[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 230 (Friday, November 29, 2002)]
[Rules and Regulations]
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[FR Doc No: 02-30101]
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FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
5 CFR Part 3201
12 CFR Parts 308, 309, 310, 311, and 337
RIN 3209-AA15 and 3064-AC56
Agency Reorganization; Nomenclature Changes
AGENCY: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: This rule addresses nomenclature changes effected by a Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation (``FDIC'') internal reorganization order
dated June 30, 2002. The reorganization resulted in the merger of
several divisions and offices, the redesignation of two ``regional''
offices as ``area'' offices, and the abolishment of two positions in
the former Office of the Executive Secretary (``OES''). The rule also
addresses nomenclature changes resulting from the merger of two
divisions by an internal reorganization order dated December 8, 1996.
Consistent with these actions, this rule makes appropriate conforming
changes in several of the FDIC's regulations in Title 12 and, with the
concurrence of the Office of Government Ethics (``OGE''), in the FDIC's
supplemental standards of ethical conduct regulation in Title 5. The
rule also sets forth a Savings Provision in SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
that preserves, under their new names, all actions taken under the name
of the former ``Office of the Executive Secretary'' and the former
``Freedom of Information Act/Privacy Act (``FOIA/PA'') Unit'' of OES.
DATES: This rule is effective November 29, 2002.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Linda Keener, Ethics Program Manager,
(202) 898-8660, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 550 17th Street,
NW., Washington, DC 20429 (Supplemental Standards of Ethical Conduct);
Frederick L. Fisch, Senior Attorney, FOIA/PA Group, (202)736-0526,
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 550 17th Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20429 (FOIA and Privacy Act Program); and Robert E.
Feldman, Executive Secretary, (202) 898-3811, Leneta G. Gregorie,
Counsel and Special Assistant to the Executive Secretary, (202) 898-
3719, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 550 17th Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20429 (all other matters).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
This rule implements the decision by the FDIC, through an internal
reorganization order dated June 30, 2002, to merge OES into the Legal
Division, thereby creating an Executive Secretary Section within the
Supervision and Legislation Branch of the Legal Division; abolishing
the positions of Deputy Executive Secretary and Assistant Executive
Secretary (Ethics); and transferring program responsibility for the
Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552, and the Privacy Act of 1974,
5 U.S.C. 552a, from the FOIA/PA Unit of OES to the FOIA/PA Group of the
Litigation Branch of the Legal Division. This rule, consistent with the
organizational changes, makes a number of nomenclature changes in parts
308, 309, 310, 311, and 337 of title 12 of the Code of Federal
Regulations. Specifically, reference to the eliminated position of
Deputy Executive Secretary is deleted, and all references to the
``Office of the Executive Secretary,'' wherever they appear in the
parts 308, 311 and 337, are changed to ``Executive Secretary'' or
``offices of the Executive Secretary,'' as appropriate. Similarly,
references to the ``Office of the Executive Secretary'' and the OES
``FOIA/PA Unit'' in parts 309 and 310 are changed to the ``FOIA/PA
Group'' within the Legal Division. Conforming changes also are made to:
the addresses to which FOIA and Privacy Act requests and administrative
appeals of responses to FOIA and Privacy Act requests are to be
submitted; the identities of the persons to whom such requests and
appeals are to be directed; and the telephone numbers (voice and
facsimile) of the FOIA/PA Group.
This rule, with the concurrence of OGE, also makes a number of
appropriate nomenclature changes to references in the FDIC's
supplemental standards of conduct regulation, as codified in 5 CFR part
3201, to reflect the June 30, 2002, mergers of certain other divisions
of the FDIC and, as a result, to change the names of the ``Division of
Supervision'' and the ``Division of Compliance and Consumer Affairs''
to the ``Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection'' and the
``Division of Insurance'' and the ``Division of Research'' to the
``Division of Insurance and Research''. These new names more accurately
reflect the breadth of the divisions' activities as a result of the
reorganization.
