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U.S.C. app. 2 10(d), that the portion of
this meeting dealing with pre-decisional
changes to the Commerce Control List
and U.S. export control policies shall be
exempt from the provisions relating to
public meetings found in 5 U.S.C. app.
2 10(a)(1) and 10(a)(3). The remaining
portions of the meeting will be open to
the public.
For more information contact Yvette
Springer on (202) 482–2813.
Yvette Springer,
Committee Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018–13174 Filed 6–19–18; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Telecommunications and
Information Administration
Commerce Spectrum Management
Advisory Committee Meeting
National Telecommunications
and Information Administration, U.S.
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of open meeting.
AGENCY:

This notice announces a
public meeting of the Commerce
Spectrum Management Advisory
Committee (Committee). The Committee
provides advice to the Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for
Communications and Information and
the National Telecommunications and
Information Administration (NTIA) on
spectrum management policy matters.
DATES: The meeting will be held on July
24, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.,
Mountain Daylight Time (MDT).
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Renaissance Boulder Flatiron Hotel,
500 Flatiron Boulevard, Broomfield, CO
80021. Public comments may be mailed
to Commerce Spectrum Management
Advisory Committee, National
Telecommunications and Information
Administration, 1401 Constitution
Avenue NW, Room 4600, Washington,
DC 20230 or emailed to dreed@
ntia.doc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David J. Reed, Designated Federal
Officer, at (202) 482–5955 or dreed@
ntia.doc.gov; and/or visit NTIA’s
website at https://www.ntia.doc.gov/
category/csmac.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The Committee provides
advice to the Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for Communications and
Information on needed reforms to
domestic spectrum policies and
management in order to: License radio
frequencies in a way that maximizes

