# 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:**
Background. Notice is hereby given of the final approval of proposed information collection by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) under OMB delegated authority, as per 5 CFR 1320.16 (OMB Regulations on Controlling Paperwork Burdens on the Public). Board-approved collections of information are incorporated into the official OMB inventory of currently approved collections of information. Copies of the OMB 83-Is and supporting statements and approved collection of information instrument(s) are placed into OMB's public docket files. The Federal Reserve may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not required to respond to, an information collection that has been extended, revised, or implemented on or after October 1, 1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Federal Reserve Clearance Officer-Cindy Ayouch--Division of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC 20551 (202-452-3829)
OMB Desk Officer-Mark Menchik--Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
**Final approval under OMB delegated authority of the extension for three years, without revision of the following report:**
*Report title:* Investment in Bank Premises Notification
*Agency form number:* FR 4014
*OMB Control number:* 7100-0139
*Frequency:* On occasion
*Reporters:* State member banks
*Annual reporting hours:* 3
*Estimated average hours per response:* 5 minutes
*Number of respondents:* 6
*General description of report:* This information collection is mandatory (12 U.S.C. 371d) and is not given confidential treatment.
*Abstract:* The Federal Reserve System requires a state member bank to file a notification whenever it proposes to make an investment in bank premises that results in its total bank premises investment exceeding its capital stock and surplus or, if the bank is well capitalized and in good condition, exceeding 150 percent of its capital stock and surplus. There is no formal reporting form; banks notify the Federal Reserve by letter fifteen days prior to making the proposed investment. The Federal Reserve uses the information to fulfill its statutory obligation to supervise state member banks.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, July 12, 2004.
Jennifer J. Johnson
Secretary of the Board.