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Estimated Total Annual Non-hour
Respondent Cost Burden: $130,138.
There are no capital start-up,
maintenance, or recordkeeping costs
associated with this information
collection. However, this collection
does have annual (non-hour) cost
burden in the form of service fees
associated with deposit accounts and
returned payments as well as postage
costs.
There are service fees for setting up a
deposit account at the USPTO, for not
maintaining the minimum balance
required for the deposit account, and for
returned payments. The service charge
to establish a deposit account is $10,
and the USPTO estimates that it
processes 284 Deposit Account
Application Forms annually, for a total
of $2,840 per year. There is also a $25
service charge for deposit accounts that
are below the minimum balance ($1,000
minimum balance for an unrestricted
deposit account or $300 minimum
balance for a restricted deposit account)
at the end of the month. The USPTO
estimates that it assesses 4,000 of these
low balance charges annually, for a total
of $100,000 per year. There is a $50
service charge for processing a payment
refused (including a check returned
‘‘unpaid’’) or charged back by a
financial institution. The USPTO
estimates that it assesses 129 of these
returned payment charges annually, for
a total of $6,450 per year. The total
estimated service fees for this collection
are $109,290 per year.
Customers may incur postage costs
when submitting the Credit Card
Payment Form and other paper forms or
requests to the USPTO by mail.
Customers generally send the Credit
Card Payment Form to the USPTO along
with other documents related to the fee
or service being paid for by credit card,
but some customers may submit just the
Credit Card Payment Form without
additional supporting documents. The
USPTO estimates that roughly 5 percent
of the 103,115 paper Credit Card
Payment Forms submitted annually may
be mailed in by themselves, or
approximately 5,156 per year. The
USPTO estimates that it will receive an
additional 37,391 submissions per year
that may be mailed, including Deposit
Account Replenishments and Refund
Requests, for a total of 42,547 mailed
submissions per year. The USPTO
estimates that the first-class postage cost
for a mailed submission will be 49
cents, for a total postage cost of
approximately $20,848 per year.
The total annual (non-hour)
respondent cost burden for this
collection in the form of service fees and

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postage costs is estimated to be
approximately $130,138 per year.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval. All comments will become a
matter of public record.
The USPTO is soliciting public
comments to: (a) Evaluate whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) Minimize the burden
of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Dated: February 7, 2014.
Susan K. Fawcett,
Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014–03070 Filed 2–11–14; 8:45 am]
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities Under OMB Review
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act, 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 March 14, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be
submitted to OMB within 30 days of the
notice’s publication. Comments,
identified by ‘‘Practice by Former
Members and Employees of the
Commission Pursuant to 17 CFR
140.735.6,’’ should be mailed to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
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Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for the
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, 725 17th Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20503.
Comments may be also be submitted,
regarding the burden estimated or any
other aspect of the information
collection, including suggestions for
reducing the burden, identified by
‘‘Practice by Former Members and
Employees of the Commission Pursuant
to 17 CFR 140.735.6,’’ 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 Melissa D. Jurgens,
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
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 section
145.9 of the Commission’s regulations.1
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 CONTACT: John
P. Dolan at (202) 418–5220; FAX: (202)
418–5524; email: [email protected], and
refer to OMB Control No. 3038–0025.
This contact can also provide a copy of
the ICR.
1 Commission regulations referred to herein are
found at 17 CFR Ch. 1 (2010). Commission
regulations are accessible on the Commission’s Web
site, www.cftc.gov.

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Title: Practice by Former Members
and Employees of the Commission
(OMB Control No. 3038–0025). This is
a request for extension of a currently
approved information collection.
Abstract: Commission Rule 140.735–6
governs the practice before the
Commission of former members and
employees of the Commission and is
intended to ensure that the Commission
is aware of any existing conflict of
interest. The rule generally requires
former members and employees who are
employed or retained to represent any
person before the Commission within
two years of the termination of their
CFTC employment, to file a brief written
statement with the Commission’s Office
of General Counsel. The proposed rule
was promulgated pursuant to the
Commission’s rulemaking authority
contained in section 8a(5) of the
Commodity Exchange Act, 7 U.S.C.
12a(5) (1994), as amended.
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 11, 2013 (78 FR
75333).
Burden statement: The respondent
burden for this collection is estimated to
average .10 hours per response to file
the brief written statement. This
estimate 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: 3.
Estimated number of responses: 4.5.
Estimated total annual burden on
respondents: .10 hours.
Frequency of collection: On occasion.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.)
Dated: February 7, 2014.
Christopher J. Kirkpatrick,
Deputy Secretary of the Commission.
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Defense Acquisition Regulations
System
[Docket No. DARS–2014–0014]

