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accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) Minimize the burden 

of the 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: January 23, 2014. 

Susan K. Fawcett, 

Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2014–01520 Filed 1–27–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–16–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Global Markets Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission (CFTC) announces 

that on February 12, 2014, from 2 p.m. 

to 5 p.m., the Global Markets Advisory 

Committee (GMAC) will hold a public 

meeting at the CFTC’s Washington, DC, 

headquarters. The GMAC will discuss 

the CFTC staff’s advisory issued on 

November 14, 2013, related to the 

CFTC’s cross-border guidance 

addressing the applicability of certain 

Commission regulations. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Wednesday, February 12, 2014, from 2 

p.m. to 5 p.m. Members of the public 

who wish to submit written statements 

in connection with the meeting should 

submit them by February 6, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place 

in the Conference Center at the CFTC’s 

headquarters, Three Lafayette Centre, 

1155 21st Street NW., Washington, DC 

20581. Written statements should be 

submitted by electronic mail to: 

secretary@cftc.gov. Statements may also 

be submitted by mail to: Commodity 

Futures Trading Commission, Three 

Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20581, attention: Office 

of the Secretary. Please use the title 

‘‘Global Markets Advisory Committee’’ 

in any written statement you submit. 

Any statements submitted in connection 

with the committee meeting will be 

made available to the public, including 

by publication on the CFTC Web site, 

www.cftc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ted 

Serafini, GMAC Designated Federal 

Officer, Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 

1155 21st Street NW., Washington, DC 

20581; (202) 418–5010. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The CFTC 

GMAC will hold a public meeting on 

Wednesday, February 12, 2014, from 2 

p.m. to 5 p.m. at the CFTC’s 

Washington, DC headquarters. The 

GMAC meeting will focus on the CFTC 

staff’s advisory issued on November 14, 

2013, related to the CFTC’s cross-border 

guidance addressing the applicability of 

certain Commission regulations. 

The meeting will be open to the 

public with seating on a first-come, firstserved basis. Persons requiring special 

accommodations to attend the meeting 

because of a disability should notify the 

contact person listed above. 

Members of the public may also listen 

to the meeting by telephone by calling 

a domestic toll-free telephone or 

international toll or toll-free number to 

connect to a live, listen-only audio feed. 

Call-in participants should be prepared 

to provide their first name, last name, 

and affiliation. The call-in information 

is as follows: 

Domestic Toll Free: 1–866–844–9416 

International Toll and Toll Free: Will 

be posted on the CFTC’s Web site, 

http://www.cftc.gov, on the page for the 

meeting, under Related Documents. 

Conference ID: 3964578 

Pass Code/Pin Code: 96457 

After the meeting, a transcript of the 

meeting will be published through a 

link on the CFTC’s Web site, http://

www.cftc.gov. All written submissions 

provided to the CFTC in any form will 

also be published on the CFTC’s Web 

site. 

(Authority: 5 U.S.C. Appendix, Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, Sec. 10(a)(2)). 

Dated: January 23, 2014. 

Christopher J. Kirkpatrick, 

Deputy Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2014–01575 Filed 1–27–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: 10 a.m., Friday, January 

31, 2014. 

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

DC, 9th Floor Commission Conference 

Room 

STATUS: Closed 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Surveillance, Enforcement Matters, and 

Examinations. In the event that the 

times, dates or locations of this or any 

future meetings change, an 

announcement of the change, along with 

the new time, date and location of the 

meeting will be posted on the 

Commission’s Web site at http://

www.cftc.gov. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Melissa D. Jurgens, 202–418–5516. 

Natise Stowe, 

Executive Assistant. 

[FR Doc. 2014–01615 Filed 1–24–14; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. CPSC–2009–0093] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Consumer Opinion 

Forum 

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: As required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35), the Consumer Product 

Safety Commission (CPSC or 

Commission) requests comments on a 

proposed extension of approval of a 

collection of information from persons 

who may voluntarily register and 

participate in a Consumer Opinion 

Forum on the CPSC Web site, 

wwww.cpsc.gov. The Commission will 

consider all comments received in 

response to this notice before requesting 

an extension of this collection of 

information from the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). 

