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Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 80,837.
Frequency of Collection: Various. For
example, FCMs have both daily and
monthly financial reporting obligations,
annual certified financial and
compliance report obligations, and
periodic notice requirements.
There are no capital costs or operating
and maintenance costs associated with
this collection.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.)
Dated: June 21, 2019.
Christopher Kirkpatrick,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2019–13614 Filed 6–25–19; 8:45 am]
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities Under OMB Review
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

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 July 26, 2019.
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
notice’s publication by either of the
following methods. Please identify the
comments by ‘‘OMB Control No. 3038–
0052.’’
• By email addressed to:
OIRAsubmissions@omb.eop.gov; or
• By mail addressed to: 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 one of the following
methods. The copies should refer to
‘‘OMB Control No. 3038–0052.’’
• Through the Commission’s website
at https://comments.cftc.gov. Please

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follow the instructions for submitting
comments through the website;
• By mail addressed 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 to the
same address as specified for mail.
Please submit your comments to the
Commission using only one method. A
copy of the supporting statement 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 https://
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 (FOIA), 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
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
ICR will be retained in the public
comment file and will be considered as
required under applicable laws, and
may be accessible under the FOIA.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Joshua Beale, Associate Director,
Division of Swap Dealer and
Intermediary Oversight, Commodity
Futures Trading Commission, (202)
418–5446; email: jbeale@cftc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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
self-regulatory organizations’ (SRO)
financial surveillance programs. The
evaluation report requirement is a
portion of the existing information
collection of requirements for SROs
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under Commission Regulation 1.52,
including designated contract markets
(DCM) 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
futures commission merchants (FCM).
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 SRO 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.
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
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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 DCMs 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.
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. On April 3, 2019 the
Commission published in the Federal
Register notice of the proposed
extension of this information collection
and provided 60 days for public
comment on the proposed extension, 84
FR 13008 (‘‘60-Day Notice’’). The
Commission did not receive any
relevant comments on the 60-Day
Notice.
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
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(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.)
2 There 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
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Dated: June 21, 2019.
Christopher Kirkpatrick,
Secretary of the Commission.
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COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL
QUALITY
[Docket No. CEQ–2019–0002]
RIN 0331–ZA03

Draft National Environmental Policy
Act Guidance on Consideration of
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Council on Environmental
Quality (CEQ).
ACTION: Draft guidance; request for
comment.
AGENCY:

The Council on
Environmental Quality (CEQ) is
publishing draft guidance on how
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) analysis and documentation
should address greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions. This Draft National
Environmental Policy Act Guidance on
Consideration of Greenhouse Gas
Emissions, if finalized, would replace
the final guidance CEQ issued on
August 1, 2016, titled ‘‘Final Guidance
for Federal Departments and Agencies
on Consideration of Greenhouse Gas
Emissions and the Effects of Climate
Change in National Environmental
Policy Act Reviews,’’ which was
withdrawn effective April 5, 2017 for
further consideration pursuant to
Executive Order 13783 of March 28,
2017, ‘‘Promoting Energy Independence
and Economic Growth.’’
DATES: Comments should be submitted
on or before July 26, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by docket identification (ID)
number CEQ–2019–0002 through the
Federal eRulemaking portal at https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
Once submitted, comments cannot be
edited or removed from https://
www.regulations.gov. CEQ may publish
any comment received to its public
docket. Do not submit electronically any
information you consider to be
Confidential Business Information (CBI)
or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Multimedia
submissions (e.g., audio, video) must be
accompanied by a written comment.
The written comment is considered the
official comment and should include
discussion of all points you wish to
make.
Comments may also be submitted by
mail. Send your comments to: Council
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on Environmental Quality, 730 Jackson
Place, NW, Washington, DC 20503,
Attn: Docket No. CEQ–2019–0002.
The draft guidance is also available on
the CEQ websites at https://
www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/initiatives/
and www.nepa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Edward A. Boling, Associate Director for
the National Environmental Policy Act,
Council on Environmental Quality, 730
Jackson Place, NW, Washington, DC
20503. Telephone: (202) 395–5750.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Draft National Environmental Policy
Act Guidance on Consideration of
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
I. Introduction
The Council on Environmental
Quality (CEQ) provides this draft
guidance memorandum 1 to assist
Federal agencies in their consideration
of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 2
when evaluating proposed major
Federal actions in accordance with the
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., and the
CEQ Regulations for Implementing the
Procedural Provisions of NEPA, 40 CFR
parts 1500–1508 (‘‘CEQ Regulations’’).
The purpose of this draft guidance is to
facilitate compliance with NEPA by
Federal agencies conducting reviews of
proposed major Federal actions.3
II. Draft Guidance
NEPA requires that Federal agencies
study the environmental impacts of
major Federal actions significantly
affecting the quality of the human
environment. 42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C).
NEPA is a procedural statute that serves
the twin purposes of ensuring that
agencies consider the environmental
consequences of their proposed actions
and inform the public about their
decision-making process. Agencies
1 This draft guidance is not a rule or regulation,
and the recommendations it contains may not apply
to a particular situation based upon the individual
facts and circumstances. This guidance does not
change or substitute for any statutes, regulations, or
any other legally binding requirement and is not
legally enforceable. CEQ’s regulations
implementing the procedural provisions of NEPA
are available on www.nepa.gov. This guidance does
not, and cannot, expand the range of Federal agency
actions that are subject to NEPA.
2 For purposes of this draft guidance, CEQ defines
GHGs as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4),
nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs),
perfluorocarbons (PFCs), sulfur hexafluoride (SF6)
and nitrogen trifluoride (NF3).
3 This draft guidance is intended to replace CEQ’s
August 2016 ‘‘Final Guidance for Federal
Departments and Agencies on Consideration of
Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Effects of
Climate Change in National Environmental Policy
Act Reviews’’ (81 FR 51866, Aug. 5, 2016), which
was withdrawn pursuant to Executive Order 13783
on April 5, 2017 (82 FR 16576).

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