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Party may submit a nomination of a
species for inclusion in or deletion from
the Annexes; that the Party shall submit
supporting documentation; and that the
SPAW STAC shall review the
nomination. At the December 2018
meeting, the SPAW STAC reviewed the
species proposed by Parties for listing
under the SPAW Protocol and made
recommendations to the tenth SPAW
Conference of the Parties (COP10)
meeting, expected to be held in June
2019. The STAC determined that the
procedures for nominating species and
the supporting documentation were
satisfactory for positive
recommendations to the COP regarding
the species identified above.
Species Under the Jurisdiction of the
National Marine Fisheries Service
Both species recommended by the
STAC to be added to the Annexes at the
December 2018 meeting fall under the
jurisdiction of NMFS. One species of
fish, the largetooth sawfish (Pristis
pectinata), has been recommended to be
added to Annex II. The largetooth
sawfish is currently listed as
endangered under the ESA, and was
originally listed under the ESA in 2011.
The other species under NMFS’
jurisdiction, the silky shark
(Charcharhinus falciformis) has been
recommended to be added to Annex III.
Comments Solicited
The Department of State and NMFS
solicit comments and information that
will inform the United States’
consideration of the potential listing of
these species in the SPAW Annexes.
Dated: March 28, 2019.
Donna S. Wieting,
Director, Office of Protected Resources,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Notice of Intent To Revise
Collection 3038–0052; Core Principles
and Other Requirements for
Designated Contract Markets
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.

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AGENCY:

The Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (‘‘Commission’’) is
announcing an opportunity for public
comment on the proposed revision of a
collection of certain information by the
agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction

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Act (‘‘PRA’’), Federal agencies are
required to publish notice in the
Federal Register concerning each
proposed collection of information,
including proposed revision of an
existing collection of information, and
to allow 60 days for public comment.
This notice solicits comments on the
revision of estimates contained in
information collection requirements
related to the recent amendment of the
timing and scope of a report required to
be filed by self-regulatory organizations
(SROs) pursuant to Commission
Regulation 1.52.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before June 3, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by ‘‘OMB Control No. 3038–
0052’’ by any of the following methods:
• The Agency’s 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.
• 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
http://www.cftc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Joshua Beale, Associate Director,
Division of Swap Dealer and
Intermediary Oversight, Commodity
Futures Trading Commission, (202)
418–5447; email: jbeale@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 revision of an
existing collection of information,
before submitting the collection to OMB
for approval. To comply with this
requirement, the CFTC is publishing
notice for the amendment of the
collection listed below. An agency may

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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.
Title: Core Principles and Other
Requirements for Designated Contract
Markets (OMB Control No. 3038–0052).
This is a request for a revision of a
currently approved information
collection.
Abstract: The Commission has
recently amended its regulation 1.52 to
revise the scope and potential frequency
of a third-party expert’s evaluation of
SROs’ financial surveillance programs.
The evaluation report requirement is a
portion of the existing information
collection of requirements for SROs
under Commission regulation 1.52,
including Designated Contract Markets
and the National Futures Association.
The Commission’s rulemaking will not
alter the requirement for an SRO to
engage an examinations expert to
evaluate its supervisory program prior
to the initial use of the supervisory
program. The Commission, however, is
eliminating the requirement that the
examinations expert must review the
SRO’s ongoing application of its
supervisory program during periodic
reviews and the analysis of the
supervisory program’s design to detect
material weaknesses in internal controls
during both periodic reviews and the
initial review prior to the program’s
initial use. The Commission also is
revising the frequency of when an SRO
must engage an examinations expert.
Regulation 1.52 required an SRO to
engage an examinations expert at least
once every three years to perform such
a review. The Commission amended
Regulation 1.52 to require an SRO to
engage an examinations expert
whenever the Public Company
Accounting Oversight Board (‘‘PCAOB’’)
issues new or revised auditing standards
that are material to the SRO’s
examination of member FCMs. The
amendments further require an SRO to
engage an examinations expert at least
once every five years even if the SRO
determined that the PCAOB did not
issue new or revised auditing standards
during the previous five-year period that
are material to its examinations of
member FCMs. The changes to the
examinations expert reviews impact the
resulting expert reports information
collection burden. The information
collection is necessary to enhance the
ability of the Commission and the
designated self-regulatory organization
to identify problematic financial matters
in time to avoid market disruptions
when an FCM may fail, particularly
with respect to the tie-up of customer
funds that may result.

