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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Comptroller of the Currency

NOTICE: NOTICES

ACTION: Agency information collection activities:

DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice and request for comment.

SUBJECT CATEGORY: Comptroller of the Currency Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Extension of Information Collection; Comment Request

DATES: You should submit comments by December 23, 2002.

DOCUMENT 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. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a respondent is not required to respond to, an information collection unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The OCC is soliciting comment concerning its information collection titled, ``Recordkeeping Requirements for Securities Transactions12 CFR part 12.''

SUMMARY: Proposed collection; comment request,

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

The OCC is proposing to extend OMB approval of the following information collection:

Title: Recordkeeping Requirements for Securities Transactions12 CFR 12.

OMB Number: 15570142.

Description: This submission covers an existing regulation and involves no change to the regulation or to the information collection requirements. The OCC requests only that OMB extend its approval of the information collection.

The information collection requirements in 12 CFR part 12 are required to ensure national bank compliance with securities laws and to improve the protection afforded persons who purchase and sell securities through banks. The transaction confirmation information provides customers with a record regarding the transaction and provides banks and the OCC with records to ensure compliance with banking and securities laws and regulations. The OCC uses the required information in its examinations to, among other things, evaluate a bank's compliance with the antifraud provisions of the Federal securities laws.

The information collection requirements contained in 12 CFR part 12 are as follows:

Section 12.3 requires a national bank effecting securities transactions for customers to maintain records for at least three years. The records required by this section must clearly and accurately reflect the information required and provide an adequate basis for the audit of the information.

Section 12.4 requires a national bank to give or send to the customer a written notification of transaction or a copy of the registered broker/dealer confirmation relating to the securities transaction.

Sections 12.5(a), (b), (c), and (e) require a national bank, as an alternative to complying with Sec. 12.4, to provide notification to customers of trust transactions, agency transactions, and periodic plan transactions.

Sections 12.7(a)(1) through (a)(3) require a national bank to develop and maintain written securities trading policies and procedures.

Section 12.7(a)(4) requires bank officers and employees to report to the bank all personal transactions in securities made by them or on their behalf in which they have a beneficial interest.

Section 12.8 requires a national bank to file a written request with the OCC for a waiver of one or more of the requirements set forth in Sec. Sec. 12.2 through 12.7.

Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.

Affected Public: Individuals; Businesses or other forprofit.

Estimated Number of Respondents: 745.

Estimated Total Annual Responses: 745.

Frequency of Response: On occasion.

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 3,913 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 agency, including whether the information has practical utility;
(b) The accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the collection of information;
(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 startup costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information.

Dated: October 17, 2002.
Mark J. Tenhundfeld,
Assistant Director, Legislative and Regulatory Activities Division. [FR Doc. 0226831 Filed 102102; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 481033P

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT You can request additional information from
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Jessie Dunaway, OCC Clearance Officer, or Camille Dixon, (202) 874 5090, Legislative and Regulatory Activities Division, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, 250 E Street, SW., Washington, DC 20219.