin, 

Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–6802 Filed 3–25–09; 8:45 am] 

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