30-Day Federal Register Notice -3038-0009

Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 124 / Thursday, June 27, 2019 / Notices
ACTION:

Notice.

The Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (CFTC or
Commission) is announcing an
opportunity for public comment on the
proposed collection of certain
information by the agency. Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act (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.
Federal agencies are required to publish
notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each proposed
extension of an existing collection of
information. This notice solicits the
second request for comments, and to
allow 30 days for public comments on
futures volume, open interest, price,
deliveries, and purchases/sales of
futures for commodities or for
derivatives positions.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before July 29, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
regarding any aspect of ‘‘Futures
Volume & Open Interest Collection’’
directly to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in OMB
within 30 days of this notice’s
publication by either of the following
methods. Please identify the comments
by ‘‘OMB Control No. 3038–0012.’’
• By email addressed to:
[email protected]; or
• By mail addressed to: 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 CFTC by one
of the following methods. The copies
should refer to ‘‘OMB Control No. 3038–
0012.’’
• Through the Commission’s website
at https://comments.cftc.gov. Please
follow the instructions for submitting
comments through the website;
• By mail addressed to: Christopher
Kirkpatrick, Secretary of the
Commission, Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, Three Lafayette
Centre, 1155 21st Street NW,
Washington, DC 20581; or
• By Hand Delivery/Courier to the
same address as specified for mail.
Please submit your comments to the
CFTC using only one method. A copy of
the supporting statement for the
collection of information discussed

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herein may be obtained by visiting
http://RegInfo.gov.
All comments must be submitted in
English, or if not, accompanied by an
English translation. Comments will be
posted as received to https://
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 (FOIA), 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, prescreen, filter, redact, refuse or remove
any or all of your submission from
https://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 applicable laws, and
may be accessible under the FOIA.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Adam Charnisky, Market Analyst,
Division of Market Oversight,
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, (312) 596–0630; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Futures Volume, Open Interest,
Price, Deliveries and Purchases/Sales of
Futures for Commodities or for
Derivatives Positions (OMB Control No.
3038–0012). This is a request for
extension of a currently approved
information collection.
Abstract: Commission Regulation
16.01 requires the U.S. futures
exchanges to publish daily information
on the items listed in the title of the
collection. The information required by
this rule is in the public interest and is
necessary for market surveillance. This
rule is promulgated pursuant to the
Commission’s rulemaking authority
contained in section 5 of the
Commodity Exchange Act, 7 U.S.C. 7
(2010).
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.2 On April 22, 2019, the
Commission published in the Federal
Register notice of the proposed
extension of this information collection
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CFR 145.9.
OMB control numbers for the CFTC’s
regulations were published on December 30, 1981.
See 46 FR 63035 (Dec. 30, 1981).
2 The

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and provided 60 days for public
comment on the proposed extension, 84
FR 16663 (‘‘60-Day Notice’’). The
Commission originally estimated that 15
entities would be affected by this rule,
who would spend one hour daily on
each response, 250 trading days per
year, thus accumulating 3,750 hours
annually in total burden hours. These
numbers remain current, and the
Commission did not receive any
comments on the 60-Day Notice.
Burden Statement: The Commission
is revising its estimate of the burden for
this collection as the respondent burden
for this collection is estimated to be as
follows:
Estimated Number of Respondents:
15.
Estimated Average Burden Hours per
Respondent: 1 hour.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 3,750 hours.
Frequency of Collection: Daily.
There are no known additional capital
costs or operating and maintenance
costs associated with this collection.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.
Dated: June 24, 2019
Robert Sidman,
Deputy Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2019–13697 Filed 6–26–19; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6351–01–P

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 July 29, 2019.
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
(OIRA) 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–
0009.’’
SUMMARY:

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Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 124 / Thursday, June 27, 2019 / Notices

• By email addressed to:
[email protected]; or
• By mail addressed to: 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 one of the following
methods. The copies should refer to
‘‘OMB Control No. 3038–0009.’’
• Through the Commission’s website
at https://comments.cftc.gov. Please
follow the instructions for submitting
comments through the website;
• By mail addressed to: Christopher
Kirkpatrick, Secretary of the
Commission, Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, Three Lafayette
Centre, 1155 21st Street NW,
Washington, DC 20581; or
• By Hand Delivery/Courier to the
same address as specified for mail.
Please submit your comments to the
Commission using only one method. A
copy of the supporting statement for the
collection of information discussed
herein may be obtained by visiting
http://RegInfo.gov.
All comments must be submitted in
English, or if not, accompanied by an
English translation. Comments will be
posted as received to https://
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 (FOIA), 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, prescreen, filter, redact, refuse or remove
any or all of your submission from
https://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 applicable laws, and
may be accessible under the FOIA.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jonathan Lave, Associate Director,
Division of Market Oversight,
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, (202) 418–5983; email:
[email protected].
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Large Trader Reports (OMB
Control No. 3038–0009). This is a
request for extension of a currently
approved information collection.
Abstract: The reporting rules covered
by OMB control number 3038–0009
(‘‘the Collection’’) are structured to
ensure that the Commission receives
adequate information to carry out its
market and financial surveillance
programs. The market surveillance
programs analyze market information to
detect and prevent market disruptions
and enforce speculative position limits.
The financial surveillance programs
combine market information with
financial data to assess the financial
risks presented by large customer
positions to Commission registrants and
clearing organizations.
The reporting rules are implemented
by the Commission partly pursuant to
the authority of sections 4a, 4c(b), 4g,
and 4i of the Commodity Exchange Act
(‘‘the Act’’). Section 4a of the Act
permits the Commission to set, approve
exchange-set, and enforce speculative
position limits. Section 4c(b) of the Act
gives the Commission plenary authority
to regulate transactions that involve
commodity options. Section 4g of the
Act imposes reporting and
recordkeeping obligations on registered
entities and registrants (including
futures commission merchants (FCMs),
introducing brokers, floor brokers, or
floor traders), and requires each
registrant to file such reports as the
Commission may require on proprietary
and customer positions executed on any
board of trade in the United States or
elsewhere. Lastly, section 4i of the Act
requires the filing of such reports as the
Commission may require when
positions made or obtained on
designated contract markets or
derivatives transaction execution
facilities equal or exceed Commissionset levels.
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. On April 9, 2019, the
Commission published in the Federal
Register notice of the proposed
extension of this information collection
and provided 60 days for public
comment on the proposed extension, 84
FR 14097 (‘‘60-Day Notice’’). The
Commission did not receive any
relevant comments on the 60-Day
Notice.
Burden Statement: The respondent
burden for this collection is estimated to
be 0.26 hour per response, on average.
These estimates include the time to
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exemptions and to file necessary
exemption paperwork. There are
approximately 74,418 responses
annually, thus the estimated total
annual burden on respondents is 19,676
hours.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
480.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 19,676 hours.
Frequency of Collection: Periodically.
There are no capital costs or operating
and maintenance costs associated with
this collection.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.)
Dated: June 21, 2019.
Christopher Kirkpatrick,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2019–13669 Filed 6–26–19; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6351–01–P

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 July 29, 2019.
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
(OIRA) 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–
0061.’’
• 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
SUMMARY:

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