2015-21252
Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 166 (Thursday, August 27, 2015)
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 166 (Thursday, August 27, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52035-52036]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-21252]
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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 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 [email protected]. 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
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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\
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\1\ 17 CFR 145.9, 74 FR 17395 (Apr. 15, 2009).
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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: [email protected]; or Jacob Chachkin, Division of Swap Dealer
and Intermediary Oversight, telephone: (202) 418-5496 and email:
[email protected].
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
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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
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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).............
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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]
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