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Adaptation of Regulations to Incorporate Swaps-Exclusion of Utility Operations-Related Swaps with Utility Special Entities from De Minimis Threshold

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Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 127 / Wednesday, July 1, 2020 / Notices

V. Recommendation
[FR Doc. 2020–14191 Filed 6–30–20; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Science Advisory Board; Meeting
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Department of Commerce (DOC).
ACTION: Notice of public meetings.
AGENCY:

This notice sets forth the
schedule and proposed agenda for the
meeting of the Science Advisory Board
(SAB). The members will discuss issues
outlined in the section on Matters to be
considered.
DATES: The meeting is scheduled for
July 22, 2020 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00
p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) and
July 23, 2020 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00
p.m. EST. This time and the agenda
topics described below are subject to
change.
For the latest agenda please refer to
the SAB website: http://sab.noaa.gov/
SABMeetings.aspx.
SUMMARY:

This is a virtual meeting.
The link for the webinar registration for
the July 22–23, 2020 meeting may be
found here:
July 22, 2020: https://
attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/
2922353879931912972.
July 23, 2020: https://
attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/
1952615410559086604.

ADDRESSES:

Dr.
Cynthia Decker, Executive Director,
SSMC3, Room 11230, 1315 East-West
Hwy., Silver Spring, MD 20910; Phone
Number: 301–734–1156; Email:
Cynthia.Decker@noaa.gov; or visit the
SAB website at http://sab.noaa.gov/
SABMeetings.aspx.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

The
NOAA Science Advisory Board (SAB)
was established by a Decision
Memorandum dated September 25,
1997, and is the only Federal Advisory
Committee with responsibility to advise
the Under Secretary of Commerce for
Oceans and Atmosphere on strategies
for research, education, and application
of science to operations and information
services. SAB activities and advice
provide necessary input to ensure that
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) science
programs are of the highest quality and
provide optimal support to resource
management.

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Status: The July 22–23, 2020 meeting
will be open to public participation
with a 15-minute public comment
period at 4:45–5:00 p.m. EST on
Wednesday, July 22. The SAB expects
that public statements presented at its
meetings will not be repetitive of
previously submitted verbal or written
statements. In general, each individual
or group making a verbal presentation
will be limited to a total time of three
minutes. Written comments for the July
22–23, 2020 meeting should be received
in the SAB Executive Director’s Office
by July 7, 2020 to provide sufficient
time for SAB review. Written comments
received by the SAB Executive Director
after this date will be distributed to the
SAB, but may not be reviewed prior to
the meeting date.
Special Accommodations: This
meeting is physically accessible to
people with disabilities. Requests for
special accommodations may be
directed to the Executive Director no
later than 12 p.m. on July 7, 2020.
Matters to be Considered: The
meeting on July 22–23, 2020 will
include:(1) NOAA Updates; (2)
Environmental Information Services
Working Group Report to Congress; (3)
Update on the SAB Tsunami Science
and Technology Advisory Panel; (4)
SAB Work Plan and NOAA Priorities;
(5) NOAA Response to the Climate
Working Group Review of the Climate
Program Office Climate and Global
Change Post-Doctoral Program; (6)
Decision Making under Deep
Uncertainty: Update from the Ecosystem
Management and Sciences Working
Group;.(7) Review of the Northern Gulf
Institute Cooperative Institute. Meeting
materials, including work products, will
be made available on the SAB website:
http://sab.noaa.gov/SABMeetings.aspx.
Dated: June 25, 2020.
David Holst,
Director Chief Financial Officer/CAO,Office
of Oceanic and Atmospheric
Research,National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2020–14175 Filed 6–30–20; 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

SUMMARY:

