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1 17 CFR 145.9. 

A. Discontinuing the Rebuilding Plan 

and Annual Catch Limit 

Specifications for the American 

Samoa Bottomfish Fishery for 

2024–2026 (Final Action) 

B. Hawaii FEP Uku Essential Fish 

Habitat Revision Amendment (Final 

Action) 

C. Guam Bottomfish Stock 

Assessment WPSAR Terms of 

Reference 

D. Multi-year US Territorial Bigeye 

Tuna Catch Limit and Allocation 

Specification (Final Action) 

E. Advisory Group Report and 

Recommendations 

E.1 FIAC 

E.2 AP 

E.3 SSC 

F. Public Comment 

G. Council Discussion and Action 

10. Program Items 

A. Council IRA Application Priorities 

and Development 

B. Pelagic and International Fisheries 

B.1 Council WCPO Longline 

Management Workshops 

B.2 Outcomes of 20th Regular Session 

of the WCPFC 

C. Advisory Group Report and 

Recommendations 

C.1 FIAC 

C.2 AP 

C.3 SSC 

D. Public Comment 

E. Council Discussion and Action 

11. Administrative Matters 

A. Financial Reports 

B. Administrative Reports 

C. Council Family Changes 

D. Meetings and Workshops 

E. Report on the CCC Meeting 

Outcomes 

F. Executive and Budget Standing 

Committee Report 

G. Public Comment 

H. Council Discussion and Action 

12. Other Business 

13. Election of Officers 

Non-emergency issues not contained 

in this agenda may come before the 

Council for discussion and formal 

Council action during its 197th meeting. 

However, Council action on regulatory 

issues will be restricted to those issues 

specifically listed in this document and 

any regulatory issue arising after 

publication of this document that 

requires emergency action under section 

305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, 

provided the public has been notified of 

the Council’s intent to take action to 

address the emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

These meetings are accessible to 

people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to 

Kitty M. Simonds, (808) 522–8220 

(voice) or (808) 522–8226 (fax), at least 

5 days prior to the meeting date. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

Dated: November 7, 2023. 

Rey Israel Marquez, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities Under OMB Review 

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: 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 burden. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before December 13, 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 

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 (the 

‘‘Commission’’ or ‘‘CFTC’’) by clicking 

on the ‘‘Submit Comment’’ box next to 

the descriptive entry for OMB Control 

No. 3038–0092, 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. Comments 

submitted to the Commission should 

include 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 

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 the 

Freedom of Information Act. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Catherine Brescia, Attorney Advisor, 

Market Participants Division, 

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, (202) 418–6236; email: 

cbrescia@cftc.gov, and refer to OMB 

Control No. 3038–0092. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Customer Clearing 

Documentation and Timing of 

Acceptance for Clearing (OMB Control 

No. 3038–0092). This is a request for 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Abstract: Section 4d(c) of the 

Commodity Exchange Act (‘‘CEA’’), as 

amended by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street 

Reform and Consumer Protection Act 

(‘‘Dodd-Frank Act’’), directs the 

Commission to require futures 

commission merchants (‘‘FCMs’’) to 

implement conflict of interest 

procedures that address such issues as 

the Commission determines to be 

appropriate. Similarly, section 4s(j)(5) of 

the CEA, as added by the Dodd-Frank 

Act, requires swap dealers (‘‘SDs’’) and 

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(b)(3)(vi). 

implement conflict of interest 

procedures that address such issues as 

the Commission determines to be 

appropriate. Section 4s(j)(5) also 

requires SDs and MSPs to ensure that 

any persons providing clearing activities 

or making determinations as to 

accepting clearing customers are 

separated by appropriate informational 

partitions from persons whose 

involvement in pricing, trading, or 

clearing activities might bias their 

judgment or contravene the core 

principle of open access. Section 4s(j)(6) 

of the CEA prohibits a SD or MSP from 

adopting any process or taking any 

action that results in any unreasonable 

restraint on trade or imposes any 

material anticompetitive burden on 

trading or clearing, unless necessary or 

appropriate to achieve the purposes of 

the Act. Section 2(h)(1)(B)(ii) of the CEA 

requires that derivatives clearing 

organization (‘‘DCO’’) rules provide for 

the nondiscriminatory clearing of swaps 

executed bilaterally or through an 

unaffiliated designated contract market 

or swap execution facility. 

