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1 17 CFR 145.9. 

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 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 September 26, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Comments regarding the 

burden estimated or any other aspect of 

the information collection, including 

suggestions for reducing the burden, 

may be submitted directly to the Office 

of Information and Regulatory Affairs 

(OIRA) in OMB, within 30 days of this 

notice’s publication, by either of the 

following methods. Please identify the 

comments by ‘‘OMB Control No. 3038– 

0092.’’ 

• By email addressed to: 

OIRAsubmissions@omb.eop.gov, or 

• By mail addressed to: the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Attention: Desk Officer for the 

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, 725 17th Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20503. 

A copy of all comments submitted to 

OIRA should be sent to the Commodity 

Futures Trading Commission (the 

‘‘Commission’’) by either of the 

following methods. The copies should 

refer to ‘‘OMB Control No. 3038–0092.’’ 

• Through the Commission’s website 

at http://comments.cftc.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments 

through the website. 

• By mail addressed to: Christopher 

Kirkpatrick, Secretary of the 

Commission, Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission, Three Lafayette 

Centre, 1155 21st Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20581; or 

• By Hand Delivery/Courier to the 

same address. 

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 

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 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 or remove any or all 

of your submission from http://

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. 

A copy of the supporting statements 

for the collection of information 

discussed herein may be obtained by 

visiting http://RegInfo.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher Hower, Special Counsel, 

Division of Clearing and Risk, 

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, (202) 418–6703; email: 

chower@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 CEA, as 

amended by the Dodd-Frank Act, directs 

the Commission to require futures 

commission merchants to implement 

conflict of interest procedures that 

address such issues the Commission 

determines to be appropriate. Similarly, 

section 4s(j)(5), as added by the DoddFrank Act, requires swap dealers and 

major swap participants to implement 

conflict of interest procedures that 

address such issues the Commission 

determines to be appropriate. Section 

4s(j)(5) also requires swap dealers and 

major swap participants 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 swap dealer and 

major swap participant 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 rules provide for the nondiscriminatory clearing of swaps 

executed bilaterally or through an 

unaffiliated designated contract market 

or swap execution facility. 

Pursuant to these provisions, the 

Commission adopted § 1.71(d)(1) 

relating to FCMs and § 23.605(d)(1) 

relating to swap dealers and major swap 

participants. These regulations prohibit 

swap dealers and major swap 

participants from interfering or 

attempting to influence the decisions of 

affiliated FCMs with regard to the 

provision of clearing services and 

activities and prohibit FCMs from 

permitting them to do so. Also, § 23.607 

prohibits a swap dealer and major swap 

participant 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. Additionally, 

§ 39.12(b)(2) requires that derivatives 

clearing organization rules provide for 

the non-discriminatory clearing of 

swaps executed bilaterally or through an 

unaffiliated designated contract market 

or swap execution facility. Sections 

1.71(f) and 23.605(f) provide that 

records be maintained pursuant to 

Commission Regulation 1.31. 

As discussed further below, the 

additional information collection 

burden arising from the proposed 

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. 

The information collection obligations 

imposed by the regulations are 

necessary to implement certain 

provisions of the CEA, including 

ensuring that registrants exercise 

effective risk management and for the 

efficient operation of trading venues 

among SDs, MSPs, FCMs, and DCOs. 

Burden Statement: The Commission 

is revising its estimate of the burden for 

this collection, which include 101 Swap 

Dealers, Major Swap Participants, 65 

Futures Commission Merchants and 16 

Derivatives Clearing Organizations. The 

respondent burden for this collection is 

estimated to be as follows: 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

182. 


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Estimated Average Burden Hours per 

Respondent: 18.1 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 3,296 hours. 

Frequency of Collection: Daily, 

annually, or 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: August 22, 2018. 

Christopher Kirkpatrick, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Defense Advisory Committee on 

Investigation, Prosecution, and 

Defense of Sexual Assault in the 

Armed Forces; Notice of Federal 

Advisory Committee Meeting; 

Cancellation 

AGENCY: General Counsel of the 

Department of Defense, Defense 

Advisory Committee on Investigation, 

Prosecution, and Defense of Sexual 

Assault in the Armed Forces, 

Department of Defense. 

ACTION: Notice of Federal Advisory 

Committee meeting; cancellation. 

SUMMARY: On Friday, August 10, 2018, 

the Department of Defense published a 

notice that announced a meeting of the 

Defense Advisory Committee on 

Investigation, Prosecution, and Defense 

of Sexual Assault in the Armed Forces 

(DAC–IPAD). The meeting was to have 

taken place on Thursday, August 23, 

2018. Subsequent to the publication of 

that notice, the Department of Defense 

cancelled the meeting of August 23, 

2018 due to a lack of quorum for the 

meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dwight Sullivan, 703–695–1055 (Voice), 

dwight.h.sullivan.civ@mail.mil (Email). 