Moreover, this rule implements those aspects of the June 30, 2002,
reorganization which converted the Boston and Memphis regional offices
to area offices. Consistent with the division name changes, the
conversion of two regional offices to area offices, and the
aforementioned abolishment of the position of Assistant Executive
Secretary (Ethics), this rule makes a number of changes in part 3201 by
changing all references to ``Division of Supervision'' and ``Division
of Compliance and Consumer Protection'' to ``Division of Supervision
and Consumer Protection'' and ``Division of Insurance'' and ``Division
of Research'' to ``Division of Insurance and Research'' wherever they
appear; enlarging references to ``regional office'' to ``regional or
area office'' wherever it appears; designating the ``Ethics Program
Manager'' as the FDIC's Alternate Ethics Counselor in the place of the
``Assistant Executive Secretary (Ethics)''; and clarifying the credit
restrictions for field office supervisors and supervisory examiners in
light of their expanded areas of responsibility as the result of the
reorganization. Finally, the rule implements a previous FDIC
reorganization which, on December 8, 1996, merged the ``Division of
Depositor and Asset Services'' with the ``Division of Resolutions''. As
a result, ``Division of Depositor and Asset Services'' is changed to
``Division of Resolutions and Receiverships'' wherever it appears in
part 3201.
Savings Provision
This rule shall constitute notice that all references to the Office
of the
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Executive Secretary or OES in any documents, statements, or other
communications, in any form or media, and whether made before or, with
the exception of documents, statements, or other communications
pertaining to the FOIA/PA Program, on or after the effective date of
this rule, shall be deemed to be references to the Executive Secretary
Section of the Legal Division. Moreover, any actions undertaken in the
name of or on behalf of the Office of the Executive Secretary or OES,
whether taken before or, except for actions related to the FOIA/PA
Program, on or after the effective date of this rule, shall be deemed
to have been taken in the name of or on behalf of the Executive
Secretary Section. This rule shall constitute further notice that, with
respect to documents, statements or other communications relating to
the FOIA and Privacy Act program, in any form or media, and whether
made before, on or after the effective date of this rule, all
references to the FOIA/PA Unit within OES shall be deemed to be
references to the FOIA/PA Group within the Legal Division. Moreover,
any actions undertaken in the name of or on behalf of the FOIA/PA Unit
within OES, whether taken before, on or after the effective date of
this rule, shall be deemed to have been taken in the name of or on
behalf of the FOIA/PA Group within the Legal Division.
Rulemaking Requirements
1. This rule does not impose information collection and
recordkeeping requirements. Consequently, it need not be reviewed by
the Office of Management and Budget under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
2. The provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C.
553) requiring notice of proposed rulemaking, the opportunity for
public participation, and a delay in the effective date are
inapplicable because this rule involves a rule of agency organization,
procedure, or practice. 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(A). Further, no other law
requires that a notice of proposed rulemaking and an opportunity for
public comment be given for this final rule. Because a notice of
proposed rulemaking and opportunity for public comment are not required
to be given for this rule under 5 U.S.C. or any other law, the
analytical requirements of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C.
601, et seq.) are not applicable. Accordingly, this rule is issued in
final form. Although there is no formal comment period, public comments
on this rule are welcome on a continuing basis. Comments should be
submitted to Thomas E. Nixon, FDIC Clearance Officer, Legal Division,
550 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20429, (202) 898-8766. Comments
may be hand-delivered to the guard station at the rear of the 17th
Street building (located on F Street) on business days between 7 a.m.
and 5 p.m. [Fax number (202) 898-3838; Internet address
[email protected]].
For the reasons set forth in the preamble, the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, with the concurrence of the Office of Government
Ethics, is amending 5 CFR part 3201, and the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation is also amending 12 CFR parts 308, 309, 310, 311, and 337,
as set forth below:
5 CFR Chapter XXII
PART 3201--SUPPLEMENTAL STANDARDS OF ETHICAL CONDUCT FOR EMPLOYEES
OF THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
1. The authority citation for part 3201 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 7301; 5 U.S.C. App. (Ethics in Government
Act of 1978); 12 U.S.C. 1819(a), 1822; 26 U.S.C. 1043; E.O. 12674,
54 FR 15159, 3 CFR, 1989 Comp., p. 215, as modified by E.O. 12731,
55 FR 42547, 3 CFR, 1990 Comp., p. 306; 5 CFR 2635.105, 2635.403,
2635.502, and 2635.803.
Sec. 3201.101 [Amended]
2. In Sec. 3201.101(b), remove the words ``Assistant Executive
Secretary (Ethics)'' and add in their place the words ``Ethics Program
Manager''.
