80 FR 63971 - Agency Information Collection Activities Under OMB Review

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 204 (October 22, 2015)

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FR Document		2015-26833

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.

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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION


Agency Information Collection Activities Under OMB Review

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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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 November 23, 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. 3038-0096. Please provide the 
Commission with a copy of all submitted comments at the address listed 
below. Please refer to OMB Reference No. 3038-0096, 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, and to the Commission through the 
Agency's Web site at http://comments.cftc.gov. Follow the instructions 
for submitting comments through the Web site.
    Comments may also be mailed to: Christopher Kirkpatrick, Secretary 
of the Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Three 
Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street NW., Washington, DC 20581 or by Hand 
Delivery/Courier at the same address.
    A copy of the supporting statements for the collection of 
information discussed above may be obtained by visiting http://
regInfo.gov. 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Guerin, Division of Market 
Oversight, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, (202) 734-4194; email:

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tguerin@cftc.gov and refer to OMB Control No. 3038-0096.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a 
person is not required to respond to, a collection of information 
unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The Federal 
Register notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on 
this collection of information was published on August 7, 2015 (80 FR 
47477).
    Title: Swap Data Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements (OMB 
Control No. 3038-0096). This is a request for extension of a currently 
approved information collection.
    Abstract: Section 727 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and 
Consumer Protection Act (``Dodd-Frank Act'') specifically required that 
each swap subject to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's 
jurisdiction be reported to a newly-created registered entity, the swap 
data repository. Section 728 of the Dodd-Frank Act specifically 
required the Commission to establish standards for swap data 
recordkeeping and reporting, including the data elements to be 
collected and maintained by swap data repositories for each swap. 
Section 729 of the Dodd-Frank Act required that at least one 
counterparty to each swap have an obligation to report data concerning 
the swap and provided for data reporting to the Commission for swaps 
not accepted by a swap data repository. Pursuant to this mandate, the 
Commission adopted 17 CFR part 45 on December 20, 2011, to establish 
swap data recordkeeping and reporting requirements. This ICR concerns 
the collections of information required by 17 CFR part 45.
    The Commission estimated that approximately 30,210 entities would 
be affected by this ICR. That number was based on the current estimate 
of the total number of swap data repositories, swap execution 
facilities, designated contract markets, derivatives clearing 
organizations, swap dealers, major swap participants and other swap 
counterparties. The Commission did not receive any comments regarding 
the burden estimated or any other aspect of this ICR.
    Burden Statement: The total annual time burden for this ICR is 
estimated to be 445,910 hours. This estimate includes the time to 
comply with swap data recordkeeping and reporting requirements codified 
in 17 CFR part 45. Provisions of Commission Regulations Sec. Sec.  
45.2, 45.3, 45.4, 45.5, 45.6, 45.7, and 45.14 result in information 
collection requirements within the meaning of the PRA. To the extent 
that the recordkeeping and reporting requirements codified in 17 CFR 
part 45 overlap with the requirements of other rulemakings for which 
the Commission prepared and submitted an information collection burden 
estimate to OMB, the burden associated with the requirements are not 
being accounted for in this ICR to avoid unnecessary duplication of 
information collection burdens.
    Respondents/Affected Entities: Swap data repositories, swap 
execution facilities, designated contract markets, derivatives clearing 
organizations, swap dealers, major swap participants and other swap 
counterparties (i.e., non-swap dealer/non-major swap participant 
counterparties).
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 30,210.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 445,910 hours.
    Frequency of Collection: Ongoing.


    Authority:  44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.

