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B-329612


December 6, 2017

The Honorable Michael Crapo
Chairman
The Honorable Sherrod Brown
Ranking Member
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
United States Senate

The Honorable Jeb Hensarling
Chairman
The Honorable Maxine Waters
Ranking Member
Committee on Financial Services
House of Representatives

Subject: Department of the Treasury, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; Federal
        Reserve System; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: Regulatory Capital Rules:
        Retention of Certain Existing Transition Provisions for Banking Organizations That Are
        Not Subject to the Advanced Approaches Capital Rules

Pursuant to section 801 (a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code, this is our report on a major rule
promulgated by the Department of the Treasury, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
(OCC); the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board); Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation (FDIC) (collectively, the agencies) entitled Regulatory Capital Rules:
Retention of Certain Existing Transition Provisions for Banking Organizations That Are Not
Subject to the Advanced Approaches Capital Rules (RINs: 1557-AE 23; 7100-AE 83; 3064-AE
63). We received the rule on November 22, 2017. It was published in the Federal Register as a
final rule on November 21, 2017. 82 Fed. Reg. 55,309.

The final rule extends the regulatory capital treatment applicable during 2017 under the
regulatory capital rules (capital rules) for certain items. These items include regulatory capital
deductions, risk weights, and certain minority interest limitations. The relief provided under the
final rule applies to banking organizations that are not subject to the capital rules' advanced
approaches (non-advanced approaches banking organizations). Specifically, for these banking
organizations, the final rule extends the current regulatory capital treatment of mortgage
servicing assets, deferred tax assets arising from temporary differences that could not be
realized through net operating loss carrybacks, significant investments in the capital of
unconsolidated financial institutions in the form of common stock, non-significant investments in
the capital of unconsolidated financial institutions, significant investments in the capital of
unconsolidated financial institutions that are not in the form of common stock, and common
equity tier 1 minority interest, tier 1 minority interest, and total capital minority interest exceeding
the capital rules' minority interest limitations. Under the final rule, advanced approaches
banking organizations continue to be subject to the transition provisions established by the

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