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1 17 CFR 1.71. 

2 7 U.S.C. 6d(c). 

3For the definition of FCM, see section 1a(28) of 

the CEA and Commission regulation 1.3(p). 7 U.S.C. 

1a(28) and 17 CFR 1.3(p). 

4For the definition of IB, see section 1a(31) of the 

CEA and Commission regulation 1.3(mm). 7 U.S.C. 

1a(31) and 17 CFR 1.3(mm). 

5See 17 CFR 1.71. 

6Reflects a slight reduction in the number of 

registered FCMs and IBs provided in the 60-day 

Federal Register notice, 80 FR 73732 (November 25, 

2015). 

Written comments concerning the 

proposed action and the environmental 

review should be directed to NMFS as 

described above (see ADDRESSES). All 

comments and materials received, 

including names and addresses, will 

become part of the administrative record 

and may be released to the public. 

Public Scoping Process 

Public scoping will be conducted 

through this notice. Further 

participation by the public will occur 

throughout the Council’s decisionmaking process. All decisions during 

the Council process benefit from written 

and oral public comments delivered 

prior to or during the Council meeting. 

These public comments are considered 

integral to scoping for developing this 

EIS. Council meetings that offer 

opportunities for public involvement 

include the April 9–14, 2016, meeting in 

Vancouver, Washington (Hilton 

Vancouver Washington, 301 W. 6th 

Street, Vancouver, WA 98660). Future 

opportunities for public involvement 

have yet to be determined but will be 

posted in the Council Briefing Book (on 

the Council’s Web site (http://

www.pcouncil.org/council-operations/

briefing-books/) prior to the meeting. 

For further information on these 

meetings, visit the Council’s Web site, 

http://www.pcouncil.org/counciloperations/council-meetings/futuremeetings/. 

Special Accommodations 

The Council meetings are physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for sign language 

interpretation or other auxiliary aids 

should be directed to Kris Kleinschmidt 

at Kris.Kleinschmidt@noaa.gov or (503) 

820–2280 at least 5 days prior to the 

meeting date. 

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

Dated: January 27, 2016. 

Emily H. Menashes, 

Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities Under OMB Review 

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(‘‘PRA’’), 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 March 2, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Comments regarding the 

burden estimated or any other aspect of 

the information collection, including 

suggestions for reducing the burden, 

may be submitted directly to the Office 

of Information and Regulatory Affairs 

(‘‘OIRA’’) in OMB, within 30 days of the 

notice’s publication, by email at 

OIRAsubmissions@omb.eop.gov. Please 

identify the comments by OMB Control 

No. 3038–0078. Please provide the 

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission (‘‘CFTC’’ or 

‘‘Commission’’) with a copy of all 

submitted comments at the address 

listed below. Please refer to OMB 

Reference No. 3038–0078, found on 

http://reginfo.gov. Comments may also 

be mailed to the Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, Attention: 

Desk Officer for the Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission, 725 17th Street 

NW., Washington, DC 20503, or 

submitted through the Agency’s Web 

site at http://comments.cftc.gov. Follow 

the instructions for submitting 

comments through the Web site. 

Comments may also be mailed to: 

Christopher Kirkpatrick, Secretary of the 

Commission, Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission, Three Lafayette 

Centre, 1155 21st Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20581 or by Hand 

Delivery/Courier at the same address. 

A copy of the supporting statements 

for the collection of information 

discussed above may be obtained by 

visiting http://RegInfo.gov. All 

comments must be submitted in 

English, or if not, accompanied by an 

English translation. Comments will be 

posted as received to http://

www.cftc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jacob Chachkin, Special Counsel, 

Division of Swap Dealer and 

Intermediary Oversight, Commodity 

Futures Trading Commission, (202) 

418–5496, email: jchachkin@cftc.gov, 

and refer to OMB Control No. 3038– 

0078. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Conflicts of Interest Policies and 

Procedures by Futures Commission 

Merchants and Introducing Brokers 

(OMB Control No. 3038–0078). This is 

a request for an extension of a currently 

approved information collection. 

Abstract: On April 3, 2012, the 

Commission adopted Commission 

regulation 1.71 (Conflicts of interest 

policies and procedures by futures 

commission merchants and introducing 

brokers) 1 pursuant to section 4d(c) 2 of 

the Commodity Exchange Act (‘‘CEA’’). 

Commission regulation 1.71 requires 

generally that, among other things, 

futures commission merchants 

(‘‘FCM’’) 3 and introducing brokers 

(‘‘IB’’) 4 develop conflicts of interest 

procedures and disclosures, adopt and 

implement written policies and 

procedures reasonably designed to 

ensure compliance with their conflicts 

of interest and disclosure obligations, 

and maintain specified records related 

to those requirements.5 The 

Commission believes that the 

information collection obligations 

imposed by Commission regulation 1.71 

are essential (i) to ensuring that FCMs 

and IBs develop and maintain the 

conflicts of interest systems, procedures 

and disclosures required by the CEA, 

and Commission regulations, and (ii) to 

the effective evaluation of these 

registrants’ actual compliance with the 

CEA and Commission regulations. 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 Commission did not 

receive any comments on the 60-day 

Federal Register notice, 80 FR 73732, 

dated November 25, 2015. 

Burden Statement: The Commission 

is revising its estimate of the burden for 

this collection to reflect the current 

number of registered FCMs and IBs. 

