60-Day Federal Register Notice

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establish time-area closures at Hawaiian
spinner dolphins’ essential day time
habitat. After the presentation but before
public comments, there will be a
question and answer session during
which members of the public may ask
NMFS staff questions about the
proposed rule. Following the question
and answer session, members of the
public will have the opportunity to
provide oral comments regarding
proposed time-area closures. Oral
comments may be limited to two
minutes or less. Members of the public
will also have the opportunity to submit
written comments at the hearings.
Written comments may also be
submitted at any time during the
relevant public comment period as
described under ADDRESSES. All oral
comments will be recorded (audio only),
transcribed, and added to the public
comment record for this proposed rule.
Special Accommodations
Requests for sign language
interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to Kevin Brindock
(telephone: 808–725–5146; email:
[email protected]) at least 10
business days prior to the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.
Dated: November 18, 2021.
Kimberly Damon-Randall,
Director, Office of Protected Resources,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2021–25562 Filed 11–22–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
United States Patent and Trademark
Office

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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Fee Deficiency Submissions
The United States Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) will submit
the following information collection
request to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and clearance
in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, on or after the
date of publication of this notice. The
USPTO invites comment on this
information collection renewal, which
helps the USPTO assess the impact of
its information collection requirements
and minimize the public’s reporting
burden. Public comments were
previously requested via the Federal
Register on August 25, 2021 during a
60-day comment period. This notice

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allows for an additional 30 days for
public comments.
Agency: United States Patent and
Trademark Office, Department of
Commerce.
Title: Fee Deficiency Submissions.
OMB Control Number: 0651–0070.
Form Numbers:
• PTO/SB/460 (Fee Deficiency
Payment Form).
Type of Review: Extension and
revision of a currently approved
information collection.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
2,000 respondents per year.
Estimated Number of Responses:
3,002 responses per year.
Estimated Time per Response: The
USPTO estimates that it will take the
public approximately 2 hours to gather
the necessary information, create the
document, and submit the completed
information to the USPTO.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent
Burden Hours: 6,004 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour
Cost Burden: $248.
Needs and Uses: Under section 10(b)
of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
(‘‘Act’’) (See Pub. L. 112–29, 125 Stat.
283 (2011)), eligible small entities shall
receive a 50 percent fee reduction from
the undiscounted fees for filing,
searching, examining, issuing,
appealing, and maintaining patent
applications and patents. The Act
further provides that micro entities shall
receive a 75 percent fee reduction from
the undiscounted fees for filing,
searching, examining, issuing,
appealing, and maintaining patent
applications and patents.
This information collection covers the
submissions made by patent applicants
and patentees to excuse small and micro
entity fee payment errors, in accordance
with the procedures set forth in 37 CFR
1.28(c) and 1.29(k). Specifically, 37 CFR
1.28(c) provides a procedure by which
patent applicants and patentees may be
excused for erroneous payments of fees
in the small entity amount. 37 CFR
1.29(k) provides a procedure by which
patent applicants and patentees may be
excused for erroneous payments of fees
in the micro entity amount.
Affected Public: Private sector;
individuals or households.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view
Department of Commerce, USPTO
information collections currently under
review by OMB.
Written comments and
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collection should be submitted within
30 days of the publication of this notice
on the following website
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information
collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under
30-day Review—Open for Public
Comments’’ or by using the search
function and entering either the title of
the information collection or the OMB
Control Number 0651–0070.
Further information can be obtained
by:
• Email: InformationCollection@
uspto.gov. Include ‘‘0651–0070
information request’’ in the subject line
of the message.
• Mail: Kimberly Hardy, Office of the
Chief Administrative Officer, United
States Patent and Trademark Office,
P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–
1450.
Kimberly Hardy,
Information Collections Officer, Office of the
Chief Administrative Officer, United States
Patent and Trademark Office.
[FR Doc. 2021–25559 Filed 11–22–21; 8:45 am]
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Notice of Intent To Extend
Collection 3038–0104: Clearing
Exemption for Swaps Between Certain
Affiliated Entities
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (‘‘Commission’’ or
‘‘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 each proposed
extension of an existing collection of
information, and to allow 60 days for
public comment. This notice solicits
comments on reporting requirements
relating to uncleared swaps between
certain affiliated entities electing the
exemption under Commission
regulation 50.52 (Exemption for swaps
between affiliates).
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before January 24, 2022.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by ‘‘OMB Control No. 3038–
0104’’ by any of the following methods:
SUMMARY:

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• The Agency’s website, at https://
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 https://
www.cftc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Melissa A. D’Arcy, Special Counsel,
Division of Clearing and Risk,
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, Three Lafayette Centre,
1155 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
20581; (202) 418–5086; email: mdarcy@
cftc.gov.
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,
including each proposed extension of an
existing collection of information,
before submitting the collection to OMB
for approval. To comply with this
requirement, the Commission is
publishing notice of the proposed
extension of the existing 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.1
Title: Clearing Exemption for Swaps
Between Certain Affiliated Entities
(OMB Control No. 3038–0104). This is
a request for an extension of a currently
approved information collection.
Abstract: Section 2(h)(1)(A) of the
Commodity Exchange Act requires
certain entities to submit for clearing
certain swaps if they are required to be
1 The OMB control numbers for the CFTC
regulations were published on December 30, 1981.
See 46 FR 63035 (Dec. 30, 1981).

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cleared by the Commission.
Commission regulation 50.52 permits
certain affiliated entities to elect not to
clear inter-affiliate swaps that otherwise
would be required to be cleared,
provided that they meet certain
conditions. The rule further requires the
reporting of certain information if the
inter-affiliate exemption from clearing is
elected. The Commission will use the
information described in this collection
and reported pursuant to Commission
regulation 50.52 to monitor the use of
the inter-affiliate exemption from the
Commission’s swap clearing
requirement and to assess any potential
market risks associated with such
exemption.
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 for 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.2
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 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 Information Collection
Request will be retained in the public
comment file and will be considered as
required under the Administrative
Procedure Act and other applicable
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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 for counterparties to
swaps between certain affiliated entities
that elect the inter-affiliate exemption
under Commission regulation 50.52.
The respondent burden for this
collection is estimated to be as follows:
Estimated Number of Respondents:
200.
Estimated Average Burden Hours per
Respondent: 1 hour.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 200 hours.
Frequency of Collection: Annually; on
occasion.
There are no capital costs or operating
and maintenance costs associated with
this collection.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.)
Dated: November 17, 2021.
Robert Sidman,
Deputy Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2021–25483 Filed 11–22–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Air Force
[Docket ID: USAF–2021–HQ–0008]

Proposed Collection; Comment
Request
Department of the Air Force,
Department of Defense (DoD).
ACTION: Information collection notice.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Air Combat Command announces a
proposed public information collection
and seeks public comment on the
provisions thereof. Comments are
invited on: 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; the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed information collection; ways
to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and ways to minimize the
burden of the information collection on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
comments received by January 24, 2022.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by docket number and title,
by any of the following methods:
SUMMARY:

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