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(NEPA) and the California 

Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), 

should the State Water Board prepare an 

environmental impact report (EIR). (See 

Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, 15083, 15223, 

15226.) This notice is intended to 

provide notice of the State Water 

Board’s informal consultation with 

responsible and trustee agencies 

pursuant to section 15063 of the CEQA 

Guidelines as to the potential for the 

proposed action to cause a significant 

impact to the environment. (Cal. Code 

Regs., tit. 14, § 15063, subd. (g).) 

Recipients of this notice are invited to 

comment on whether an EIR, negative 

declaration, or mitigated negative 

declaration should be prepared. In 

addition, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines 

section 15083, subdivision (c), these 

meetings are intended to simultaneously 

serve the purposes identified in 

California Code of Regulations, title 14, 

section 15082, subdivision (c). Any 

responsible or trustee agency or other 

interested parties that believes an EIR 

should be prepared should identify the 

scope and content of any environmental 

information it believes should be 

required, should the State Water Board 

prepare an EIR. 

The times and locations of these 

meetings are as follows: 

Daytime Scoping Meeting 

Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2018. 

Time: 9:00 a.m. 

Location: Piccadilly Inn Airport, 5115 

E McKinley Ave., Fresno, CA. 

Phone: (559) 375–7760. 

Evening Scoping Meeting 

Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2018. 

Time: 6:00 p.m. 

Location: Piccadilly Inn Airport, 5115 

E McKinley Ave., Fresno, CA. 

Phone: (559) 375–7760. 

SD1, which outlines the subject areas 

to be addressed in the environmental 

document, was mailed to the 

individuals and entities on the 

Commission’s mailing list. Copies of 

SD1 will be available at the scoping 

meetings, or may be viewed on the web 

at http://www.ferc.gov, using the 

eLibrary link. Follow the directions for 

accessing information in paragraph n. 

Based on all oral and written comments, 

a Scoping Document 2 (SD2) may be 

issued. SD2 may include a revised 

process plan and schedule, as well as a 

list of issues, identified through the 

scoping process. 

Environmental Site Review 

The potential applicant and 

Commission staff will conduct an 

Environmental Site Review (site visit) of 

the project at 8:00 a.m., Wednesday, 

February 14, 2018. Participants are 

responsible for their own transportation. 

Persons planning on participating in the 

site visit must RSVP to Ms. Lisa 

Whitman of PG&E at Lisa.Whitman@

pge.com or (415) 973–7465, on or before 

February 1, 2018. Additional details 

concerning the site visit are provided in 

SD1. 

Meeting Objectives 

At the scoping meetings, staff will: (1) 

Initiate scoping of the issues; (2) review 

and discuss existing conditions and 

resource management objectives; (3) 

review and discuss existing information 

and identify preliminary information 

and study needs; (4) review and discuss 

the process plan and schedule for prefiling activity that incorporates the time 

frames provided for in Part 5 of the 

Commission’s regulations and, to the 

extent possible, maximizes coordination 

of federal, state, and tribal permitting 

and certification processes; and (5) 

discuss the appropriateness of any 

federal or state agency or Indian tribe 

acting as a cooperating agency for 

development of an environmental 

document. 

Meeting participants should come 

prepared to discuss their issues and/or 

concerns. Please review the PAD in 

preparation for the scoping meetings. 

Directions on how to obtain a copy of 

the PAD and SD1 are provided in item 

n. of this document. 

Meeting Procedures 

The meetings will be recorded by a 

stenographer and will be placed in the 

public record of the Commission and 

State Water Board proceedings for this 

project. 

Dated: January 16, 2018. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–01014 Filed 1–19–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

TIME AND DATE: Thursday, January 25, 

2018 at 10:00 a.m. 

PLACE: 999 E Street, NW, Washington, 

DC (Ninth Floor). 

STATUS: This meeting will be open to the 

public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Proposed Interim Enforcement Policy on 

Volunteer Mail Exemption 

Proposed Revisions to Forms 8 & 9 and 

Instructions 

Management and Administrative 

Matters 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Judith Ingram, Press Officer, Telephone: 

(202) 694–1220. 

