Agency Information Collection Activities: Approved Collection; Comment Request; Rules, Regulations, and Forms for Domestic and Foreign Futures and Options Relating to Registration with the Commission

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 237 (Friday, December 10, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69231-69232]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-32031]


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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION

RIN 3038-AB45


Agency Information Collection Activities: Approved Collection; 
Comment Request; Rules, Regulations, and Forms for Domestic and Foreign 
Futures and Options Relating to Registration with the Commission

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 
et seq.), this notices announces that the Office of Management and 
budget (OMB) has approved the following collection of information: OMB 
Control Number 3038-0023, Rules, Regulations, and Forms for Domestic 
and Foreign Futures and Options Relating to Registration with the 
Commission, expiration date November 30, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan Elliot, Commodity Futures 
Trading Commission, 1155 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC 20581; 
Telephone: (202) 418-5464, FAX (202) 418-5536, email selliot@cftc.gov 
and refer to OMB Control Number 3038-0023.

    Abstract: On August 26, 1999, the CFTC published a notice of 
proposed rulemaking (64 FR 46613) proposing to adopt amendments to Part 
30 of the Commission's regulations to clarify when foreign futures and 
options brokers who are members of a foreign board of trade must 
register or obtain an exemption from registration. This collection of 
information reflects the Commission's proposal to codify some of the 
interpretations and positions the Commission has taken regarding 
registration requirements under these rules. Responses to the 
collection of information are mandatory pursuant to Sections 
2(a)(1)(A), 4(b), and 4c of the Commodity Exchange Act.
    The estimated average burden of the collection is as follows:
    Estimated number of respondents: 73,610.
    Estimated total annual responses: 76,860.
    Estimated total number of hours of annual burden in fiscal year: 
12,645.
    Estimated average number of hours per response: 0.16.
    The Commission welcomes comments concerning the accuracy of this 
burden estimate and any suggestions for reducing the burden.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Barbara W. Black, Commodity Futures Trading

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Commission, 1155 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC 20581; telephone: 
(202) 418-5130; FAX (202) 418-5541; email bblack@cftc.gov.
    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 OMB control numbers for the 
CFTC's regulations were published on December 30, 1981. See 46 FR 63035 
(Dec. 30,1981). The Federal Register notice with a 60-day comment 
period soliciting comments on this collection of information was 
published on August 31, 1999 (64 FR 47452).

    Issued by the Commission in Washington, DC, on December 6, 1999.
Jean A. Webb,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 99-32031 Filed 12-9-99; 8:45 am]
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