Sec. 3201.102 [Amended]
3. Amend Sec. 3201.102 as follows:
a. In paragraph (b)(2)(ii), remove the words ``Division of
Supervision and the Division of Compliance and Consumer Affairs'' and
add in their place the words ``Division of Supervision and Consumer
Protection''.
b. In the heading of paragraph (c), remove the words ``employees
assigned to the Division of Supervision and employees assigned to the
Division of Compliance and Consumer Affairs'' and add in their place
the words ``employees assigned to the Division of Supervision and
Consumer Protection''.
c. In paragraph (c)(1)(ii), remove the words ``regional office''
and ``employee's region'' and add in their place the words ``regional
or area office'' and ``employee's region or area'', respectively, and
remove the word ``and'' at the end of the paragraph.
d. In paragraph (c)(1)(iii), remove the period at the end and add
in its place a semicolon followed by the word ``and''.
e. Add a new paragraph (c)(1)(iv) to read as follows:
Sec. 3201.102 Extensions of credit from FDIC-insured depository
institutions.
* * * * *
(c) * * *
(1) * * *
(iv) For a field office supervisor and supervisory examiner, credit
extended by an FDIC-insured State nonmember bank headquartered outside
the field office supervisor's and supervisory examiner's respective
official territories of assignment through the use of a credit card on
the same terms and conditions as are offered to the general public.
* * * * *
f. In paragraph (c)(2), remove the words ``Division of Supervision,
the Director of the Division of Compliance and Consumer Affairs'',
``Division of Supervision, or the Director of the Division of
Compliance and Consumer Affairs'', and ``Division of Supervision and
the Division of Compliance and Consumer Affairs'' and add in their
place the words ``Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection'', in
each instance.
g. In paragraph (d)(2), remove the words ``Division of Insurance''
and add in their place the words ``Division of Insurance and
Research''.
h. In the heading of paragraph (e) and in paragraph (e)(2), remove
the words ``Division of Depositor and Asset Services'' and add in their
place the words ``Division of Resolutions and Receiverships''.
Sec. 3201.109 [Amended]
4. In Sec. 3201.109(a), remove the words ``Division of Supervision
or Division of Compliance and Consumer Affairs'' and add in their place
the words ``Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection''.
12 CFR Chapter III
PART 308--RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
5. The authority citation for part 308 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 504, 554-557; 12 U.S.C. 93(b), 164, 505,
1815(e), 1817, 1818, 1820, 1828, 1829, 1829b, 1831i, 1831o, 1831p-1,
1832(c), 1884(b), 1972, 3102, 3108(a), 3349, 3909, 4717; 15 U.S.C.
78(h) and (i), 78o-4(c), 78o-5, 78q-1, 78s, 78u, 78u-2, 78u-3 and
78w; 6801(b), 6805(b)(1), 28 U.S.C. 2641 note; 31 U.S.C. 330, 5321;
42 U.S.C. 4012a; Sec. 3100(s), Pub. L. 104-134, 110 Stat. 1321-358.
Sec. 308.102 [Amended]
6. In Sec. 308.102(b)(2), remove the words ``Executive Secretary,
Deputy
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Executive Secretary or the Assistant Executive Secretary (Operations)''
and add in their place the words ``Executive Secretary and Assistant
Executive Secretary''.
PART 309--DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
7. The authority citation for part 309 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552; 12 U.S.C. 1819 ``Seventh'' and
``Tenth''.
Sec. 309.5 [Amended]
8. Amend Sec. 309.5 as follows:
a. In paragraph (b)(1), remove the words ``Office of the Executive
Secretary'' and add in their place the words ``Freedom of Information
Act/Privacy Act Group (``FOIA/PA Group''), Legal Division''.
b. In paragraph (b)(1)(ii), remove the words ``to (202) 898-8778''
and add in their place the words ``to the FOIA/PA Group: (202) 736-
0547''.
c. In paragraph (b)(1)(iii), remove the words ``By sending a letter
to the Office of the Executive Secretary, ATTN: FOIA/PA Unit,'' and add
in their place the words ``By sending a letter to: Legal Division,
FDIC, ATTN: FOIA/PA Group,''.
d. In paragraph (d)(1), remove the words ``FOIA/PA Unit, Office of
the Executive Secretary, shall'' in the first sentence and add in their
place the words ``FOIA/PA Group, Legal Division shall''; and, in the
last sentence, remove the words ``Office of the Executive Secretary''
and add in their place the words ``FOIA/PA Group''.
e. In paragraph (d)(2)(i), remove the words ``Office of the
Executive Secretary'' and add in their place the words ``FOIA/PA
Group,''.
f. In paragraph (d)(2)(ii), remove the words ``FOIA/PA Unit'' and
add in their place the words ``FOIA/PA Group''.
g. In paragraph (f)(1)(x), remove the words ``Executive Secretary''
and add in their place the words ``FOIA/PA Group, Legal Division''.
h. In paragraph (f)(4)(ii), remove the words ``Office of the
Executive Secretary, FOIA/PA Unit'' and add in their place the words
``FOIA/PA Group, Legal Division''.
i. In paragraph (h)(1), remove the words ``Office of the Executive
Secretary'' and add in their place the words ``FOIA/PA Group, Legal
Division''.