DATES: Submit written or electronic 

comments on the collection of 

information by March 31, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Docket No. CPSC–2009– 

0093, by any of the following methods: 

Electronic Submissions: Submit 

electronic comments to the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

The Commission does not accept 

comments submitted by electronic mail 

(email), except through 

www.regulations.gov. The Commission 

encourages you to submit electronic 

comments by using the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal, as described above. 

Written Submissions: Submit written 

submissions in the following way: Mail/ 


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Hand delivery/Courier (for paper, disk, 

or CD–ROM submissions), preferably in 

five copies, to: Office of the Secretary, 

Consumer Product Safety Commission, 

Room 820, 4330 East West Highway, 

Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone (301) 

504–7923. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

docket number for this notice. All 

comments received may be posted 

without change, including any personal 

identifiers, contact information, or other 

personal information provided, to: 

http://www.regulations.gov. Do not 

submit confidential business 

information, trade secret information, or 

other sensitive or protected information 

that you do not want to be available to 

the public. If furnished at all, such 

information should be submitted in 

writing. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to: http://

www.regulations.gov, and insert the 

docket number, CPSC–2009–0093, into 

the ‘‘Search’’ box, and follow the 

prompts. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert H. Squibb, Consumer Product 

Safety Commission, 4330 East West 

Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; (301) 

504–7815, or by email to: rsquibb@

cpsc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Background 

Section 5(a) of the Consumer Product 

Safety Act (CPSA), 15 U.S.C. 2054(a), 

authorizes the Commission to conduct 

studies and investigations relating to the 

causes and prevention of deaths, 

accidents, injuries, illnesses, other 

health impairments, and economic 

losses associated with consumer 

products. Section 5(b) of the CPSA, 15 

U.S.C. 2054(b), further provides that the 

Commission may conduct research, 

studies and investigations on the safety 

of consumer products or test consumer 

products and develop product safety 

test methods and testing devices. 

To help identify and evaluate 

product-related incidents, Commission 

staff seeks to solicit consumer opinions 

and perceptions about consumer 

product use, on a voluntary basis, 

through questions posted on the CPSC’s 

Consumer Opinion Forum (Forum). The 

Forum invites consumers to answer 

questions and provide information 

regarding their experiences, opinions, 

and/or perceptions on the use, or 

pattern of use, of a specific product, or 

type of product. The Forum is intended 

for consumers, 18 years and older, who 

have access to the Internet and email, 

who voluntarily register to participate 

through a participant registration 

process, and respond to the questions 

posted in the Forum. The CPSC Web 

site, www.cpsc.gov, links to the Forum 

login page. Consumers may link directly 

to the login page for the Forum at 

https://www.cpsc.gov/cgibin/cof/

login.aspx. When CPSC posts new 

questions on the agency’s Web site, 

CPSC will send an email to registered 

participants (no more frequently than 

every four weeks), inviting participants 

to respond to various questions. 

Consumer responses are seen only by 

CPSC staff. 

The information that the agency 

collects from the Forum will help 

inform the Commission’s identification 

and evaluation of consumer products 

and product use, by providing insight 

and information into consumer 

perceptions and usage patterns. This 

information may also assist the 

Commission in its efforts to support 

voluntary standards activities, and help 

CPSC identify consumer safety issues 

requiring additional research. In 

addition, based on the information 

obtained, CPSC may be able to provide 

safety information to the public that is 

easier to read and understood by a 

wider range of consumers. For example, 

CPSC may want to propose new 

language or revise existing language in 

warning labels or manuals if many 

Forum participants perceive that certain 

warning language is unclear or subject 

to misinterpretation. 

In addition, CPSC may use the Forum 

to solicit consumer opinions about the 

effectiveness of product recall 

communications and what actions 

consumers take in response to such 

communications and why. This 

information may help CPSC to tailor 

future recall activities to increase the 

success of those activities. 

