Notice2024-02822
Agency Information Collection Activities: Information Collection Renewal; Comment Request; Uniform Interagency Transfer Agent Registration and Deregistration Forms
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Published
February 12, 2024
Issuing agencies
Treasury DepartmentComptroller of the Currency
Abstract
The OCC, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites comment on a continuing information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). In accordance with the requirements of the PRA, the OCC may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required to respond to, an information collection unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number. The OCC is soliciting comment concerning the renewal of its information collection titled, "Uniform Interagency Transfer Agent Registration and Deregistration Forms."
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 29 (Monday, February 12, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9908-9909]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02822]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Agency Information Collection Activities: Information Collection
Renewal; Comment Request; Uniform Interagency Transfer Agent
Registration and Deregistration Forms
AGENCY: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Treasury.
ACTION: Notice and request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The OCC, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent burden, invites comment on a continuing information
collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA).
In accordance with the requirements of the PRA, the OCC may not conduct
or sponsor, and the respondent is not required to respond to, an
information collection unless it displays a currently valid Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) control number. The OCC is soliciting
comment concerning the renewal of its information collection titled,
``Uniform Interagency Transfer Agent Registration and Deregistration
Forms.''
DATES: Comments must be received by April 12, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Commenters are encouraged to submit comments by email, if
possible. You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
<bullet> Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b5c5c7d4dcdbd3daf5dad6d69bc1c7d0d4c69bd2dac3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5b2b293a32353d341b343838752f293e3a28753c342d">[email protected]</span></a>.
<bullet> Mail: Chief Counsel's Office, Attention: Comment
Processing, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Attention: 1557-
0124, 400 7th Street SW, Suite 3E-218, Washington, DC 20219.
<bullet> Hand Delivery/Courier: 400 7th Street SW, Suite 3E-218,
Washington, DC 20219.
<bullet> Fax: (571) 293-4835.
Instructions: You must include ``OCC'' as the agency name and
``1557-0124'' in your comment. In general, the OCC will publish
comments on <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a> without change, including any business or
personal information provided, such as name and address information,
email addresses, or phone numbers. Comments received, including
attachments and other supporting materials, are part of the public
record and subject to public disclosure. Do not include any information
in your comment or supporting materials that you consider confidential
or inappropriate for public disclosure.
Following the close of this notice's 60-day comment period, the OCC
will publish a second notice with a 30-day comment period. You may
review comments and other related materials that pertain to this
information collection beginning on the date of publication of the
second notice for this collection by the method set forth in the next
bullet.
<bullet> Viewing Comments Electronically: Go to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>.
Hover over the ``Information Collection Review'' tab and click on
``Information Collection Review'' from the drop-down menu. From the
``Currently under Review'' drop-down menu, select ``Department of
Treasury'' and then click ``submit.'' This information collection can
be located by searching OMB control number ``1557-0124'' or ``Uniform
Interagency Transfer Agent Registration and Deregistration Forms.''
Upon finding the appropriate information collection, click on the
related ``ICR Reference Number.'' On the next screen, select ``View
Supporting Statement and Other Documents'' and then click on the link
to any comment listed at the bottom of the screen.
<bullet> For assistance in navigating <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>, please
contact the Regulatory Information Service Center at (202) 482-7340.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shaquita Merritt, Clearance Officer,
(202) 649-5490, Chief Counsel's Office, Office of the Comptroller of
the Currency, 400 7th Street SW, Washington, DC 20219. If you are deaf,
hard of hearing, or have a speech disability, please dial 7-1-1 to
access telecommunications relay services.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.),
Federal agencies must obtain approval from the OMB for each collection
of information that they conduct or sponsor. ``Collection of
information'' is defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 1320.3(c) to
include agency requests or requirements that members of the public
submit reports, keep records, or provide information to a third party.
Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of title 44 generally requires Federal agencies
to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register concerning each
proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension
of an existing collection of information, before submitting the
collection to OMB for approval. To comply with this requirement, the
OCC is publishing notice of the renewal of this collection.
Title: Uniform Interagency Transfer Agent Registration and
Deregistration Forms.
Form Numbers: Form TA-1 & TA-W.
Estimated Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Affected Public: National banks and their subsidiaries, Federal
savings associations and their subsidiaries.
OMB Control No.: 1557-0124.
Type of Review: Regular.
Form TA-1
Estimated Number of Respondents: Registrations: 1; Amendments: 17.
Estimated Average Time per Response: Registrations: 1.25 hours;
Amendments: 10 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 4 hours.
Form TA-W
Estimated Number of Respondents: Deregistrations: 5.
Estimated Average Time per Response: Deregistrations: 30 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 2.5 hours.
Section 17A(c) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the Act)
requires all transfer agents for qualifying securities registered under
section 12 of the Act, as well as for securities that
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would be required to be registered except for the exemption from
registration provided by section 12(g)(2)(B) or section 12(g)(2)(G), to
file with the appropriate regulatory agency (ARA) an application for
registration in such form and containing such information and documents
as such appropriate regulatory agency may prescribe as necessary or
appropriate in furtherance of the purposes of this section.\1\ In
general, an entity performing transfer agent functions for a qualifying
security is required to register with its appropriate regulatory
agency. The OCC's regulations at 12 CFR 9.20 implement these provisions
of the Act.
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\1\ 15 U.S.C. 78q-1(c).
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To accomplish the registration of transfer agents, Form TA-1 was
developed in 1975 as an interagency effort by the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal banking agencies (the OCC,
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation). The agencies primarily use the data
collected on Form TA-1 to determine whether an application for
registration should be approved, denied, accelerated, or postponed, and
they use the data in connection with their supervisory
responsibilities. In addition, when a national bank or Federal savings
association no longer acts as a transfer agent for qualifying
securities or when the national bank or Federal savings association is
no longer supervised by the OCC, i.e., liquidates or converts to
another form of financial institution, the national bank or Federal
savings association must file Form TA-W with the OCC, requesting
withdrawal from registration as a transfer agent.
Forms TA-1 and TA-W are mandatory, and their collection is
authorized by sections 17A(c), 17(a)(3), and 23(a)(1) of the Act, as
amended (15 U.S.C. 78q-1(c), 78q(a)(3), and 78w(a)(1)). Additionally,
section 3(a)(34)(B)(i) of the Act (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(34)(B)(i)) provides
that the OCC is the ARA in the case of a national banks and Federal
savings associations and subsidiaries of such institutions. The
registrations are public filings and are not considered confidential.
The OCC needs the information contained in this collection to fulfill
its statutory responsibilities. Section 17A(c)(2) of the Act (15 U.S.C.
78q-1(c)(2)), as amended, provides that all those authorized to
transfer securities registered under section 12 of the Act (transfer
agents) shall register by filing with the appropriate regulatory agency
an application for registration in such form and containing such
information and documents as such appropriate regulatory agency may
prescribe to be necessary or appropriate in furtherance of the purposes
of this section.
Request for Comment
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 OCC, including whether the
information has practical utility;
(b) The accuracy of the OCC'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 start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information.
Theodore J. Dowd,
Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
[FR Doc. 2024-02822 Filed 2-9-24; 8:45 am]
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