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public benefits; keep wireless networks
as open to innovation as possible; and
make wireless services available to all
Americans. See Charter at https://
www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/
publications/csmac_signed_charter_930-17.pdf
This Committee is subject to the
Federal Advisory Committee Act
(FACA), 5 U.S.C. App. 2, and is
consistent with the National
Telecommunications and Information
Administration Act, 47 U.S.C. 904(b).
The Committee functions solely as an
advisory body in compliance with the
FACA. For more information about the
Committee visit: https://
www.ntia.doc.gov/category/csmac.
Matters To Be Considered: The
Committee provides advice to the
Assistant Secretary to assist in
developing and maintaining spectrum
management policies that enable the
United States to maintain or strengthen
its global leadership role in the
introduction of communications
technology, services, and innovation;
thus expanding the economy, adding
jobs, and increasing international trade,
while at the same time providing for the
expansion of existing technologies and
supporting the country’s homeland
security, national defense, and other
critical needs of government missions.
NTIA will post a detailed agenda on its
website, https://www.ntia.doc.gov/
category/csmac, prior to the meeting. To
the extent that the meeting time and
agenda permit, any member of the
public may speak to or otherwise
address the Committee regarding the
agenda items. See Open Meeting and
Public Participation Policy, available at
https://www.ntia.doc.gov/category/
csmac.
Time and Date: The meeting will be
held on July 24, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. to
12:00 p.m. MDT. The meeting time and
the agenda topics are subject to change.
The meeting will be available via twoway audio link and may be webcast.
Please refer to NTIA’s website, https://
www.ntia.doc.gov/category/csmac, for
the most up-to-date meeting agenda and
access information.
Place: The meeting will be held at
Renaissance Boulder Flatiron Hotel, 500
Flatiron Boulevard, Broomfield, CO
80021. The meeting will be open to the
public and members of the press on a
first-come, first-served basis as space is
limited. The public meeting is
physically accessible to people with
disabilities. Individuals requiring
accommodations, such as sign language
interpretation or other auxiliary aids,
are asked to notify Mr. Reed at (202)
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ten (10) business days before the
meeting.
Status: Interested parties are invited
to attend and to submit written
comments to the Committee at any time
before or after the meeting. Parties
wishing to submit written comments for
consideration by the Committee in
advance of a meeting may send them via
postal mail to Commerce Spectrum
Management Advisory Committee,
National Telecommunications and
Information Administration, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW, Room 4600,
Washington, DC 20230. It would be
helpful if paper submissions also
include a compact disc (CD) that
contains the comments in Microsoft
Word and/or PDF file formats. CDs
should be labeled with the name and
organizational affiliation of the filer.
Alternatively, comments may be
submitted via electronic mail to dreed@
ntia.doc.gov and should also be in one
or both of the file formats specified
above. Comments must be received five
(5) business days before the scheduled
meeting date in order to provide
sufficient time for review. Comments
received after this date will be
distributed to the Committee, but may
not be reviewed prior to the meeting.
Records: NTIA maintains records of
all Committee proceedings. Committee
records are available for public
inspection at NTIA’s Washington, DC
office at the address above. Documents
including the Committee’s charter,
member list, agendas, minutes, and
reports are available on NTIA’s website
at https://www.ntia.doc.gov/category/
csmac.
Dated: June 15, 2018.
Kathy Smith,
Chief Counsel, National Telecommunications
and Information Administration.
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Notice To Extend Collection
3038–0092; Customer Clearing
Documentation and Timing of
Acceptance for Clearing
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (CFTC) is
announcing an opportunity for public
comment on the extension of a
collection of certain information by the
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Act (‘‘PRA’’), Federal agencies are
required to publish notice in the
Federal Register concerning each
proposed collection of information and
to allow 60 days for public comment.
This notice solicits comments on the
obligation to maintain records related to
clearing documentation between the
customer and the customer’s clearing
member.
Comments must be submitted on
or before August 20, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by OMB Control No. 3038–
0092, by any of the following methods:
• The Agency’s Website, at http://
comments.cftc.gov/. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments
through the website.
• Mail: Christopher Kirkpatrick,
Secretary of the Commission,
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, Three Lafayette Centre,
1155 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
20581.
• Hand Delivery/Courier: Same as
Mail above.
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 http://
www.cftc.gov.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Christopher Hower, Special Counsel,
Division of Clearing and Risk,
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, (202) 418–6703; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., Federal
agencies must obtain approval from the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for each collection of
information they conduct or sponsor.
‘‘Collection of Information’’ is defined
in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 1320.3
and includes agency requests or
requirements that members of the public
submit reports, keep records, or provide
information to a third party. 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 concerning each
proposed collection of information
before submitting the collection to OMB
for approval. To comply with this
requirement, the CFTC is publishing
notice for the extension of the collection
of information listed below. An agency
may not conduct or sponsor, and a
person is not required to respond to, a
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Title: Customer Clearing
Documentation and Timing of
Acceptance for Clearing (OMB Control
No. 3038–0092). This is a request for
extension of a currently approved
information collection.
Abstract: Section 4d(c) of the CEA, as
amended by the Dodd-Frank Act, directs
the Commission to require futures
commission merchants to implement
conflict of interest procedures that
address such issues the Commission
determines to be appropriate. Similarly,
section 4s(j)(5), as added by the DoddFrank Act, requires swap dealers and
major swap participants to implement
conflict of interest procedures that
address such issues the Commission
determines to be appropriate. Section
4s(j)(5) also requires swap dealers and
major swap participants to ensure that
any persons providing clearing activities
or making determinations as to
accepting clearing customers are
separated by appropriate informational
partitions from persons whose
involvement in pricing, trading, or
clearing activities might bias their
judgment or contravene the core
principle of open access. Section 4s(j)(6)
of the CEA prohibits a swap dealer and
major swap participant from adopting
any process or taking any action that
results in any unreasonable restraint on
trade or imposes any material
anticompetitive burden on trading or
clearing, unless necessary or
appropriate to achieve the purposes of
the Act. Section 2(h)(1)(B)(ii) of the CEA
requires that derivatives clearing
organization rules provide for the nondiscriminatory clearing of swaps
executed bilaterally or through an
unaffiliated designated contract market
or swap execution facility.
Pursuant to these provisions, the
Commission promulgated § 1.71(d)(1)
relating to FCMs and § 23.605(d)(1)
relating to swap dealers and major swap
participants. These regulations would
prohibit swap dealers and major swap
participants from interfering or
attempting to influence the decisions of
affiliated FCMs with regard to the
provision of clearing services and
activities and would prohibit FCMs
from permitting them to do so. Also,
§ 23.607 prohibits a swap dealer and
major swap participant from adopting
any process or taking any action that
results in any unreasonable restraint on
trade or imposes any material
anticompetitive burden on trading or
clearing, unless necessary or
appropriate to achieve the purposes of
the Act. Additionally, § 39.12(b)(3)
requires that derivatives clearing
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executed bilaterally or through an
unaffiliated designated contract market
or swap execution facility. Sections
1.71(f) and 23.605(f) provide that
records be maintained pursuant to
Commission Regulation 1.31.
As discussed further below, the
additional information collection
burden arising from the proposed
regulations primarily is restricted to the
costs associated with the affected
registrants’ obligation to maintain
records related to clearing
documentation between the customer
and the customer’s clearing member.
The information collection obligations
imposed by the proposed regulations are
necessary to implement certain
provisions of the CEA, including
ensuring that registrants exercise
effective risk management and for the
efficient operation of trading venues
among SDs, MSPs, FCMs, and DCOs.
With respect to the collection of
information, the CFTC invites
comments on:
• Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Commission, including whether the
information will have a practical use;
• The accuracy of the Commission’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
• Ways to enhance the quality,
usefulness, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
• Ways to minimize the burden of
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.
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 § 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 http://www.cftc.gov that it may
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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.
Burden Statement: The Commission
is revising its estimate of the burden for
this collection, which include 101 Swap
Dealers, Major Swap Participants, 65
Futures Commission Merchants and 16
Derivatives Clearing Organizations. The
respondent burden for this collection is
estimated to be as follows:
Estimated Number of Respondents:
182.
Estimated Average Burden Hours per
Respondent: 18.1 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 3296 hours.
Frequency of Collection: Daily,
annually, or as needed.
There are no capital costs or operating
and maintenance costs associated with
this collection.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.)
Dated: June 15, 2018.
Robert Sidman,
Deputy Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2018–13255 Filed 6–19–18; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army
Notice of Availability of GovernmentOwned Inventions; Available for
Licensing
Department of the Army, DoD.
Notice of intent.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

