40898 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 143 / Thursday, July 29, 2021 / Notices 

1Following the close of this notice’s 60-day 

comment period, the OCC will publish a second 

notice with a 30-day comment period. 

Andrea.Martin@dot.gov; or Marlys 

Osterhues, Chief Environment and 

Project Engineering, RPD, telephone: 

(202) 493–0413, email: 

Marlys.Osterhues@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to 23 U.S.C. 327 (Section 327), the 

California High-Speed Rail Authority 

(CHSRA or Authority) has assumed 

FRA’s environmental review 

responsibilities under the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA; 42 

U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). However, under 

Section 327, FRA remains responsible 

for compliance with the Clean Air Act 

General Conformity requirements. In 

compliance with NEPA and the 

California Environmental Quality Act 

(CEQA), the Authority published a Final 

Environmental Impact Record/Final 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/ 

EIS) for the Bakersfield to Palmdale 

Section of the California High-Speed 

Rail (HSR) System on June 25, 2021. 

The Final EIR/EIS is available at https:// 

hsr.ca.gov/programs/environmentalplanning/project-section-environmentaldocuments-tier-2/bakersfield-topalmdale-draft-environmental-impactreport-environmental-impactstatement/. 

FRA prepared a Draft General 

Conformity Determination, pursuant to 

40 CFR part 93, subpart B, which 

establishes the process for complying 

with the General Conformity 

requirements of the Clean Air Act. FRA 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register on May 13, 2021 advising the 

public of the availability of the Draft 

Conformity Determination for a 30-day 

review and comment period. The Draft 

Conformity Determination was 

published at http://

www.regulations.gov, Docket No. FRA– 

2021–0046. The comment period of the 

Draft Conformity Determination closed 

on June 14, 2021. FRA received one 

comment regarding Coccidioides 

immitis, or more commonly known as 

the Valley Fever fungus, and a letter of 

support from the San Joaquin Valley Air 

District. Both letters were responded to 

in the Final EIR/EIS and in the Final 

General Conformity Determination. 

The Final General Conformity 

Determination was prepared in 

coordination with the Authority, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA), California Air Resources Board, 

San Joaquin Valley Unified Air 

Pollution Control District, and Eastern 

Kern, and Antelope Valley Air Quality 

Management Districts. The analysis 

found that construction period 

emissions would exceed the General 

Conformity de minimis threshold for 

Nitrogen Oxides (NOX) and volatile 

organic compounds (VOC), a precursor 

for ozone. However, operation of the 

Project would result in an overall 

reduction of regional emissions of all 

applicable air pollutants and would not 

cause a localized exceedance of an air 

quality standard. Since the Project will 

result in the exceedance of the de 

minimis thresholds for the precursor 

criteria pollutants listed above during 

the construction phase, Project 

conformity with the applicable emission 

standards will be accomplished through 

offsets of the NOX and VOC emissions, 

consistent with applicable regulatory 

requirements. 

The Final General Conformity 

Determination is available at http://

www.regulations.gov, Docket No. FRA– 

2021–0046, and FRA’s website at 

https://railroads.dot.gov/environment/ 

environmental-reviews/clean-air-actcalifornia-general-conformitydeterminations. 

Issued in Washington, DC. 

Jamie P. Rennert, 

Director, Office of Infrastructure Investment. 

[FR Doc. 2021–16143 Filed 7–28–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Information Collection 

Renewal; Comment Request; Appraisal 

Management Companies 

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). 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. The OCC is 

soliciting comment concerning the 

renewal of its information collection 

titled, ‘‘Appraisal Management 

Companies.’’ 

DATES: You should submit written 

comments by September 27, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Commenters are encouraged 

to submit comments by email, if 

possible. You may submit comments by 

any of the following methods: 

• Email: prainfo@occ.treas.gov. 

• Mail: Chief Counsel’s Office, 

Attention: Comment Processing, Office 

of the Comptroller of the Currency, 

Attention: 1557–0324, 400 7th Street 

SW, Suite 3E–218, Washington, DC 

20219. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: 400 7th 

Street SW, Suite 3E–218, Washington, 

DC 20219. 

• Fax: (571) 465–4326. 

Instructions: You must include 

‘‘OCC’’ as the agency name and ‘‘1557– 

0324’’ in your comment. In general, the 

OCC will publish comments on 

www.reginfo.gov without change, 

including any business or personal 

information provided, such as name and 

address information, email addresses, or 

phone numbers. Comments received, 

including attachments and other 

supporting materials, are part of the 

public record and subject to public 

disclosure. Do not include any 

information in your comment or 

supporting materials that you consider 

confidential or inappropriate for public 

disclosure. 

You may review comments and other 

related materials that pertain to this 

information collection beginning on the 

date of publication of the second notice 

for this collection 1 by the following 

method: 

• Viewing Comments Electronically: 

Go to www.reginfo.gov. Click on the 

‘‘Information Collection Review’’ tab. 

Underneath the ‘‘Currently under 

Review’’ section heading, from the dropdown menu select ‘‘Department of 

Treasury’’ and then click ‘‘submit.’’ This 

information collection can be located by 

searching by OMB control number 

‘‘1557–0324’’ or ‘‘Appraisal 

Management Companies.’’ Upon finding 

the appropriate information collection, 

click on the related ‘‘ICR Reference 

Number.’’ On the next screen, select 

‘‘View Supporting Statement and Other 

Documents’’ and then click on the link 

to any comment listed at the bottom of 

the screen. 

• For assistance in navigating 

www.reginfo.gov, please contact the 

Regulatory Information Service Center 

at (202) 482–7340. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Shaquita Merritt, OCC Clearance 

Officer, (202) 649–5490, Chief Counsel’s 

Office, Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency, 400 7th Street SW, Suite 3E– 

218, Washington, DC 20219. 