    Dated: October 19, 2015
Robert N. Sidman,
Deputy Secretary of the Commission.
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where sources of a certain type are likely not affect annual rates of COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
deployed in a manner that could lead to recruitment or survival. COMMISSION
a stranding response. Based on the analysis contained
The importance of the disruption and herein of the likely effects of the Agency Information Collection
degree of consequence for individual specified activity on marine mammals Activities Under OMB Review
marine mammals often has much to do and their habitat and dependent upon AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading
with the frequency, intensity, and the implementation of the mitigation Commission.
duration of the disturbance. Isolated and monitoring measures, NMFS finds ACTION: Notice.
acoustic disturbances such as acoustic that the total taking from Civilian Port
transmissions usually have minimal Defense training activities in the Study SUMMARY: In compliance with the
consequences or no lasting effects for Area will have a negligible impact on Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
marine mammals. Marine mammals the affected species or stocks. (‘‘PRA’’), this notice announces that the
regularly cope with occasional Information Collection Request (‘‘ICR’’)
disruption of their activities by Subsistence Harvest of Marine abstracted below has been forwarded to
predators, adverse weather, and other Mammals the Office of Management and Budget
natural phenomena. It is also reasonable (‘‘OMB’’) for review and comment. The
to assume that they can tolerate There are no relevant subsistence uses
of marine mammals implicated by this ICR describes the nature of the
occasional or brief disturbances by information collection and its expected
anthropogenic sound without action. Therefore, NMFS has
determined that the total taking of costs and burden.
significant consequences.
affected species or stocks would not DATES: Comments must be submitted on
The exposure estimates calculated by
have an unmitigable adverse impact on or before November 23, 2015.
predictive models currently available
the availability of such species or stocks ADDRESSES: Comments regarding the
reliably predict propagation of sound
for taking for subsistence purposes. burden estimated or any other aspect of
and received levels and measure a short-
term, immediate response of an the information collection, including
NEPA
individual using applicable criteria. suggestions for reducing the burden,
Consequences to populations are much In compliance with the National may be submitted directly to the Office
more difficult to predict and empirical Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of of Information and Regulatory Affairs
measurement of population effects from 1969 (42 United States Code 4321 et (‘‘OIRA’’) in OMB, within 30 days of the
anthropogenic stressors is limited seq.), as implemented by the regulations notice’s publication, by email at
(National Research Council of the published by the Council on OIRAsubmissions@omb.eop.gov. Please
National Academies, 2005). To predict Environmental Quality (40 CFR parts identify the comments by OMB Control
indirect, long-term, and cumulative 1500–1508), the Navy prepared an No. 3038–0096. Please provide the
effects, the processes must be well Environmental Assessment (EA) to Commission with a copy of all
understood and the underlying data consider the direct, indirect and submitted comments at the address
available for models. Based on each cumulative effects to the human listed below. Please refer to OMB
species’ life history information, environment resulting from all Reference No. 3038–0096, found on
expected behavioral patterns in the components of the proposed 2015 http://reginfo.gov. Comments may also
Study Area, all of the modeled Civilian Port Defense training activities. be mailed to the Office of Information
exposures resulting in temporary Also in compliance with NEPA and the and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
behavioral disturbance (Table 1), and CEQ regulations, as well as NOAA Management and Budget, Attention:
the application of mitigation procedures Administrative Order 216–6, NMFS has Desk Officer for the Commodity Futures
proposed above, the proposed Civilian reviewed the Navy’s EA, determined it Trading Commission, 725 17th Street
Port Defense activities are anticipated to to be sufficient, and adopted that EA NW., Washington, DC 20503, and to the
have a negligible impact on marine and signed a Finding of No Significant Commission through the Agency’s Web
mammal stocks within the Study Area. Impact (FONSI). The Navy’s EA and site at http://comments.cftc.gov. Follow
NMFS concludes that Civilian Port NMFS’ FONSI for this action may be the instructions for submitting
Defense training activities within the found on the internet at http:// comments through the Web site.
Study Area would result in Level B www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/permits/ Comments may also be mailed to:
takes only, as summarized in Table 1. incidental/militay.htm. Christopher Kirkpatrick, Secretary of the
The effects of these military readiness Commission, Commodity Futures
ESA Trading Commission, Three Lafayette
activities will be limited to short-term,
localized changes in behavior and Centre, 1155 21st Street NW.,
No species listed under the
possible temporary threshold shift in Washington, DC 20581 or by Hand
Endangered Species Act (ESA) are
the hearing of marine mammal species. Delivery/Courier at the same address.
expected to be affected by the proposed
These effects are not likely to have a A copy of the supporting statements
Civilian Port Defense training activities
significant or long-term impact on for the collection of information
and no takes of any ESA-listed species
feeding, breeding, or other important discussed above may be obtained by
are authorized under the MMPA.
biological functions. No take by injury visiting http://regInfo.gov. All
Therefore, NMFS has determined that a
or mortality is anticipated, and the comments must be submitted in
formal section 7 consultation under the
potential for permanent hearing English, or if not, accompanied by an
ESA is not required.
English translation. Comments will be
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impairment is unlikely. Based on best
Dated: October 19, 2015. posted as received to http://
available science NMFS concludes that
exposures to marine mammal species Perry F. Gayaldo, www.cftc.gov.
and stocks due to the proposed training Deputy Director, Office of Protected FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
activities would result in only short- Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service. Thomas Guerin, Division of Market
term effects from those Level B takes to [FR Doc. 2015–26856 Filed 10–21–15; 8:45 am] Oversight, Commodity Futures Trading
most individuals exposed and would BILLING CODE 3510–22–P Commission, (202) 734–4194; email:

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tguerin@cftc.gov and refer to OMB extent that the recordkeeping and Establishing and Implementing Levels
Control No. 3038–0096. reporting requirements codified in 17 of Operating Service which sets forth
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: An agency CFR part 45 overlap with the criteria for determining hours of
may not conduct or sponsor, and a requirements of other rulemakings for availability, based on lock usage data.
person is not required to respond to, a which the Commission prepared and The intended effect is to provide lock
collection of information unless it submitted an information collection availability that matches existing lock
displays a currently valid OMB control burden estimate to OMB, the burden usage by commercial industry. The
number. The Federal Register notice associated with the requirements are not Vicksburg District will continue to work
with a 60-day comment period soliciting being accounted for in this ICR to avoid with industry to optimize the hours of
comments on this collection of unnecessary duplication of information availability and make adjustments as
information was published on August 7, collection burdens. needed.
2015 (80 FR 47477). Respondents/Affected Entities: Swap
Title: Swap Data Recordkeeping and data repositories, swap execution Proposed implementation date is
DATES:
Reporting Requirements (OMB Control facilities, designated contract markets, November 15, 2015.
No. 3038–0096). This is a request for derivatives clearing organizations, swap
dealers, major swap participants and ADDRESSES: Submit written comments,
extension of a currently approved
other swap counterparties (i.e., non- in duplicate, to Mr. James V. Ross,
information collection.
Abstract: Section 727 of the Dodd- swap dealer/non-major swap participant Chief, Operations Division, Vicksburg
Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer counterparties). District, US Army Corps of Engineers,
Protection Act (‘‘Dodd-Frank Act’’) Estimated Number of Respondents: 4155 Clay Street, Vicksburg, MS 39183,
specifically required that each swap 30,210. or deliver them to Mr Ross between the
subject to the Commodity Futures Estimated Total Annual Burden on hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.,
Trading Commission’s jurisdiction be Respondents: 445,910 hours. Monday through Friday at the address
reported to a newly-created registered Frequency of Collection: Ongoing. above. Comments received and other
entity, the swap data repository. Section materials relevant to the proposed
728 of the Dodd-Frank Act specifically Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. reduction in hours of lock availability
required the Commission to establish can be inspected at Mr. Ross’ office
Dated: October 19, 2015
standards for swap data recordkeeping during the same hours. An appointment
Robert N. Sidman,
and reporting, including the data will be required for inspection, so
Deputy Secretary of the Commission.
elements to be collected and maintained please call ahead to make an
by swap data repositories for each swap. [FR Doc. 2015–26833 Filed 10–21–15; 8:45 am]
appointment and to avoid conflicts with
Section 729 of the Dodd-Frank Act BILLING CODE 6351–01–P
inspections by other interested parties.
required that at least one counterparty Phone: 601–631–5315
to each swap have an obligation to
report data concerning the swap and DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
provided for data reporting to the Thomas Hengst at the Corps of
Commission for swaps not accepted by Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District, River
a swap data repository. Pursuant to this Engineers Operations Branch, by phone at 601–
mandate, the Commission adopted 17 631–5600.
Proposed Changes in Levels of
CFR part 45 on December 20, 2011, to SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The legal
Service at Locks and Dams on the
establish swap data recordkeeping and authority for the regulation governing
Ouachita and Black Rivers
reporting requirements. This ICR the use, administration, and navigation
concerns the collections of information AGENCY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, of the Ouachita and Black Rivers and
required by 17 CFR part 45. DoD.
Locks is Section 4 of the River and
The Commission estimated that ACTION: Notice.
approximately 30,210 entities would be Harbor Act of August 18, 1894 (28 Stat.
affected by this ICR. That number was SUMMARY: It is proposed that the hours 362), as amended, which is codified at
based on the current estimate of the of availability at Jonesville and 33 U.S.C. Section 1. This statute
total number of swap data repositories, Columbia Locks on the Ouachita and requires the Secretary of the Army to
swap execution facilities, designated Black Rivers will be increased from the ‘‘prescribe such regulations for the use,
contract markets, derivatives clearing current schedule of 20 hours per day, administration, and navigation of the
organizations, swap dealers, major swap separated into two 10 hour periods, 5:00 navigable waters of the United States’’
participants and other swap a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. to 3:00 as the Secretary determines may be
counterparties. The Commission did not a.m., 7 days per week, 365 days per year required by public necessity. Reference
receive any comments regarding the to 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 33 CFR part 207.249, Ouachita and
burden estimated or any other aspect of 365 days per year. It is also proposed Black Rivers, Ark. and La., Mile 0.0 to
this ICR. that the hours of availability at Mile 338.0 (Camden, Ark.) above the
Burden Statement: The total annual Felsenthal and H.K. Thatcher Locks on mouth of the Black River; the Red River,
time burden for this ICR is estimated to the Ouachita and Black Rivers will be La., Mile 6.7 (Junction of Red,
be 445,910 hours. This estimate reduced from the current schedule of 16 Atchafalaya and Old Rivers) to Mile
includes the time to comply with swap hours per day, separated into two 8 hour 276.0 (Shreveport, La.); use,
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data recordkeeping and reporting periods, 5:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 administration, and navigation.
requirements codified in 17 CFR part p.m. to 1:00 a.m., 7 days per week, 365
45. Provisions of Commission days per year to a 10 hour period, 5:00 John W. Cross,
Regulations §§ 45.2, 45.3, 45.4, 45.5, a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Monday through Colonel, Corps of Engineers, Commanding.
45.6, 45.7, and 45.14 result in Friday. The reduced levels of service are [FR Doc. 2015–26888 Filed 10–21–15; 8:45 a.m.]
information collection requirements in response to the Inland Marine BILLING CODE 3720–58–P
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Category		Regulatory Information
Collection		Federal Register
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Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Notices
Action		Notice.
Dates		Comments must be submitted on or before November 23, 2015.
Contact		Thomas Guerin, Division of Market Oversight, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, (202) 734-4194; email: [email protected] and refer to OMB Control No. 3038-0096.
FR Citation		80 FR 63971