Individuals who plan to attend and 

require special assistance, such as sign 

language interpretation or other 

reasonable accommodations, should 

contact Dayna C. Brown, Secretary and 

Clerk, at (202) 694–1040, at least 72 

hours prior to the meeting date. 

Dayna C. Brown, 

Secretary and Clerk of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2018–01205 Filed 1–18–18; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6715–01–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 or 

Federal Reserve) invites comment on a 

proposal to extend, with revision, the 

mandatory Reporting Requirements 

associated with Regulation QQ (OMB 

No. 7100–0346). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before March 23, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Reg QQ, by any of the 

following methods: 

• Agency website: http://

www.federalreserve.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments at 

http://www.federalreserve.gov/apps/ 

foia/proposedregs.aspx. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Email: regs.comments@

federalreserve.gov. Include OMB 

number in the subject line of the 

message. 

• Fax: (202) 452–3819 or (202) 452– 

3102. 

• Mail: Ann 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 http://

www.federalreserve.gov/apps/foia/ 

proposedregs.aspx as submitted, unless 

modified for technical reasons. 

Accordingly, your comments will not be 

edited to remove any identifying or 

contact information. Public comments 

may also be viewed electronically or in 

paper form in Room 3515, 1801 K Street 

(between 18th and 19th Streets NW) 


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1This includes any foreign bank or company that 

is, or is treated as, a bank holding company under 

section 8(a) of the International Banking Act of 

1978, and that has $50 billion or more in total 

consolidated assets. 

2This estimate captures the annual time that 

complex, domestic filers will spend complying with 

this collection, given that eight of these filers will 

only submit two resolution plans over the period 

covered by this notice. The estimate therefore 

represents two-thirds of the time these eight firms 

are estimated to spend on each resolution plan 

submission. 

3This group currently consists of Bank of 

America Corporation; Bank of New York Mellon 

Corporation; Citigroup, Inc.; Goldman Sachs Group, 

Inc.; JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Morgan Stanley; State 

Street Corporation; and Wells Fargo & Company. 

Washington, DC 20006 between 9:00 

a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on weekdays. 

Additionally, commenters may send a 

copy of their comments to the 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: A 

copy of the PRA OMB submission, 

including the proposed reporting form 

and instructions, supporting statement, 

and other documentation will be placed 

into OMB’s public docket files, once 

approved. These documents will also be 

made available on the Federal Reserve 

Board’s public website at: http://

www.federalreserve.gov/apps/ 

reportforms/review.aspx or may be 

requested from the agency clearance 

officer, whose name appears below. 

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. Telecommunications Device 

for the Deaf (TDD) users may contact 

(202) 263–4869, Board of Governors of 

the Federal Reserve System, 

Washington, DC 20551. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 

15, 1984, the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) delegated to the Board 

authority under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA) to approve of and 

assign OMB control numbers to 

collection of information requests and 

requirements 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. 

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 Federal Reserve’s 

functions; including whether the 

information has practical utility; 

b. The accuracy of the Federal 

Reserve’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 Federal Reserve 

should modify the proposed revisions 

prior to giving final approval. 

Proposal To Approve Under OMB 

Delegated Authority the Extension for 

Three Years, With Revision, of the 

Following Report: 

Report title: Reporting Requirements 

Associated with Regulation QQ. 

Agency form number: Reg QQ. 

OMB control number: 7100–0346. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Respondents: Bank holding 

companies 1 with assets of $50 billion or 

more and nonbank financial firms 

designated by the Financial Stability 

Oversight Council for supervision by the 

Board. 

Estimated number of respondents: 

Reduced Reporters: 82; Tailored 

Domestic Reporters: 13; Tailored 

Foreign Reporters: 2; Full Domestic 

Reporters: 3; Full Foreign Reporters: 16; 

Complex, Domestic Filers: 9; Complex, 

Foreign Filers: 4. 

Estimated average hours per response: 

Reduced Reporters: 60 hours; Tailored 

Domestic Reporters: 9,000 hours; 

Tailored Foreign Reporters: 1,130 hours; 

Full Domestic Reporters: 26,000 hours; 

Full Foreign Reporters: 2,000 hours; 

Complex, Domestic Filers: 79,522 

hours; 2 Complex, Foreign Filers: 55,500 

hours. 

