---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 3911"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "3911"
heading: "Equal representation for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of Thrift Supervision"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/3911"
units:
  - "Chapter 40 — International Lending Supervision"
---

# §3911. Equal representation for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of Thrift Supervision

- (a) **In general—** As one of the 4 Federal [bank](/usc/12/1426a.md?p=g-1) regulatory and supervisory [agencies](/usc/12/1422.md?p=12), and as the insurer of the United States [banks](/usc/12/221a.md?p=a) involved in international lending, the Federal [Deposit](/usc/12/5301.md?p=18-A) Insurance [Corporation](/usc/12/2277a.md?p=2) shall be given equal representation with the [Board](/usc/12/221a.md?p=a) of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the [Office](/usc/12/2279bb.md?p=4) of the Comptroller of the Currency on the Committee on Banking Regulations and Supervisory Practices of the Group of Ten Countries and Switzerland.
- (b) **Office of Thrift Supervision—** As one of the 4 Federal [bank](/usc/12/1426a.md?p=g-1) regulatory and supervisory [agencies](/usc/12/1422.md?p=12), the [Office](/usc/12/2279bb.md?p=4) of Thrift Supervision shall be given equal representation with the [Board](/usc/12/221a.md?p=a) of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the [Office](/usc/12/2279bb.md?p=4) of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal [Deposit](/usc/12/5301.md?p=18-A) Insurance [Corporation](/usc/12/2277a.md?p=2) on the Committee on Banking Regulations and Supervisory Practices of the Group of Ten Countries and Switzerland.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–181, title I [title IX, § 912], Nov. 30, 1983, 97 Stat. 1284; Pub. L. 109–351, title VII, § 713(a), Oct. 13, 2006, 120 Stat. 1995.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2006—Pub. L. 109–351 inserted “and the Office of Thrift Supervision” after “Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation” in section catchline, designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, substituted “As one of the 4” for “As one of the three”, and added subsec. (b).