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Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 44 / Monday, March 9, 2009 / Notices
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20581,
(202) 418–5481; FAX: (202) 418–5527;
e-mail: [email protected] and refer
to OMB Control No. 3038–0048.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: OffExchange Agricultural Trade Options
(OMB Control No. 3038–0048). This is
a request for extension of a currently
approved information collection.
Abstract: Off-Exchange Agricultural
Trade Options, OMB Control No. 3038–
0048–Extension.
In April 1998, the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (Commission or
CFTC) removed the prohibition on offexchange trade options on the
enumerated agricultural commodities
subject to a number of regulatory
conditions. 63 FR 18821 (April 16,
1998). Thereafter, the Commission
streamlined the regulatory or paperwork
burdens in order to increase the utility
of agricultural trade options while
maintaining basic customer protections.
64 FR 68011 (Dec. 6, 1999).
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 December 29, 2008 (73 FR
79452).
Burden Statement: The respondent
burden for this collection is estimated to
average 5.59 hours per response.
Respondents/Affected Entities: 36.
Estimated Number of Responses: 41.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 230 hours.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Send comments regarding the burden
estimated or any other aspect of the
information collection, including
suggestions for reducing the burden, to
the addresses listed below. Please refer
to OMB Control No. 3038–0048 in any
correspondence.
David Van Wagner, Division of
Market Oversight, U.S. Commodity
Futures Trading Commission, 1155 21st
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20581 and
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for
CFTC, 725 17th Street, Washington, DC
20503.
Dated: March 3, 2009.
David Stawick,
Secretary of the Commission.
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities Under OMB Review
AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of intent to renew an
existing collection.
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.), 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 April 8, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR A COPY
CONTACT: Mark H. Bretscher, Division

of
Clearing and Intermediary Oversight,
CFTC, (312) 596–0529; Fax: (312) 596–
0714; e-mail: [email protected] and
refer to OMB Control No. 3038–0024.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Regulations and Forms
Pertaining to the Financial Integrity of
the Marketplace (OMB Control No.
3038–0024). This is a request for
extension of a currently approved
information collection.
Abstract: The commodity futures
markets play a vital role in the
furthering of global commerce by
providing commercial users and
speculators with a price discovery
mechanism for the commodities traded
on such markets and by providing
commercial users of the markets with a
mechanism for hedging their goods and
services against price risks. The
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission is the independent Federal
regulatory agency charged with
providing various forms of customer
protection so that users of the markets
can be assured of the financial integrity
of the markets and the intermediaries
that they employ in their trading
activities. Among the financial
safeguards the Commission has imposed
on commodity brokerages, technically
futures commission merchants (FCMs)
and introducing brokers (IBs), are
minimum capital standards and, for
FCMs, a requirement that they segregate
and separately account for the funds
they receive from their commodity
customers. In order to monitor
compliance with such financial
standards, the Commission has required
FCMs and IBs to file financial reports
with the Commission and with the selfregulatory organizations SROs) of which

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they are members. (See Commission
Rule 1.10, 17 CFR 1.10.)
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 the 60-day
comment period soliciting comments on
this collection was published on
December 29, 2008 (73 FR 79452).
Burden Statement: The respondent
burden for this collection is estimated to
average .50 hours per response. These
estimates include the time needed to
review instructions; develop, acquire,
install, and utilize technology and
systems for the purposes of collecting,
validating, and verifying information,
processing and maintaining information
and disclosing and providing
information; adjust the existing ways to
comply with any previously applicable
instructions and requirements; train
personnel to be able to respond to a
collection of information; and transmit
or otherwise disclose the information.
Respondents/Affected Entities:
Futures Commission Merchants,
Introducing Brokers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
2,078.
Estimated Total Annual Burden or
Respondents: 21,138.50 hours.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion,
monthly, annually, semi-annually.
Send comments regarding the burden
estimated or any other aspect of the
information collection, including
suggestions for reducing the burden, to
the addresses listed below. Please refer
to OMB Control No. 3038–0024 in any
correspondence.
Mark H. Bretscher, Division of
Clearing and Intermediary Oversight,
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, 525 W. Monroe Street,
Suite 1100, Chicago, Illinois 60661 and
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for
CFTC, 725 17th Street, Washington, DC
20503.
Dated: March 3, 2009.
David Stawick,
Secretary of the Commission.
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