OCC 2006-36
OCC Bulletin

    Subject:  Assessment of Fees
Description:  Final Rule

       Date:  August 15, 2006

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

On July 25, 2006, the Office of the Comptroller of the 
Currency (OCC) published in the Federal Register the 
attached final rule amending part 8 of the OCC's rules 
concerning the timing of payments of OCC assessments.  
The effective date of the final rule is August 24. 

The final rule adopts, without change, an interim final 
rule that revised the OCC's assessment collection 
process.  Under the interim final rule and this final 
rule, the OCC, rather than each national bank, calculates
the semiannual assessment based on the most recent 
Consolidated Reports of Condition and Income (call 
report), and the assessment is due two months later than 
under the prior system.  Thus, payments that were 
previously due on January 31 and July 31 of each year are
instead due on March 31 and September 30 of each year.  
The final rule is identical to the interim rule, which 
changed the invoicing process only; it did not change the
method of calculating assessments due from national banks
or the amount of national banks' assessments.

For further information, contact Colette Baylson, 
Accounting Operations Manager, Financial Management, at 
(202) 874-4403, or Jean Campbell, Senior Attorney, or 
Mitchell Plave, Counsel, in the Legislative and 
Regulatory Activities Division at (202) 874-5090.


             /s/
______________________________________
Julie L. Williams,
First Senior Deputy Comptroller and Chief Counsel

Attachment:  71 FR 42017
  [http://www.occ.treas.gov/fr/fedregister/71fr42017.pdf]