[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 132 (Tuesday, July 9, 1996)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 35915-35916]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-17304]
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Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 132 / Tuesday, July 9, 1996 / Rules
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FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
5 CFR Part 3201
RIN 3064-AA08, 3209-AA15
Supplemental Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
AGENCY: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, with the
concurrence of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE), is amending the
Supplemental Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation in order to allow employees' spouses and
minor children to acquire otherwise prohibited securities when they are
acquired as part of compensation packages in connection with their
employment. The amendment is being made retroactively effective as of
the effective date of the FDIC's supplemental standards.
EFFECTIVE DATE: May 25, 1995.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Richard M. Handy, Assistant Executive
Secretary (Ethics), (202) 898-7271, in the Office of the Executive
Secretary of the FDIC.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
On April 25, 1995, with the concurrence of OGE, the FDIC published
as a final rule the Supplemental Standards of Ethical Conduct for
Employees of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation which were
effective May 25, 1995 (codified at 5 CFR part 3201). The final rule
was issued to supplement OGE's Standards of Ethical Conduct for
Employees of the Executive Branch that established uniform standards of
ethical conduct for executive branch employees (effective February 3,
1993, and codified at 5 CFR part 2635).
Upon the determination of the Board of Directors and with the
concurrence of OGE, part 3201 is being amended to provide an additional
exception to the prohibitions on the ownership of securities of FDIC-
insured depository institutions. The amendment allows spouses and minor
children of employees to acquire otherwise prohibited securities when
they are acquired as part of compensation packages in connection with
their employment. The Board of Directors determined that the provision,
without the revised language, was unnecessarily restrictive.
This rule is being issued as a final rule since it reduces the
restrictions placed on employees and their families by the existing
rule. Further, the amended rule will be made retroactively effective to
May 25, 1995.
II. Matters of Regulatory Procedure
Administrative Procedure Act
Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553 (a)(2), (b) and (d), the Board of
Directors has found that good cause exists for waiving the regular
notice of proposed rulemaking and 30-day delayed effective date as to
this final rule amendment, and further making it retroactively
effective to May 25, 1995, the effective date of the overall part 3201.
This action is being taken because it is in the public interest that
this rule, which concerns matters of agency organization, practice and
procedure and which relieves certain restrictions placed on FDIC
employees and their families, become effective retroactively on the
effective date of the original final rule.
Regulatory Flexibility Act
The Board of Directors has concluded that the amendment to the rule
will not impose a significant economic hardship on small institutions.
Therefore, the Board of Directors hereby certifies pursuant to section
605 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 605) that the amended
regulation will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial
number of small business entities within the meaning of the Regulatory
Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.).
Paperwork Reduction Act
The Board of Directors has determined that the amended regulation
does not contain any information collection requirements that require
the approval of the Office of Management and Budget pursuant to the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
List of Subjects in 5 CFR Part 3201
Administrative practice and procedure, Conflict of interests,
Government employees, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
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 as follows:
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.
2. In Sec. 3201.103, paragraph (b)(4) is amended by revising the
first sentence to read as follows:
Sec. 3201.103 Prohibitions on ownership of securities of FDIC-insured
depository institutions.
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(b) * * *
(4) Acquiring, owning, or controlling a security of an FDIC-insured
depository institution or the affiliate of an FDIC-insured depository
institution where the security was acquired by inheritance, gift, stock
split, involuntary stock dividend, merger, acquisition, or other change
in corporate ownership, exercise of preemptive right, or otherwise
without specific intent to acquire the security, or, by an employee's
spouse or minor child as part of a compensation package in connection
with his or her employment. * * *
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Dated at Washington, D.C. this 17th day of June 1996.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Robert E. Feldman,
Deputy Executive Secretary.
Concurred in this 1st day of July 1996.
Stephen D. Potts,
Director, Office of Government Ethics.
[FR Doc. 96-17304 Filed 7-8-96; 8:45 am]
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