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circumstances that may affect any relief 

granted pursuant to section 140.99(e), 

and complying with notice and other 

conditions that may be contained in 

grant of exemptive or no-action relief 

issued by staff; and preparing and 

submitting withdrawals of requests for 

exemptive, no-action, and interpretative 

letters pursuant to section 140.99(f). The 

estimates also include burden hours for 

preparing a confidential treatment 

request pursuant to and responding to 

any process contained in associated 

section 140.98(b) of the Commission’s 

regulations, and complying with the 

documentation requirements contained 

in section 41.3(b), related to exemption 

requests from certain intermediaries. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: 

Registered entities, intermediaries, 

eligible contract participants, parties 

clarifying their status as such or seeking 

relief from registration or discrete 

regulatory burdens associated with their 

status. 

Estimated number of respondents: 

12,428. 

Estimated total annual burden on 

respondents: 28,478 hours. 

Frequency of collection: Occasionally. 

The Commission estimates the burden 

of this collection of information as 

follows: 

Estimated annual 

respondents or 

recordkeepers 

Reports or 

records 

annually— 

each 

respondent 

Total annual 

responses 

Estimated 

average number 

of hours per 

response 

Estimated 

annual burden 

hours 

REPORTING—RENEWAL YEAR ONE: 

§ 140.99(c)—information requirements for letters ........ 40 1 40 9.00 360 

§ 140.99(d)—filing requirements ................................... 40 1 40 0.38 15 

§ 140.99(e)—staff response: 

change of facts and circumstances ....................... 7 1 7 2.25 16 

notice and other conditions ................................... 4,500 1 4,500 1.50 6,750 

§ 140.99(f)—withdrawal of requests ............................. 6 1 6 0.75 5 

§ 140.98(b)—confidential treatment requests ............... 5 1 5 1.80 9 

§ 41.3(b)—securities brokers and dealers requesting 

exemptive orders; documentation requirement ........ 10 1 10 3.75 38 

REPORTING—YEARS TWO AND THREE: 

§ 140.99(c)—information requirements for letters ........ 25 1 25 9.00 225 

§ 140.99(d)—filing requirements ................................... 25 1 25 0.38 9 

§ 140.99(e)—staff response: 

change of facts and circumstances ....................... 4 1 4 2.25 9 

notice and other conditions ................................... 1,500 1 1,500 1.50 2,250 

§ 140.99(f)—withdrawal of requests ............................. 3 0 0 

§ 140.98(b)—confidential treatment requests ............... 3 1 3 1.80 5 

§ 41.3(b)—securities brokers and dealers requesting 

exemptive orders; documentation requirement ........ 10 1 10 3.75 38 

SUBTOTAL REPORTING .............................. 6,178 13 6,175 38 9,728 

RECORDKEEPING—RENEWAL YEAR ONE: 

§ 140.99(e)—staff response: 

notice and other conditions ................................... 4,500 4 18,000 0.75 13,500 

RECORDKEEPING—RENEWAL YEARS TWO AND 

THREE: 

§ 140.99(e)—staff response: 

notice and other conditions ................................... 1,750 4 7,000 0.75 5,250 

SUBTOTAL RECORDKEEPING .................... 6,250 8 25,000 2 18,750 

GRAND TOTAL .............................................. 12,428 21 31,175 40 28,478 

There are no capital costs or operating 

and maintenance costs associated with 

this collection. 

This estimate is based on the number 

of requests for such letters in the last 

three years. Although the burden varies 

with the type, size, and complexity of 

the request submitted, such request may 

involve analytical work and analysis, as 

well as the work of drafting the request 

itself. 

Comment Solicitation: With respect to 

this 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. 

Dated: December 23, 2013. 

Christopher J. Kirkpatrick, 

Deputy Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2013–31106 Filed 12–27–13; 8:45 am] 

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BUREAU OF CONSUMER FINANCIAL 

PROTECTION 

Fair Credit Reporting Act Disclosures 

AGENCY: Bureau of Consumer Financial 

Protection. 

ACTION: Notice regarding charges for 

certain disclosures under the Fair Credit 

Reporting Act. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Consumer 

Financial Protection (Bureau) 

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1This provision, originally Section 612(a), was 

added to the FCRA in September 1996 and became 

effective in September 1997. It was relabeled 

Section 612(f) by Section 211(a)(1) of the Fair and 

Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACT 

Act), Public Law 108–159, which was signed into 

law on December 4, 2003. 

2Public Law 111–203, Title X, Section 1088. 

announces that the ceiling on allowable 

charges under Section 612(f) of the Fair 

Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) will 

remain unchanged at $11.50 for 2014. 

The Bureau is required to increase the 

$8.00 amount referred to in Section 

612(f)(1)(A)(i) of the FCRA on January 1 

of each year, based proportionally on 

changes in the Consumer Price Index for 

All Urban Consumers (CPI–U), with 

fractional changes rounded to the 

nearest fifty cents. The CPI–U increased 

45.25 percent between September 1997, 

the date the FCRA amendments took 

effect, and September 2013. This 

increase in the CPI–U, and the 

requirement that any increase be 

rounded to the nearest fifty cents, 

results in no change in the maximum 

allowable charge of $11.50. 

