Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 125 / Wednesday, July 1, 2009 / Notices 31441 

Dated: March 25, 2009. 

Steven T. Walther, 

Chairman, Federal Election Commission. 

Editorial Note: This document was 

received in the Office of the Federal Register 

on Thursday, June 25, 2009. 

[FR Doc. E9–15497 Filed 6–30–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6715–01–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Announcement of Board 

Approval Under Delegated Authority 

and Submission to OMB 

SUMMARY: 

Background 

Notice is hereby given of the final 

approval of a proposed information 

collection by the Board of Governors of 

the Federal Reserve System (Board) 

under OMB delegated authority, as per 

5 CFR 1320.16 (OMB Regulations on 

Controlling Paperwork Burdens on the 

Public). Board-approved collections of 

information are incorporated into the 

official OMB inventory of currently 

approved collections of information. 

Copies of the Paperwork Reduction Act 

Submission, supporting statements and 

approved collection of information 

instrument(s) are placed into OMB’s 

public docket files. The Federal Reserve 

may not conduct or sponsor, and the 

respondent is not required to respond 

to, an information collection that has 

been extended, revised, or implemented 

on or after October 1, 1995, unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Acting Federal Reserve Board Clearance 

Officer—Cynthia Ayouch—Division of 

Research and Statistics, Board of 

Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, Washington, DC 20551 (202– 

452–3829). 

OMB Desk Officer—Shagufta 

Ahmed—Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 

Washington, DC 20503. 

Final approval under OMB delegated 

authority of the extension for three 

years, without revision, of the following 

report: 

Report title: Suspicious Activity 

Report by Depository Institutions (SAR). 

Agency form number: FR 2230. 

OMB Control number: 7100–0212. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Reporters: State member banks, bank 

holding companies and their nonbank 

subsidiaries, Edge and agreement 

corporations, and the U.S. branches and 

agencies, representative offices, and 

nonbank subsidiaries of foreign banks 

supervised by the Federal Reserve. 

Annual reporting hours: 86,404 hours. 

Estimated average hours per response: 

1 hour. 

Number of respondents: 7,000. 

General description of report: This 

information collection is mandatory, 

pursuant to authority contained in the 

following statutes: 12 U.S.C. 248(a)(1), 

625, 1818, 1844(c), 3105(c)(2), and 

3106(a). The obligation to file a SAR is 

set forth in the Board’s rules, and is 

mandatory: 12 CFR 208.62(c) (state 

member banks); 12 CFR 225.4(f) (entities 

subject to the Bank Holding Company 

Act and their nonbank subsidiaries); 12 

CFR 211.5(k) (Edge and agreement 

corporations); and 12 CFR 211.24(f) 

(U.S. branches, agencies, and 

representative offices of foreign banks). 

Section 5318(g)(2)(A)(ii) of Title 31 

generally prohibits an officer or 

employee of the Federal Government 

from disclosing the existence of a SAR 

to anyone involved in the transaction, 

and section 5319 of Title 31 provides 

that SARs are exempt from disclosure 

under FOIA. The information collected 

on a SAR is covered by, among other 

things, exemptions 3 and 7 of the 

Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 

552(b)(3)&(7)) and exemption 2 of the 

Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a(k)(2)) 

Abstract: Since 1996, the federal 

banking agencies (the Federal Reserve 

Board, the Office of the Comptroller of 

the Currency, the Office of Thrift 

Supervision, the Federal Deposit 

Insurance Corporation, and the National 

Credit Union Administration) and the 

Department of the Treasury’s Financial 

Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) 

(collectively, the agencies) have 

required certain types of financial 

institutions to report known or 

suspected violations of law and 

suspicious transactions. To fulfill these 

requirements, supervised banking 

organizations file SARs. Law 

enforcement agencies use the 

information submitted on the reporting 

form to initiate investigations and the 

Federal Reserve uses the information in 

the examination and oversight of 

supervised institutions. 

Current Actions: On April 1, 2009, the 

agencies published a notice in the 

Federal Register (74 FR 14863) 

requesting public comment for 60 days 

on the extension, without revision, of 

the interagency Suspicious Activities 

Report by Depository Institutions. The 

comment period for this notice expired 

on June 1, 2009. The Federal Reserve 

did not receive any comments on this 

proposal. However, three comment 

letters were received by FinCEN. Two of 

the comment letters were from banking 

institutions and one was from a credit 

union association. The other agencies 

will publish a separate Federal Register 

notice addressing the comments and 

each agency will separately submit their 

SAR information collection to OMB. 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 

System, June 25, 2009. 

Jennifer J. Johnson, 

Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E9–15479 Filed 6–30–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6210–01–P 

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 

Formations of, Acquisitions by, and 

Mergers of Bank Holding Companies 

The companies listed in this notice 

have applied to the Board for approval, 

pursuant to the Bank Holding Company 

Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) 

(BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR Part 

225), and all other applicable statutes 

and regulations to become a bank 

holding company and/or to acquire the 

assets or the ownership of, control of, or 

the power to vote shares of a bank or 

bank holding company and all of the 

banks and nonbanking companies 

owned by the bank holding company, 

including the companies listed below. 

The applications listed below, as well 

as other related filings required by the 

Board, are available for immediate 

inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank 

indicated. The application also will be 

available for inspection at the offices of 

the Board of Governors. Interested 

persons may express their views in 

writing on the standards enumerated in 

the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the 

proposal also involves the acquisition of 

a nonbanking company, the review also 

includes whether the acquisition of the 

nonbanking company complies with the 

standards in section 4 of the BHC Act 

(12 U.S.C. 1843). Unless otherwise 

noted, nonbanking activities will be 

conducted throughout the United States. 

Additional information on all bank 

holding companies may be obtained 

from the National Information Center 

website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/. 

Unless otherwise noted, comments 

regarding each of these applications 

must be received at the Reserve Bank 

indicated or the offices of the Board of 

Governors not later than July 27, 2009. 

A. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas 

City (Todd Offerbacker, Assistant Vice 

President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas 

City, Missouri 64198–0001: