2020 30-Day FRN 3038-0005

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Notice of information collection,
request for comment.

ACTION:

The Department of
Commerce, in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), invites the general public and
other Federal agencies to comment on
proposed, and continuing information
collections, which helps us assess the
impact of our information collection
requirements and minimize the public’s
reporting burden. The purpose of this
notice is to allow for 60 days of public
comment preceding submission of the
collection to OMB.
DATES: To ensure consideration,
comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received
on or before November 24, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments to
Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer,
at [email protected]. Please
reference OMB Control Number 0648–
0794 in the subject line of your
comments. Do not submit Confidential
Business Information or otherwise
sensitive or protected information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
specific questions related to collection
activities should be directed to Keeley
Kent, Groundfish Branch Chief,
National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS), 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Bldg.
1, Seattle, WA 98115–6349, (206) 247–
8252, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Abstract
This request is for extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
On February 23, 2021, NMFS
published in the Federal Register a final
rule (86 FR 10857) allowing a Pacific
whiting sector cooperative or group of
vessels to develop a Salmon Mitigation
Plan (SMP) to promote reduction in
Chinook salmon bycatch. The SMP is a
voluntary agreement by a Pacific
whiting fishery Mothership (MS),
Catcher/processor (C/P), or Pacific
whiting individual fishing quota (IFQ)
fishery group to manage Chinook
salmon bycatch. The SMP would be
approved by NMFS. Those groups with
an approved SMP would be required to
provide an annual postseason report to
the Council and NMFS no later than
March 31. The report would describe
the group’s use of Chinook salmon
bycatch avoidance measures and an
evaluation of the effectiveness of those
measures. It would also describe any
amendments to the terms of the SMP
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fishing year in which the SMP was
approved and the reasons that the
amendments to the SMP were made.
The rule also established that vessels
with a NMFS-approved SMP have
access to the Chinook salmon bycatch
reserve regardless of NMFS
implementing other inseason measures
to minimize salmon bycatch.
Participation in an SMP is voluntary;
however, any vessel that chooses not to
participate in an SMP would be subject
to additional salmon bycatch
minimization measures prior to being
allowed access to the reserve. The
associated regulations are found at 50
CFR part 660. OMB approved the
collection-of-information requirements
contained in the final rule on March 10,
2021, under OMB Control Number
0648–0794 (Pacific Coast Groundfish
Salmon Bycatch Minimization).
II. Method of Collection
The designated SMP representative
will have the option of submitting a
proposed SMP and/or postseason SMP
report to NMFS electronically or by
mail.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0794.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission,
extension of a current information
collection.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; not-for-profit
institutions.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
14.
Estimated Time per Response: SMP
proposal (10 hours), SMP amendment (3
hours), Administrative appeals for
disapproved SMP (6 hours), SMP
postseason report (8 hours).
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 113 burden hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $49.66.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain benefits.
Legal Authority: 50 CFR 660.
IV. Request for Comments
We are soliciting public comments to
permit the Department/Bureau to: (a)
Evaluate whether the proposed
information collection is necessary for
the proper functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of our estimate of the time and
cost burden for this proposed collection,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
Evaluate ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) Minimize the

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reporting burden on those who are to
respond, including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include or
summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this ICR. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you may ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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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 Information and Regulatory
Affairs (OIRA), of 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 burdens.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before October 25, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of this
notice’s publication to OIRA, at https://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Please find this particular information
collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under
30-day Review—Open for Public
Comments’’ or by using the website’s
search function. Comments can be
entered electronically by clicking on the
‘‘comment’’ button next to the
information collection on the ‘‘OIRA
Information Collections Under Review’’
page, or the ‘‘View ICR—Agency
SUMMARY:

