Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 170 / Tuesday, September 2, 2008 / Notices 51301 

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 extend for three years, without 

revision, the following currently 

approved collections of information: 

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: August 12, 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, August 25, 2008. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

Dated at Washington, DC, this 8th day of 

August, 2008. 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 

Robert E. Feldman, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–20176 Filed 8–29–08; 8:45 am] 

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

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Change in Bank Control Notices; 

Acquisition of Shares of Bank or Bank 

Holding Companies 

The notificants listed below have 

applied under the Change in Bank 

Control Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and 

§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12 

CFR 225.41) to acquire a bank or bank 

holding company. The factors that are 

considered in acting on the notices are 

set forth in paragraph 7 of the Act (12 

U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)). 

The notices are available for 

immediate inspection at the Federal 

Reserve Bank indicated. The notices 

also will be available for inspection at 

the office of the Board of Governors. 

Interested persons may express their 

views in writing to the Reserve Bank 

indicated for that notice or to the offices 

of the Board of Governors. Comments 

must be received not later than 

September 16, 2008. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 

(Steve Foley, Vice President) 1000 

Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 

30309: 

1. Paul Ray, Max Ray,Carole Ray, and 

Gina Brumley, all of Hackleburg, 

Alabama, to collectively acquire 

additional voting shares of Hometown 

Bancshares, Inc., and thereby indirectly 

acquire voting shares of PeoplesTrust 

Bank, both of Hamilton, Alabama. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, August 27, 2008. 

Robert deV. Frierson, 

Deputy Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E8–20246 Filed 8–29–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–S 


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