Agency Information Collection Activities: Notice of Intent To Renew Collection Number 3038-0007, Regulation of Domestic Exchange-Traded Options

• Published date: 18 August 2021
• Citation: 86 FR 46227
• Record Number: 2021-17719
• Section: Notices
• Court: Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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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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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING

COMMISSION

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Notice of Intent To Renew

Collection Number 3038–0007,

Regulation of Domestic Exchange-

Traded 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 exchange-

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 non-

presumptive 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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