80 FR 52035 - Agency Information Collection Activities Under OMB Review
COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 166 (August 27, 2015)
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 166 (August 27, 2015)
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| FR Document | 2015-21252 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 166 (Thursday, August 27, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 52035-52036] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-21252] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION Agency Information Collection Activities Under OMB Review AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading Commission. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (``PRA''), this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (``ICR'') abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and Budget (``OMB'') for review and comment. The ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its expected costs and burden. DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before September 28, 2015. ADDRESSES: Comments regarding the burden estimated or any other aspect of the information collection, including suggestions for reducing the burden, may be submitted directly to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (``OIRA'') in OMB, within 30 days of the notice's publication, by email at OIRAsubmissions@omb.eop.gov. Please identify the comments by OMB Control No. 3038-0007. Please provide the Commission with a copy of all submitted comments at the address listed below. Please refer to OMB Reference No. 3038-0007, found on http://reginfo.gov. Comments may also be mailed to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503. You may also submit comments, identified by Renewal of Collection Number 3038-0007 and ``Regulation of Domestic Exchange-Traded Options,'' by any of the following methods:The Agency's Web site, via its Comments Online process: http://comments.cftc.gov. Follow the [[Page 52036]] instructions for submitting comments through the Web site. Mail: Christopher Kirkpatrick, Secretary of the Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street NW., Washington, DC 20581. Delivery/Courier: Same as Mail above. Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov/. Follow the instructions for submitting comments through the Portal. All comments must be submitted in English, or if not, accompanied by an English translation. Comments will be posted as received to http://www.cftc.gov. You should submit only information that you wish to make available publicly. If you wish the Commission to consider information that you believe is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, a petition for confidential treatment of the exempt information may be submitted according to the procedures established in Sec. 145.9 of the Commission's regulations.\1\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ 17 CFR 145.9, 74 FR 17395 (Apr. 15, 2009). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Commission reserves the right, but shall have no obligation, to review, pre-screen, filter, redact, refuse or remove any or all of your submission from http://www.cftc.gov that it may deem to be inappropriate for publication, such as obscene language. All submissions that have been redacted or removed that contain comments on the merits of the ICR will be retained in the public comment file and will be considered as required under the Administrative Procedure Act and other applicable laws, and may be accessible under the Freedom of Information Act. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street NW., Washington, DC 20581; Dana R. Brown, Division of Market Oversight, telephone: (202) 418-5093 and email: dbrown@cftc.gov; or Jacob Chachkin, Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight, telephone: (202) 418-5496 and email: jchachkin@cftc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: Rules Relating to Regulation of Domestic Exchange Traded-Options (OMB Control No. 3038-0007). This is a request for extension of a currently approved information collection. Abstract: The rules require futures commission merchants and introducing brokers: (1) To provide their customers with standard risk disclosure statements concerning the risk of trading commodity interests; and (2) to retain all promotional material and the source of authority for information contained therein. The purpose of these rules is to ensure that customers are advised of the risks of trading commodity interests and to avoid fraud and misrepresentation. This information collection contains the recordkeeping and reporting requirements needed to ensure regulatory compliance with Commission rules relating to this issue. Burden Statement: The Commission estimates the burden of this collection of information as follows: Estimated Annual Reporting Burden ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estimated Estimated Estimated number of Reports average total number Regulation respondents or annually by Total annual number of of hours of recordkeepers each responses hours per annual burden per year respondent response in fiscal year ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reporting: 38.3, 38.4, 40.2 and 40.3 13.00 2.00 26.00 25.00 650.00 (Procedure for designation or self-certification)..... 33.7--(Risk disclosure)..... 1,401.00 115.00 161,115.00 0.08 12,889.20 Subtotal (Reporting 1,414.00 .............. 20,151.00 .............. 13,539.20 requirements).............. Recordkeeping: 33.8--(Retention of 1,401.00 1.00 1,401.00 25.00 35,025.00 promotional material)...... Subtotal (Recordkeeping 1,401.00 1.00 1,401.00 25.00 35,025.00 requirements).............. Grand total (Reporting and 2,815.00 .............. 21,155.20 .............. 48,564.2 Recordkeeping)............. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection. Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. Dated: August 24, 2015. Robert N. Sidman, Deputy Secretary of the Commission. [FR Doc. 2015-21252 Filed 8-26-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6351-01-P
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Dated: August 18, 2015. authority of the Marine Mammal Concurrent with the publication of
Julia Harrison, Protection Act of 1972, as amended this notice in the Federal Register,
Chief, Permits and Conservation Division, (MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), the NMFS is forwarding copies of the
Office of Protected Resources, National regulations governing the taking and application to the Marine Mammal
Marine Fisheries Service. importing of marine mammals (50 CFR Commission and its Committee of
[FR Doc. 2015–21215 Filed 8–26–15; 8:45 am] part 216), and the Endangered Species Scientific Advisors.
BILLING CODE 3510–22–P Act of 1973, as amended (ESA; 16 Dated: August 18, 2015.
U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).