Accordingly, the respondent burden for 

this collection is estimated to be as 

follows: 

Number of Registrants: 1,362.6

Estimated Average Burden Hours per 

Registrant: 44.5. 

Estimated Aggregate Burden Hours: 

60,609. 

Frequency of Recordkeeping/Thirdparty Disclosure: As applicable. 

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


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Dated: January 27, 2016. 

Robert N. Sidman, 

Deputy Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2016–01758 Filed 1–29–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: 10:00 a.m., Friday, 

February 5, 2016. 

PLACE: Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st 

Street NW., Washington, DC, 9th Floor 

Commission Conference Room. 

STATUS: Closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Surveillance, enforcement, and 

examinations matters. In the event that 

the time, date, or location of this 

meeting changes, an announcement of 

the change, along with the new time, 

date, and/or place of the meeting will be 

posted on the Commission’s Web site at 

http://www.cftc.gov. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Christopher Kirkpatrick, 202–418–5964. 

Natise Allen, 

Executive Assistant. 

[FR Doc. 2016–01850 Filed 1–28–16; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities Under OMB Review 

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(‘‘PRA’’), 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 March 2, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Comments regarding the 

burden estimated or any other aspect of 

the information collection, including 

suggestions for reducing the burden, 

may be submitted directly to the Office 

of Information and Regulatory Affairs in 

OMB, within 30 days of publication of 

the notice, by email at 

OIRAsubmissions@omb.eop.gov. Please 

identify the comments by OMB Control 

No. 3038–0089. Please provide the 

Commission with a copy of all 

submitted comments at the address 

listed below. Please refer to OMB 

Reference No. 3038–0089, found on 

http://reginfo.gov. Comments may also 

be mailed to the Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, Attention: 

Desk Officer for the Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission, 725 17th Street 

NW., Washington, DC 20503, and to the 

Commission through its Web site at 

http://comments.cftc.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments 

through the Web site. 

Comments may also be mailed to: 

Christopher Kirkpatrick, Secretary of the 

Commission, Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission, Three Lafayette 

Centre, 1155 21st Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20581, or by Hand 

Delivery/Courier at the same address. 

A copy of the supporting statements 

for the collection of information 

discussed above may be obtained by 

visiting http://regInfo.gov. All 

comments must be submitted in 

English, or if not, accompanied by an 

English translation. Comments will be 

posted as received to http://

www.cftc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom 

Guerin, Division of Market Oversight, 

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, (202) 734–4194, email: 

tguerin@cftc.gov, and refer to OMB 

Control No. 3038–0089. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 Federal Register notice 

with a 60-day comment period soliciting 

comments on this collection of 

information was published on 

November 12, 2015 (80 FR 69948). 

Title: Swap Data Recordkeeping and 

Reporting Requirements: Pre-Enactment 

and Transition Swaps (OMB Control No. 

3038–0089). This is a request for 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Abstract: Section 723 of the DoddFrank Wall Street Reform and Consumer 

Protection Act (‘‘Dodd-Frank Act’’) 

directed the Commission to adopt rules 

providing for the reporting of data 

pertaining to swaps entered into before 

the date of enactment of the Dodd-Frank 

Act (‘‘pre-enactment swaps’’) and swaps 

entered into on or after the date of 

enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act but 

prior to the compliance date specified in 

the CFTC’s final swap data reporting 

rules (‘‘transition swaps’’). On May 17, 

2012, the CFTC adopted regulation 46, 

which imposes recordkeeping and 

reporting requirements relating to preenactment and transition swaps. This 

ICR concerns the collections of 

information required by 17 CFR part 46. 

Commission staff estimate that 

approximately 30,125 entities, including 

swap dealers, major swap participants, 

and swap counterparties that are neither 

swap dealers nor major swap 

participants, are affected by this ICR. 

The Commission did not receive any 

comments regarding the burden 

estimate or any other aspect of this ICR. 

Burden Statement: Commission staff 

estimate that the total annual time 

burden for this ICR is 18,903 hours. 

Commission staff estimate that the total 

annual cost for this ICR is $1,436,258. 

The time burden estimate represents the 

annual burden that swap dealers, major 

swap participants, and swap 

counterparties that are neither swap 

dealers nor major swap participants 

incur to operate and maintain swap 

recordkeeping and reporting systems to 

facilitate the recordkeeping and 

reporting of pre-enactment and 

transition swaps. Commission staff 

calculated the time burden by 

estimating the burden incurred by 

respondents to operate and maintain 

swap data recordkeeping and reporting 

systems and then estimating the portion 

of that burden associated with preenactment and transition swaps. 

Commission staff calculated the cost 

burden by multiplying the estimated 

time burden by an estimated 

appropriate hourly wage rate of $75.98. 

Commission staff derived the estimated 

appropriate hourly wage rate by 

averaging the salaries and bonuses of 

relevant professions reported in the 

SIFMA Report on Management & 

Professional Earnings in the Securities 

Industry 2013. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: Swap 

dealers, Major Swap Participants, and 

other counterparties to a swap 

transaction (i.e., end-user, non-swap 

dealer/non-major swap participant 

counterparties). 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

30,125. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 18,903 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$1,436,258. 

Frequency of Collection: Ongoing. 

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

Dated: January 27, 2016. 

Robert N. Sidman, 

Deputy Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2016–01760 Filed 1–29–16; 8:45 am] 

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