[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 125 (Monday, June 29, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38894-38895]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-13859]
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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Agency Information Collection Activities: Announcement of Board
Approval Under Delegated Authority and Submission to OMB
AGENCY: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
SUMMARY: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board)
is adopting a proposal to extend for three years, with revision, the
Joint Standards for Assessing the Diversity Policies and Practices of
Entities Regulated by the Agencies (FR 2100; OMB No. 7100-0368). The
revisions are effective immediately.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Federal Reserve Board Clearance Officer--Nuha Elmaghrabi--Office of
the Chief Data Officer, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, Washington, DC 20551, (202) 452-3829.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Desk Officer--Shagufta
Ahmed--Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 725
17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20503, or by fax to (202) 395-6974.
A copy of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) OMB submission,
including the reporting form and instructions, supporting statement,
and other documentation will be placed into OMB's public docket files.
These documents also are available on the Federal Reserve Board's
public website at https://www.federalreserve.gov/apps/reportforms/review.aspx or may be requested from the agency clearance officer,
whose name appears above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 15, 1984, OMB delegated to the Board
authority under the PRA to approve and assign OMB control numbers to
collections of information conducted or sponsored by the Board. Board-
approved collections of information are incorporated into the official
OMB inventory of currently approved collections of information. Copies
of the PRA Submission, supporting statements, and approved collection
of information instrument(s) are placed into OMB's public docket files.
Final Approval under OMB Delegated Authority of the Extension for
Three Years, With Revision, of the Following Information Collection:
Report title: Joint Standards for Assessing the Diversity Policies
and Practices of Entities Regulated by the Agencies (Policy Statement).
Agency form number: FR 2100.
OMB control number: 7100-0368.
Effective Date: Immediately.
Frequency: Annual.
Respondents: All financial institutions regulated by the Board.
Estimated number of respondents: 125.
Estimated average hours per response: Reporting: 7 hours;
Disclosure: 1 hour.
Estimated annual burden hours: 1,000 hours.
General description of report: Section 342 of the Dodd-Frank Wall
Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank Act)
requires the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Board,
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), National Credit Union
Administration (NCUA), Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB),
and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) (the Agencies) each to
establish an Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI) to be
responsible for all matters of the Agency relating to diversity in
management, employment, and business activities. Section 342 requires
each OMWI director to develop standards for ``assessing the diversity
policies and practices of entities regulated by the
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agency.'' The Policy Statement, published jointly by the Agencies in
June 2015, contains those standards.
Legal authorization and confidentiality: The information
collections contained within the Policy Statement, as well as the self-
assessment reporting template, are authorized by section 342 of the
Dodd-Frank Act,\1\ which requires the Board's OMWI director to develop
standards for assessing regulated entities' diversity policies and
practices. The information collections associated with the Policy
Statement are voluntary, as is the use of the self-assessment reporting
template.
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\1\ 12 U.S.C. 5452.
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The Transparency Standard, and a portion of the Self-Assessment
Standard, call for regulated entities to provide information to the
public, so confidentiality is not an issue with respect to those
aspects of the Policy Statement. A regulated entity may provide self-
assessment material to the Board (including through use of the
reporting template) containing confidential commercial information that
is protectable under exemption 4 of the Freedom of Information Act.\2\
If a regulated entity submits confidential commercial information that
is both customarily and actually treated as private by the entity, the
entity should separately designate such information as ``confidential
commercial information,'' as appropriate, and the Board will treat such
designated information as confidential to the extent permitted by law,
including the Freedom of Information Act.\3\ As noted in the Policy
Statement, an entity's primary federal regulator may share information
obtained from regulated entities with other Agencies, but the Agencies
will only publish information disclosed to them in a form that does not
identify a particular entity or individual or disclose confidential
business information.
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\2\ 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4).
\3\ 5 U.S.C. 552.
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Current actions: On March 2, 2020, the Board published a notice in
the Federal Register (85 FR 12296) requesting comment for 60 days on
the proposal to extend, with revision, the Joint Standards for
Assessing the Diversity Policies and Practices of Entities Regulated by
the Agencies. The Board has revised the language in the ``Use of
Information'' section of the reporting template regarding the
designation of information as confidential by respondents. The Board
also eliminated the ``Yes/No'' check boxes under Section 5
(``Institution's Self-Assessment'') of the reporting template and asks
for a more detailed description of the institution's practices during
the annual self-assessment period. Additionally, the FR 2100 includes a
disclosure provision for respondent institutions. The Board has revised
the FR 2100 information collection to account for this disclosure
provision. The comment period expired on May 1, 2020. The Board did not
receive any comments. The revisions will be implemented as proposed.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, June 23, 2020.
Michele Taylor Fennell,
Assistant Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2020-13859 Filed 6-26-20; 8:45 am]
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