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Public Inspection: All comments 

received will be posted without change 

to http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/ 

federal/propose/html including any 

personal information provided. 

Comments may be inspected at the FDIC 

Public Information Center, Room E– 

1002, 3501 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 

22226, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on 

business days. 

Additionally, commenters may send a 

copy of their comments to the OMB 

desk officer for the agencies by mail to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, U.S. 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: 

Additional information or a copy of the 

collection may be requested from: 

OCC: Mary 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. 

Board: Michelle Shore, Federal 

Reserve Board Clearance Officer, 202– 

452–3829, Division of Research and 

Statistics, Board of Governors of the 

Federal Reserve System, 20th and C 

Streets, NW., Washington, DC 20551. 

Telecommunications Device for the Deaf 

(TDD) users may call 202–263–4869. 

FDIC: Herbert J. Messite, Counsel, 

202–898–6834, Legal Division, Federal 

Deposit Insurance Corporation, 550 17th 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20429. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Proposal 

to request approval from OMB of the 

extension for three years, without 

revision, of the following reports: 

Report Title: Country Exposure Report 

and Country Exposure Information 

Report. 

Form Number: FFIEC 009 and FFIEC 

009a. 

Frequency of Response: Quarterly. 

Affected Public: Business or other for 

profit. 

OCC: 

OMB Number: 1557–0100. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 19 

(FFIEC 009), 19 (FFIEC 009a). 

Estimated Average Time per 

Response: 70 burden hours (FFIEC 009), 

5.25 burden hours (FFIEC 009a). 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

5,320 burden hours (FFIEC 009), 399 

burden hours (FFIEC 009a). 

Board: 

OMB Number: 7100–0035. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 28 

(FFIEC 009), 15 (FFIEC 009a). 

Estimated Average Time per 

Response: 70 burden hours (FFIEC 009), 

5.25 burden hours (FFIEC 009a). 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

7,840 burden hours (FFIEC 009), 315 

burden hours (FFIEC 009a). 

FDIC: 

OMB Number: 3064–0017. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 18 

(FFIEC 009), 18 (FFIEC 009a). 

Estimated Average Time per 

Response: 70 burden hours (FFIEC 009), 

5.25 burden hours (FFIEC 009a). 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

5,040 burden hours (FFIEC 009), 378 

burden hours (FFIEC 009a). 

General Description of Reports 

These information collections are 

mandatory: 12 U.S.C. 161 and 1817 

(national banks), 12 U.S.C. 248(a), 

1844(c), and 3906 (state member banks 

and bank holding companies); and 12 

U.S.C. 1817 and 1820 (insured state 

nonmember commercial and savings 

banks). The FFIEC 009 information 

collection is given confidential 

treatment (5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4) and (b)(8)). 

The FFIEC 009a information collection 

is not given confidential treatment. 

Abstract 

The Country Exposure Report (FFIEC 

009) is filed quarterly with the agencies 

and provides information on 

international claims of U.S. banks and 

bank holding companies that is used for 

supervisory and analytical purposes. 

The information is used to monitor 

country exposure of banks to determine 

the degree of risk in their portfolios and 

the possible impact on U.S. banks of 

adverse developments in particular 

countries. The Country Exposure 

Information Report (FFIEC 009a) is a 

supplement to the FFIEC 009 and 

provides publicly available information 

on material foreign country exposures 

(all exposures to a country in excess of 

1 percent of total assets or 20 percent of 

capital, whichever is less) of U.S. banks 

and bank holding companies that file 

the FFIEC 009 report. As part of the 

Country Exposure Information Report, 

reporting institutions must also furnish 

a list of countries in which they have 

lending exposures above 0.75 percent of 

total assets or 15 percent of total capital, 

whichever is less. 

Request for Comment 

Comments are invited on: 

a. Whether the information 

collections 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, 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 notice will be shared among the 

agencies. All comments will become a 

matter of public record. Written 

comments should address the accuracy 

of the burden estimates and ways to 

minimize burden including the use of 

automated collection techniques or the 

use of other forms of information 

technology as well as other relevant 

aspects of the information collection 

request. 

Subject: FFIEC 009 and FFIEC 009a. 

Dated: December 22. 2008. 

Michele Meyer, 

Assistant Director, Legislative and Regulatory 

Activities Division, Office of the Comptroller 

of the Currency. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, January 12, 2009. 

Jennifer J. Johnson, 

Secretary of the Board. 

Dated at Washington, DC, this 19th day of 

December 2008. 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 

Robert E. Feldman, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–841 Filed 1–15–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4810–33–P; 6210–01–P; 6714–01–P 

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Notices 

AGENCY: Federal Election Commission. 

The Executive Session scheduled for 

Tuesday, January 13, 2009, was 

cancelled. 

* * * * * 

DATE AND TIME: Wednesday, January 14, 

2009, 10 a.m. 

This hearing will be continued on 

Thursday, January 15, 2009, at 10 a.m. 

PLACE: 999 E Street, NW., Washington, 

DC (Ninth Floor). 

STATUS: Public hearing on Commission 

policies, practices, and procedures. 

* * * * * 

DATE AND TIME: Thursday, January 15, 

2009, Open Meeting (rescheduled to 

begin at 2 p.m.). 

PLACE: 999 E Street, NW., Washington, 

DC (Ninth Floor). 