Negotiation of a Reciprocal Defense
Procurement Memorandum of
Understanding With the Republic of
Slovenia
Department of Defense.
Request for public comments.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

On behalf of the U.S.
Government, DoD is contemplating
negotiating and concluding a Reciprocal
Defense Procurement (RDP)
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
with the Republic of Slovenia (hereafter
‘‘Slovenia’’). DoD is requesting industry
feedback regarding its experience in
public defense procurements conducted
by or on behalf of the Slovenian
Ministry of Defense or Armed Forces.
DATES: Submit written comments to the
address shown below on or before
March 14, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments to
Defense Procurement and Acquisition
Policy, Attn: Mr. Victor Deal, 3060
Defense Pentagon, Room 5E621,
Washington, DC 20301–3060; or by
email to [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Victor Deal, Senior Analyst, Office of
the Under Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
(OUSD(AT&L)), Defense Procurement
and Acquisition Policy, Contract Policy
and International Contracting; Room
5E621, 3060 Defense Pentagon,
Washington, DC 20301–3060; telephone
(703) 697–9351.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The RDP
MOUs that DoD has with 23
‘‘qualifying’’ countries are concluded at
the level of the Secretary of Defense and
his counterpart. The purpose of RDP
MOUs is to promote rationalization,
standardization, and interoperability of
conventional defense equipment with
allies and other friendly governments.
These MOUs provide a framework for
ongoing communication regarding
market access and procurement matters
that enhance effective defense
cooperation.
RDP MOUs generally include
language by which the Parties agree that
their defense procurements will be
conducted in accordance with certain
implementing procedures. These
procedures relate to—
• Publication of notices of proposed
purchases;
• The content and availability of
solicitations for proposed purchases;
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• Notification to each unsuccessful
offeror;
• Feedback, upon request, to
unsuccessful offerors concerning the
reasons they were not allowed to
participate in a procurement or were not
awarded a contract; and
• Providing for the hearing and
review of complaints arising in
connection with any phase of the
procurement process to ensure that, to
the extent possible, complaints are
equitably and expeditiously resolved.
Based on the MOU, each country
affords the other country certain
benefits on a reciprocal basis consistent
with national laws and regulations. The
benefits that the United States accords
to the products of qualifying countries
include—
• Offers of qualifying country end
products are evaluated without applying
the price differentials otherwise
required by the Buy American statute
and the Balance of Payments Program;
• The chemical warfare protection
clothing restrictions in 10 U.S.C. 2533a
and the specialty metals restriction in
10 U.S.C. 2533b(a)(1) do not apply to
products manufactured in a qualifying
country; and
• Customs, taxes, and duties are
waived for qualifying country end
products and components.
If DoD (for the U.S. Government)
concludes an RDP MOU with the
Republic of Slovenia, then Slovenia
would be listed as one of the ‘‘qualifying
countries’’ in the definition of
‘‘qualifying country’’ at DFARS 225.003,
and offers of products of Slovenia or
that contain components from Slovenia
would be afforded the benefits available
to all qualifying countries. This also
means that U.S. products would be
exempt from any analogous ‘‘Buy
Slovenia’’ and ‘‘Buy European Union’’
laws or policies applicable to
procurements by the Slovenian Ministry
of Defense or Armed Forces.
While DoD is evaluating Slovenia’s
laws and regulations in this area, DoD
would benefit from U.S. industry’s
experience in participating in Slovenia’s
public defense procurements. DoD is,
therefore, asking U.S. firms that have
participated or attempted to participate
in procurements by or on behalf of
Slovenia’s Ministry of Defense or Armed
Forces to let us know if the
procurements were conducted with
transparency, integrity, fairness, and
due process in accordance with
published procedures, and if not, the
nature of the problems encountered.
DoD is also interested in comments
relating to the degree of reciprocity that
exists between the United States and
Slovenia when it comes to the openness

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