DATES: Effective January 1, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Friend, Office of Regulations, 

Bureau of Consumer Financial 

Protection, 1700 G Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20552 at (202) 435– 

7700. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

612(f)(1)(A) of the Fair Credit Reporting 

Act (FCRA) provides that a consumer 

reporting agency may charge a 

consumer a reasonable amount for 

making a disclosure to the consumer 

pursuant to Section 609 of the FCRA.1

Section 612(f)(1)(A)(i) of the FCRA 

provides that, where a consumer 

reporting agency is permitted to impose 

a reasonable charge on a consumer for 

making a disclosure to the consumer 

pursuant to Section 609 of the FCRA, 

the charge shall not exceed $8.00 and 

shall be indicated to the consumer 

before making the disclosure. Section 

612(f)(2) of the FCRA states that the 

Bureau shall increase the $8.00 

maximum amount on January 1 of each 

year, based proportionally on changes in 

the Consumer Price Index, with 

fractional changes rounded to the 

nearest fifty cents. 

In 2011, the responsibility for 

performing this task was transferred 

from the Federal Trade Commission to 

the Bureau pursuant to the Dodd-Frank 

Wall Street Reform and Consumer 

Protection Act of 2010.2 Like the 

Federal Trade Commission, the Bureau’s 

calculations are based on the CPI–U, 

which is the most general Consumer 

Price Index and covers all urban 

consumers and all items. 

Section 211(a)(2) of the FACT Act 

added a new Section 612(a) to the FCRA 

that gives consumers the right to request 

free annual disclosures once every 12 

months. The maximum allowable 

charge established by this notice does 

not apply to requests made under that 

provision. The charge does apply when 

a consumer who orders a file disclosure 

has already received a free annual 

disclosure and does not otherwise 

qualify for an additional free disclosure. 

The Bureau is using the $8.00 amount 

set forth in Section 612(f)(1)(A)(i) of the 

FCRA as the baseline for its calculation 

of the increase in the ceiling on 

reasonable charges for certain 

disclosures made under Section 609 of 

the FCRA. Since the effective date of the 

amended FCRA was September 30, 

1997, the Bureau calculated the 

proportional increase in the CPI–U from 

September 1997 to September 2013. The 

Bureau then determined what 

modification, if any, from the original 

base of $8.00 should be made effective 

for 2014, given the requirement that 

fractional changes be rounded to the 

nearest fifty cents. 

Between September 1997 and 

September 2013, the CPI–U increased by 

45.25 percent—from an index value of 

161.2 in September 1997 to a value of 

234.1 in September 2013. An increase of 

45.25 percent in the $8.00 base figure 

would lead to a new figure of $11.62. 

However, because the statute directs 

that the resulting figure be rounded to 

the nearest $0.50, the maximum 

allowable charge is $11.50. The Bureau 

therefore determines that the maximum 

allowable charge for the year 2014 will 

remain unchanged at $11.50. 

Dated: December 24, 2013. 

Richard Cordray, 

Director, Bureau of Consumer Financial 

Protection. 

[FR Doc. 2013–31219 Filed 12–26–13; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 4810–25–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Announcement of Competition Under 

the America COMPETES Act 

AGENCY: Defense Advanced Research 

Projects Agency (DARPA), DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: DARPA announces the Cyber 

Grand Challenge (CGC), a prize 

competition under 15 U.S.C. 3719, the 

America COMPETES Act. The CGC will 

utilize a series of competition events to 

test the abilities of fully automated 

cyber defense systems. The CGC seeks 

to engender a new generation of 

autonomous cyber defense capabilities 

that combine the speed and scale of 

automation with reasoning abilities 

exceeding those of human experts. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: All 

questions regarding the competition 

may be sent to CyberGrandChallenge@

darpa.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DARPA 

recommends that all parties interested 

in participating in the CGC read the 

latest CGC Rules document posted on 

the CGC Web site (www.darpa.mil/

cybergrandchallenge) for a full 

description of CGC events. 

Subject of the competition. The DoD 

maintains information systems using a 

software technology base comprised of 

Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) 

operating systems and applications. 

This COTS technology base is common 

to the DoD, industry, and the Defense 

Industrial Base, and the continual 

discovery of potential vulnerabilities in 

this software base has led to a constant 

cycle of intrusion, compromise 

discovery, patch formulation, patch 

deployment and recovery. At the 

present time this defensive cycle is 

performed by highly trained software 

analysts; it is the role of these analysts 

to reason about the function of software, 

identify novel threats and remove them. 

Manual analysis of code and threats is 

an artisan process, often requiring 

skilled analysts to spend weeks or 

months analyzing a problem. The size of 

the technology base also contributes to 

the difficulty of manually discovering 

vulnerabilities. At the present time, 

automated program analysis capabilities 

are able to assist the work of human 

software analysts. In the Cyber Grand 

Challenge, competitors will improve 

and combine these semi-automated 

technologies into unmanned Cyber 

Reasoning Systems that can 

autonomously reason about novel 

program flaws, prove the existence of 

flaws in networked applications, and 

formulate effective defenses. The 

performance of these automated systems 

will be evaluated through head-to-head 

tournament style competition. The CGC 

will draw widespread attention to the 

technology issues associated with 

autonomous software comprehension 

and motivate entrants to overcome 

technical challenges to realize truly 

effective autonomous cyber defense. 

This competition will challenge the 

most capable and innovative companies, 

institutions, and entrepreneurs to 

produce breakthroughs in capability and 

performance. Eligible parties may enter 

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