Notice2025-11832
Agency Information Collection Activities: Information Collection Renewal; Submission for OMB Review; Community Reinvestment Act Qualifying Activities Confirmation Request Form
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Published
June 26, 2025
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, "Community Reinvestment Act Qualifying Activities Confirmation Request Form." The OCC also is giving notice that it has sent the collection to OMB for review.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 121 (Thursday, June 26, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27388-27389]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11832]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Agency Information Collection Activities: Information Collection
Renewal; Submission for OMB Review; Community Reinvestment Act
Qualifying Activities Confirmation Request Form
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,
``Community Reinvestment Act Qualifying Activities Confirmation Request
Form.'' The OCC also is giving notice that it has sent the collection
to OMB for review.
DATES: Comments must be received by July 28, 2025.
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#f68684979f989099b6999595d88284939785d8919980"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ddadafbcb4b3bbb29db2bebef3a9afb8bcaef3bab2ab">[email protected]</span></a>.
<bullet> Mail: Chief Counsel's Office, Attention: Comment
Processing, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Attention: 1557-
0356, 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
``1557-0356'' 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.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should also be sent within 30 days of publication of this
notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. You can find this
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
You may review comments and other related materials that pertain to
this information collection following the close of the 30-day comment
period for this notice 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
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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 ``1557-0356'' or ``Community Reinvestment Act Qualifying
Activities Confirmation Request Form.'' 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.
The OCC asks the OMB to extend its approval of the collection in this
notice.
Title: Community Reinvestment Act Qualifying Activities
Confirmation Request Form.
OMB Control No.: 1557-0356.
Type of Review: Regular.
Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit.
Description: The OCC created the ``Community Reinvestment Act
Qualifying Activities Confirmation Request Form'' to address the need
for a qualifying activities confirmation process that would allow banks
and interested parties to ascertain whether an activity qualifies under
the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The process was well-received and
strongly supported by commenters on the OCC ANPR and NPR that resulted
in the CRA final rule issued by the OCC in 2020 (2020 CRA final
rule).\1\ Commenters on the OCC's September 2021 CRA NPR expressed
continued support for such a confirmation system and, thus, the OCC
determined that it was important to maintain this confirmation system
after adopting the 2021 CRA final rule \2\ to allow for a more
effective and efficient confirmation of CRA-qualified activities.
Interested parties may request that the OCC confirm that an activity is
a qualifying activity by submitting a complete Qualifying Activity
Confirmation Request Form.
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\1\ 85 FR 34734 (June 5, 2020).
\2\ 86 FR 71328 (Dec. 14, 2021). The OCC currently assesses
national banks' and savings associations' CRA performance under the
2021 regulatory framework.
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Estimated Burden
Estimated Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 24.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 456 hours.
Comments: On April 15, 2025, the OCC published a 60-day notice for
this information collection, (90 FR 15783). No comments were received.
Comments continue to be 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.
Patrick T. Tierney,
Assistant Director, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
[FR Doc. 2025-11832 Filed 6-25-25; 8:45 am]
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