Individuals who plan to attend and 

require special assistance, such as sign 

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language interpretation or other 

reasonable accommodations, should 

contact Mary Dove, Commission 

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

hours prior to the hearing date. 

PERSON TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION: 

Judith Ingram, Press Officer, Telephone: 

(202) 694–1220. 

Mary Dove, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. E9–855 Filed 1–15–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6715–01–P 

FEDERAL RETIREMENT THRIFT 

INVESTMENT BOARD 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Federal Retirement Thrift 

Investment Board. 

ACTION: Notice to alter a system of 

records. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Retirement Thrift 

Investment Board (Agency) proposes to 

alter a system of records notice in its 

existing inventory of records subject to 

the Privacy Act of 1974, (5 U.S.C. 552a), 

as amended. 

The proposed changes to FRTIB–1, 

Thrift Savings Plan Records, are 

necessary as the system location, system 

manager, and record access procedures 

have changed. These changes are also 

necessary in order to make clear the 

distinction between information 

available to beneficiaries and 

information available to someone 

handling a participant’s estate. Finally, 

these changes are necessary to allow the 

Agency to share participant information 

with agency personnel and casualty 

assistance officers who are aiding 

beneficiaries, with consumer reporting 

agencies when necessary for the Agency 

to collect a debt owed to it under 5 

U.S.C. 3711, and with quality control 

companies that are verifying documents 

submitted to lenders in connection with 

participants’ commercial loan 

applications. 

DATES: Effective Date: This proposed 

action will be effective without further 

notice on February 17, 2009 unless 

comments are received which result in 

a contrary determination. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to 

Megan Graziano, Assistant General 

Counsel, Federal Retirement Thrift 

Investment Board, 1250 H Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20005. The Agency’s 

fax number is (202) 942–1676. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Megan Graziano on (202) 942–1660. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Agency administers the TSP, which was 

established by the Federal Employees’ 

Retirement System Act of 1986 

(FERSA), Public Law 99–335, 100 Stat. 

514. The TSP provisions of FERSA are 

codified, as amended, largely at 5 U.S.C. 

8351 and 8401–79. The TSP is a taxdeferred retirement savings plan for 

Federal civilian employees and 

members of the uniformed services. The 

TSP is similar to cash or deferred 

arrangements established for privatesector employees under section 401(k) 

of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. 

401(k)). 

The proposed system reports, as 

required by 5 U.S.C. 552a(r), of the 

Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, were 

submitted to the House Committee on 

Government Reform, the Senate 

Committee on Homeland Security and 

Government Affairs, and the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

pursuant to paragraph 4c of Appendix I 

to OMB Circular No. A–130, ‘‘Federal 

Agency Responsibilities for Maintaining 

Records About Individuals,’’ dated 

February 8, 1996 (February 20, 1996, 61 

FR 6427). 

Thomas K. Emswiler, 

General Counsel, Federal Retirement Thrift 

Investment Board. 

FRTIB–1 

SYSTEM NAME: 

* * * * * 

SYSTEM LOCATION: 

Delete the entry and replace with 

these two sentences: ‘‘These records are 

located at the office of the entity 

engaged by the Agency to perform 

record keeping services for the TSP. The 

current address for this record keeper is 

listed at http://www.tsp.gov.’’ 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM: 

* * * * * 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

* * * * * 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

* * * * * 

PURPOSES: 

* * * * * 

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES: 

Edit subpart (e) as follows: 

‘‘(e). When a participant to whom a 

record pertains dies, to disclose the 

following types of information to any 

potential beneficiary: Information in the 

participant’s record which could have 

been properly disclosed to the 

participant when living (unless doing so 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of privacy) and the name and 

relationship of any other person who 

claims the benefits or who is entitled to 

share the benefits payable.’’ Add the 

following subpart after (e) and 

redesignate all subparts thereafter: 

‘‘(f). When a participant to whom a 

record pertains dies, to disclose the 

following types of information to 

anyone handling the participant’s estate: 

Information in the participant’s record 

which could have been properly 

disclosed to the participant when living 

(unless doing so would constitute a 

clearly unwarranted invasion of 

privacy), the name and the relationship 

of any person who claims the benefits 

or who is entitled to share the benefits 

payable, and information necessary for 

the estate’s administration (for example, 

post-death tax reporting).’’ 

Add the following subparts after 

subpart (r): 

‘‘(s). To disclose to personnel from 

agency personnel/payroll offices or to 

casualty assistance officers when 

necessary to assist a beneficiary or 

potential beneficiary. 

(t). To disclose to a consumer 

reporting agency when the Board is 

trying to collect a debt owed to the 

Board under the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 

3711. 

(u). To disclose to quality control 

companies when such companies are 

verifying documents submitted to 

lenders in connection with participants’ 

commercial loan applications.’’ 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, 

RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING AND

DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

* * * * * 

STORAGE: 

* * * * * 

RETRIEVABILITY: 

* * * * * 

SAFEGUARDS: 

* * * * * 

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL: 

* * * * * 

SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS: 

Delete, the words ‘‘Executive 

Director’’ and replace with the words 

‘‘Chief Financial Officer.’’ 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

Delete the third sentence in the final 

paragraph and replace entry with these 

two sentences: ‘‘To use the TSP 

ThriftLine, the participant must have a 

touch-tone telephone and call the 

following number 1–877–968–3778. 

Hearing-impaired participants should 

dial 1–877–847–4385.’’ 

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