2022-04454: Rules of Practice and Procedure

Summary

The Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) (collectively, the Agencies) are proposing changes to the Uniform Rules of Practice and Procedure (Uniform Rules) to recognize the use of electronic communications in all aspects of administrative hearings and to otherwise increase the efficiency and fairness of administrative adjudications. The OCC, Board, and FDIC are also proposing to modify their agency-specific rules of administrative practice and procedure (Local Rules). The OCC also proposes to integrate its Uniform Rules and Local Rules so that one set of rules applies to both national banks and Federal savings associations and to amend its rules on organization and functions to address service of process.

The agency’s own summary, as published.

What this changes

Amends 12 parts of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.

• 12 CFR 3 Capital Adequacy Standards
• 12 CFR 4 Organization and Functions, Availability and Release of Information, Contracting Outreach Program, Post-Employment Restrictions for Senior Examiners
• 12 CFR 6 Prompt Corrective Action
• 12 CFR 19 Rules of Practice and Procedure
• 12 CFR 108
• 12 CFR 109
• 12 CFR 112
• 12 CFR 165
• 12 CFR 238 Savings and Loan Holding Companies (Regulation LL)
• 12 CFR 263 Rules of Practice for Hearings
• 12 CFR 308 Rules of Practice and Procedure
• 12 CFR 747 Administrative Actions, Adjudicative Hearings, Rules of Practice and Procedure, and Investigations