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Authority NEPA Procedures describe
the process and review criteria the
FirstNet Authority will follow to
comply with NEPA and CEQ
Regulations for proposed actions related
to NPSBN deployment.6 In particular,
the FirstNet Authority NEPA Procedures
define the roles and responsibilities of
the FirstNet Authority and its applicants
and describe the criteria and process for
determining the appropriate level of
NEPA review and making
environmental determinations and final
decisions for site-specific reviews of
FirstNet Authority actions related to the
NPSBN.7
Accordingly, the FirstNet Authority
has reviewed and determined that the
revisions to the FirstNet Authority
NEPA Procedures do not significantly
impact any of the environmental
analyses in the PEISs and that the
information anticipated to be presented
in the SPEISs related to the process for
conducting site-specific reviews has
already been sufficiently included in the
revised FirstNet Authority
Implementing Procedures. Thus, to
avoid duplicative analysis and the
unnecessary use of resources, the
FirstNet Authority is (1) withdrawing its
Notice of Intent to Prepare SPEISs and
Conduct Scoping for the NPSBN, and (2)
amending five (5) records of decision to
remove the references to the FirstNet
Authority’s intent to prepare SPEISs,
including section 3.4.1—Tiered Site
Specific Analysis, in each of the
documents.8
Dated: August 7, 2018.
Elijah Veenendaal,
Attorney-Advisor, First Responder Network
Authority.
[FR Doc. 2018–17225 Filed 8–10–18; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
[Docket No.: PTO–P–2018–0050]

Office Patent Trial Practice Guide,
August 2018 Update
United States Patent and
Trademark Office, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
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finalizing revisions to FirstNet Authority
Procedures for Implementing NEPA).
6 FirstNet Procedures for Implementing the
National Environmental Policy Act (January 2018),
https://www.firstnet.gov/content/notice-revisednational-environmental-policy-act-procedures-andcategorical-exclusions.
7 See id.
8 The amended RODs for each of five regions are
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The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (‘‘Office’’) issued an
update to the Office Patent Trial
Practice Guide (‘‘TPG’’) in August 2018
to provide updated guidance to the
public on standard practices before the
Patent Trial and Appeal Board
(‘‘Board’’) in the post-grant trial
procedures implemented following the
Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
(‘‘AIA’’). The Office publishes the TPG
to provide practitioners with guidance
on typical procedures and times for
taking action in AIA trials, as well as to
ensure consistency of procedure among
panels of the Board.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michael Tierney and William Fink, Vice
Chief Administrative Patent Judges, by
telephone at (571) 272–9797.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office
issued an update to the TPG in August
2018, to update the guidance set forth in
the TPG by incorporating the Board’s
current practices and provide further
explanation of certain aspects of the
Board’s practices to the public. The TPG
is divided into sections, each directed to
a particular stage of a typical AIA trial
proceeding or a specific issue
commonly encountered during such
proceedings. As such, the TPG contains
informative material and outlines the
current procedures that panels of the
Board typically follow in appropriate
cases in the normal course of an AIA
trial proceeding. In order to expedite
these updates and provide guidance to
the public as quickly as possible, the
Office has chosen to issue updates to the
Practice Guide on a section-by-section,
rolling basis, rather than a single,
omnibus update addressing all aspects
of the current Practice Guide. The Office
anticipates releasing further revisions to
the remaining sections of the TPG on a
periodic basis, to take into account
feedback received from stakeholders,
changes in controlling precedent or
applicable regulations, or the further
refinement of the Board’s practices over
time.
The August 2018 update revises
Sections I.G. (Expert Testimony), II.A.3.
(Word Count and Page Limits), II.D.2.
(Considerations in Instituting a Review),
II.I. (Reply to Patent Owner Response
and Reply for a Motion to Amend; SurReplies), II.K. (Challenging
Admissibility; Motions to Exclude;
Motions to Strike), II.M. (Oral Hearing),
and Appendix A (Sample Scheduling
Order).