Mailing address is DACIPAD, One 

Liberty Center, 875 N Randolph Street, 

Suite 150, Arlington, Virginia 22203. 

Website: http://dacipad.whs.mil/. The 

most up-to-date changes to the meeting 

agenda can be found on the website. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Due to 

circumstances beyond the control of the 

Department of Defense (DoD) and the 

Designated Federal Officer, the Defense 

Advisory Committee on Investigation, 

Prosecution, and Defense of Sexual 

Assault in the Armed Forces was unable 

to provide public notification required 

by 41 CFR 102–3.150(a) concerning the 

cancellation of its meeting on August 

23, 2018. Accordingly, the Advisory 

Committee Management Officer for the 

Department of Defense, pursuant to 41 

CFR 102–3.150(b), waives the 15- 

calendar day notification requirement. 

The DAC–IPAD meeting that 

published in the Federal Register on 

Friday, August 10, 2018 (83 FR 39730– 

39731) has been cancelled. A notice 

announcing the re-scheduled meeting 

will publish at a later date in the 

Federal Register. 

Dated: August 22, 2018. 

Aaron T. Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Reserve Forces Policy Board; Notice 

of Federal Advisory Committee 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Under Secretary of Defense for 

Personnel and Readiness, Reserve 

Forces Policy Board, Department of 

Defense. 

ACTION: Notice of Federal Advisory 

Committee meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense 

(DoD) is publishing this notice to 

announce that the following Federal 

Advisory Committee meeting of the 

Reserve Forces Policy Board (RFPB) will 

take place. 

DATES: The RFPB will hold an open 

meeting to the public Wednesday, 

September 12, 2018 from 8:30 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The address for the Open 

Session of the meeting is the Army Navy 

Country Club, 1700 Army Navy Drive, 

Arlington, VA 22202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alexander Sabol, (703) 681–0577 

(Voice), 703–681–0002 (Facsimile), 

Alexander.J.Sabol.Civ@Mail.Mil (Email). 

Mailing address is Reserve Forces Policy 

Board, 5113 Leesburg Pike, Suite 601, 

Falls Church, VA 22041. Website: 

http://rfpb.defense.gov/. The most upto-date changes to the meeting agenda 

can be found on the website. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

meeting is being held under the 

provisions of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA) of 1972 (5 

U.S.C., Appendix, as amended), the 

Government in the Sunshine Act of 

1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended), and 

41 CFR 102–3.140 and 102–3.150. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alexander Sabol, (703) 681–0577 

(Voice), 703–681–0002 (Facsimile), 

Alexander.J.Sabol.Civ@Mail.Mil (Email). 

Mailing address is Reserve Forces Policy 

Board, 5113 Leesburg Pike, Suite 601, 

Falls Church, VA 22041. Website: 

http://rfpb.defense.gov/. The most upto-date changes to the meeting agenda 

can be found on the website and the 

Federal Register. 

Purpose of the Meeting: The purpose 

of the meeting is to obtain, review and 

evaluate information related to 

strategies, policies, and practices 

designed to improve and enhance the 

capabilities, efficiency, and 

effectiveness of the Reserve 

Components. 

Agenda: The RFPB will hold an open 

meeting to the public Wednesday, 

September 12, 2018 from 8:30 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m. The meeting will focus on 

discussions with the Acting Assistant 

Secretary of Defense Manpower and 

Reserve Affairs who will discuss the 

Secretary of Defense’s goals, readiness 

objectives, and challenges for the 

‘‘Operational Reserve’’ as part of the 

Total Force, and personnel initiatives 

pertaining to the Reserve Components. 

The Deputy Chief of Staff for 

Manpower, Personnel and Services, 

Headquarters U.S. Air Force; the Deputy 

Chief of Staff, G–1, Headquarters, 

Department of the Army; the Director, 

Military Personnel Plans and Policy 

(OPNAV N13), Chief of Naval 

Operations; the Director, Manpower 

Management Division, Manpower and 

Reserve Affairs, Headquarters, U.S. 

Marine Corps; and the Acting Director, 

Reserve and Military Personnel, 

Headquarters, U.S. Coast Guard who 

will discuss their Service’s recruiting 

and retention issues, personnel 

readiness, and plans to adapt their 

personnel system to meet the future 

Total Force challenges. The Director of 

Manpower and Legislation and Systems, 

Personnel and Readiness will provide 

the progress on the Department of 

Defense’s Duty Status Reform efforts. 

The Director, Defense POW/MIA 

Accounting Agency will discuss the 

Department of Defense’s POW/MIA 

Accounting Agency’s initiatives to 

achieve their goal of providing families 

and the nation with the fullest possible 

accounting of missing personnel from 

past conflicts. And the Board meeting 

will conclude with a briefing from the 

Chair of the RFPB’s Subcommittee on 

the Subcommittee on Ensuring a Ready, 

Capable, Available and Sustainable 

Operational Reserve on the RFPB on the 

subcommittee’s review and proposed 

recommendation to the Secretary of 


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