# Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
**AGENCY:**
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
**ACTION:**
Notice of information collection to be submitted to OMB for review and approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
**SUMMARY:**
In accordance with requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 *et seq.* ), the FDIC hereby gives notice that it plans to submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for OMB review and approval of the information collection system described below.
*Type of Review:* Renewal of a currently approved collection.
*Title:* Occasional Qualitative Surveys.
*OMB Number:* 3064-0127.
*Annual Burden:*
*Estimated annual number of respondents:* 5,000.
*Estimated time per response:* 1 hour.
*Average annual burden hours:* 5,000 hours.
*Expiration Date of OMB Clearance:* March 31, 2001.
*OMB Reviewer:* Alexander T. Hunt, (202) 395-7860, Office of Management and Budget, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Washington, DC 20503.
*FDIC Contact:* Tamara R. Manly, (202) 898-7453, Office of the Executive Secretary, Room F-4058, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 550 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20429.
*Comments:* Comments on this collection of information are welcome and should be submitted on or before April 18, 2001 to both the OMB reviewer and the FDIC contact listed above.
**ADDRESSES:**
Information about this submission, including copies of the proposed collection of information, may be obtained by calling or writing the FDIC contact listed above.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
The collection involves the occasional use of qualitative surveys to gather anecdotal information about regulatory burden, problems or successes in the bank supervisory process (including both safety-and-soundness and consumer-related exams), and similar concerns.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Dated: March 13, 2001.
Robert E. Feldman,
Executive Secretary.