2012-26625

Federal Register, Volume 77 Issue 210 (Tuesday, October 30, 2012)[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 210 (Tuesday, October 30, 2012)]

[Notices]

[Pages 65675-65676]

From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

[FR Doc No: 2012-26625]

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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION

Financial Education Content Needs Survey

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Office of Consumer

Outreach.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``CFTC'' or

``Commission'') is announcing an opportunity for public comment on a

proposed collection of information by the agency. Under the Paperwork

Reduction Act (``PRA''), Federal agencies are required to publish

notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of

information and to allow 60 days for public comment. The Commission's

Office of Consumer Outreach would like to distribute a survey designed

to collect data from employees at organizations that provide financial

education information to their constituents. The information collected

will assist the CFTC's Office of Consumer Outreach in determining how

to provide its financial education content to these employees and

organizations. This notice solicits comments on the reporting

requirements that are part of the proposed survey.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before December 31, 2012.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, regarding the burden estimated or

any other aspect of the information collection, including suggestions

for reducing the burden, by any of the following methods:

Agency Web site, via its Comments Online process: http://comments.cftc.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments

through the Web site.

Mail: Send to Sauntia Warfield, Assistant Secretary,

Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 1155 21st Street NW., Washington,

DC 20581.

Hand delivery/Courier: Same as Mail above.

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov/search/index.jsp. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.

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. 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, a petition for confidential treatment of

the exempt information may be submitted according to the procedures

established in Sec. 145.9 of the Commission's regulations.\1\

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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 rulemaking 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: Nisha Smalls, Consumer Education &

Outreach Specialist, 202-418-5000, consumers@cftc.gov, Office of

Consumer Outreach, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Three

Lafayette Centre, 1151 21st Street NW., Washington, DC 20581.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the PRA, federal agencies must obtain

approval from the Office of Management and Budget (``OMB'') for each

collection of information they collect or sponsor. ``Collection of

information'' is defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) as ``the obtaining,

causing to be obtained, soliciting * * * facts or opinions by or for

any agency, regardless of form or format [from] ten or more persons.''

An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to

respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB

control number.

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 for

each proposed collection of information before submitting the

collection to OMB for approval. Under OMB regulations, which implement

provisions of the PRA, certain ``facts or opinions that are submitted

in response to a general solicitation of comments from the public,

published in the Federal Register or other publications,'' 5 CFR

1320.3(h)(4), or ``facts or opinions obtained or solicited at or in

connection with public hearings or meetings,'' 5 CFR 1320.3(h)(8), are

excluded from the OMB approval process. The Federal Register notice

with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on this collection of

information was published on August 16, 2012 (77 FR 49428). The

Commission received no comments on this collection of information.

In accordance with 7 U.S.C. 26, the CFTC is posing survey questions

to the public. Questions included in the survey will inquire as to how

often the respondents would like to receive content from CFTC, the

format in which the respondents would like to receive information, and

the topics the information should cover.

The Office of Consumer Outreach develops campaigns to change

consumer behaviors, so that consumers can better avoid fraud as defined

under the Commodities Exchange Act. The first campaign from the Office

of Consumer Outreach involves utilizing government and non-profit

agency distribution methods to provide anti-fraud information to

consumers. This survey will assist the Office of Consumer Outreach in

determining how the government and non-profit agencies would like to

receive the anti-fraud information from the CFTC. The respondent burden

for this collection is estimated to be 10 minutes per response. This

estimate includes the time to prepare the written or electronic

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survey and transmit it to the Commission. The Commission estimates the

average burden of this collection of information as follows:

Estimated Annual Reporting Burden Hours

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17 CFR........... Annual 500....... Frequency 1 Hours per 10 Total 500....... 83.3 hours $0.

response per minutes per

respondent. response Cost

is $0.

17 CFR........... 500.............. At this time 10 minutes...... 500............. $0.

only one

response is

required.

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Issued by the Commission this 25th day of October 2012.

Sauntia S. Warfield,

Assistant Secretary of the Commission.

[FR Doc. 2012-26625 Filed 10-29-12; 8:45 am]

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Last Updated: October 31, 2012