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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Sea Grant Program
Application Requirements for Grants,
for Sea Grant Fellowships, Including
the Dean John A. Knauss Marine
Policy Fellowships, and for
Designation as a Sea Grant College or
Sea Grant Institution
National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of information collection,
request for comment.
AGENCY:

The Department of
Commerce, in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), invites the general public and
other Federal agencies to comment on
proposed, and continuing information
collections, which helps us assess the
impact of our information collection
requirements and minimize the public’s
reporting burden. The purpose of this
notice is to allow for 60 days of public
comment preceding submission of the
collection to OMB.
DATES: To ensure consideration,
comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received
on or before December 28, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments to
Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer,
at Adrienne.thomas@noaa.gov. Please
reference OMB Control Number 0648–
0362 in the subject line of your
comments. Do not submit Confidential
Business Information or otherwise
sensitive or protected information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
specific questions related to collection
activities should be directed to Doug
Bell, National Sea Grant Office, (301–
734–1080), and oar.sg.info-admin@
noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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SUMMARY:

I. Abstract
This request is for the extension, with
minor proposed revisions, of a currently
approved information collection.
The objectives of the National Sea
Grant College Program, as stated in the
Sea Grant legislation (33 U.S.C. 1121 et
seq.) are to increase the understanding,
assessments, development, utilization,
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accomplishes these objectives by
conducting research, education, and
outreach programs. Grant monies are
available for funding activities that help
obtain the objectives of the Sea Grant
Program. Both single and multi-project
grants are awarded, with the latter
representing approximately 80 percent
of the total grant program. In addition to
other standard grant application
requirements, three forms are required
with the grants. The Sea Grant Control
Form (NOAA Form 90–1) is used to
identify the organizations and personnel
who would be involved in the grant and
briefly summarize the proposed
activities under the grant. The Project
Record Form (NOAA Form 90–2), which
collects summary data on projects, helps
the National Sea Grant Office (NSGO)
evaluate the proposals during its
funding decisions. The Sea Grant
Budget Form (NOAA Form 90–4)
provides information similar to, but
more detailed than, standardized budget
forms SF–424A or SF–424C, and allows
the NSGO to determine whether or not
the breakdown cost of multi-project
grant awards is reasonable. Collectively,
the data supplied in these documents
form the basis for many of NSGO’s
responses to the Administration, the
Congress, other agencies, and to the
public about the scope of Sea Grant
activities.
The National Sea Grant College
Program Act (33 U.S.C. 1126) also
provides for the designation of a public
or private institution of higher
education, institute, laboratory, or State
or local agency as a Sea Grant college or
Sea Grant institute. Applications are
required for designation of Sea Grant
Colleges and Sea Grant Institutes,
although no forms are required. The
data the collection provides helps the
National Sea Grant Office determine the
suitability of the applicant for meeting
the standards and conditions for being
a Sea Grant College as set forth in 33
U.S.C. 1126 and 15 CFR 918.5.
The NSGO proposes two primary
revisions to this information collection.
The NOAA Form 90–2 is collected using
an Excel spreadsheet (>98% of use
cases). The NSGO intends to migrate the
Excel spreadsheet to an online webform
that is hosted on Sea Grant’s Planning,
Implementation and Evaluation
Resource (PIER) database. The online
webform would provide an additional
and alternative method of information
collection, but not eliminate the option
for an Excel-based collection. The
webform may require slight
modifications on the form structure and
existing data formats (such as
‘‘Classifications’’ or ‘‘Partners’’). These
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software requirements, but are mostly
sought to improve information
management and the user interface.
Public comments from previous
extensions of this information collection
have requested linkage of the NOAA
Form 90–2 to the PIER database. This
modification would enable
synchronization of existing PIER data,
so that time of user entry and data
quality control is minimized. The
second proposed revision utilizes
existing components of the NOAA Form
90–2. The NSGO is proposing to collect
more resolved information that will
allow Sea Grant to classify the level of
effort by topic (i.e., ‘‘Classification’’) for
a subset of funded activities. This
collection may modify the existing
NOAA Form 90–2, but may also exist as
a new form, if that method of collection
is determined to be more effective and
efficient. This collection would improve
NSGO’s responses to the
Administration, the Congress, other
agencies, and to the public about the
scope of Sea Grant activities.
II. Method of Collection
Responses are made in a variety of
formats, including forms and narrative
submissions, via mail, fax or email. The
Sea Grant Project Record Form (NOAA
Form 90–2) and Sea Grant Budget Form
(NOAA Form 90–4) must be submitted
in electronic format through grants.gov
if the grant applicant has the means to
do so. The proposed modification
would also enable the NOAA Form 90–
2 to be submitted via electronic format.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0362.
Form Number(s): NOAA Forms 90–1,
90–2, and 90–4.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(extension and revision of a currently
approved information collection).
Affected Public: Academic and notfor-profit institutions; individuals or
households; business or other for-profit
organizations; State, Local, or Tribal
government.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
680.
Estimated Time per Response: 30
minutes for a Sea Grant Control form; 20
minutes for a Project Record Form; 15
minutes for a Sea Grant Budget form;
and 20 hours for an application for
designation as a Sea Grant college or Sea
Grant institute.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1091.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $170 for record keeping and
mailed submissions.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
Obtain or Retain Benefits.

