Bankowość · 17/03/2011

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the FDIC hereby gives notice that it is submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for OMB review and approval of revisions to the survey collection instruments for its second National Survey of Banks' Efforts to Serve the Unbanked and Underbanked ("Bank Survey"), currently approved under OMB Control No. 3064-0158, scheduled to be conducted in mid-2011. On December 23, 2010 (75 FR 71437), the FDIC issued a request for comment on possible revisions to the Bank Survey. No comments were received. The collection is mandated by section 7 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Reform Conforming Amendments Act of 2005 ("Reform Act") (Pub. L. 109-173), which calls for the FDIC to conduct ongoing surveys on efforts by insured depository institutions to bring those individuals and families who have rarely, if ever, held a checking account, a savings account or other type of transaction or check cashing account at an insured depository institution (hereafter in this section referred to as the `unbanked') into the conventional finance system. In addition to gathering informatio