88590 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 245 / Friday, December 22, 2023 / Notices 

1 17 CFR 145.9. 

Delivery and Industrial Equipment CMC, 

Philadelphia, PA 

NSN(s)—Product Name(s): 

7045–01–599–2657—Encrypted Compact 

Disc, Recordable, 25 CDs on Spindle, 

Silver 

7045–01–436–7853—Compact Disc, 

Recordable, Gold, BX/5 

7045–01–470–3596—Compact Disc, 

Rewritable, EA/1 

Designated Source of Supply: North Central 

Sight Services, Inc., Williamsport, PA 

Contracting Activity: DLA TROOP SUPPORT, 

PHILADELPHIA, PA 

NSN(s)—Product Name(s): 8970–00–NIB– 

0034—Personal Hygiene Kit 

Designated Source of Supply: Tarrant County 

Association for the Blind, Fort Worth, 

TX 

Contracting Activity: GSA/FSS SPECIAL 

PROGRAMS DIVISION, ARLINGTON, 

VA 

NSN(s)—Product Name(s): 7520–01–619– 

0302—Portable Desktop Clipboard, 91⁄2′′ 

W x 11⁄2′′ D x 131⁄2′′ H, Army Green 

Designated Source of Supply: LC Industries, 

Inc., Durham, NC 

Contracting Activity: GSA/FAS ADMIN 

SVCS ACQUISITION BR(2, NEW YORK, 

NY 

Service(s) 

Service Type: Janitorial 

Designated for: US Army Corps of Engineers, 

Transatlantic Middle East District, 

Admiral Byrd; Facility, Winchester, VA; 

222 Admiral Byrd Drive; Winchester, VA 

Designated Source of Supply: NW Works, 

Inc., Winchester, VA 

Contracting Activity: DEPT OF THE ARMY, 

W31R ENDIS MIDDLE EAST 

Michael R. Jurkowski, 

Acting Director, Business Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2023–28280 Filed 12–21–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6353–01–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 January 22, 2024. 

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. 3038–0062, 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: 

Philip Newsom, Special Counsel, 

Market Participants Division, 

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, (202) 418–5301; email: 

pnewsom@cftc.gov, and refer to OMB 

Control No. 3038–0062. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Off-Exchange Foreign Currency 

Transactions (OMB Control No. 3038– 

0062). This is a request for an extension/ 

revision of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Abstract: Part 5 of the Commission’s 

regulations under the CEA establishes 

rules applicable to retail foreign 

exchange dealers (‘‘RFEDs’’), futures 

commission merchants (‘‘FCMs’’), 

introducing brokers (‘‘IBs’’), commodity 

trading advisors (‘‘CTAs’’), and 

commodity pool operators (‘‘CPOs’’) 

engaged in the offer and sale of offexchange forex contracts to retail 

customers. Specifically: 

• Regulation 5.5 requires RFEDs, 

FCMs, and IBs to distribute risk 

disclosure statements to new retail forex 

customers. 

• Regulation 5.6 requires RFEDs and 

FCMs to report any failures to maintain 

the minimum capital required by 

Commission regulations. 

• Regulation 5.8 requires RFEDs and 

FCMs to calculate their total retail forex 

obligation. 

• Regulation 5.10 requires RFEDs to 

maintain and preserve certain risk 

assessment documentation. 

• Regulation 5.11(a)(1) requires 

RFEDs to submit certain risk assessment 

documentation to the Commission 

within 60 days of the effective date of 

their registration. 

• Regulation 5.11(a)(2) requires 

RFEDs to submit certain financial 

documentation to the Commission 

within 105 calendar days of the end of 

each fiscal year. RFEDs must also 

submit additional information, if 

requested, regarding affiliates’ financial 

impact on an RFED’s organizational 

structure. 

• Regulation 5.12(a) requires RFED 

applicants to submit a Form 1–FR–FCM 

concurrently with their registration 

application. 

• Regulation 5.12(b) requires 

registered RFEDs to file a Form 1–FR– 

FCM on a monthly and annual basis. 

• Regulation 5.12(g) states that, in the 

event that an RFED cannot file its Form 

1–FR–FCM for any period within the 

time specified in Regulation 5.12(b), the 

RFED may file an application for an 

extension of time with its self-regulatory 

organization. 


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Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 245 / Friday, December 22, 2023 / Notices 88591 

2Public Law 110–246, 122 Stat. 1651, 2189–220 

(2008). 

3See Regulation of Off-Exchange Retail Foreign 

Exchange Transactions and Intermediaries, 75 FR 

55410, 55416 (Sept. 10, 2010). 

4 44 U.S.C. 3512, 5 CFR 1320.5(b)(2)(i) and 1320.8 

(b)(3)(vi). 

5This figure has been rounded from 1,757.09 to 

the nearest whole number. 

• Regulation 5.13(a) requires RFEDs 

and FCMs to provide monthly account 

statements to their customers. 

• Regulation 5.13(b) requires RFEDs 

and FCMs to provide confirmation 

statements to their customers within 

one business day after the execution of 

any retail forex or forex option 

transaction. 

• Regulation 5.14 requires RFEDs and 

FCMs to maintain current ledgers of 

each transaction affecting its asset, 

liability, income, expense and capital 

accounts. 