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Submission’’ page. A copy of the
supporting statement for the collection
of information discussed herein may be
obtained by visiting https://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
In addition to the submission of
comments to https://Reginfo.gov as
indicated above, a copy of all comments
submitted to OIRA may also be
submitted to the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (Commission or
CFTC) by clicking on the ‘‘Submit
Comment’’ box next to the descriptive
entry for OMB Control No. 3038–0005,
at https://comments.cftc.gov/
FederalRegister/PublicInfo.aspx.
Or by either of the following methods:
• 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.
All comments must be submitted in
English, or if not, accompanied by an
English translation. You should only
submit 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 the Administrative
Procedure Act and other applicable
laws, and may be accessible under
FOIA.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Amanda Olear, Director, (202) 418–
6700, [email protected]; Pamela Geraghty,
Deputy Director, (202) 418–5634,
[email protected]; Peter Sanchez,
Acting Associate Director, (202) 418–
5237, [email protected]; or Elizabeth
Groover, Special Counsel, (202) 418–
5985, [email protected], Market
Participants Division, Commodity
Futures Trading Commission, 1155 21st
Street NW, Washington, DC 20581, and
refer to OMB Control No. 3038–0005.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Rules Relating to the Operations
and Activities of Commodity Pool
Operators and Commodity Trading
Advisors and to Monthly Reporting by
Futures Commission Merchants (OMB
Control No. 3038–0005). This is a
request for extension of a currently
approved information collection.
Abstract: The various collections of
information required by part 4 of the
Commission’s regulations were
previously approved by OMB in
accordance with the PRA and assigned
OMB control number 3038–0005.2 The
Commission offers the following
summary of the renewal and the
resulting impact on existing burden
hour estimates associated with this
information collection. The Commodity
Exchange Act (CEA) empowers the
Commission with the authority to
require commodity pool operators
(CPOs) and commodity trading advisors
(CTAs) to maintain books and records
and to file reports as required by the
Commission.3 The Commission also has
the power to promulgate such
regulations as it deems necessary to
implement the purposes of the CEA.4 It
is pursuant to this authority that the
Commission has promulgated the
various compliance requirements for
CPOs and CTAs in 17 CFR part 4. The
reporting, filing, and recordkeeping
requirements within part 4 of the
Commission’s regulations were adopted
to assist and inform customers, to
establish customer protection initiatives
for investors, to facilitate monitoring
intermediary compliance with part 4
regulations by the Commission and its
delegee, the National Futures
Association (NFA), and to enable the
Commission to better monitor the
market risks posed by its registrants.
The information collections are
necessary to enable the Commission and
NFA to accomplish the purposes of both
the CEA and the compliance regime set
forth in part 4 of the Commission’s
regulations.
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 July 12, 2023, 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, 88
FR 44280 (60-Day Notice). The
Commission did not receive any
relevant substantive comments on the
60-Day Notice.
2 17

CFR part 4.
U.S.C. 6m(3).
4 7 U.S.C. 8a(5).
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Burden Statement: The respondent
burden for this collection is estimated to
be as follows:
Respondents/Affected Entities: (1) All
persons filing reports required by 17
CFR part 4, and (2) all principals of such
persons.
Estimated number of respondents:
49,083.
Estimated number of exempt pools/
reports per respondent: 8.8.
Estimated total annual burden on
respondents: 432,325 hours.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.)
Dated: September 19, 2023.
Robert Sidman,
Deputy Secretary of the Commission.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army
U.S. Army Science Board Closed
Meeting Notice
Department of the Army, DoD.
Notice of a closed meeting.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

Pursuant to the Federal
Advisory Committee Act, the
Government in the Sunshine Act of
1976 (as amended) and title 41, Code of
Federal Regulations 102–3.140 through
160, the Department of the Army
announces the following committee
meeting of the U.S. Army Science Board
(ASB) Fall voting session.
Name of Committee: U.S. Army
Science Board.
Date: Tuesday, 26 September 2023.
Time: 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Location: The Crystal City Marriott at
Regan National Airport, 1999 Richmond
Highway, Arlington, Virginia 22202.
Purpose of Meeting: The purpose of
the meeting is for ASB members to
review, deliberate, and vote on the
findings and recommendations
presented for two Fiscal Year (FY) 2023
studies.
Agenda: Briefing, deliberation, and
vote on the following studies:
‘‘Testing, Validating, and Protecting
Army use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
and Machine Learning (ML) Models.’’
This FY23 study contains Controlled
Unclassified Information (CUI) and will
be presented in a closed session at
08:45–10:00 a.m.
‘‘Advanced Concepts to Support
Army Warfighting Functions in the
Indo-Pacific.’’ This FY23 study contains
CUI and will be presented in a closed
session at 10:15–11:30 a.m.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
ASB, Designated Federal Officer (DFO),
SUMMARY:

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