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Legal Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1121 et seq.
IV. Request for Comments
We are soliciting public comments to
permit the Department/Bureau to: (a)
Evaluate whether the proposed
information collection is necessary for
the proper functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of our estimate of the time and
cost burden for this proposed collection,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
Evaluate ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) Minimize the
reporting burden on those who are to
respond, including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include or
summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this ICR. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you may ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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BILLING CODE 3510–KA–P

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Notice of Intent To Renew
Collection 3038–0103, Ownership and
Control Reports, Forms 102/102S, 40/
40S, and 71 (Trader and Account
Identification Reports)
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 Information and Regulatory
Affairs (OIRA), of the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), for
review and comment. The ICR describes

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the nature of the information collection
and its expected costs and burden.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before November 27, 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. 3038–0103, 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.
Please submit your comments using
only one of these methods and identify
that it is for the renewal of Collection
Number 3038–0103. 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
Commission reserves the right, but shall
have no obligation, to review, prescreen, filter, redact, refuse or remove
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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: Elie
Mishory, Special Counsel, Division of
Market Oversight, Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, at (202) 418–5609
or emishory@cftc.gov, and refer to OMB
Control No. 3038–0103.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Ownership and Control Reports,
Forms 102/102S, 40/40S, and 71 (Trader
and Account Identification Reports)
(OMB Control No. 3038–0103). This is
a request for extension and revision of
a currently approved information
collection.
Abstract: The ownership and control
reports rules 2 created new information
collection requirements via §§ 17.01,
18.04, 18.05, and 20.5. Specifically,
§ 17.01 provides for the filing of Form
102A, Form 102B and Form 71, as
follows:
• Pursuant to § 17.01(a), futures
commission merchants (‘‘FCMs’’),
clearing members, and foreign brokers
shall identify new special accounts to
the Commission on Form 102A;
• pursuant to § 17.01(b), clearing
members shall identify volume
threshold accounts to the Commission
on Form 102B; and
• pursuant to § 17.01(c), omnibus
volume threshold account originators
and omnibus reportable sub-account
originators shall identify reportable subaccounts to the Commission on Form 71
when requested via a special call by the
Commission or its designee.
Additional reporting requirements
arise from § 18.04, which results in the
collection of information via Form 40
from and regarding traders who own,
hold, or control reportable positions;
volume threshold account controllers;
persons who own volume threshold
accounts; reportable sub-account
controllers; and persons who own
reportable sub-accounts.
Reporting requirements also arise
from § 20.5(a), which requires all
reporting entities to submit Form 102S
2 See Commission, Final Rule: Ownership and
Control Reports, Forms 102/102S, 40/40S, and 71,
78 FR 69178 (November 18, 2013). Terms used
herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have
the meaning assigned to such terms in the final
rules or in the Commission’s regulations.

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