[Federal Register: October 15, 1999 (Volume 64,
Number 199)]
[Notices]
[Page 55926]
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FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
AGENCY: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
ACTION: Notice of information collection to be submitted to OMB for
review and approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the FDIC hereby gives notice that it
plans to submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request
for OMB review and approval of the information collection system
described below.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Title: External Auditing.
OMB Number: 3064-0113.
Estimate of Annual Burden:
Insured Institutions with assets of $500 million or more (already
approved by OMB).
Number of Respondents: 420.
Number of Responses per Respondent: 3.
Total Annual Responses: 1,260.
Hours per Response: 32.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 40,320.
Insured Institutions with assets less than $500 million (proposed
revision to be submitted to OMB).
Number of Respondents: 5,478.
Number of Responses per Respondent: 3.
Total Annual Responses: 16,434.
Hours per Response: 1/4 hour for the recordkeeping response, 1/4
hour for the first reporting response, and 1/4 hour for the second
reporting response x 5,478 Respondents.
Total Annual Burden: 1,370 recordkeeping and 2,740 reporting =
4,110 hours.
Expiration Date of Current OMB Clearance: November 30, 2000.
OMB: Alexander T. Hunt, (202) 395-7860, Office of Management and
Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Washington, DC
20503.
FDIC: Steven F. Hanft (202) 898-3907, Office of the Executive
Secretary, Room F-4062, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 550 17th
Street NW, Washington, DC 20429.
Comments: Comments on this collection of information are welcome
and should be submitted on or before November 15, 1999 to both the OMB
reviewer and the FDIC contact listed above.
ADDRESSES: Information about this submission, including copies of the
proposed collection of information, may be obtained by calling or
writing the FDIC contact listed above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FDIC's regulations at 12 CFR 363
establish annual independent audit and reporting requirements for
financial institutions with assets of $500 million or more. The
requirements, which have been approved by OMB under control number
3064-0113, include an annual report on their financial statements,
recordkeeping about management deliberations regarding external
auditing and reports about changes in auditors. The FDIC is now
preparing to ask OMB to approve revising the collection to cover
financial institutions with assets less than $500 million on a
voluntary basis. The information collected will be used to facilitate
early identification of problems in financial management at financial
institutions.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Dated: October 12, 1999.
Robert E. Feldman,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-27010 Filed 10-14-99; 8:45 am]
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