The invention listed below is
assigned to the United States
Government as represented by the
Secretary of the Army and is being made
generally availability of exclusive,
partially exclusive or non-exclusive
licenses by the Department of the Army.
U.S. Army Case Number ARL 17–33
entitled ‘‘Aluminum Based
Nanogalvanic Alloys for Hydrogen
Generation,’’ and a provisional patent
application filed at the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) on July 24,
2017 and assigned USPTO
PROVISIONAL PATENT APPLICATION
No. 62/536,143.
In order to support a better
understanding of the material, ARL has
established the following website to
host details on the technology and a

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review the process that will culminate
in the granting of a patent license(s)
around September 2018;
www.arl.army.mil/
AlNanogalvanicPowder. On this
website, you can register your interest to
be contacted about further
developments, post general questions,
learn about Inventor webex’s, and
download background technical
information, as well as, templates for all
the require documents that will be used
throughout the process.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
After registering on the website above,
requests for additional data, powder
samples, and other inquiries can be
directed to Brian Metzger telephone:
406–994–7782, brian.metzger@
montana.edu, TechLink, 2310
University Way Technology Blvd., Suite
2–2, Bozeman, MT 59715. TechLink is
an authorized DoD partnership
intermediary.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Description of the Technology—
Aluminum Based Nanogalvanic Alloys
for Hydrogen Generation.
It has long been known that
aluminum (Al) reacts with water to
produce hydrogen (H2) gas and
aluminum oxide via a hydrolysis
reaction. Aluminum metal oxidizes
when in contact with water, rapidly
producing a passivating oxide layer
which prevents the hydrolysis reaction
(evolution of H2). Further, hydrolysis to
evolve H2 can only occur if the native
oxide layer is actively removed. This is
usually achieved by adding hazardous
corrosive compounds (caustic soda,
hydrochloric acid, etc.) which dissolve
in water, toxic and expensive metals
(such as gallium, platinum, etc.), or by
forcing the reaction by additional
external energy (electric current and/or
superheated steam).
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory
(ARL) has invented a novel
nanogalvanic structured aluminum
based particulate material which is
capable of generating hydrogen very
rapidly by hydrolysis reaction with
water and any liquid that contains water
(e.g., naturally scavenged water, coffee,
energy drink, urine, etc.) at room
temperature without chemicals,
catalysts or externally supplied power.
These patent pending powders produce
hydrogen at a rate that currently is one
of the fastest reported for Al and water
reactions without the need of hazardous
and costly materials or additional
processes. The reaction results in the
production of hydrogen and heat with
only inert residual materials. ARL has
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with virtually any water containing
liquid.
Licensing Process—The U.S. Army
Research Laboratory intends to move
expeditiously to license this provisional
patent. The process will consist of two
stages; Phase 1: Solicit Interest & Phase
2: Request for Patent License
Application.
Phase 1—Solicit Interest: Phase 1 will
open on 18 JUN 2018. Companies may
obtain technical information, samples,
and speak with inventors for the
purpose of technical due diligence.
Phase 2—Request for Patent License
Application: Phase 2 will open on 25
JUL 2018. Phase 2 will allow all
interested parties to conduct an
evaluation of the powder, ask the
inventors questions about the nonprovisional patent application, and
work with TechLink to develop a
National/Worldwide Commercialization
Plan which will form the basis for the
Patent License Application.
On or around 1 SEP 2018, the U.S.
Army Research Laboratory will evaluate
the Patent License Applications that
have been received to date for possible
granting of Patent License Agreement(s).
In its decisions concerning the granting
of license(s), the U.S. Army Research
Laboratory will give special
consideration to small business firms,
and consortia involving small business
firms. While the Army intends to insure
that its licensed inventions are broadly
commercialized throughout the United
States, a PCT application is planned to
be filed for the patent noted above. The
Army intends that licensees interested
in a license in Europe, Canada, China,
and Japan will assume foreign
prosecution and pay the costs of such
prosecution.
(Authority: 35 U.S.C. 207, 37 CFR part 404)

Collaborative Research Opportunity—
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is
also open to engaging in negotiations
with licensee(s) to establish a parallel
Collaborative Research and
Development Agreement to mutually
continue the development of the
material.
Brenda S. Bowen,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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