Estimated annual burden hours: 

Reduced Reporters: 4,920 hours; 

Tailored Domestic Reporters: 117,000 

hours; Tailored Foreign Reporters: 2,260 

hours; Full Domestic Reporters: 78,000 

hours; Full Foreign Reporters: 32,000 

hours; Complex, Domestic Filers: 

715,697 hours; Complex Foreign Filers: 

222,000 hours. Total estimated annual 

burden: 1,171,877. 

General Description of Report: 

Regulation QQ (12 CFR part 243) 

requires each bank holding company 

(BHC) with assets of $50 billion or more 

and nonbank financial firms designated 

by the Financial Stability Oversight 

Council (FSOC) for supervision by the 

Board (collectively, covered companies) 

to report annually to the Board and the 

FDIC the plan of such company for 

rapid and orderly resolution under the 

U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the event of 

the company’s material financial 

distress or failure. The plans submitted 

pursuant to Regulation QQ, and 

identified in this information collection, 

are reviewed jointly by the Board and 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 

(FDIC) (collectively, the Agencies). On 

September 28, 2017, the Board and the 

FDIC announced the postponement of 

the next plan submission of the largest 

and most complex, domestic BHCs 3

from July 1, 2018, to July 1, 2019, to 

permit the agencies to provide 

meaningful feedback on the July 2017 

plans and provide the BHCs with 

sufficient time to incorporate the 

feedback into their next plans. If these 

firms were filing each year covered by 

this notice, instead of only twice, the 

total estimated annual burden for the 

reporting of this information collection 

would be 1,473,180 hours instead of the 

aforementioned 1,171,877. 

The Board is exploring ways to 

improve the resolution planning 

process. Such improvements could 

include, for example, extending the 

cycle for plan submissions; focusing 

certain filings on key topics of interest 

and material changes; or reducing the 

submission requirements for firms with 

small, simple, and domestically focused 

activities. The Board will solicit 

comments on the effects that any such 

changes would have on paperwork 

burden if and when the changes are 

proposed. 

Proposed revisions: The Federal 

Reserve proposes to revise its original 

burden estimates based on a 

reassessment of the burden hours 

associated with responding to the 

informational requirements of 

Regulation QQ and to guidance, 

feedback, and additional requests for 

information by the agencies as part of 

the iterative resolution planning 

process. The burden increase also is 

mitigated by the postponement of the 


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4 Depending upon the circumstances of any 

specific FOIA request, other exemptions may also 

apply. 

July 2018 submission date for the 

resolution plans of the complex, 

domestic filers, which account for the 

largest percentage of overall burden 

hours. 

Legal authorization and 

confidentiality: This information 

collection is mandatory pursuant to 

section 165(d)(8) of the Dodd-Frank Act 

(Pub. L. 111–203, 124 Stat. 1376, 1426– 

1427), 12 U.S.C. 5365(d)(8), which 

requires the Board and the FDIC to 

jointly issue rules implementing the 

provisions of section 165(d) of the 

Dodd-Frank Act. The Board’s Legal 

Division has determined that under 

section 112(d)(5)(A) of the Dodd-Frank 

Act, the Board and the FDIC ‘‘shall 

maintain the confidentiality of any data, 

information, and reports submitted 

under’’ Title I (which includes section 

165(d), the authority this regulation is 

promulgated under) of the Dodd-Frank 

Act. 

The Board and the FDIC will assess 

the confidentiality of resolution plans 

and related material in accordance with 

FOIA and the Board’s and the FDIC’s 

implementing regulations (12 CFR part 

261 (Board); 12 CFR part 309 (FDIC)). 

The Board and the FDIC expect that 

large portions of the submissions will 

contain or consist of ‘‘trade secrets and 

commercial or financial information 

obtained from a person and privileged 

or confidential’’ and information that is 

‘‘contained in or related to examination, 

operating, or condition reports prepared 

by, on behalf of, or for the use of an 

agency responsible for the regulation or 

supervision of financial institutions.’’ 

This information is subject to 

withholding under exemptions 4 and 8 

of the FOIA, 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4) and 

552(b)(8).4 The Board and the FDIC also 

recognize, however, that the regulation 

calls for the submission of details 

regarding covered companies that are 

publicly available or otherwise are not 

sensitive and should be made public. In 

order to address this, the regulation 

requires resolution plans to be divided 

into two portions: a public section and 

a confidential section. 

