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3. There are no known regulatory 

alternatives which would accomplish 

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46–48c) in 

connection with the services proposed 

for addition to the Procurement List. 

End of Certification 

Accordingly, the following services 

are added to the Procurement List: 

SERVICES 

Service Type/Location: Custodial Service, 

National Weather Service, 728 & 732 

Woodlane Rd, Mt. Holly, NJ. 

NPA: Occupational Training Center of 

Burlington County, Mt. Holly, NJ. 

Contracting Activity: Dept of Commerce, 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration, Norfolk, VA. 

Service Type/Location: Custodial Service, 

Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA. 

NPA: Skookum Educational Programs, 

Bremerton, WA. 

Contracting Activity: Dept of the Army, XR 

W6BB ACA Knox, Fort Knox, KY. 

Patricia Briscoe, 

Deputy Director, Business Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2010–29754 Filed 11–24–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6353–01–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday 

December 31, 2010. 

PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, 

DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference 

Room. 

STATUS: Closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Surveillance 

and Enforcement Matters. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 202–418–5084. 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 

Assistant Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2010–29899 Filed 11–23–10; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday 

December 17, 2010. 

PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, 

DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference 

Room. 

STATUS: Closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Surveillance 

and Enforcement Matters. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 202–418–5084. 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 

Assistant Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2010–29902 Filed 11–23–10; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday 

December 10, 2010. 

PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, 

DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference 

Room. 

STATUS: Closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Surveillance 

and Enforcement Matters. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 202–418–5084. 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 

Assistant Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2010–29903 Filed 11–23–10; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday 

December 3, 2010. 

PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, 

DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference 

Room. 

STATUS: Closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Surveillance 

and Enforcement Matters. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 202–418–5084. 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 

Assistant Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2010–29904 Filed 11–23–10; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: 11 a.m., Friday 

December 24, 2010. 

PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW., Washington, 

DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference 

Room. 

STATUS: Closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Surveillance 

and Enforcement Matters. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 202–418–5084. 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 

Assistant Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2010–29901 Filed 11–23–10; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Public Input for the Study Regarding 

the Oversight of Existing and 

Prospective Carbon Markets 

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: Section 750 of the DoddFrank Wall Street Reform and Consumer 

Protection Act (the ‘‘Dodd-Frank Act’’ or 

‘‘Act’’) establishes an interagency 

working group (‘‘interagency group’’), 

headed by the Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission (the ‘‘CFTC’’), to 

conduct a study on the oversight of 

existing and prospective carbon markets 

to ensure an efficient, secure, and 

transparent carbon market, including 

oversight of spot markets and derivative 

markets. The members of the 

interagency group are the Chairman of 

the CFTC, the Secretary of Agriculture, 

the Secretary of the Treasury, the 

Chairman of the Securities and 

Exchange Commission, the 

Administrator of the Environmental 

Protection Agency, the Chairman of the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

the Chairman of the Federal Trade 

Commission and the Administrator of 

the Energy Information Administration, 

or their designees. In conducting the 

study, the Dodd-Frank Act directs the 

interagency group to consult, as 

appropriate, with representatives of 

exchanges, clearing houses, selfregulatory bodies, major carbon market 

participants, consumers, and the general 

public. To assist the interagency group 

in conducting the study and formulating 

recommendations for the oversight of 

existing and prospective carbon 

markets, the CFTC is issuing this 

request for information through public 

comment. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before December 17, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• Agency Web site, via its Comments 

Online process: http:// 

comments.cftc.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments 

through the Web site. 

• Mail: David A. Stawick, Secretary of 

the Commission, Commodity Futures 


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1The CFTC designated the Green Exchange as a 

contract market on July 22, 2010; however, the 

exchange is not yet operational. 

2 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer 

Protection Act, Public Law 111–203, 124 Stat. 1376 

(2010). 

3The CFTC notes that the text of Section 750(a)(7) 

of the Act references the ‘‘Commissioner of the 

Federal Trade Commission’’ as a member of the 

interagency group, and the CFTC interprets this text 

as a reference to the Chairman of the Federal Trade 

Commission. 