Julia Harrison,
The applicant requests a five-year
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE permit to determine how environmental Chief, Permits and Conservation Division,
Office of Protected Resources, National
toxicants affect cetaceans and vary
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Marine Fisheries Service.
spatially and temporally across species;
Administration [FR Doc. 2015–21216 Filed 8–26–15; 8:45 am]
and determine the route of exposure.
Research would occur in U.S. waters BILLING CODE 3510–22–P
RIN 0648–XE075
and the high seas of the Pacific, Atlantic
Marine Mammals; File No. 18636 and Indian Oceans via vessel surveys
targeting live cetaceans, tissue COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries collection of dead, stranded cetaceans, COMMISSION
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and and the import/export/receipt of
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), biological samples collected in foreign Agency Information Collection
Commerce. waters/countries. Field research Activities Under OMB Review
ACTION: Notice; receipt of application. activities on live animals would include AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that collection of sloughed skin and feces, Commission.
Iain Kerr, D.H.L., Ocean Alliance, 32 biopsy sampling, photo-identification,
ACTION: Notice.
Horton Street, Gloucester, MA 01930, videography, passive acoustic recording,
has applied in due form for a permit to focal follows, behavioral observation, SUMMARY: In compliance with the
conduct research on multiple cetacean and breath sampling via a small Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
species. unmanned aircraft system. The (‘‘PRA’’), this notice announces that the
applicant requests to annually harass Information Collection Request (‘‘ICR’’)
DATES: Written, telefaxed, or email and sample the following species during abstracted below has been forwarded to
comments must be received on or before vessel surveys as follows. In the North the Office of Management and Budget
September 28, 2015. Atlantic: 150 takes for the primary study (‘‘OMB’’) for review and comment. The
ADDRESSES: The application and related species, sperm whales (Physeter ICR describes the nature of the
documents are available for review by macrocephalus); 30 takes for Bryde’s information collection and its expected
selecting ‘‘Records Open for Public whales (Balaenoptera brydei); 40 takes costs and burden.
Comment’’ from the ‘‘Features’’ box on for humpback whales (Megaptera
the Applications and Permits for DATES: Comments must be submitted on
novaeangliae); and 20 takes for all other
Protected Species (APPS) home page, or before September 28, 2015.
requested species [blue (B. musculus),
https://apps.nmfs.noaa.gov, and then dwarf sperm (Kogia sima), false killer ADDRESSES: Comments regarding the
selecting File No. 18636 from the list of (Pseudorca crassidens), fin (B. burden estimated or any other aspect of
available applications. physalus), killer whales (Orcinus orca), the information collection, including
These documents are also available minke (B. acutorostrata), pilot suggestions for reducing the burden,
upon written request or by appointment (Globicephala spp.), pygmy sperm may be submitted directly to the Office
in the Permits and Conservation (Kogia breviceps), sei (B. borealis), and of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Division, Office of Protected Resources, beaked whale species and dolphins]. In (‘‘OIRA’’) in OMB, within 30 days of the
NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room the Pacific Ocean, the applicant requests notice’s publication, by email at
13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910; phone up to 100 takes of sperm whales, and 20 OIRAsubmissions@omb.eop.gov. Please
(301) 427–8401; fax (301) 713–0376. takes of all other species, annually: blue, identify the comments by OMB Control
Written comments on this application pygmy and dwarf sperm, fin, humpback, No. 3038–0007. Please provide the
should be submitted to the Chief, Bryde’s, minke, short- and long-finned Commission with a copy of all
Permits and Conservation Division, at pilot, sei, Eastern gray (Eschrichtius submitted comments at the address
the address listed above. Comments may robustus), false killer, and killer whales, listed below. Please refer to OMB
also be submitted by facsimile to (301) and several beaked whale and dolphin Reference No. 3038–0007, found on
713–0376, or by email to species. http://reginfo.gov.
NMFS.Pr1Comments@noaa.gov. Please Additionally, the applicant requests Comments may also be mailed to the
include the File No. in the subject line to annually import/export/receive up to Office of Information and Regulatory
of the email comment. 150 biological samples (parts) for sperm Affairs, Office of Management and
Those individuals requesting a public whales; 200 parts for southern right Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for the
hearing should submit a written request whales; 40 parts for humpback whales; Commodity Futures Trading
to the Chief, Permits and Conservation 30 parts for Bryde’s whales; and 20 parts Commission, 725 17th Street NW.,
Division at the address listed above. The for all other requested species. Washington, DC 20503. You may also
request should set forth the specific In compliance with the National submit comments, identified by
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reasons why a hearing on this Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 Renewal of Collection Number 3038–
application would be appropriate. U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), an initial 0007 and ‘‘Regulation of Domestic
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: determination has been made that the Exchange-Traded Options,’’ by any of
Courtney Smith or Amy Hapeman, (301) activity proposed is categorically the following methods:
427–8401. excluded from the requirement to • The Agency’s Web site, via its
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The prepare an environmental assessment or Comments Online process: http://
subject permit is requested under the environmental impact statement. comments.cftc.gov. Follow the
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instructions for submitting comments to the procedures established in § 145.9 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title:
through the Web site. of the Commission’s regulations.1 Rules Relating to Regulation of
• Mail: Christopher Kirkpatrick, The Commission reserves the right, Domestic Exchange Traded-Options
Secretary of the Commission, but shall have no obligation, to review, (OMB Control No. 3038–0007). This is
Commodity Futures Trading pre-screen, filter, redact, refuse or a request for extension of a currently
Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, remove any or all of your submission approved information collection.
