On July 18, 2006, the Federal Reserve Board, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Treasury; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Office of Thrift Supervision, Treasury; and National Credit Union Administration, (the Agencies) published a joint notice of proposed rulemaking (71 FR 40786) to implement the provisions in sections 114 and 315 of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACT Act) of 2003, which amends the FCRA. The proposed regulation requires each financial institution or creditor to develop and implement a written Identity Theft Prevention Program to detect, prevent, and mitigate identity theft in connection with the opening of certain accounts or certain existing accounts. In addition, the Agencies would issue guidelines to assist financial institutions and creditors in the formulation and maintenance of a Program that satisfies the requirements of the rules. The rules implementing section 114 also require credit and debit card issuers to assess the validity of notifications of changes of address under certain circumstances. Additionally, the Agencies would issue joint rules under section 315 that provide guidance regarding reasonable policies and procedures that a user of consumer reports must employ when a consumer reporting agency sends the user a notice of address discrepancy. The comment period for this notice expired on September 18, 2006. The Agencies received over 100 comment letters from industry groups and consumers. On November 9, 2007, a joint notice of final rulemaking was published in the Federal Register adopting the amendments, with mandatory compliance by November 1, 2008 (72 FR 63718).
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.