Four surveys have been conducted 

thus far. The first survey sought 

information on consumer experiences 

with recalled products. The second 

survey sought information on consumer 

experiences with electrical outlets that 

contain ground fault circuit interrupters 

(GFCIs). The third survey sought 

information on consumer experiences 

with clothes dryers and clothes dryer 

maintenance. The fourth survey sought 

information on consumer experiences 

with tipovers of televisions. 

B. Burden Hours 

1. Respondents 

The Forum has been in existence 

since June 2007. As of January 7, 2014, 

3,489 have registered to participate in 

the Forum. The CPSC has not limited 

the total number of Forum respondents, 

and registration continues to be open. 

Based on the rate at which participants 

are registering, however, staff does not 

believe that the total number of 

registrants will increase substantially 

over the next few years. Staff believes 

that the number of registrants is not 

likely to exceed the CPSC staff’s original 

estimate of 5,000 respondents. Staff 

estimates that registration takes no more 

than 10 minutes; the aggregate 

registration burden is estimated to be 

about 83 burden hours per year. 

The time required for a respondent to 

respond to survey questions varies 

considerably, depending upon the 

specific number, type, and complexity 

of questions asked. Although this 

variability makes the time to respond to 

a survey difficult to estimate, staff 

estimates that respondents will need 

less than 15 minutes to complete any 

Forum survey. 

CPSC has conducted four surveys. 

Although the starting and ending times 

for each completed survey are available, 

because respondents can begin a survey 

and return later to complete the survey, 

the results may overstate the actual time 

spent responding to the survey. The 

resulting data show that the average 

completion times for the four surveys 

were 9.5, 5.0, 9.3, and 4.3 minutes, 

respectively. However, the median 

completion times of 4.3, 3.4, 5.4, and 3.0 

minutes, respectively, are more likely to 

reflect the true ‘‘average’’ completion 

time. 

For each survey, staff estimates that 

the aggregate burden to all respondents 

would not exceed 73 hours (25 percent 

response rate for 3,489 potential 

respondents at about 5 minutes per 

survey). If CPSC conducted one survey 

per year, the total estimated burden for 

new registrations and surveys, 

combined, would not exceed 156 hours 

annually (73 hours per survey, plus 83 

hours for new registrations). 

According to the September 2013, 

press release from the Bureau of Labor 

Statistics, the average compensational 

hourly rate is $29.23 (U.S. Bureau of 

Labor Statistics, ‘‘Employer Costs for 

Employee Compensation,’’ September 

2013, Table 9, total compensation for all 

workers in private industries: http://

www.bls.gov/ncs/). Thus, the total 

annual aggregate cost for all participants 

in one survey is estimated at $4,560. 

2. Federal Government 

The total staff time for preparing 

questions for the Forum, maintaining 

the Forum, and analyzing the responses 

from the Forum is estimated at about 

one staff month per year, or about one 

staff month per survey. Accordingly, if 


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CPSC conducts one survey each year, 

we estimate the total staff time to be one 

staff month annually. The estimated 

total cost of this collection to the federal 

government is $14,380, based on an 

annual compensation of $119,238 (the 

equivalent of a GS–14 Step 5 employee), 

with an additional 30.9 percent added 

for benefits (U.S. Bureau of Labor 

Statistics, ‘‘Employer Costs for 

Employee Compensation,’’ September 

2013, Table 1, percentage of wages and 

salaries for all civilian management, 

professional, and related employees), for 

a total annual compensation of 

$172,559. 

C. Requests for Comments 

The Commission invites comments on 

the proposed collection of information, 

including: 

• Whether the collection of 

information described above is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the Commission’s functions, including 

whether the information would have 

practical utility; 

• whether the estimated burden of the 

proposed collection of information is 

accurate; 

• whether the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be collected 

could be enhanced; and 

• whether the burden imposed by the 

collection of information could be 

minimized by use of automated, 

electronic, or other technological 

collection techniques, or other forms of 

information technology. 