1155 21st Street NW., Washington, DC from http://www.cftc.gov that it may
deem to be inappropriate for Abstract: The rules require futures
20581. commission merchants and introducing
publication, such as obscene language.
• Delivery/Courier: Same as Mail All submissions that have been redacted brokers: (1) To provide their customers
above. or removed that contain comments on with standard risk disclosure statements
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// the merits of the ICR will be retained in concerning the risk of trading
www.regulations.gov/. Follow the the public comment file and will be commodity interests; and (2) to retain
instructions for submitting comments considered as required under the all promotional material and the source
through the Portal. Administrative Procedure Act and other of authority for information contained
All comments must be submitted in applicable laws, and may be accessible therein. The purpose of these rules is to
English, or if not, accompanied by an under the Freedom of Information Act. ensure that customers are advised of the
English translation. Comments will be FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: risks of trading commodity interests and
posted as received to http:// Commodity Futures Trading to avoid fraud and misrepresentation.
www.cftc.gov. You should submit only Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, This information collection contains the
information that you wish to make 1155 21st Street NW., Washington, DC recordkeeping and reporting
available publicly. If you wish the 20581; Dana R. Brown, Division of requirements needed to ensure
Commission to consider information Market Oversight, telephone: (202) 418– regulatory compliance with Commission
that you believe is exempt from 5093 and email: dbrown@cftc.gov; or rules relating to this issue.
disclosure under the Freedom of Jacob Chachkin, Division of Swap
Information Act, a petition for Dealer and Intermediary Oversight, Burden Statement: The Commission
confidential treatment of the exempt telephone: (202) 418–5496 and email: estimates the burden of this collection
information may be submitted according jchachkin@cftc.gov. of information as follows:
ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN
Estimated Estimated Estimated total
Reports
number of average number of
annually Total annual
Regulation respondents or number of hours of
by each responses
recordkeepers hours per annual burden
respondent
per year response in fiscal year
Reporting:
38.3, 38.4, 40.2 and 40.3 (Procedure for designation
or self-certification) .................................................... 13.00 2.00 26.00 25.00 650.00
33.7—(Risk disclosure) ................................................. 1,401.00 115.00 161,115.00 0.08 12,889.20
Subtotal (Reporting requirements) ............................... 1,414.00 ........................ 20,151.00 ........................ 13,539.20
Recordkeeping:
33.8—(Retention of promotional material) ................... 1,401.00 1.00 1,401.00 25.00 35,025.00
Subtotal (Recordkeeping requirements) ....................... 1,401.00 1.00 1,401.00 25.00 35,025.00
Grand total (Reporting and Recordkeeping) ................ 2,815.00 ........................ 21,155.20 ........................ 48,564.2
There are no capital costs or operating ACTION: Notice. (‘‘OIRA’’) in OMB, within 30 days of the
and maintenance costs associated with notice’s publication, by email at
this collection. SUMMARY: In compliance with the OIRAsubmissions@omb.eop.gov. Please
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 identify the comments by OMB Control
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. (‘‘PRA’’), this notice announces that the No. 3038–0093. Please provide the
Dated: August 24, 2015. Information Collection Request (‘‘ICR’’) Commission with a copy of all
Robert N. Sidman, abstracted below has been forwarded to submitted comments at the address
Deputy Secretary of the Commission.
the Office of Management and Budget listed below. Please refer to OMB
(‘‘OMB’’) for review and comment. The Reference No. 201203–3038–005, found
[FR Doc. 2015–21252 Filed 8–26–15; 8:45 am]
ICR describes the nature of the on http://reginfo.gov.
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information collection and its expected
Comments may also be mailed to the
costs and burden.
Office of Information and Regulatory
COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING DATES: Comments must be submitted on Affairs, Office of Management and
COMMISSION or before September 28, 2015. Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for the
ADDRESSES: Comments regarding the Commodity Futures Trading
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Agency Information Collection burden estimated or any other aspect of Commission, 725 17th Street NW.,
Activities Under OMB Review the information collection, including Washington, DC 20503, and to:
suggestions for reducing the burden, Christopher Kirkpatrick, Secretary of the
AGENCY:Commodity Futures Trading may be submitted directly to the Office Commission, Commodity Futures
Commission. of Information and Regulatory Affairs Trading Commission, 1155 21st Street
1 17 CFR 145.9, 74 FR 17395 (Apr. 15, 2009).
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| Contact | Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street NW., Washington, DC 20581; Dana R. Brown, Division of Market Oversight, telephone: (202) 418-5093 and email: [email protected]; or Jacob Chachkin, Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight, telephone: (202) 418-5496 and email: [email protected] | |
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