Sec. 309.6 [Amended]
9. In Sec. 309.6(b), remove the words ``Office of the Executive
Secretary'' wherever they appear and add in their place the words
``FOIA/PA Group''.
Sec. 309.7 [Amended]
10. Amend Sec. 309.7 as follows:
a. In paragraph (a), remove the words ``Office of the Executive
Secretary'' and ``Office of Corporate Communications'' and add in their
place the words ``Executive Secretary'' and ``Office of Public
Affairs'', respectively.
b. In paragraph (b), remove the words ``Office of the Corporation's
General Counsel'' and add in their place the words ``General Counsel''.
PART 310--PRIVACY ACT REGULATIONS
11. The authority citation for part 310 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552a.
Sec. 310.3 [Amended]
12. In Sec. 310.3(b), remove the words ``Office of the Executive
Secretary, FOIA/PA Unit, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
Washington, D.C. 20429.'' in the first sentence and add in their place
the words ``Freedom of Information Act/Privacy Act Group, Legal
Division (``FOIA/PA Group''), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
550 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20429.''; and, in the last
sentence, remove the words ``FOIA/PA Unit, Office of the Executive
Secretary'' and add in their place the words ``FOIA/PA Group''.
Sec. 310.4 [Amended]
13. In Sec. 310.4(a), remove the words ``Office of the Executive
Secretary, Records Unit'' and add in their place the words ``FOIA/PA
Group, Legal Division''.
Sec. 310.5 [Amended]
14. Amend Sec. 310.5 as follows:
a. In paragraph (b), remove the words ``Executive Secretary'' and
add in their place the words ``FOIA/PA Group'' in each instance.
b. In paragraph (c), remove the words ``The Executive Secretary
will give written notification of a reasonable period within which
individuals may inspect disclosable records pertaining to themselves at
the Office of the Executive Secretary'' and add in their place the
words ``The FOIA/PA Group will give written notification of a
reasonable period within which individuals may inspect disclosable
records pertaining to themselves at the offices of the FOIA/PA Group''.
Sec. 310.7 [Amended]
15. In Sec. 310.7, remove the words ``Office of the Executive
Secretary, Records Unit, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
Washington, D.C. 20429'' and add in their place the words ``FOIA/PA
Group, Legal Division, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 550 17th
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20429''.
Sec. 310.8 [Amended]
16. In Sec. 310.8(a), remove the words ``Executive Secretary of
the Corporation'' in the first sentence and the words ``Executive
Secretary'' in the second sentence and add in their place the words
``Senior Attorney, FOIA/PA Group'' in both instances.
Sec. 310.9 [Amended]
17. In Sec. 310.9(a), remove the words ``Office of the Executive
Secretary,'' and add in their place the words ``FOIA/PA Group, Legal
Division,''.
PART 311--RULES GOVERNING PUBLIC OBSERVATION OF MEETINGS OF THE
CORPORATION'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS
18. The authority citation for part 311 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552b and 12 U.S.C. 1819.
Sec. Sec. 311.4, 311.5 and 311.8 [Amended]
19. In Sec. Sec. 311.4(e), 311.5(b)(2), and 311.8(d)(2), remove
the words ``Office of the Executive Secretary'' and add in their place
the words ``Executive Secretary''.
20. In Sec. 311.8(d)(1), remove the words ``Office of the
Executive Secretary'' and add in their place the words ``offices of the
Executive Secretary''.
PART 337--UNSAFE AND UNSOUND BANKING PRACTICES
21. The authority citation for part 337 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 12 U.S.C. 375a(4), 375b, 1816, 1818(a), 1818(b),
1819, 1820(d)(10), 1821f, 1828(j)(2), 1831, 1831f-1.
Sec. 337.10 [Amended]
22. In Sec. 337.10, remove the words ``Office of the Executive
Secretary'' and add in their place the words ``Executive Secretary''.
Dated: November 12, 2002.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Valerie Best,
Assistant Executive Secretary.
Approved: November 20, 2002.
Amy L. Comstock,
Director, Office of Government Ethics.
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