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1The OMB control numbers for the CFTC 

regulations were published on December 30, 1981. 

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

during the meeting. An agenda is 

available from the Committee’s 

Executive Secretary upon request (see 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). 

The Committee will meet in its 

Species Working Groups in closed 

session on the afternoon of May 12, 

2022. These sessions are not open to the 

public, but the results of the Species 

Working Group discussions will be 

reported to the full Advisory Committee 

during the Committee’s open session on 

May 13, 2022. 

Special Accommodations 

The virtual meeting is accessible to 

people with disabilities. Requests for 

auxiliary aids should be directed to 

Bryan Keller at 202–897–9208 or 

bryan.keller@noaa.gov at least 5 days 

prior to the meeting date. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 971 et seq.; 16 

U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

Dated: April 25, 2022. 

Alexa Cole, 

Director, Office of International Affairs, 

Trade, and Commerce, 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 Extend 

Collection 3038–0024: Regulations and 

Forms Pertaining to the Financial 

Integrity of the Marketplace 

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission (‘‘Commission’’ or 

‘‘CFTC’’) is announcing an opportunity 

for public comment on the proposed 

renewal of a collection of certain 

information by the agency. Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (‘‘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. This notice solicits 

comments on the existing collection of 

information pertaining to regulatory 

obligations for financial reporting and 

recordkeeping by various Commission 

registrants including swap dealers, 

futures commission merchants, 

introducing brokers and retail foreign 

exchange dealers. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before June 28, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by ‘‘OMB Control No. 3038– 

0024’’ by any of the following methods: 

• The Agency’s website, at https://

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. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Same as 

Mail above. 

Please submit your comments using 

only one method. All comments must be 

submitted in English, or if not, 

accompanied by an English translation. 

Comments will be posted as received to 

https://www.cftc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jennifer Bauer, Special Counsel, Market 

Participants Division, Commodity 

Futures Trading Commission, Three 

Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20581; (202) 418–5472; 

email: jbauer@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 

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 Commission is 

publishing notice of the proposed 

extension of the existing collection of 

information listed below. 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

Title: Regulations and Forms 

Pertaining to the Financial Integrity of 

the Marketplace (OMB Control No. 

3038–0024). This is a request for an 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Abstract: The Commission is the 

independent federal regulatory agency 

charged with providing various forms of 

customer protection so that users of the 

commodity markets can be assured of 

the financial integrity of the markets 

and the intermediaries that they employ 

in their trading activities. Part 1 of the 

Commission’s regulations requires, 

among other things, that commodity 

brokers—known as futures commission 

merchants (‘‘FCMs’’), or Introducing 

Brokers (‘‘IBs’’), comply with certain 

minimum financial requirements. In 

order to monitor compliance with these 

financial standards, the Commission has 

required FCMs and IBs to file financial 

reports with the Commission and with 

the designated self-regulatory 

organization of which they are members 

as well as to report to the Commission 

should certain financial requirements 

drop below prescribed minimums. 

In 2008, the U.S. Congress passed the 

Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 

2008, Public Law 110–246, 122 Stat. 

1651, 2189–2204 (2008), also known as 

the Farm Bill. The Farm Bill provided 

the Commission with new authority 

with regard to the regulation of offexchange retail forex transactions. 

Among other things, it directed the 

Commission to draft rules effectuating 

registration provisions for a new 

category of registrant—the retail foreign 

exchange dealer (‘‘RFED’’). Under the 

terms of the legislation, RFEDs are 

subject to the same capital requirements 

as FCMs that are engaged in retail forex 

transactions, and, therefore, subject to 

the same reporting requirements. 

Accordingly, this collection was 

amended to reflect the financial 

reporting requirements of the new 

category of registrant, RFEDs. 

In 2010, the US Congress passed the 

Wall Street Reform and Consumer 

Protection Act (the ‘‘Dodd-Frank Act’’), 

Public Law 111–203, 124 Stat. 1376 

(2010), giving the Commission the 

authority to regulate certain swap 

markets and participants in those 

markets. Section 731 of the Dodd-Frank 

Act, amended the Commodity Exchange 

Act (‘‘CEA’’), 7 U.S.C. 1 et seq., to add, 

as section 4s(e) thereof, provisions 

concerning the setting of capital and 

initial and variation margin 

requirements for swap dealers (‘‘SDs’’) 

and major swap participants (‘‘MSPs’’). 