Dated: January 22, 2014. 

Todd A. Stevenson, 

Secretary, Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2014–01529 Filed 1–27–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6355–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID: DoD–2013–OS–0127] 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Defense Finance and 

Accounting Service (DFAS), DoD. 

ACTION: 30-Day notice of submission of 

information collection approval from 

the Office of Management and Budget 

and request for comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of an effort to 

streamline the process to seek feedback 

from the public on service delivery, 

DFAS has submitted a Generic 

Information Collection Request (Generic 

ICR): ‘‘Generic Clearance for the 

Collection of Qualitative Feedback on 

Agency Service Delivery ’’ to OMB for 

approval under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et 

seq.). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted by 

February 27, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred 

Licari, 571–372–0493. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title and OMB Number: Generic 

Clearance for the DFAS Customer 

Satisfaction Surveys; OMB Control 

Number 0730–0003. 

Needs and Uses: The information 

collection requirement is necessary to 

determine the kind and quality of 

services DFAS customers want and 

expect, as well as their satisfaction with 

DFAS’s existing services. The 

information collected will be used 

internally to determine where and to 

what extent services are satisfactory and 

to identify areas for improvement. With 

the cooperation of the Office of 

Personnel Management (OPM), DFAS 

conducts annual Customer Satisfaction 

Surveys of various customer 

populations, expected to number 3 

separate annual surveys that involve 

members of the public, administered in 

May of each year. The surveys are the 

Contractor Survey, Retiree and 

Annuitant Survey and Vendor Pay 

Survey. In addition, an invitation to 

complete a brief ad-hoc survey is sent 

out to anyone who either accesses the 

MyPay system or interacts with a MyPay 

representative. Survey respondents 

under this generic clearance may 

include contractors, vendors, 

annuitants, and retired civil service 

employers. A 60-day Federal Reserve 

Notice was published on August 2, 2013 

(78 FR 46928). No public comments 

were received. 

Type of Request: Extension. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

Households. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Annual Estimates 

A. Annual Surveys 

Expected Annual Number of 

Activities/Collections: 3. 

Annual Number of Respondents: 

48,100. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Annual Number of Responses: 48,100. 

Frequency of Response: Annual. 

Average Burden per Response: 8 

minutes. 

Annual Burden Hours: 6,413. 

B. Ongoing Ad-Hoc Surveys 

Annual Number of Respondents: 

17,500. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Annual Number of Responses: 17,500. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Average Burden per Response: 2 

minutes. 

Annual Burden Hours: 583. 

C. Totals 

Annual Number of Respondents: 

65,600. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Annual Number of Responses: 65,600. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Average Burden per Response: 

Approximate 6.4 minutes. 

Annual Burden Hours: 6,996. 

3-Year Estimates: The 3-Year Ceiling 

for This Generic Collection 

A. Annual Surveys 

Total Expected Number of Activities/ 

Collections: 9. 

Total Number of Respondents: 

144,300. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Total Number of Responses: 144,300. 

Frequency of Response: Annual. 

Average Burden per Response: 8 

minutes. 

Total Burden Hours: 19,239. 

B. Ongoing Ad-Hoc Surveys 

Total Number of Respondents: 52,500. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Total Number of Responses: 52,500. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Average Burden per Response: 2 

minutes. 

Total Burden Hours: 1749. 

C. Totals 

Total Number of Respondents: 

196,800. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Total Number of Responses: 196,800. 

Frequency of Response: On Occasion. 

Average Burden per Response: 

Approximate 6.4 minutes. 

Total Burden Hours: 20,988. 

OMB Desk Officer: Ms. Jasmeet 

Seehra. 

Written comments and 

recommendations on the proposed 

information collection should be sent to 

Ms. Jasmeet Seehra at the Office of 

Management and Budget, Desk Officer 

for DoD, Room 10236, New Executive 

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503. 

You may also submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by the following method: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

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 


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