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News Release 2024-10 | February 6, 2024

Federal Bank Regulatory Agencies Seek Comment on Interagency Effort to Reduce Regulatory Burden

Joint Release

Federal Reserve Board
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

The federal bank regulatory agencies today published their first of a series of requests for comment to reduce regulatory burden. The Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act of 1996 requires the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council and federal bank regulatory agencies to review their regulations every 10 years to identify any outdated or otherwise unnecessary regulatory requirements for their supervised institutions.

To facilitate this review, the agencies divided their regulations into 12 categories and are first soliciting comments on their regulations in three categories: Applications and Reporting, Powers and Activities, and International Operations. The public has 90 days from publication in the Federal Register to comment on the relevant regulations.

Over the next two years, the agencies will request comment on the regulations in the remaining categories, asking the public to identify regulations they believe are outdated, unnecessary, or unduly burdensome.

The agencies also plan to hold outreach meetings where interested parties may comment on applicable regulatory requirements directly to the agencies. Information about the outreach meetings will be publicized as details are finalized.

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FRB
Meg Nelson
(202) 452-2955

OCC
Anne Edgecomb
(202) 649-6870

FDIC
Carroll Kim
(202) 898-6984

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