In 2016 and 2020 respectively, the 

Commission finalized the Margin 

Requirements for Uncleared Swaps for 

Swap Dealers and Major Swap 

Participants rule and the Capital 

Requirements for Swap Dealers and 

Major Swap Participants rule to 

implement those requirements. 

Specifically, such rules include 


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2 17 CFR 145.9. 

3Rounded off from 250.7714033. 

4This figure is derived from 250.7714033 (burden 

hours per respondent) × 1133 respondents = 

284,124. 

5For example, FCMs have both daily and 

monthly financial reporting obligations, annual 

certified financial and compliance report 

obligations, and periodic notice requirements. 

financial reporting and recordkeeping, 

as well as application processes for 

model approval for both capital and 

margin models for SDs and MSPs that 

do not have a prudential regulator 

(‘‘Covered Swap Entities’’ or ‘‘CSEs’’). 

Separately, in 2013, the Commission 

finalized rules in an effort to prevent 

unauthorized usage of customer funds 

by FCMs and RFEDs. The final rules 

included modifications to the reporting 

requirements required by the 

Commission which resulted in changes 

to the financial statements filed by 

FCMs and RFEDs, and made some of the 

recordkeeping requirements already 

contained in this OMB Collection 

Number 3038–0024 into reporting 

requirements. These rules added 

additional recordkeeping requirements 

by FCMs to assure the segregation of 

customer funds. 

This collection, OMB Control No. 

3038–0024, is needed for the 

Commission to continue its financial 

monitoring of its registrants. The burden 

hours are being revised to reflect the 

current number of various types of 

registrants and updated to reflect more 

accurate estimates regarding the number 

of financial reports filed, based on 

current historical data. 

With respect to the 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 for 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 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 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 Information Collection 

Request 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 

is revising its estimate of the burden for 

this collection for approximately 61 

FCMs and RFEDs, 53 CSEs and 1,019 

IBs. The respondent burden for this 

collection is estimated to be as follows: 

Respondents/Affected Entities: FCMs, 

RFEDs, IBs, SDs, and MSPs. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

1,133. 

Estimated Average Burden Hours per 

Respondent: 251 hours.3

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 284,124 hours.4

Frequency of Collection: At various 

intervals.5

There are no capital costs or operating 

and maintenance costs associated with 

this collection. 

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

Dated: April 25, 2022. 

Robert Sidman, 

Deputy Secretary of the Commission. 

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BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Air Force 

[Docket ID: USAF–2022–HQ–0006] 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Department of the Air Force, 

Department of Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: 60-Day information collection 

notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Department of the Air Force announces 

a proposed public information 

collection and seeks public comment on 

the provisions thereof. Comments are 

invited on: Whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed information collection; ways 

to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and ways to minimize the 

burden of the information collection on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by June 28, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by any of the following methods: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Mail: Department of Defense, Office of 

the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense 

for Privacy, Civil Liberties, and 

Transparency, Regulatory Directorate, 

4800 Mark Center Drive, Attn: Mailbox 

24, Suite 08D09, Alexandria, VA 22350– 

1700. 

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 

these submissions available for public 

viewing on the internet at https://

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on this 

proposed information collection or to 

obtain a copy of the proposal and 

associated collection instruments, 

please write to Headquarters Air Force, 

1040 Air Force Pentagon, 5B349, 

Washington, DC 20330–1040, Dr. Julie 

LaRow, 617–877–6672. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title; Associated Form; and OMB 

Number: Department of the Air Force 

Integrated Response Co-Location Pilot; 

OMB Control Number 0701–IRCP. 

Needs and Uses: Per the 

Undersecretary of the Air Force’s 

direction, this pilot program seeks to 

improve Department of Air Force (DAF) 

response to and outcomes for Victims/ 

Survivors of sexual assault, sexual 

harassment, domestic violence, stalking, 

and cyber harassment by piloting colocations of identified response services. 

Select DAF installations will physically 


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