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paraprofessionals/paralegals. The mean 

hourly rate for financial administrator is 

$40.84 according to the Bureau of Labor 

Statistics’ Occupational Employment 

Statistics program (OES 15–1141). The 

mean hourly rate for paralegals is $145 

according to the 2016 compensation 

survey by the National Association of 

Legal Assistants. Using those 

proportions and the estimated rates of 

$40.84 per hour for financial 

administrators and $145 per hour for 

paraprofessionals, the USPTO estimates 

that the average rate for all respondents 

will be approximately $66.88 per hour. 

Therefore, the USPTO estimates that the 

respondent cost burden for submitting 

the information in this collection will be 

approximately $293,993.33 per year. 

IC No. Item 

Estimated time for 

response 

(minutes) 

Estimated annual 

responses 

Estimated annual 

burden hours 

Rate 

($/hr) 

Total hourly cost 

burden 

(a) (b) (a) × (b)/60 = (c) (d) (c) × (d) = (e) 

1 ................. Credit Card Payment 

Form.

(PTO–2038) ...................

2 87,874 2,929.13 66.88 $195,900.44 

2 ................. Deposit Account Replenishment.2 20,843 694.77 66.88 46,465.99 

3 ................. Refund Request ............ 4 8,079 538.60 66.88 36,021.57 

4 ................. Financial Manager 

Stored Payment Methods.

7 2,000 233.33 66.88 15,605.33 

Total .... ........................................ .............................. 118,796 4,395.83 .............................. 293,993.33 

Estimated Total Annual (Non-hour) 

Respondent Cost Burden: $112,725.00. 

There are no capital start-up, 

maintenance, or recordkeeping costs 

associated with this information 

collection. However, this collection 

does have annual (non-hour) cost 

burden in the form of service fees 

associated with deposit accounts and 

returned payments as well as postage 

costs. In addition to the fee information 

discussed here, information about the 

deposit account rules is available 

through the USPTO Web site at: https:// 

www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/ 

fees-and-payment/deposit-accountrules-and-information 

There are service fees for not 

maintaining the minimum balance 

required for the deposit account and for 

returned payments. There is a $25 

service charge for deposit accounts that 

are below the minimum balance at the 

end of the month. The USPTO estimates 

that it assesses 3,600 of these low 

balance charges annually, for a total of 

$90,000 per year. There is also a $50 

service charge for processing a payment 

refused (including a check returned 

‘‘unpaid’’) or charged back by a 

financial institution. The USPTO 

estimates that it assesses 128 of these 

returned payment charges annually, for 

a total of $6,400 per year. The total 

estimated service fees for this collection 

are $96,400 per year. 

Customers may incur postage costs 

when submitting the Credit Card 

Payment Form and other paper forms or 

requests to the USPTO by mail. 

Customers generally send the Credit 

Card Payment Form to the USPTO along 

with other documents related to the fee 

or service being paid for by credit card, 

but some customers may submit just the 

Credit Card Payment Form without 

additional supporting documents. The 

USPTO estimates that roughly 5 percent 

of the 87,874 paper Credit Card Payment 

Forms submitted annually may be 

mailed in; approximately 4,394 per year. 

The USPTO estimates that it will 

receive an additional 28,922 mailed 

submissions per year, including Deposit 

Account Replenishments and Refund 

Requests, for a total of 33,316 mailed 

submissions per year. The USPTO 

estimates that the first-class postage cost 

for a mailed submission will be $0.49, 

for a total postage cost of approximately 

$16,324.84 per year. 

The total annual (non-hour) 

respondent cost burden for this 

collection in the form of service fees and 

postage costs is estimated to be 

approximately $112,724.84 per year. 

IV. Request for Comments 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection; 

they also will become a matter of public 

record. 

Comments are invited on: 

(a) 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; 

(b) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden (including hours 

and cost) of the proposed collection of 

information; 

(c) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(d) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on 

respondents, e.g., the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Ivan King, 

Acting Director, Records and Information 

Governance Division, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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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 December 15, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Comments regarding the 

burden estimate 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 this 

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following methods. Please identify the 

comments by ‘‘OMB Control No. 3038– 

XXXX.’’ 

• By email addressed to: 

OIRAsubmissions@omb.eop.gov or 

• By mail addressed 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. 

A copy of all comments submitted to 

OIRA should be sent to the Commodity 

Futures Trading Commission (the 

‘‘Commission’’) by either of the 

following methods. The copies should 

refer to ‘‘OMB Control No. 3038– 

XXXX.’’ 

• By mail addressed to: Christopher 

Kirkpatrick, Secretary of the 

Commission, Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission, Three Lafayette 

Centre, 1155 21st Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20581; 

• By Hand Delivery/Courier to the 

same address; or 

• Through the Commission’s Web site 

at http://comments.cftc.gov. Please 

follow the instructions for submitting 

comments through the Web site. 

A copy of the supporting statements 

for the collection of information 

discussed herein 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. 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 § 145.9 

of the Commission’s regulations.1 The 

Commission reserves the right, but shall 

have no obligation, to review, prescreen, 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 

ICR 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Eugene Smith, Director, Office of 

Proceedings, Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission, (202) 418–5371; 

email: esmith@cftc.gov, and refer to 

OMB Control No. 3038–XXXX. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Reparations Complaint, CFTC 

Form 30 (OMB Control No. 3038– 

XXXX). This is a request for approval of 

a new information collection. 

Abstract: Pursuant to Section 14 of 

the Commodity Exchange Act, members 

of the public may apply to the 

Commission to seek damages against 

Commission registrants for alleged 

violations of the Act and/or Commission 

regulations. The legislative intent of the 

Reparations program was to provide a 

low-cost, speedy, and effective forum 

for the resolution of customer 

complaints and to sanction individuals 

and firms found to have violated the Act 

and/or any regulations. 

In 1984, the Commission promulgated 

Part 12 of the Commission regulations to 

administer Section 14. Rule 12.13 

provides the standards and procedures 

for filing a Reparations complaint. 

Specifically, subparagraph (b) describes 

the form and content requirements of a 

complaint. CFTC Form 30 mirrors the 

requirements set forth in subparagraph 

(b). 

The Commission began utilizing Form 

30 in or about 1984. The form was 

created to assist customers, who are 

typically pro se and non-lawyers. It was 

also designed as a way to provide 

proper notice to respondents of the 

charges against them. This form is 

critical to fulfilling this policy goal. 

Accordingly, the Commission is 

requesting an OMB control number to 

continue the use of Form 30. 

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 September 1, 2017 (82 FR 

41614). The Commission did not receive 

any relevant comments on the 60-day 

notice. 

Burden Statement: The respondent 

burden for this collection is estimated to 

be as follows: 

Respondents/Affected Entities: 

Commodity futures customers. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

15. 

Estimated Average Burden Hours per 

Respondent: 1.5. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 22.5. 

Frequency of Collection: Once. 

There are no capital costs or operating 

and maintenance costs associated with 

this collection. 

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

Dated: November 8, 2017. 

Robert N. Sidman, 

Deputy Secretary of the Commission. 

Note: The following appendix will not 

appear in the Code of Federal Regulations. 

Appendix to Agency Information 

Collection Activities Under OMB 

Review—CFTC Form 30 

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