30-Day Federal Register Notice

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Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 245 / Friday, December 22, 2023 / Notices

Delivery and Industrial Equipment CMC,
Philadelphia, PA
NSN(s)—Product Name(s):
7045–01–599–2657—Encrypted Compact
Disc, Recordable, 25 CDs on Spindle,
Silver
7045–01–436–7853—Compact Disc,
Recordable, Gold, BX/5
7045–01–470–3596—Compact Disc,
Rewritable, EA/1
Designated Source of Supply: North Central
Sight Services, Inc., Williamsport, PA
Contracting Activity: DLA TROOP SUPPORT,
PHILADELPHIA, PA
NSN(s)—Product Name(s): 8970–00–NIB–
0034—Personal Hygiene Kit
Designated Source of Supply: Tarrant County
Association for the Blind, Fort Worth,
TX
Contracting Activity: GSA/FSS SPECIAL
PROGRAMS DIVISION, ARLINGTON,
VA
NSN(s)—Product Name(s): 7520–01–619–
0302—Portable Desktop Clipboard, 91⁄2″
W x 11⁄2″ D x 131⁄2″ H, Army Green
Designated Source of Supply: LC Industries,
Inc., Durham, NC
Contracting Activity: GSA/FAS ADMIN
SVCS ACQUISITION BR(2, NEW YORK,
NY
Service(s)
Service Type: Janitorial
Designated for: US Army Corps of Engineers,
Transatlantic Middle East District,
Admiral Byrd; Facility, Winchester, VA;
222 Admiral Byrd Drive; Winchester, VA
Designated Source of Supply: NW Works,
Inc., Winchester, VA
Contracting Activity: DEPT OF THE ARMY,
W31R ENDIS MIDDLE EAST
Michael R. Jurkowski,
Acting Director, Business Operations.
[FR Doc. 2023–28280 Filed 12–21–23; 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 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 January 22, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed

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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. 3038–0062, 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
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
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laws, and may be accessible under the
Freedom of Information Act.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Philip Newsom, Special Counsel,
Market Participants Division,
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, (202) 418–5301; email:
pnewsom@cftc.gov, and refer to OMB
Control No. 3038–0062.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Off-Exchange Foreign Currency
Transactions (OMB Control No. 3038–
0062). This is a request for an extension/
revision of a currently approved
information collection.
Abstract: Part 5 of the Commission’s
regulations under the CEA establishes
rules applicable to retail foreign
exchange dealers (‘‘RFEDs’’), futures
commission merchants (‘‘FCMs’’),
introducing brokers (‘‘IBs’’), commodity
trading advisors (‘‘CTAs’’), and
commodity pool operators (‘‘CPOs’’)
engaged in the offer and sale of offexchange forex contracts to retail
customers. Specifically:
• Regulation 5.5 requires RFEDs,
FCMs, and IBs to distribute risk
disclosure statements to new retail forex
customers.
• Regulation 5.6 requires RFEDs and
FCMs to report any failures to maintain
the minimum capital required by
Commission regulations.
• Regulation 5.8 requires RFEDs and
FCMs to calculate their total retail forex
obligation.
• Regulation 5.10 requires RFEDs to
maintain and preserve certain risk
assessment documentation.
• Regulation 5.11(a)(1) requires
RFEDs to submit certain risk assessment
documentation to the Commission
within 60 days of the effective date of
their registration.
• Regulation 5.11(a)(2) requires
RFEDs to submit certain financial
documentation to the Commission
within 105 calendar days of the end of
each fiscal year. RFEDs must also
submit additional information, if
requested, regarding affiliates’ financial
impact on an RFED’s organizational
structure.
• Regulation 5.12(a) requires RFED
applicants to submit a Form 1–FR–FCM
concurrently with their registration
application.
• Regulation 5.12(b) requires
registered RFEDs to file a Form 1–FR–
FCM on a monthly and annual basis.
• Regulation 5.12(g) states that, in the
event that an RFED cannot file its Form
1–FR–FCM for any period within the
time specified in Regulation 5.12(b), the
RFED may file an application for an
extension of time with its self-regulatory
organization.

