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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XE153

Advisory Committee to the U.S.
Section of the International
Commission for the Conservation of
Atlantic Tunas; Fall Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:

In preparation for the 2015
International Commission for the
Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)
meeting, the Advisory Committee to the
U.S. Section to ICCAT is announcing
the convening of its fall meeting.
DATES: The meeting will be held
October 8–9, 2015. There will be an
open session on Thursday, October 8,
2015, from 9 a.m. through
approximately 12:30 p.m. The
remainder of the meeting will be closed
to the public and is expected to end by
1 p.m. on October 9. Interested members
of the public may present their views
during the public comment session on
October 8, 2015.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Sheraton Hotel, 8777 Georgia Ave.,
Silver Spring, MD 20910. Written
comments should be sent via email
(Rachel.O’[email protected]). Comments
may also be sent via mail to Rachel
O’Malley at NMFS, Office of
International Affairs and Seafood
Inspection, Room 10653, 1315 East-West
Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rachel O’Malley, Office of International
Affairs and Seafood Inspection, 301–
427–8373.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section
to ICCAT will meet October 8–9, 2015,
first in an open session to consider
management-and research-related
information on stock status of Atlantic
highly migratory species and then in a
closed session to discuss sensitive
matters. The open session will be from
9 a.m. through 12:30 p.m. on October 8,
2015, including an opportunity for
public comment beginning at
approximately 12 p.m. Comments may
also be submitted in writing for the
Advisory Committee’s consideration.
Interested members of the public can
submit comments by mail or email; use
of email is encouraged. All written
comments must be received by October
6, 2015 (see ADDRESSES).

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NMFS expects members of the public
to conduct themselves appropriately at
the open session of the Advisory
Committee meeting. At the beginning of
the public comment session, an
explanation of the ground rules will be
provided (e.g., alcohol in the meeting
room is prohibited, speakers will be
called to give their comments in the
order in which they registered to speak,
each speaker will have an equal amount
of time to speak and speakers should
not interrupt one another). The session
will be structured so that all attending
members of the public are able to
comment, if they so choose, regardless
of the degree of controversy of the
subject(s). Those not respecting the
ground rules will be asked to leave the
meeting.
After the open session, the Advisory
Committee will meet in closed session
to discuss sensitive information relating
to upcoming international negotiations
regarding the conservation and
management of Atlantic highly
migratory species.
Special Accommodations
The meeting location is physically
accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for sign language
interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to Rachel O’Malley
at (301) 427–8373 or Rachel.O’Malley@
noaa.gov at least 5 days prior to the
meeting date.
Dated: September 9, 2015.
John Henderschedt,
Director, Office of International Affairs and
Seafood Inspection, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
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Written comments must be
submitted on or before November 13,
2015.

DATES:

Direct all written comments
to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental
Paperwork Clearance Officer,
Department of Commerce, Room 6616,
14th and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230 (or via the
Internet at [email protected]).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to James Wraith, Southwest
Fisheries Science Center, 8901 La Jolla
Shores Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037, (858)
546 7087 or [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ADDRESSES:

I. Abstract
The International Billfish Angler
Survey began in 1969 and is an integral
part of the Billfish Research Program at
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration’s (NOAA) Southwest
Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC). The
survey tracks recreational angler fishing
catch and effort for billfish in the Pacific
and Indian Oceans in support of the
Pacific and Western Pacific Fishery
Management Councils, authorized
under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management and Act
(MSA). The data are used by scientists
and fishery managers to assist with
assessing the status of billfish stocks.
The survey is intended for anglers
cooperating in the Billfish Program and
is entirely voluntary. This survey is
specific to recreational anglers fishing
for Istiophorid and Xiphiid billfish in
the Pacific and Indian Oceans; as such
it provides the only estimates of catch
per unit of effort for recreational billfish
fishing in those areas.
II. Method of Collection

National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; International
Billfish Angler Survey
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Department of
Commerce, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

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The paper form is sent to anglers with
recent participation in the SWFSC
Billfish Research Program and is also
available for downloading on the
SWFSC Billfish Program Web site.
Completed forms are submitted by mail.
III. Data
OMB Number: 0648–0020.
Form Number: NOAA Form 88–10.
Type of Review: Regular (extension of
a current information collection).
Affected public: Individuals or
households.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
600.
Estimated Time per Response: 5
minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 50.

