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paraprofessionals/paralegals. The mean
hourly rate for financial administrator is
$40.84 according to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics’ Occupational Employment
Statistics program (OES 15–1141). The
mean hourly rate for paralegals is $145
according to the 2016 compensation
IC No.

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will be approximately $66.88 per hour.
Therefore, the USPTO estimates that the
respondent cost burden for submitting
the information in this collection will be
approximately $293,993.33 per year.

Estimated time for
response
(minutes)

Estimated annual
responses

Estimated annual
burden hours

Rate
($/hr)

Total hourly cost
burden

(a)

(b)

(a) × (b)/60 = (c)

(d)

(c) × (d) = (e)

Credit Card Payment
Form.
(PTO–2038) ...................
Deposit Account Replenishment.
Refund Request ............
Financial Manager
Stored Payment Methods.

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87,874

2,929.13

66.88

$195,900.44

2

20,843

694.77

66.88

46,465.99

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8,079
2,000

538.60
233.33

66.88
66.88

36,021.57
15,605.33

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118,796

4,395.83

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293,993.33

Estimated Total Annual (Non-hour)
Respondent Cost Burden: $112,725.00.
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. In addition to the fee information
discussed here, information about the
deposit account rules is available
through the USPTO Web site at: https://
www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/
fees-and-payment/deposit-accountrules-and-information
There are service fees for not
maintaining the minimum balance
required for the deposit account and for
returned payments. There is a $25
service charge for deposit accounts that
are below the minimum balance at the
end of the month. The USPTO estimates
that it assesses 3,600 of these low
balance charges annually, for a total of
$90,000 per year. There is also 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 128 of these
returned payment charges annually, for
a total of $6,400 per year. The total
estimated service fees for this collection
are $96,400 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
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survey by the National Association of
Legal Assistants. Using those
proportions and the estimated rates of
$40.84 per hour for financial
administrators and $145 per hour for
paraprofessionals, the USPTO estimates
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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 87,874 paper Credit Card Payment
Forms submitted annually may be
mailed in; approximately 4,394 per year.
The USPTO estimates that it will
receive an additional 28,922 mailed
submissions per year, including Deposit
Account Replenishments and Refund
Requests, for a total of 33,316 mailed
submissions per year. The USPTO
estimates that the first-class postage cost
for a mailed submission will be $0.49,
for a total postage cost of approximately
$16,324.84 per year.
The total annual (non-hour)
respondent cost burden for this
collection in the form of service fees and
postage costs is estimated to be
approximately $112,724.84 per year.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
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
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(d) Ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on
respondents, e.g., the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Ivan King,
Acting Director, Records and Information
Governance Division, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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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 December 15, 2017.
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
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following methods. Please identify the
comments by ‘‘OMB Control No. 3038–
XXXX.’’
• 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–
XXXX.’’
• By mail addressed to: Christopher
Kirkpatrick, Secretary of the
Commission, Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, Three Lafayette
Centre, 1155 21st Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20581;
• By Hand Delivery/Courier to the
same address; or
• Through the Commission’s Web site
at http://comments.cftc.gov. Please
follow the instructions for submitting
comments through the Web site.
A copy of the supporting statements
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 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
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Commission reserves the right, but shall
have no obligation, to review, prescreen, 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Eugene Smith, Director, Office of
Proceedings, Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, (202) 418–5371;
email: [email protected], and refer to
OMB Control No. 3038–XXXX.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Reparations Complaint, CFTC
Form 30 (OMB Control No. 3038–
XXXX). This is a request for approval of
a new information collection.
Abstract: Pursuant to Section 14 of
the Commodity Exchange Act, members
of the public may apply to the
Commission to seek damages against
Commission registrants for alleged
violations of the Act and/or Commission
regulations. The legislative intent of the
Reparations program was to provide a
low-cost, speedy, and effective forum
for the resolution of customer
complaints and to sanction individuals
and firms found to have violated the Act
and/or any regulations.
In 1984, the Commission promulgated
Part 12 of the Commission regulations to
administer Section 14. Rule 12.13
provides the standards and procedures
for filing a Reparations complaint.
Specifically, subparagraph (b) describes
the form and content requirements of a
complaint. CFTC Form 30 mirrors the
requirements set forth in subparagraph
(b).
The Commission began utilizing Form
30 in or about 1984. The form was
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typically pro se and non-lawyers. It was
also designed as a way to provide
proper notice to respondents of the
charges against them. This form is
critical to fulfilling this policy goal.
Accordingly, the Commission is
requesting an OMB control number to
continue the use of Form 30.
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 September 1, 2017 (82 FR
41614). 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 as follows:
Respondents/Affected Entities:
Commodity futures customers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
15.
Estimated Average Burden Hours per
Respondent: 1.5.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 22.5.
Frequency of Collection: Once.
There are no capital costs or operating
and maintenance costs associated with
this collection.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.)
Dated: November 8, 2017.
Robert N. Sidman,
Deputy Secretary of the Commission.
Note: The following appendix will not
appear in the Code of Federal Regulations.

Appendix to Agency Information
Collection Activities Under OMB
Review—CFTC Form 30
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