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Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 31 / Wednesday, February 15, 2012 / Notices
Dated: February 10, 2012.
James H. Lecky,
Director, Office of Protected Resources,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposed Collection,
Comment Request
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (‘‘CFTC’’ or
‘‘Commission’’) seeks public comment
on the collection of certain information
by the Commission under section 745 of
the Wall Street Reform and Consumer
Protection Act (‘‘Dodd-Frank Act’’). The
Paperwork Reduction Act (‘‘PRA’’)
requires federal agencies to publish a
notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information and to allow 60 days for
public comment. Section 745 requires
the Commission to seek public comment
for not less than 30 days with respect to
certain industry filings. This notice
solicits comments on the provisions of
the Commission’s final rulemaking on
‘‘Provisions Common to Registered
Entities’’ under which the Commission
would collect comments on the industry
filings by publication of documents
related to the filings and a request for
comments on the Commission’s public
Web site.1
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before April 2, 2012.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by ‘‘Part 40 Notice and
Comment Collection,’’ by any of the
following methods:
• Agency Web site, via its Comments
Online process: http://
comments.cftc.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments
through the Web site.
• Mail: Send to David A. Stawick,
Secretary, Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, 1155 21st Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20581.
• Hand delivery/Courier: Same as
Mail above.
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov/search/index.jsp.
Follow the instructions for submitting
comments.
All comments must be submitted in
English, or if not, accompanied by an

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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 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 set forth in § 145.9 of
the Commission’s regulations.2
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 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
rulemaking 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 OR A COPY
CONTACT: Bella Rozenberg, Assistant

Deputy Director, Division of Market
Oversight, Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, (202) 418–5119
[email protected] or Mathew T.
Hargrow, Attorney, Office of the General
Counsel, (202) 418–5267,
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
PRA, federal agencies must obtain
approval from the Office of Management
and Budget (‘‘OMB’’) for each collection
of information they collect or sponsor.
‘‘Collection of information’’ is defined
in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) as ‘‘the obtaining,
causing to be obtained, soliciting * * *
facts or opinions by or for any agency,
regardless of form or format [from] ten
or more persons.’’ An agency may not
conduct or sponsor, and a person is not
required to respond to, a collection of
information unless it displays a valid
OMB control number. Section
3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A), requires federal agencies
to provide a 60-day notice in the
Federal Register for each proposed
collection of information before
submitting the collection to OMB for
approval. Under OMB regulations,
which implement provisions of the
PRA, certain ‘‘facts or opinions that are
submitted in response to a general
solicitation of comments from the
public, published in the Federal
Register or other publications,’’ 5 CFR
2 Commission regulations referred to herein are
found at 17 CFR Ch. 1 (2010). Commission
regulations are accessible on the Commission’s Web
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1320.3(h)(4), or ‘‘facts or opinions
obtained or solicited at or in connection
with public hearings or meetings,’’ 5
CFR 1320.3(h)(8), are excluded from the
OMB approval process.
In the Commission’s final rulemaking
on provisions common to registered
entities,3 the Commission seeks to
implement section 745 of the DoddFrank Act,4 which amends Section 5c
the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) 5 to
enhance compliance by registered
entities. This section permits a
registered entity to elect to list for
trading or accept for clearing any new
contract or other instrument, or elect to
approve and implement any new rule or
rule amendment by providing to the
Commission a written certification that
the new contract, instrument, rule, or
rule amendment complies with the
CEA. Such rules or rule amendments
become effective after ten (10) business
days, unless the Commission notifies
the registered entity that it is staying the
certification because there exist novel or
complex issues that require additional
time to analyze, an inadequate
explanation by the submitting registered
entity, or a potential inconsistency with
the CEA. Pursuant to section 745 and
the final amendments to part 40 of the
Commission’s regulations,6 the
Commission will provide a not less than
a 30-day comment period when it
determines that the rule or rule
amendment will be stayed. Pursuant to
the final rules, the Commission will
provide notice of the stay and the
request for comment on its Web site, as
well as specify the manner in which the
public may submit comments.7
The Commission initially estimated
that approximately 45 entities would be
affected by the rule certification
procedures.8 The initial estimate
determined that these 45 entities would
each have approximately 120 responses
per year for a total of 5,400 responses.9
The Commission has amended these
numbers in the final rule such that the
estimated number of respondents is
increased to 70 entities, the average
annual responses by each respondent is
decreased to 100. These numbers are
based upon comments received
regarding the proposed rules as well as
changes made by the Commission to
streamline the product certification
process for certain swap contracts. The
Commission anticipates that the
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6 75 FR 67282, 67296 (Nov. 2, 2010).
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mandatory responses to the new
collection will take approximate 2 hours
per response.
The Commission cannot determine
with precision how many of the 7,000
responses it expects to receive will be
stayed and subject to the notice and
comment requirements of section 745
and the part 40 regulations. The
Commission anticipates that only a
small fraction of these responses would
be stayed and subject to a request for
comment via Web site notice, and that
each of the stayed rules or rule
amendments typically will receive not
more than 20 comments, a conservative
number based on Commission history
with industry filings.
Issued by the Commission this 24th day of
January, 2012.
David Stawick,
Secretary of the Commission.
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BUREAU OF CONSUMER FINANCIAL
PROTECTION
Publication of FY 2011 Service
Contract Inventory
Bureau of Consumer Financial
Protection.
ACTION: Notice of public availability of
FY 2011 Service Contract Inventory.
In accordance with Section
734 of Division C of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act of 2010 (Pub. L.
111–117), the Bureau of Consumer
Financial Protection (Bureau) is
publishing this notice to advise the
public of the availability of the FY 2011
service contract inventory. This
inventory provides information on
service contract actions over $25,000,
which the Bureau awarded during FY
2011. The information is organized by
function to show how contracted
resources were used by the agency to
support its mission. The inventory has
been developed in accordance with the
guidance issued on November 5, 2010
by the Office of Management and
Budget’s Office of Federal Procurement
Policy (OFPP). OFPP’s guidance is
available at: http://
www.whitehouse.gov/sites/defualt/files/
omb/procuremetn/memo/servicecontract-inventories-guidance11052010.pdf. The Bureau has posted
its inventory and a summary of the
inventory on the Bureau’s Open
Government homepage at the following
link: http://www.consumerfinance.gov/
open/, specifically at http://
www.consumerfinance.gov/wp-content/
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY
COMMISSION

Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Consumer Product Safety
Commission (‘‘CPSC’’ or ‘‘we’’), in
accordance with section 743(c) of
Division C of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2010 (Pub. L. 111–
117, 123 Stat. 3034, 3216), is
announcing the availability of its service
contract inventory for fiscal year (‘‘FY’’)
2011. This inventory provides
information on service contract actions
over $25,000 that we made in FY 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Donna Hutton, Director, Division of
Procurement Services, U.S. Consumer
Product Safety Commission, 4330 East
West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814.
Telephone: 301–504–7009; email
[email protected].
SUMMARY:

AGENCY:

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Dated: February 8, 2012.
Richard Cordray,
Director.

Public Availability of Consumer
Product Safety Commission FY 2011
Service Contract Inventory

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SUMMARY:

Inventory-Data-Summary.pdf and
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/wpcontent/uploads/2012/01/Appendix-BFY2011-Inventory-Data-Details.pdf.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions regarding the service contract
inventory should be directed to Hoa
Crews, Senior Procurement Analyst,
Office of Procurement, Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau, (202) 435–
7422.

On
December 16, 2009, the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2010
(‘‘Consolidated Appropriations Act’’),
Public Law 111–117, became law.
Section 743(a) of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act titled, ‘‘Service
Contract Inventory Requirement,’’
requires agencies to submit to the Office
of Management and Budget (‘‘OMB’’) an
annual inventory of service contracts
awarded or extended through the
exercise of an option on or after April
1, 2011, and describes the contents of
the inventory. The contents of the
inventory include:
(A) A description of the services
purchased by the executive agency and
the role the services played in achieving
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such a purchase was made through a
contract or task order;
(B) The organizational component of
the executive agency administering the
contract, and the organizational
component of the agency whose
requirements are being met through
contractor performance of the service;
(C) The total dollar amount obligated
for services under the contract and the
funding source for the contract;
(D) The total dollar amount invoiced
for services under the contract;
(E) The contract type and date of
award;
(F) The name of the contractor and
place of performance;
(G) The number and work location of
contractor and subcontractor employees,
expressed as full-time equivalents for
direct labor, compensated under the
contract;
(H) Whether the contract is a personal
services contract; and
(I) Whether the contract was awarded
on a noncompetitive basis, regardless of
date of award.
Section 743(a)(3)(A) through (I) of the
Consolidated Appropriations Act.
Section 743(c) of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act requires agencies to
‘‘publish in the Federal Register a
notice that the inventory is available to
the public.’’
Consequently, through this notice, we
are announcing that the CPSC’s service
contract inventory for FY 2011 is
available to the public. The inventory
provides information on service contract
actions over $25,000 that we made in
FY 2011. The information is organized
by function to show how contracted
resources are distributed throughout the
CPSC. We developed the inventory in
accordance with guidance issued on
December 19, 2011 by the OMB. The
OMB guidance is available at: http://
www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/
omb/procurement/memo/servicecontract-inventory-guidance.pdf. The
CPSC’s Division of Procurement
Services has posted its FY 2011
inventory summary format, FY 2011
inventory standard format, and the FY
2010 inventory analysis which can be
found at our homepage at the following
link: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/
pubs/reports/2011inventories.pdf.
Dated: February 10, 2012.
Todd A. Stevenson,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
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