• Regulation 5.18(g) requires each 

RFED, FCM, CPO, CTA, and IB subject 

to part 5 to maintain a record of all 

communications received that give rise 

to possible violations of the Act, rules, 

regulations or orders thereunder related 

to their retail forex business. 

• Regulation 5.18(i) requires each 

RFED and FCM to prepare and maintain 

on a quarterly basis a calculation of 

nondiscretionary retail forex customer 

accounts open for any period of time 

during the quarter that were profitable, 

and the percentage of such accounts that 

were not profitable. 

• Regulation 5.18(j) requires the chief 

compliance officer of each RFED and 

FCM to certify annually that the firm 

has in place processes to establish, 

maintain, review, modify and test 

policies and procedures reasonably 

designed to achieve compliance with 

the Act, rules, regulations and orders 

thereunder. 

• Regulation 5.19 requires each 

RFED, FCM, CPO, CTA, and IB subject 

to part 5 to submit to the Commission 

copies of any dispositive or partially 

dispositive decision for which a notice 

of appeal has been filed in any material 

legal proceeding (1) to which the firm is 

a party to or to which its property or 

assets is subject with respect to retail 

forex transactions, or (2) instituted 

against any person who is a principal of 

the firm arising from conduct in such 

person’s capacity as a principal of that 

firm. 

• Regulation 5.20 requires RFEDs, 

FCMs and IBs to submit documentation 

requested pursuant to certain types of 

special calls by the Commission. 

• Regulation 5.23 requires RFEDs, 

FCMs and IBs to notify the Commission 

regarding bulk transfers and bulk 

liquidations of customer accounts. 

The rules establish reporting and 

recordkeeping requirements that are 

necessary to implement the provisions 

of the Food, Conservation, and Energy 

Act of 2008 2 regarding off-exchange 

transactions in foreign currency with 

members of the public. The rules are 

intended to promote customer 

protection by providing safeguards 

against irresponsible or fraudulent 

business practices.3

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.4 On October 16, 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 71341 (‘‘60-Day Notice’’). The 

Commission did not receive any 

relevant comments on the 60-Day 

Notice. 

Burden Statement: The Commission 

is revising its burden estimate for 81 

respondents, which include RFEDs, 

FCMs, IBs, CPOs, and CTAs. The 

respondent burden for this collection is 

estimated to be as follows: 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

81. 

Estimated Average Burden Hours per 

Respondent: 1,757.5

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 142,324. 

Frequency of Collection: As 

applicable. 

There are no capital costs or operating 

and maintenance costs associated with 

this collection. 

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

Dated: December 19, 2023. 

Robert Sidman, 

Deputy Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2023–28243 Filed 12–21–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Air Force 

[ARW–231206A–PL] 

Notice of Intent To Grant an Exclusive 

Patent License 

AGENCY: Department of the Air Force, 

Department of Defense. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Bayh-Dole Act 

and implementing regulations, the 

Department of the Air Force hereby 

gives notice of its intent to grant an 

exclusive patent license to ValorTrac 

Inc. having a place of business at 9213 

Bolero Ave., Bakersfield, CA, 93312. 

DATES: Written objections must be filed 

no later than fifteen (15) calendar days 

after the date of publication of this 

Notice. 

ADDRESSES: Submit written objections to 

the Air Force Materiel Command Law 

Office, AFMCLO/JAZ, 2240 B Street, 

Room 260, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 

45433–7109; Facsimile: (937) 255–3733; 

or Email: afmclo.jaz.tech@us.af.mil. 

Include Docket No. ARW–231206A–P in 

the subject line of the message. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

William Loux, AFRL/RWSP, 101 W 

Eglin Blvd., Eglin AFB, FL 32542–6810; 

Phone: 850–882–3920; or Email: 

william.loux.2@us.af.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Abstract of Patent Application(s) 

A touch-based tracking method 

comprises starting a GUI which displays 

an environment; observing at least one 

of the presence or absence of one or 

more targets in relation to features in the 

environment; when an observation is 

made, reporting the observation through 

the GUI to form an input; reporting the 

observation in the GUI with a hand 

gesture; applying an algorithm to 

convert the input into a probability 

distribution; and updating a target state 

estimate and alters the environment 

display. The environment may be an 

area or a map, and the map may include 

a plurality of features, e.g. roads, 

building structures, forest, and water. 

The observation indicates the presence 

or non-presence of the one or more 

targets. The hand gesture is made on the 

map, such as a swiping motion with one 

or more fingers on the GUI, wherein the 

hand gesture indicates the strength of 

the observation. 

Intellectual Property 

CURTIS et al., U.S. Patent no. 

11,429,273 B1 issued 30 August 2022 

and entitled ‘‘Touch-Based Tracking 

system and Method.’’ 

The Department of the Air Force may 

grant the prospective license unless a 

timely objection is received that 

sufficiently shows the grant of the 

license would be inconsistent with the 

Bayh-Dole Act or implementing 

regulations. A competing application for 

a patent license agreement, completed 

in compliance with 37 CFR 404.8 and 

received by the Air Force within the 

period for timely objections, will be 

treated as an objection and may be 

considered as an alternative to the 

proposed license. 


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