Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 44 / Monday, March 9, 2009 / Notices 10037 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20581, 

(202) 418–5481; FAX: (202) 418–5527; 

e-mail: dvanwagner@cftc.gov and refer 

to OMB Control No. 3038–0048. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: OffExchange Agricultural Trade Options 

(OMB Control No. 3038–0048). This is 

a request for extension of a currently 

approved information collection. 

Abstract: Off-Exchange Agricultural 

Trade Options, OMB Control No. 3038– 

0048–Extension. 

In April 1998, the Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission (Commission or 

CFTC) removed the prohibition on offexchange trade options on the 

enumerated agricultural commodities 

subject to a number of regulatory 

conditions. 63 FR 18821 (April 16, 

1998). Thereafter, the Commission 

streamlined the regulatory or paperwork 

burdens in order to increase the utility 

of agricultural trade options while 

maintaining basic customer protections. 

64 FR 68011 (Dec. 6, 1999). 

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. The OMB control 

numbers for the CFTC’s regulations 

were published on December 30, 1981. 

See 46 FR 63035 (Dec. 30, 1981). The 

Federal Register notice with a 60-day 

comment period soliciting comments on 

this collection of information was 

published on December 29, 2008 (73 FR 

79452). 

Burden Statement: The respondent 

burden for this collection is estimated to 

average 5.59 hours per response. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: 36. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 41. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 230 hours. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

Send comments regarding the burden 

estimated or any other aspect of the 

information collection, including 

suggestions for reducing the burden, to 

the addresses listed below. Please refer 

to OMB Control No. 3038–0048 in any 

correspondence. 

David Van Wagner, Division of 

Market Oversight, U.S. Commodity 

Futures Trading Commission, 1155 21st 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20581 and 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for 

CFTC, 725 17th Street, Washington, DC 

20503. 

Dated: March 3, 2009. 

David Stawick, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. E9–4859 Filed 3–6–09; 8:45 am] 

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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities Under OMB Review 

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to renew an 

existing collection. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.), 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 April 8, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR A COPY

CONTACT: Mark H. Bretscher, Division of 

Clearing and Intermediary Oversight, 

CFTC, (312) 596–0529; Fax: (312) 596– 

0714; e-mail: Mbretscher@cftc.gov and 

refer to OMB Control No. 3038–0024. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Regulations and Forms 

Pertaining to the Financial Integrity of 

the Marketplace (OMB Control No. 

3038–0024). This is a request for 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Abstract: The commodity futures 

markets play a vital role in the 

furthering of global commerce by 

providing commercial users and 

speculators with a price discovery 

mechanism for the commodities traded 

on such markets and by providing 

commercial users of the markets with a 

mechanism for hedging their goods and 

services against price risks. The 

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission is the independent Federal 

regulatory agency charged with 

providing various forms of customer 

protection so that users of the markets 

can be assured of the financial integrity 

of the markets and the intermediaries 

that they employ in their trading 

activities. Among the financial 

safeguards the Commission has imposed 

on commodity brokerages, technically 

futures commission merchants (FCMs) 

and introducing brokers (IBs), are 

minimum capital standards and, for 

FCMs, a requirement that they segregate 

and separately account for the funds 

they receive from their commodity 

customers. In order to monitor 

compliance with such financial 

standards, the Commission has required 

FCMs and IBs to file financial reports 

with the Commission and with the selfregulatory organizations SROs) of which 

they are members. (See Commission 

Rule 1.10, 17 CFR 1.10.) 

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. The OMB control 

numbers for the CFTC’s regulations 

were published on December 30, 1981. 

See 46 FR 63035 (Dec. 30, 1981). The 

Federal Register notice with the 60-day 

comment period soliciting comments on 

this collection was published on 

December 29, 2008 (73 FR 79452). 

Burden Statement: The respondent 

burden for this collection is estimated to 

average .50 hours per response. These 

estimates include the time needed to 

review instructions; develop, acquire, 

install, and utilize technology and 

systems for the purposes of collecting, 

validating, and verifying information, 

processing and maintaining information 

and disclosing and providing 

information; adjust the existing ways to 

comply with any previously applicable 

instructions and requirements; train 

personnel to be able to respond to a 

collection of information; and transmit 

or otherwise disclose the information. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: 

Futures Commission Merchants, 

Introducing Brokers. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

2,078. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden or 

Respondents: 21,138.50 hours. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion, 

monthly, annually, semi-annually. 

Send comments regarding the burden 

estimated or any other aspect of the 

information collection, including 

suggestions for reducing the burden, to 

the addresses listed below. Please refer 

to OMB Control No. 3038–0024 in any 

correspondence. 

Mark H. Bretscher, Division of 

Clearing and Intermediary Oversight, 

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, 525 W. Monroe Street, 

Suite 1100, Chicago, Illinois 60661 and 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for 

CFTC, 725 17th Street, Washington, DC 

20503. 

Dated: March 3, 2009. 

David Stawick, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. E9–4860 Filed 3–6–09; 8:45 am] 

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