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• Regulation 5.13(a) requires RFEDs
and FCMs to provide monthly account
statements to their customers.
• Regulation 5.13(b) requires RFEDs
and FCMs to provide confirmation
statements to their customers within
one business day after the execution of
any retail forex or forex option
transaction.
• Regulation 5.14 requires RFEDs and
FCMs to maintain current ledgers of
each transaction affecting its asset,
liability, income, expense and capital
accounts.
• Regulation 5.18(g) requires each
RFED, FCM, CPO, CTA, and IB subject
to part 5 to maintain a record of all
communications received that give rise
to possible violations of the Act, rules,
regulations or orders thereunder related
to their retail forex business.
• Regulation 5.18(i) requires each
RFED and FCM to prepare and maintain
on a quarterly basis a calculation of
nondiscretionary retail forex customer
accounts open for any period of time
during the quarter that were profitable,
and the percentage of such accounts that
were not profitable.
• Regulation 5.18(j) requires the chief
compliance officer of each RFED and
FCM to certify annually that the firm
has in place processes to establish,
maintain, review, modify and test
policies and procedures reasonably
designed to achieve compliance with
the Act, rules, regulations and orders
thereunder.
• Regulation 5.19 requires each
RFED, FCM, CPO, CTA, and IB subject
to part 5 to submit to the Commission
copies of any dispositive or partially
dispositive decision for which a notice
of appeal has been filed in any material
legal proceeding (1) to which the firm is
a party to or to which its property or
assets is subject with respect to retail
forex transactions, or (2) instituted
against any person who is a principal of
the firm arising from conduct in such
person’s capacity as a principal of that
firm.
• Regulation 5.20 requires RFEDs,
FCMs and IBs to submit documentation
requested pursuant to certain types of
special calls by the Commission.
• Regulation 5.23 requires RFEDs,
FCMs and IBs to notify the Commission
regarding bulk transfers and bulk
liquidations of customer accounts.
The rules establish reporting and
recordkeeping requirements that are
necessary to implement the provisions
of the Food, Conservation, and Energy
Act of 2008 2 regarding off-exchange
transactions in foreign currency with
2 Public Law 110–246, 122 Stat. 1651, 2189–220
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members of the public. The rules are
intended to promote customer
protection by providing safeguards
against irresponsible or fraudulent
business practices.3
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.4 On October 16, 2023,
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, 88
FR 71341 (‘‘60-Day Notice’’). The
Commission did not receive any
relevant comments on the 60-Day
Notice.
Burden Statement: The Commission
is revising its burden estimate for 81
respondents, which include RFEDs,
FCMs, IBs, CPOs, and CTAs. The
respondent burden for this collection is
estimated to be as follows:
Estimated Number of Respondents:
81.
Estimated Average Burden Hours per
Respondent: 1,757.5
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 142,324.
Frequency of Collection: As
applicable.
There are no capital costs or operating
and maintenance costs associated with
this collection.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.)
Dated: December 19, 2023.
Robert Sidman,
Deputy Secretary of the Commission.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Air Force

88591

Inc. having a place of business at 9213
Bolero Ave., Bakersfield, CA, 93312.
Written objections must be filed
no later than fifteen (15) calendar days
after the date of publication of this
Notice.

DATES:

Submit written objections to
the Air Force Materiel Command Law
Office, AFMCLO/JAZ, 2240 B Street,
Room 260, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
45433–7109; Facsimile: (937) 255–3733;
or Email: afmclo.jaz.tech@us.af.mil.
Include Docket No. ARW–231206A–P in
the subject line of the message.

ADDRESSES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

William Loux, AFRL/RWSP, 101 W
Eglin Blvd., Eglin AFB, FL 32542–6810;
Phone: 850–882–3920; or Email:
william.loux.2@us.af.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Abstract of Patent Application(s)
A touch-based tracking method
comprises starting a GUI which displays
an environment; observing at least one
of the presence or absence of one or
more targets in relation to features in the
environment; when an observation is
made, reporting the observation through
the GUI to form an input; reporting the
observation in the GUI with a hand
gesture; applying an algorithm to
convert the input into a probability
distribution; and updating a target state
estimate and alters the environment
display. The environment may be an
area or a map, and the map may include
a plurality of features, e.g. roads,
building structures, forest, and water.
The observation indicates the presence
or non-presence of the one or more
targets. The hand gesture is made on the
map, such as a swiping motion with one
or more fingers on the GUI, wherein the
hand gesture indicates the strength of
the observation.

[ARW–231206A–PL]

Intellectual Property

Notice of Intent To Grant an Exclusive
Patent License

CURTIS et al., U.S. Patent no.
11,429,273 B1 issued 30 August 2022
and entitled ‘‘Touch-Based Tracking
system and Method.’’
The Department of the Air Force may
grant the prospective license unless a
timely objection is received that
sufficiently shows the grant of the
license would be inconsistent with the
Bayh-Dole Act or implementing
regulations. A competing application for
a patent license agreement, completed
in compliance with 37 CFR 404.8 and
received by the Air Force within the
period for timely objections, will be
treated as an objection and may be
considered as an alternative to the
proposed license.

Department of the Air Force,
Department of Defense.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
AGENCY:

Pursuant to the Bayh-Dole Act
and implementing regulations, the
Department of the Air Force hereby
gives notice of its intent to grant an
exclusive patent license to ValorTrac

SUMMARY:

3 See Regulation of Off-Exchange Retail Foreign
Exchange Transactions and Intermediaries, 75 FR
55410, 55416 (Sept. 10, 2010).
4 44 U.S.C. 3512, 5 CFR 1320.5(b)(2)(i) and 1320.8
(b)(3)(vi).
5 This figure has been rounded from 1,757.09 to
the nearest whole number.

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