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Information Collection Request (ICR)
abstracted below has been forwarded to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs (OIRA), of 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 31, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of this
notice’s publication to OIRA, at https://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Please find this particular information
collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under
30-day Review—Open for Public
Comments’’ or by using the website’s
search function. Comments can be
entered electronically by clicking on the
‘‘comment’’ button next to the
information collection on the ‘‘OIRA
Information Collections Under Review’’
page, or the ‘‘View ICR—Agency
Submission’’ page. A copy of the
supporting statement for the collection
of information discussed herein may be
obtained by visiting https://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
In addition to the submission of
comments to https://Reginfo.gov as
indicated above, a copy of all comments
submitted to OIRA may also be
submitted to the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (the
‘‘Commission’’ or ‘‘CFTC’’) by clicking
on the ‘‘Submit Comment’’ box next to
the descriptive entry for OMB Control
No. 3038–0090, at https://
comments.cftc.gov/FederalRegister/
PublicInfo.aspx.
Or by either of the following methods:
• 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.
All comments must be submitted in
English, or if not, accompanied by an
English translation. Comments
submitted to the Commission should
include 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
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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 the Administrative
Procedure Act and other applicable
laws, and may be accessible under the
Freedom of Information Act.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Gregory Scopino, Special Counsel,
Division of Swap Dealer and
Intermediary Oversight, Commodity
Futures Trading Commission, (202)
418–5175, email: gscopino@cftc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Adaptation of Regulations to
Incorporate Swaps-Records of
Transactions; Exclusion of Utility
Operations Related Swaps with Utility
Special Entities from De minimis
Threshold for Swaps with Special
Entities (OMB Control No. 3038–0090).
This is a request for extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
Abstract: Title VII of the Dodd-Frank
Wall Street Reform and Consumer
Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act, Pub. L.
111–203, 124 Stat. 1376 (2010))
amended the Commodity Exchange Act
(CEA) to establish a comprehensive new
statutory framework for swaps. These
amendments required the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission (‘‘the
Commission’’) to amend several of its
regulations to implement the new
framework.
The information collection obligations
imposed by the ‘‘Adaptation of
Regulations to Incorporate Swaps’’ final
regulations 2 are necessary to implement
section 721 of the Dodd-Frank Act,
which amended the definitions of
futures commission merchant (‘‘FCM’’)
and introducing broker (‘‘IB’’) to permit
these intermediaries to trade swaps on
behalf of customers. They also are
necessary to implement section 733 of
the Dodd-Frank Act which introduced
swap execution facilities (‘‘SEFs’’) as a
new trading platform for swaps. As a
result of the enactment of sections 721
and 733, the Commission needed to
amend certain recordkeeping
regulations (§§ 1.31, 1.33, 1.35, 1.37,
and 1.39) so that records of swap
transactions are maintained analogously
2 Adaptation of Regulations to Incorporate Swaps,
77 FR 66288 (Nov. 2, 2012).

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to how futures transactions are
maintained.
Further, the ‘‘Exclusion of Utility
Operations-Related Swaps With Utility
Special Entities from De Minimis
Threshold for Swaps With Special
Entities’’ 3 regulation amended the
Commission’s swap dealer definition to
permit a person to exclude ‘‘utility
operations-related swaps’’ with ‘‘utility
special entities’’ in their de minimis
threshold calculations. The regulation
requires a person claiming the exclusion
to maintain, in accordance with
Commission regulation 1.31, any
written representations that the person
receives from utility special entities
related to this exclusion.
The information collection burdens
associated with these regulations
(collectively, the ‘‘Swap Recordkeeping
Requirements’’) are restricted to the
costs associated with the recordkeeping
and reporting requirements that these
regulations impose upon affected
registrants, registered entities, those
registered entities’ members, and other
respondents covered by the final rules.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number. On April 27, 2020, 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, 85
FR 23331. The Commission did not
receive any comments on the 60-Day
Notice.
Burden Statement: The Commission
is revising its estimate of the burden for
this collection for futures commission
merchants, retail foreign exchange
dealers, introducing brokers, and
members of designated contract markets
and swap execution facilities. The
respondent burden for this collection is
estimated to be as follows:4
Estimated Number of Respondents:
13,664.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours per
Respondent: 163.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 2,233,722.
Frequency of Collection: As needed.
3 Exclusion of Utility Operations-Related Swaps
with Utility Special Entities from De Minimis
Threshold for Swaps with Special Entities, 79 FR
57767 (Sept. 26, 2014).
4 These estimates represent the aggregate burden
for all data associated with the Swap Recordkeeping
Requirements in the collection, namely Swap
Recordkeeping (Regulation 1.35), Swap
Confirmations (Regulation 1.33), and Utility Special
Entities (Regulation 1.3). Please refer to the
supporting statement for further explanation of
burdens associated with each regulatory
requirement.

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There are no capital costs or operating
and maintenance costs associated with
this collection.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.)
Dated: June 25, 2020.
Robert Sidman,
Deputy Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2020–14127 Filed 6–30–20; 8:45 am]
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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Comment Request;
Volunteering and Civic Life
Assessment: Current Population
Survey Supplement
Corporation for National and
Community Service (CNCS).
ACTION: Notice of Information
Collection; request for comment.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
CNCS is proposing to renew an
information collection.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the individual and office
listed in the ADDRESSES section by
August 31, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by the title of the information
collection activity, by any of the
following methods:
(1) By mail sent to: Corporation for
National and Community Service,
Attention Mary Hyde, 250 E Street SW,
Washington, DC 20525.
(2) By hand delivery or by courier to
the CNCS mailroom at the mail address
given in paragraph (1) above, between
9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time,
Monday through Friday, except federal
holidays.
(3) Electronically through
www.regulations.gov.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice may be made available to the
public through regulations.gov. For this
reason, please do not include in your
comments information of a confidential
nature, such as sensitive personal
information or proprietary information.
If you send an email comment, your
email address will be automatically
captured and included as part of the
comment that is placed in the public
docket and made available on the
internet. Please note that responses to
this public comment request containing
any routine notice about the
confidentiality of the communication
will be treated as public comment that
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