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that there is an observer effect in the 

Northeast multispecies fishery. This 

observer effect could mean observed 

trips are not representative of 

unobserved trips. CLF also states that, 

without accurate and precise catch data, 

managers cannot appropriately apply 

the accountability measures that are 

designed to prevent overfishing. 

Last, CLF states that measures to 

protect essential fish habitat, help 

rebuild cod stock age structure, account 

for sub-populations, and account for 

climate change impacts, are critical to 

cod recovery. CLF asserts that the 

rebuilding plans that have been 

implemented for cod do not identify 

and protect critical cod spawning areas 

or adequately conserve habitat for 

juvenile cod. CLF also states that past 

management actions have failed to 

address truncated cod stock age 

structures, which may contribute to 

reduced recruitment and decreased 

resilience to stressors. CLF asserts that 

managing cod as two stocks (Gulf of 

Maine and Georges Bank) fails to 

account for sub-populations, and that 

recent research by the Atlantic Cod 

Stock Working Group suggests that at 

least three sub-populations exist. 

Differences in the characteristics of 

these sub-populations, such as 

differences in spawning seasonality, are 

important for stock recovery. Finally, 

CLF states that stock assessments and 

management measures for Atlantic cod 

must account for impacts to the stock 

due to climate change, especially since 

temperature and other environmental 

conditions have been shown to impact 

cod biology. 

The CLF petition requests NMFS 

implement all of the following 

conservation and management 

measures. 

1. 100-percent at-sea monitoring on 

all commercial groundfish trips. 

2. Measures to prohibit directed 

commercial and recreational fishing for 

Atlantic cod that: 

a. Implement large area closures once 

a stock’s incidental limit is caught; 

b. Reduce the incidental catch rate 

annually, consistent with the current 

ABC control rule until overfishing is 

ended; 

c. Prioritize the allocation of 

incidental catch to groundfish vessels, 

consistent with the current 

methodology; and 

d. Ensure that any incidental catch 

history during the closure of the 

directed fishery will not count towards 

future potential sector contributions. 

3. Area closures to protect all 

identified Atlantic cod spawning 

locations and favorable habitat for 

juvenile and adult cod. 

4. A requirement to use modified 

groundfish gear, such as haddock 

separator trawl or other selective fishing 

technology, throughout the U.S. range of 

Atlantic cod to reduce incidental cod 

catch. 

5. Additional measures in the 

recreational fisheries to reduce the 

mortality of incidental catch of Atlantic 

cod. 

In a letter dated June 10, 2020, NMFS 

requested the New England Fishery 

Management Council consider the 

petition. Because Council development 

of fishery management measures is the 

core of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, 

NMFS wanted to ensure that the 

Council considered the petition and had 

the opportunity to take appropriate 

action through the Council process if it 

deemed that such action was necessary. 

After considering the petition at its June 

Council meeting, the Council sent a 

letter to NMFS on November 27, 2020, 

describing its consideration and 

conclusions. The Council concluded 

that the petition does not have merit 

based on its rejection of CLF’s assertions 

underlying its claim that the Council 

has failed to take measures necessary to 

protect cod and declined to consider a 

majority of CLF’s recommended 

measures. The Council stated that it 

already approved increasing monitoring 

requirements in Amendment 23 to the 

Northeast Multispecies FMP. Also, it is 

important to note that the Council plans 

to consider how new cod stock structure 

information may affect development of 

conservation and management measures 

and is advocating for the development 

of a new data-limited modeling 

approach for the Eastern George Bank 

cod. See ADDRESSES for the Council’s 

letter and grounds for its decision. 

The Magnuson-Stevens Act authorizes 

regional fishery management councils to 

develop fishery management measures, 

and specifically provides the New 

England Fishery Management Council 

with the authority to manage the Gulf of 

Maine and Georges Bank cod stocks. For 

the reasons described above and in the 

Council’s letter to NMFS, the Council 

declined to take additional action on 

Atlantic cod after reviewing the 

contents of the petition. However, CLF 

has provided sufficient information and 

support in its request for Secretarial 

action to warrant publication of a notice 

seeking public comment. 

In addition to the petition and 

information provided by CLF and the 

Council, NMFS will consider comments 

received when determining whether to 

proceed with the development of 

conservation and management measures 

suggested by the petition. Upon 

determining whether to initiate the 

rulemaking suggested by the petition, 

the Assistant Administrator for 

Fisheries, NOAA, will publish a notice 

of the agency’s decision or action in the 

Federal Register. 

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

Dated: August 12, 2021. 

Kelly Denit, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for 

Regulatory Programs, National Marine 

Fisheries Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Notice of Intent To Renew 

Collection Number 3038–0007, 

Regulation of Domestic ExchangeTraded Options 

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice; extension of an existing 

collection. 