Trading Commission, Three Lafayette 

Centre, 1155 21st Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20581. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Same as 

mail above. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

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 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 procedure established in CFTC 

regulation 145.9 (17 CFR 145.9). 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 

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 substance of 

the request for comments will be 

retained in the public comment file. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gregory Kuserk, Chief, Market Analysis 

and Strategic Review Branch, Division 

of Market Oversight, 202–418–5286, 

Irina Leonova, Financial Analyst, 

Division of Market Oversight, 202–418– 

5646, or Nela Richardson, Research 

Economist, Office of the Chief 

Economist, 202–418–5592, Commodity 

Futures Trading Commission, Three 

Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20581. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Recently a number of legislative 

proposals have been introduced in 

Congress setting out various approaches 

to reducing carbon emissions. Some of 

the proposals contain a market-based 

policy instrument. Various forms of 

carbon markets have also been 

established internationally as well as 

domestically. Some of the examples of 

those markets are the European Union 

Emission Trading Scheme, the Clean 

Development Mechanism, and the 

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. In 

addition, markets exist in the U.S. for 

the trading of sulfur dioxide allowances 

under the EPA Acid Rain program and 

nitrogen oxide under the EPA NOX

Trading program. The CFTC also 

oversees the derivative trading of a 

number of environmental instruments 

on the Chicago Climate Futures 

Exchange and the Green Exchange.1

Under the various bills, different 

proposals have been set forth with 

respect to the oversight of a carbon 

market that would be established in 

those bills. 

On July 21, 2010 the Dodd-Frank Act 

was enacted.2 Section 750 of the Act 

establishes an interagency working 

group to study the oversight of existing 

and prospective carbon markets. The 

interagency group is composed of the 

following members or designees: The 

Chairman of the Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission, who shall serve as 

the Chairman of the interagency group, 

the Secretary of Agriculture, the 

Secretary of the Treasury, the Chairman 

of the Securities and Exchange 

Commission, the Administrator of the 

Environmental Protection Agency, the 

Chairman of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, the Chairman 

of the Federal Trade Commission 3 and 

the Administrator of the Energy 

Information Administration. 

The Dodd-Frank Act directs the 

interagency group to ‘‘conduct a study 

on the oversight of existing and 

prospective carbon markets to ensure an 

efficient, secure, and transparent carbon 

market, including oversight of spot 

markets and derivative markets.’’ In 

carrying out this study, the Act also 

directs the interagency group to consult 

with representatives of exchanges, 

clearinghouses, self-regulatory bodies, 

major carbon market participants, 

consumers and the general public, as 

the interagency group determines is 

appropriate. Finally, the Act requires 

the interagency group to submit to 

Congress a report, no later than 180 days 

after the date of enactment of the Act, 

on the results of the study, including 

recommendations regarding such 

oversight. 

II. Solicitation for Comments on the 

Study on Oversight of Carbon Markets 

To assist the interagency group in 

conducting the study on oversight of a 

carbon market, the CFTC seeks public 

comment on the following topics and 

questions: 

1. Section 750 of the Dodd-Frank 

indicates that the goals of regulatory 

oversight should be to ensure that 

carbon markets are efficient, secure and 

transparent. What other regulatory 

objectives, if any, should guide the 

oversight of such markets? 

2. What are the basic economic 

features that might be incorporated in a 

carbon market that would have an effect 

on market oversight provisions—e.g., 

the basic characteristics of allowances, 

frequency of allocations and compliance 

obligations, banking of allowances, 

borrowing of allowances, cost 

containment mechanisms, etc.? 

3. Do the regulatory objectives differ 

with respect to the oversight of spot 

market trading of carbon allowances 

compared to the oversight of derivatives 

market trading in these instruments? If 

so, explain further. 

4. Are additional statutory provisions 

necessary to achieve the desired 

regulatory objectives for carbon markets 

beyond those provided in the 

Commodity Exchange Act, as amended 

by the Dodd-Frank Act, or other federal 

acts that may be applicable to the 

trading of carbon allowances? 

5. What regulatory methods or tools 

would be appropriate to achieve the 

desired regulatory objectives? 

6. What types of data or information 

should be required of market 

participants in order to allow adequate 

oversight of a carbon market? Should 

reporting requirements differ for 

separate types of market participants? 

7. To what extent is it desirable or not 

desirable to have a unified regulatory 

oversight program that would oversee 

activity in both the secondary carbon 

market and in the derivatives markets? 

8. To what extent, if any, and how 

should a U.S. regulatory program 

interact with the regulatory programs of 

carbon markets in foreign jurisdictions? 

9. What has been the experience of 

state regulators in overseeing trading in 

the regional carbon markets and how 

would that instruct the design of a 

federal oversight program? 