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Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $0 in recordkeeping/reporting
costs.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
Dated: September 8, 2015.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
Public Alert—Registration Deficient
List
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Notice; request for comment.
AGENCY:

The Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (‘‘CFTC’’ or
‘‘Commission’’) is announcing a new
program, the Registration Deficient List
(‘‘RED List’’), that will post on the
Commission’s Web site and distribute to
the public certain factual information
about foreign entities that are soliciting
or accepting funds from U.S. residents
and are acting in a manner that requires
registration but are not appropriately
registered with the CFTC.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before October 14, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by ‘‘Registration Deficient
List,’’ by any of the following methods:
• The agency’s Web site, at http://
comments.cftc.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments
through the Web site.
• Mail: Christopher Kirkpatrick,
Secretary of the Commission,

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Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, Three Lafayette Centre,
1155 21st Street NW., Washington, DC
20581.
• Hand Delivery/Courier: Same as
Mail above.
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
Please submit your comments using
only one method.
All comments must be submitted in
English, or if not, accompanied by an
English translation. Comments will be
posted as received to 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 § 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: Rick
Glaser, Deputy Director, Division of
Enforcement, Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, Three Lafayette
Centre, 1151 21st Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20581, phone: (202)
418–5358, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The CFTC
today is announcing a new program,
effective immediately, for informing the
public about unregistered foreign
entities engaged in the solicitation or
acceptance of funds from U.S. residents
at a retail level. These entities solicit
and/or accept funds for investments in,
among other things, foreign currency
(‘‘forex’’) and binary options. Through
this new program, the Registration
Deficient List (‘‘RED List’’), the
Commission will publish on its Web site
the names of unregistered foreign
entities that the Commission has reason
to believe may be required to register
with the CFTC but are not, in fact,
registered. Publication does not
represent final Commission disposition
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or a final Commission order. By making
this information publicly available, the
Commission expects investors to make
more informed decisions whether to
trade with or through such an entity.
The more U.S. investors trade with and
through registered entities, the more
likely that their funds have a better
chance of being protected.
I. Background
The Commission often receives
investigative leads relating to foreign
entities that solicit and/or accept funds
from U.S. residents at a retail level. For
example, the CFTC’s Division of
Enforcement (‘‘Enforcement’’) has
investigated approximately 60 such
cases in the past twenty-four months.
These cases involve unregistered foreign
entities that engage in, among other
things, forex in a capacity similar to
Retail Foreign Exchange Dealers,
Introducing Brokers, Commodity
Trading Advisors or Commodity Pool
Operators and binary options.2 Almost
all, if not all, of these foreign entities are
acting in a capacity that requires them
to be registered with the Commission.
In many cases, there are obstacles to
bringing an effective enforcement action
against these types of entities. For
example, the Commission spends
considerable resources investigating
these matters. Even if Enforcement is
able to develop a legal case against one
of these entities, international service of
process is cumbersome, often takes a
very long time to effectuate and is not
always successful. Even if service of
process is successful, many of these
entities are judgment proof.
The Commission believes that a
consumer protection approach has a
better chance of success than continuing
to spend resources on Enforcement
investigations and litigations that have a
limited chance of success. The proposed
RED List would disseminate
information about certain foreign
entities into the marketplace so that U.S.
residents would be able to make more
informed choices about how they trade
their money. This approach is used by
other regulators, including the
Securities and Exchange Commission.3
2 The Commission uses forex and binary options
merely as illustrative examples. Any entity that
meets the criteria set forth below is a candidate for
inclusion on the RED list.
3 There are approximately 47 countries that issue,
or have issued, lists, warning letters, or public
statements, including Belgium, Brazil, British
Virgin Islands, Canada (Ontario, British Columbia
and the Quebec provincial regulators), Croatia,
Denmark, Hong Kong, Ireland, Malaysia, Panama,
Poland, Cyprus, Singapore, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Thailand, The Netherlands, the United
Kingdom and the U.S.
The International Organization of Securities
Commissions (‘‘IOSCO’’) has established an

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