OCC 2000-10
Subject: Assessment of Fees for National Banks 
         and District of Columbia Banks
Description: Proposed Rule
Date: March 29, 2000


TO:  Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks, Department
     and Division Heads, and All Examining Personnel

The attached proposed rule on assessment of fees for national
banks and District of Columbia banks was published in the Federal
Register on March 21, 2000.  Comments are due April 20, 2000.  

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is requesting
comment on proposed amendments to the OCC's assessment
regulation, 12 CFR Part 8, that would enable the OCC to capture
better the costs of supervising national trust banks that are not
affiliated with a full service national bank (independent trust
banks).  Under the proposal, an independent trust bank with less
than $1 billion in trust assets under management would pay a flat
fee in addition to the assessment computed based on the
institution's book assets.  An independent trust bank with $1
billion or more in such assets would multiply its assets under
management by a rate provided by the OCC and add the product to
the assessment computed on book assets.  Both the amount of the
flat fee and the rate to be applied by trust banks with over $1
billion in assets under management would be published in the
annual Notice of Comptroller of the Currency Fees.  The attached
notice invites comments on all aspects of the proposed rule.   

For further information, please contact Mitchell E.F. Plave,
senior attorney, Legislative and Regulatory Activities Division,
(202) 874-5090, or Karen McCluskey, national bank examiner, Bank
Supervision Policy, (202) 874-7276. 


____________________________________
Julie L. Williams
First Senior Deputy Comptroller and Chief Counsel

Attachment--65 FR 15111