10. Based on trading experiences in 

SO2 and NOX emission allowances what 

regulatory oversight would market 

participants and market operators, 

respectively, recommend? 

11. Who are the primary participants 

in the current primary environmental 

markets? Who are the primary 

participants in the current secondary 

allowance and derivatives 

environmental markets? 

III. Paperwork Reduction Act 

Pursuant to the Office of Management 

and Budget (‘‘OMB’’) Regulation 5 CFR 

1320.3(h)(4), this Notice and request for 

comment published in the Federal 

Register, which requests general public 


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comment, does not include a collection 

of information that would require OMB 

approval. Accordingly, the Paperwork 

Reduction Act does not apply. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on November 

19, 2010 by the Commission. 

Sauntia S. Warfield, 

Assistant Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2010–29780 Filed 11–24–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID DoD–2010–OS–0148] 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Business Transformation 

Agency, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 

3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Business 

Transformation Agency announces a 

proposed new public information 

collection and seeks public comment on 

the provisions thereof. 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 of the 

proposed information collection; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) 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 25, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Federal Docket Management 

System Office, 1160 Defense Pentagon, 

Washington, DC 20301–1160. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name, docket 

number and title for this Federal 

Register document. The general policy 

for comments and other submissions 

from members of the public is to make 

these submissions available for public 

viewing on the Internet at http:// 

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on this 

proposed information collection or to 

obtain a copy of the proposal and 

associated collection instruments, 

please write to the Business 

Transformation Agency, Attn: Wide 

Area Workflow Program Management 

Office, 1851 S. Bell Street, Arlington, 

VA 22240–5291. 

Title; Associated Form; and OMB 

Number: Wide Area Work Flow 

(WAWF); OMB Control Number 0704– 

TBD. 

Needs and Uses: Wide Area Workflow 

(WAWF) is a DoD enterprise, web-based 

system that allows secure electronic 

submission, acceptance and procession 

of invoices and receiving reports in a 

real-time, paperless environment, 

resulting in complete transaction 

visibility, fewer interest penalties and 

reduced processing time. WAWF 

provides the Department and its 

suppliers the single point of entry to 

generate, capture and process invoice, 

acceptance and payments-related 

documentation and data to support the 

DoD asset visibility, tracking and 

payment processes. WAWF also 

provides the department with a single 

point of entry to generate, capture and 

process vouchers for miscellaneous 

payment claims. Information in 

identifiable form must be collected to 

verify the identity and banking 

information of claimants in order to 

ensure that benefits are paid to the 

correct individual. WAWF is not a 

forms based application but it accepts 

any supporting documentation as 

attachments, including the following 

forms in PDF format: DD1375 Request 

for Payment of Funeral and/or 

Internment Expenses (0704–0030); 

SF182 Authorization, Agreement and 

Certification of Training; SF270 Request 

for Advance or Reimbursement (0348– 

0004); SF1157 Claims for Witness 

Attendance Fees, Travel and 

Miscellaneous Expenses. The complete 

list of miscellaneous payment categories 

processed through WAWF is available 

in appendix A of the DoD Guidebook for 

Miscellaneous Payments. 

Affected Public: DoD military 

personnel, civilian employees, 

dependents, members of the general 

public to include Foreign Nationals, and 

vendors providing goods or services to 

the DoD. 

Annual Burden Hours: 653,230 hours. 

Number of Respondents: 59,683. 

Responses per Respondent: Average 

65.67. 

Average Burden per Response: 10 

minutes. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Summary of Information Collection 

The purpose of information collection 

is to monitor the status of and 

electronically process invoices, 

receiving reports and individual claims 

for payment through the review and 

validation and approval phases for 

submission to the Defense Finance and 

Accounting Service for payment. 

Dated: November 12, 2010. 

Patricia L. Toppings, 

OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, 

Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2010–29762 Filed 11–24–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Notice of Submission for OMB Review 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

ACTION: Comment request. 

SUMMARY: The Director, Information 

Collection Clearance Division, 

Regulatory Information Management 

Services, Office of Management invites 

comments on the submission for OMB 

review as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13). 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

December 27, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be addressed to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Education Desk Officer, 

Office of Management and Budget, 725 

17th Street, NW., Room 10222, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503, be faxed to (202) 395–5806 or 

e-mailed to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov with a 

cc: to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please note 

that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) provide interested 

Federal agencies and the public an early 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection requests. The OMB is 

particularly interested in comments 

which: (1) Evaluate whether the 

proposed collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (2) Evaluate the 

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 


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