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The Commission, when originally
proposing changes to regulation 1.52,
invited comments on its assessment that
although the costs associated with
obtaining the third-party expert would
be reduced by the amendment, the
paperwork burden impact of the
amended scope of the report would be
minimal. The Commission received no
comments and has adopted the final
rule. However, the Commission has
determined that a slight revision of the
expected burden hours associated with
the information collection is possible
due to the changes related to the thirdparty examinations expert report.
Accordingly, the Commission is revising
the total burden hours related to
regulation 1.52 included in this
collection.
The Commission previously estimated
the entire burden hours for designated
contract markets as SROs associated
with regulation 1.52 as 50 hours per
respondent. The revised scope of the
third-party evaluation report should
slightly reduce personnel hours needed
to coordinate obtaining the report,
although most of the burden hours
included in this collection are
associated with other aspects of the
financial surveillance program
requirements. Therefore, the
Commission is revising the estimate of
the burden hours associated with
regulation 1.52 to be 49 hours per
respondent. Additionally, the
Commission notes that the number of
registered, active DCMs has decreased
from 15 to 14.
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 the Commission to
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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,
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 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.
Burden Statement: The Commission
is revising its estimate of the burden for
this collection.2 The respondent burden
for this collection is estimated to be as
follows:
Respondents/Affected Entities:
Designated Contract Markets and Selfregulatory Organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
14.
Estimated Average Burden Hours per
Respondent: 49.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 686.
Frequency of Collection: Various.
The amended regulations require no
new startup or operations and
maintenance costs.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.)
Dated: March 29, 2019.
Robert Sidman,
Deputy Secretary of the Commission.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Air Force
Air University Board of Visitors
Meeting
Amended Notice of Meeting of
the Air University Board of Visitors.

ACTION:

Under the provisions of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act of

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CFR 145.9.
are three Information Collection’s (ICs)
that fall within OMB Control No. 3038–0052. The
changes in the Final rules adopted herein only
pertain to IC: Enhancing Protections Afforded
Customers and Customer Funds Held by Futures
Commission Merchants and Derivatives Clearing
Organizations and relate only to amendments to
Regulation 1.52, which has been reduced by 1
burden hour per respondent. Additionally, the
number of respondents has decreased from 15 to 14.
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1972, the Government in the Sunshine
Act of 1976 and the Code of Federal
Regulations, the Department of Defense
announces a meeting of the Air
University Board of Visitors.
DATES: The meeting will take place on
Monday, 8 April 2019, from 8:00 a.m. to
approximately 4:30 p.m. and Tuesday, 9
November, 2019, from 8:00 a.m. to
approximately 4:30 p.m. Central
Standard Time.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in
the Air University Commander’s
Conference Room located in Building
800 at Maxwell Air Force Base, AL.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Yolanda Williams, Designated Federal
Officer, Air University Headquarters, 55
LeMay Plaza South, Maxwell Air Force
Base, Alabama 36112– 6335, telephone
(334) 462–1002.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
purpose of this meeting is to provide
independent advice and
recommendations on matters pertaining
to the educational, doctrinal, and
research policies and activities of Air
University.
The agenda will include topics
relating to the policies, programs, and
initiatives of Air University educational
programs and will include an out brief
from the Air Force Institute of
Technology and Community College of
the Air Force Subcommittees.
Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b, as
amended, and 41 CFR 102–3.155 all
sessions of the Air University Board of
Visitors’ meetings’ will be open to the
public. Any member of the public
wishing to provide input to the Air
University Board of Visitors’ should
submit a written statement in
accordance with 41 CFR 102–3.140(c)
and section 10(a)(3) of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act and the
procedures described in this paragraph.
Written statements can be submitted to
the Designated Federal Officer at the
address detailed below at any time.
Statements being submitted in
response to the agenda mentioned in
this notice must be received by the
Designated Federal Officer at the
address listed below at least ten
calendar days prior to the meeting,
which is the subject of this notice.
Written statements received after this
date may not be provided to or
considered by the Air University Board
of Visitors until its next meeting. The
Designated Federal Officer will review
all timely submissions with the Air
University Board of Visitors’ Board
Chairperson and ensure they are
provided to members of the Board
before the meeting that is the subject of
this notice. Any member of the public

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