In addition to any responses to 

guidance from the Agencies, the public 

section of the resolution plan should 

consist of an executive summary of the 

resolution plan that describes the 

business of the covered company and 

includes, to the extent material to an 

understanding of the covered company: 

(i) The names of material entities; (ii) a 

description of core business lines; (iii) 

consolidated or segment financial 

information regarding assets, liabilities, 

capital and major funding sources; (iv) 

a description of derivative activities and 

hedging activities; (v) a list of 

memberships in material payment, 

clearing, and settlement systems; (vi) a 

description of foreign operations; (vii) 

the identities of material supervisory 

authorities; (viii) the identities of the 

principal officers; (ix) a description of 

the corporate governance structure and 

processes related to resolution planning; 

(x) a description of material 

management information systems; and 

(xi) a description, at a high level, of the 

covered company’s resolution strategy, 

covering such items as the range of 

potential purchasers of the covered 

company, its material entities and core 

business lines. 

While the information in the public 

section of a resolution plan should be 

sufficiently detailed to allow the public 

to understand the business of the 

covered company, such information can 

be high level in nature and based on 

publicly available information. The 

public section will be made available to 

the public exactly as submitted by the 

covered companies as soon as possible 

following receipt by the agencies. A 

covered company should submit a 

properly substantiated request for 

confidential treatment of any details in 

the confidential section that it believes 

are subject to withholding under 

exemption 4 of the FOIA. In addition, 

the Board and the FDIC will make 

formal exemption and segregability 

determinations if and when a plan is 

requested under the FOIA. 

Consultation outside the agency: The 

Board consulted with FDIC staff 

regarding the revised burden estimate. 

In addition, to inform the Board’s 

estimates, Board staff sought 

information from all respondents 

concerning each respondent’s estimate 

of the burden associated with this 

collection. A total of 33 respondents 

provided burden information. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, January 17, 2018. 

Ann E. Misback, 

Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2018–01046 Filed 1–19–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Announcement of Board 

Approval Under Delegated Authority 

and Submission to OMB 

AGENCY: Board of Governors of the 

Federal Reserve System. 

SUMMARY: The Board of Governors of the 

Federal Reserve System (Board) is 

adopting a proposal to extend for three 

years, with revision, the Consolidated 

Financial Statements for Holding 

Companies (FR Y–9C) (OMB No. 7100– 

0128), the Parent Company Only 

Financial Statements for Large Holding 

Companies (FR Y–9LP) (OMB No. 7100– 

0128), the Parent Company Only 

Financial Statements for Small Holding 

Companies FR Y–9SP) (OMB No. 7100– 

0128), the Financial Statements of U.S. 

Nonbank Subsidiaries Held by Foreign 

Banking Organizations (FR Y–7N) (OMB 

No. 7100–0125), and the Consolidated 

Report of Condition and Income for 

Edge and Agreement Corporations (FR 

2886b) (OMB No. 7100–0086), and to 

extend, without revision, the Financial 

Statements for Employee Stock 

Ownership Plan Holding Companies 

(FR Y–9ES) (OMB No. 7100–0128) the 

Supplement to the Consolidated 

Financial Statements for Holding 

Companies (FR Y–9CS) (OMB No. 7100– 

0086), the Abbreviated Financial 

Statements of U.S. Nonbank 

Subsidiaries Held by Foreign Banking 

Organizations (FR Y–7NS) (OMB No. 

7100–0125); and the Capital and Asset 

Report for Foreign Banking 

Organizations (FR Y–7Q) (OMB No. 

7100–0125). 

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. Telecommunications Device 

for the Deaf (TDD) users may contact 

(202) 263–4869, Board of Governors of 

the Federal Reserve System, 

Washington, DC 20551. 

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. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 

15, 1984, the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) delegated to the Board 

authority under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA) to approve and 

assign OMB control numbers to 

collection of information requests and 

requirements conducted or sponsored 

by the Board. Board-approved 

collections of information are 

incorporated into the official OMB 

inventory of currently approved 

collections of information. Copies of the 

PRA submission, supporting statements, 

and approved collection of information 

instrument(s) are placed into OMB’s 


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