79452 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 249 / Monday, December 29, 2008 / Notices 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities Under OMB Review 

AGENCY: Notice of Intent to Renew 

Currently Approved Collection: 3038– 

0024. 

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 February 27, 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). 

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: December 19, 2008. 

David Stawick, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. E8–30905 Filed 12–24–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Notice of Intent To Renew 

Collection 3038–0048, Off-Exchange 

Agricultural Trade Options 

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission (CFTC) is 

announcing an opportunity for public 

comment on the proposed collection of 

certain information by the agency. 

Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (PRA), 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., 

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 

requirements relating to off-exchange 

agricultural trade options. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before February 27, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to 

David Van Wagner, Division of Market 

Oversight, U.S. Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission, 1155 21st Street, 

NW., Washington, DC 20581. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Van Wagner, (202) 418–5481; 

FAX: (202) 418–5527; e-mail: 

dvanwagner@cftc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

PRA, 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. To comply with this 

requirement, the CFTC is publishing 

notice of the proposed collection of 

information listed below. 

With respect to the following 

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 


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