To address these provisions, the 

Commission promulgated regulations 

that prohibit arrangements involving 

FCMs, SDs, MSPs, and DCOs that would 

(a) disclose to an FCM, SD, or MSP the 

identity of a customer’s original 

executing counterparty (§§ 1.72(a), 

23.608(a), and 39.12(a)(1)(vi)); (b) limit 

the number of counterparties with 

whom a customer may enter into a trade 

(§§ 1.72(b), 23.608(b), and 

39.12(a)(1)(vi)); (c) restrict the size of the 

position a customer may take with any 

individual counterparty, apart from an 

overall credit limit for all positions held 

by the customer at the FCM (§§ 1.72(c), 

23.608(c), and 39.12(a)(1)(vi)); (d) 

impair a customer’s access to execution 

of a trade on terms that have a 

reasonable relationship to the best terms 

available (§§ 1.72(d), 23.608(d), and 

39.12(a)(1)(vi)); or (e) prevent 

compliance with specified time frames 

for acceptance of trades into clearing set 

forth in 1.74(b), 23.610(b), or 39.12(b)(7) 

(§§ 1.72(e), 23.608(e), and 

39.12(a)(1)(vi)). Additionally, the 

Commission requires, through 

regulation 39.12(b)(7)(i)(B), DCOs to 

coordinate with clearing members to 

establish prompt processing of trades. 

Regulations 1.74(a) and 23.610(a) 

require reciprocal coordination by 

FCMs, SDs, and MSPs that are clearing 

members. 

Under the above regulations, SDs, 

MSPs, FCMs, and DCOs are required to 

develop and maintain written customer 

clearing documentation and trade 

processing procedures. Maintenance of 

contracts, policies, and procedures is 

prudent business practice. All SDs, 

MSPs, FCMs, and DCOs maintain 

documentation consistent with these 

regulations. The regulations are crucial 

both for effective risk management and 

for the efficient operation of trading 

venues among SDs, MSPs, FCMs, and 

DCOs. Each of these entities has a 

general recordkeeping obligation for 

these requirements under the 

Commission’s regulations (§ 39.20 for 

DCOs; § 23.606 for SDs and MSPs; and 

§ 1.73 for FCMs). 

The information collection burden 

arising from the regulations primarily is 

restricted to the costs associated with 

the affected registrants’ obligation to 

maintain records related to clearing 

documentation between the customer 

and the customer’s clearing member, 

and trade processing procedures 

between DCOs and FCMs, SDs, and 

MSPs. The information collection 

obligations are necessary to implement 

certain provisions of the CEA, including 

ensuring that registrants exercise 

effective risk management, and are also 

appropriate for the efficient operation of 

trading venues among SDs, MSPs, 

FCMs, and DCOs. 

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.2 On August 25, 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 58251 (‘‘60-Day Notice’’). The 

Commission did not receive any 

comments on the 60-Day Notice. 

Burden Statement: The respondent 

burden for this collection is estimated to 

be as follows: 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

180. 

Estimated Average Burden Hours per 

Respondent: 40. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 7,200. 

Frequency of Collection: As needed. 

There are no capital costs or operating 

and maintenance costs associated with 

this collection. 

(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) 

Dated: November 6, 2023. 

Robert Sidman, 

Deputy Secretary of the Commission. 

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BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities Under OMB Review 

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: 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 burden. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before December 13, 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 

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 (‘‘CFTC’’ or the 

‘‘Commission’’) by clicking on the 

‘‘Submit Comment’’ box next to the 

descriptive entry for ‘‘OMB Control No. 

3038–0091,’’ 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. Comments 

submitted to the Commission should 


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