The August 2018 update of the TPG,
containing only the revised sections,
may be viewed or downloaded free of
charge from the USPTO website at
https://go.usa.gov/xU7GP. The full
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version of the August 2012 TPG
continues to be available for reference
on the USPTO website at https://
go.usa.gov/xU7GK.
Dated: August 8, 2018.
Andrei Iancu,
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual
Property and Director of the United States
Patent and Trademark Office.
[FR Doc. 2018–17315 Filed 8–10–18; 8:45 am]
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Notice of Intent To Extend
Collection 3038–0101, Registration of
Foreign Boards of Trade
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (CFTC) is
announcing an opportunity for public
comment on the proposed renewal of a
collection of certain information by the
agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction
Act (PRA), Federal agencies are required
to publish notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including proposed
extension of an existing collection of
information, and to allow 60 days for
public comment. This notice solicits
comments on collections of information
provided for by Commission regulation
Part 48, Registration of Foreign Boards
of Trade.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before October 12, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by ‘‘FBOT Registration’’ or
‘‘OMB Control No. 3038–0101’’ 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Duane C. Andresen, Associate Director,
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Division of Market Oversight,
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, (202) 418–5492; email:
[email protected].
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,
including each proposed extension of an
existing collection of information,
before submitting the collection to OMB
for approval. To comply with this
requirement, the CFTC is publishing
notice of the proposed collection of
information listed below. 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.
Title: Registration of Foreign Boards
of Trade (OMB Control No. 3038–0101).
This is a request for extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
Abstract: Section 738 of the DoddFrank Act amended section 4(b) of the
Commodity Exchange Act to provide
that the Commission may adopt rules
and regulations requiring foreign boards
of trade (FBOT) that wish to provide
their members or other participants
located in the United States with direct
access to the FBOT’s electronic trading
and order matching system to register
with the Commission. Pursuant to this
authorization, the CFTC adopted a final
rule requiring FBOTs that wish to
permit trading by direct access to
provide certain information to the
Commission in applications for
registration and, once registered, to
provide certain information to meet
quarterly and annual reporting
requirements. The rule establishes
reporting and/or recordkeeping
requirements that are required by Part
48 of the Commission’s regulations and
are necessary to ensure that FBOTs
registered to provide for trading by
direct access meet statutory and
regulatory requirements on an initial
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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.
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
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
• Collection 3038–0101—Registration
of Foreign Boards of Trade (17 CFR part
48)
The Commission is revising its
estimate of the burden for this collection
for registered FBOTs, by reducing the
number of FBOTs to which the burden
applies. The respondent burden for this
collection is estimated to range from
two to eight hours per response for
submission of required reports. These
estimates include the time to locate,
compile, validate, and verify and
disclose and to ensure such information
is maintained. The respondent burden
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for this collection is estimated to be as
follows:
Estimated number of respondents: 23.
Estimated Average Burden Hours Per
Respondent: 375.2 hours.
Estimated total annual burden on
respondents: 8630 hours.
Frequency of collection: When a
reportable event occurs and quarterly
and annually for required reports.
There are no capital costs or operating
and maintenance costs associated with
this collection.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.
Dated: August 8, 2018.
Christopher Kirkpatrick,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2018–17336 Filed 8–10–18; 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 of 1995
(PRA), 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 September 12, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Comments regarding the
burden estimate or any other aspect of
the information collection, including
suggestions for reducing the burden,
may be submitted directly to the Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs
(OIA) in OMB within 30 days of this
notice’s publication by either of the
following methods. Please identify the
comments by ‘‘OMB Control No. 3038–
0007.’’
• By email addressed to:
[email protected] or
• By mail addressed to: the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget,
Attention Desk Officer for the
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, 725 17th Street NW,
Washington, DC 20503.
A copy of all comments submitted to
OIRA should be sent to the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission (the
‘‘Commission’’) by either of the
following methods. The copies should
refer to ‘‘OMB Control No. 3038–0007.’’
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