48432 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 161 / Tuesday, August 19, 2008 / Notices 

Damascus, Syria; Abu Ramana Street, 

Rawda, Damascus, Syria; Damascus 

Duty Free, Damascus International 

Airport, Damascus, Syria; Dara’a Duty 

Free, Naseeb Border Center, Dara’a, 

Syria; Aleppo Duty Free, Aleppo 

International Airport, Aleppo, Syria; 

Jdaideh Duty Free Complex, Jdaideh 

Yaboos, Damascus, Syria; Bab el Hawa 

Border Center, Aleppo, Syria; Lattakia 

Port, Lattakia, Syria; Tartous Port, 

Tartous, Syria; E-mail Address 

dam.d.free@net.sy (Syria); Web site 

http://www.ramakdutyfree.net (Syria) 

[SYRIA]. 

2. SYRIATEL (a.k.a. SYRIATEL 

MOBILE; a.k.a. SYRIATEL MOBILE 

TELECOM; a.k.a. SYRIATEL MOBILE 

TELECOM SA), Doctors Syndicate 

Building, Al Jalaa Street, Abu 

Roumaneh Area, P.O. Box 2900, 

Damascus, Syria [SYRIA]. 

Dated: July 18, 2008. 

Adam J. Szubin, 

Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control. 

[FR Doc. E8–19152 Filed 8–18–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Thrift Supervision 

Recordkeeping and Confirmation 

Requirements for Securities 

Transactions 

AGENCY: Office of Thrift Supervision 

(OTS), Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Treasury, as part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden, invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to comment on 

proposed and continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 

U.S.C. 3507. The Office of Thrift 

Supervision within the Department of 

the Treasury will submit the proposed 

information collection requirement 

described below to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. Today, OTS is soliciting 

public comments on its proposal to 

extend this information collection. 

DATES: Submit written comments on or 

before October 20, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments, referring to 

the collection by title of the proposal or 

by OMB approval number, to 

Information Collection Comments, Chief 

Counsel’s Office, Office of Thrift 

Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20552; send a facsimile 

transmission to (202) 906–6518; 

or send an e-mail to 

infocollection.comments@ots.treas.gov. 

OTS will post comments and the related 

index on the OTS Internet Site at 

http://www.ots.treas.gov. In addition, 

interested persons may inspect 

comments at the Public Reading Room, 

1700 G Street, and NW., by 

appointment. To make an appointment, 

call (202) 906–5922, send an e-mail to 

public.info@ots.treas.gov, or send a 

facsimile transmission to (202) 906–

7755. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You 

can request additional information 

about this proposed information 

collection from Judi McCormick, (202) 

906–5636, Office of Thrift Supervision, 

1700 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20552. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OTS may 

not conduct or sponsor an information 

collection, and respondents are not 

required to respond to an information 

collection, unless the information 

collection displays a currently valid 

OMB control number. As part of the 

approval process, we invite comments 

on the following information collection. 

Comments should address one or 

more of the following points: 

a. Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of OTS; 

b. The accuracy of OTS’s estimate of 

the burden of the proposed information 

collection; 

c. Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; 

d. Ways to minimize the burden of the 

information collection on respondents, 

including through the use of 

information technology. 

We will summarize the comments 

that we receive and include them in the 

OTS request for OMB approval. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. In this notice, OTS is 

soliciting comments concerning the 

following information collection. 

Title of Proposal: Recordkeeping and 

Confirmation Requirements for 

Securities Transactions. 

OMB Number: 1550–0109. 

Form Numbers: N/A. 

Regulation requirement: 12 CFR part 

551. 

Description: The regulation found at 

12 CFR part 551 imposes recordkeeping 

and confirmation requirements for 

savings associations that effect 

securities transactions. 

The recordkeeping and confirmation 

regulation ensures that savings 

association customers receive the same 

protections and disclosures provided to 

brokerage customers; ensures savings 

associations effect securities 

transactions safely and soundly; and 

provides savings associations with 

formal guidance when they effect 

securities transactions. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profit. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

829. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 829. 

Estimated Frequency of Response: On 

occasion. 

Estimated Total Burden: 4,235 hours. 

Clearance Officer: Ira L. Mills, (202) 

906–6531, Office of Thrift Supervision, 

1700 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20552. 

Dated: August 13, 2008. 

Deborah Dakin, 

Senior Deputy Chief Counsel, Regulations and 

Legislation Division. 

[FR Doc. E8–19162 Filed 8–18–08; 8:45 am] 

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