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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 143 / Thursday, July 29, 2021 / Notices 40899 

2Public Law 111–203, sec. 1473, 124 Stat. 1376, 

2190 (2010). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), Federal 

agencies must obtain approval from the 

OMB for each collection of information 

that they conduct or sponsor. 

‘‘Collection of information’’ is defined 

in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 

1320.3(c) to include agency requests or 

requirements that members of the public 

submit reports, keep records, or provide 

information to a third party. Section 

3506(c)(2)(A) of title 44 requires Federal 

agencies to provide a 60-day notice in 

the Federal Register concerning each 

proposed collection of information, 

including each proposed extension of an 

existing collection of information, 

before submitting the collection to OMB 

for approval. To comply with this 

requirement, the OCC is publishing 

notice of the proposed collection of 

information set forth in this document. 

Title: Appraisal Management 

Companies. 

OMB Control No.: 1557–0324. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. 

Type of Review: Regular review. 

Abstract: The OCC, Board of 

Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System (FRB), Federal Deposit 

Insurance Corporation (FDIC), National 

Credit Union Administration (NCUA), 

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 

(Bureau), and Federal Housing Finance 

Agency (FHFA) (collectively, Agencies) 

have rules implementing the minimum 

requirements in section 1473 of the 

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and 

Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank 

Act) 2 to be applied by States in the 

registration and supervision of appraisal 

management companies (AMCs). The 

Agencies also have implemented the 

requirement in section 1473 of the 

Dodd-Frank Act for States to report to 

the Appraisal Subcommittee of the 

Federal Financial Institutions 

Examination Council (FFIEC) the 

information required by the Appraisal 

Subcommittee (ASC) to administer the 

new national registry of appraisal 

management companies (AMC National 

Registry or Registry). 

State Recordkeeping Requirements 

States seeking to register AMCs must 

have an AMC registration and 

supervision program. Twelve CFR 

34.213(a) requires each participating 

State to establish and maintain within 

its appraiser certifying and licensing 

agency a registration and supervision 

program with the legal authority and 

mechanisms to: (i) Review and approve 

or deny an application for initial 

registration; (ii) periodically review and 

renew or deny renewal of an AMC’s 

registration; (iii) examine the books and 

records of the AMC operating in the 

State and require the AMC to submit 

reports, information, and documents; 

(iv) verify that the appraisers on an 

AMC’s panel hold valid State 

certifications or licenses; (v) investigate 

and assess potential violations of 

appraisal-related laws, regulations, or 

orders; (vi) discipline, suspend, 

terminate, or deny registration renewals 

of AMCs that violate appraisal-related 

laws, regulations, or orders; and (vii) 

report violations of appraisal-related 

laws, regulations, or orders as well as 

disciplinary and enforcement actions to 

the ASC. 

Twelve CFR 34.213(b) requires each 

participating State to impose 

requirements on AMCs that are not 

owned and controlled by an insured 

depository institution and regulated by 

a Federal financial institutions 

regulatory agency to: (i) Register with 

and be subject to supervision by a State 

appraiser certifying and licensing 

agency in each State in which the AMC 

operates; (ii) engage only State-certified 

or State-licensed appraisers for 

Federally regulated transactions in 

conformity with any Federally regulated 

transaction regulations; (iii) establish 

and comply with processes and controls 

reasonably designed to ensure that the 

AMC, in engaging an appraiser, selects 

an appraiser who is independent of the 

transaction and who has the requisite 

education, expertise, and experience to 

competently complete the appraisal 

assignment for the particular market and 

property type; (iv) direct the appraiser 

to perform the assignment in accordance 

with Uniform Standards of Professional 

Appraisal Practices (USPAP); and (v) 

establish and comply with processes 

and controls reasonably designed to 

ensure that the AMC conducts its 

appraisal management services in 

accordance with section 129E(a)–(i) of 

the Truth in Lending Act. 

Burden: 1 respondent; 1 response per 

year; 40 hours per response; 40 total 

burden hours. 

State Reporting Burden 

Twelve CFR 34.216 requires that each 

State electing to register AMCs for 

purposes of permitting AMCs to provide 

appraisal management services relating 

to covered transactions in the State must 

submit to the ASC the information 

required to be submitted under subpart 

H to part 34 and any additional 

information required by the ASC 

concerning AMCs that operate in the 

State. 

Burden: 1,158 respondents; 2 

responses per year; 1 hour per response; 

2,316 total burden hours. 

AMC Recordkeeping Requirements 

Twelve CFR 34.212(b) provides that 

an appraiser in an AMC’s network or 

panel is deemed to remain on the 

network or panel until: (i) The AMC 

sends a written notice to the appraiser 

removing the appraiser from the 

appraiser panel with an explanation of 

its action; or (ii) receives written notice 

from the appraiser asking to be removed 

from the appraiser panel or notice of the 

death or incapacity of the appraiser. 

Burden: 1,239 respondents; 1 

response per year; 0.08 hours per 

response; 99 total burden hours. 

Total Estimated Annual Burden: 

2,455 hours. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and 

included in the request for OMB 

approval. All comments will become a 

matter of public record. Comments are 

invited on: 

(a) Whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

OCC, including whether the information 

has practical utility; 

(b) The accuracy of the OCC’s 

estimate of the information collection 

burden; 

(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 start-up 

costs and costs of operation, 

maintenance, and purchase of services 

to provide information. 

Theodore J. Dowd, 

Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of the 

Comptroller of the Currency. 

[FR Doc. 2021–16149 Filed 7–28–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4810–33–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

Quarterly Publication of Individuals, 

Who Have Chosen To Expatriate, as 

Required by Section 6039G 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice is provided in 

accordance with IRC section 6039G of 

the Health Insurance Portability and 


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