SUMMARY: The Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission (CFTC) is 

announcing an opportunity for public 

comment on the proposed extension of 

a collection of certain information by 

the agency. Under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Federal 

agencies are required to publish notice 

in the Federal Register concerning each 

proposed collection of information, 

including each proposed extension of an 

existing collection of information, and 

to allow 60 days for public comment in 

response to the notice. This notice 

solicits comments on rules related to 

risk disclosure concerning exchangetraded commodity options. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before October 18, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by ‘‘OMB Control No. 3038– 

0007,’’ by any of the following methods: 

• The CFTC website, at http://

comments.cftc.gov/. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments 

through the website. 

• Mail: Christopher Kirkpatrick, 

Secretary of the Commission, 

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 

1155 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 

20581. 

• Delivery/Courier: Same as Mail 

above. 

Please submit your comments using 

only one method and identify that it is 

for the extension/renewal of Collection 

Number 3038–0007. All comments must 

be submitted in English, or if not, 


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1 46 FR 63035 (Dec. 30, 1981). 2 17 CFR 145.9, 74 FR 17395 (Apr. 15, 2009). 

accompanied by an English translation. 

Comments will be posted as received to 

http://www.cftc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jacob Chachkin, Associate Chief 

Counsel, Market Participants Division, 

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, telephone: (202) 418– 

5496; email: jchachkin@cftc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., Federal 

agencies must obtain approval from the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for each collection of 

information they conduct or sponsor. 

‘‘Collection of information’’ is defined 

in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 

1320.3(c) and includes agency requests 

or requirements that members of the 

public submit reports, keep records, or 

provide information to a third party. 

Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, 44 

U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), requires Federal 

agencies to provide a 60-day notice in 

the Federal Register concerning each 

proposed collection of information, 

including each proposed extension of an 

existing collection of information, 

before submitting the collection to OMB 

for approval. 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.1

To comply with this requirement, the 

CFTC is publishing notice of the 

proposed extension of an existing 

collection of information listed below. 

Title: Rules Relating to Regulation of 

Domestic Exchange-Traded Options, 

OMB Control Number 3038–0007— 

Extension of a currently approved 

collection. 

Abstract: The rules require futures 

commission merchants (FCMs) and 

introducing brokers (IBs): (1) To provide 

their customers with standard risk 

disclosure statements concerning the 

risk of trading commodity interests; and 

(2) to retain all promotional material 

and the source of authority for 

information contained therein. The 

purpose of these rules is to ensure that 

customers are advised of the risks of 

trading commodity interests and to 

avoid fraud and misrepresentation. This 

information collection contains the 

recordkeeping and reporting 

requirements needed to ensure 

regulatory compliance with Commission 

rules relating to this issue. The 

disclosure and recordkeeping 

requirements are necessary to monitor 

and to verify compliance by FCMs and 

IBs with their obligations concerning 

disclosure and promotional material. 

With respect to the above collection of 

information, the CFTC invites 

comments on: 

• Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Commission, including whether the 

information will have a practical use; 

• The accuracy of the Commission’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; 

• Ways to enhance the quality, 

usefulness, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and 

• Ways to minimize the burden of 

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. 

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 section 

145.9 of the Commission’s regulations.2

The Commission reserves the right, 

but shall have no obligation to, review, 

pre-screen, filter, redact, refuse 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 Information Collection 

Requirement 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. 

Burden Statement: The Commission 

estimates the burden of this collection 

of information as follows: 

Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 1,112. 

Estimated Average Annual Burden 

Hours per Respondent: 34.2. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 38,030.4. 

Frequency of Collection: Occasional. 

There are no capital costs or operating 

and maintenance costs associated with 

this collection. 

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

Dated: August 13, 2021. 

Robert Sidman, 

Deputy Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2021–17719 Filed 8–17–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID: DoD–2021–OS–0085] 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Defense Threat Reduction 

Agency (DTRA), Department of Defense 

(DoD). 

ACTION: Notice of a modified system of 

records. 

SUMMARY: The DTRA is modifying a 

system of records, titled ‘‘Nuclear Test 

Participants,’’ HDTRA 010. Each year, 

the DTRA uses this system of records to 

respond to over 700 atomic veteran 

radiogenic disease compensation 

inquiries from the Department of Justice 

(DOJ) and Department of Veterans 

Affairs (VA). The DTRA’s responses 

include verification of participation in 

nuclear testing programs or military 

operations for presumptive claims, and 

radiation dose assessments for nonpresumptive claims. The intended effect 

of modifying this SORN is to make 

updates associated with changes being 

made to the underlying information 

system that maintains these records. 

DATES: This system of records 

modification is effective upon 

publication; however, comments on the 

Routine Uses will be accepted on or 

before September 17, 2021. The Routine 

Uses are effective at the close of the 

comment period. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and, by any 

of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Portal: https:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

Follow the instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: DoD cannot receive written 

comments at this time due to the 

COVID–19 pandemic. Comments should 

be sent electronically to the docket 

listed above. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

docket number for this Federal Register 

document. The general policy for 

comments and other submissions from 

members of the public is to make these 

submissions available for public 

viewing on the internet at https://

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 


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