OCC 99-24  
OCC BULLETIN

Subject:      Disclosure of Information
Description:  Final Rule

Date:         June 9, 1999

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

The attached final rule on the disclosure of nonpublic OCC
information was published in the Federal Register on June 1,
1999.  The final rule was effective on publication.

The final rule amends the OCC's disclosure regulation in 12 CFR
Part 4 to clarify that the OCC may make nonpublic OCC information
available to a supervised entity and to other persons, as the
Comptroller, in his sole discretion, may deem necessary or
appropriate, without a request for records or testimony.  The
final rule also clarifies that Suspicious Activity Reports are
nonpublic documents and that both present and former OCC
employees and agents are subject to the restrictions on the
disclosure of information under the rule.

For further information, contact Stuart Feldstein, assistant
director, Legislative and Regulatory Activities Division at 
(202) 874-5090.




_____________________________________
Julie L. Williams
Chief Counsel



Attachment: 64 FR 29214

        [http://www.occ.treas.gov/fr/fedregister/64fr29214.pdf]