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.