2018-00469

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 9 (Friday, January 12, 2018)

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 9 (Friday, January 12, 2018)]

[Notices]

[Pages 1609-1611]

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

[FR Doc No: 2018-00469]

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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION

Agency Information Collection Activities: Notice of Intent To

Revise Collection Numbers 3038-0052 and 3038-0074, Core Principles and

Other Requirements for Designated Contract Markets, and Core Principles

and Other Requirements for Swap Execution Facilities

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

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ACTION: Notice.

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

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

proposed revision of two collections of certain 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, including each proposed extension

of an existing collection of information, and to allow 60 days for

public comment. This notice solicits comments, as described below, on

the proposed Information Collection Requests (``ICR'') titled: OMB

Control Number 3038-0074 and Part 38, Relating to Core Principles and

Other Requirements for Designated Contract Markets; and OMB Control

Number 3038-0052 and Part 37, Relating to Core Principles and Other

Requirements for Swap Execution Facilities. This notice also solicits

comments on the collection of information mandated by the Commission

regulation on Contents of Notice of Disciplinary or Access Denial

Action. The collection of information burden associated with that

regulation belongs to OMB Control Nos. 3038-0052 and 3038-0074.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before March 13, 2018.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by OMB Control Nos.

3038-0052 and 3038-0074 by any of the following methods:

CFTC website: https://comments.cftc.gov. Follow the

instructions for submitting comments through the Comments Online

process on the website.

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.

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.

Follow the instructions for submitting comments.

Please submit your comments using only one method.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Steinberg, Associate Director,

Division of Market Oversight, Commodity Futures Trading Commission,

(202) 418-5102; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the PRA, Federal agencies must obtain

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

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

Information'' is defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 1320.3 and

includes agency requests or requirements that members of the public

submit reports, keep records, or provide information to a third party.

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

concerning each proposed collection of information, including each

proposed extension of an existing collection of information, before

submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To comply with this

requirement, the CFTC is publishing notice of the proposed amendments

to the collections of information listed below. 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.

Title: Core Principles and Other Requirements for Designated

Contract Markets (OMB Control No. 3038-0052), and Core Principles and

Other Requirements for Swap Execution Facilities (OMB Control No. 3038-

0074). This is a request for an extension of currently approved

information collections.

Abstract: The regulations governing designated contract markets

(``DCMs'') were adopted pursuant to the requirements of the Commodity

Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (``CFMA'').\1\ Part 38 of the

Commission's regulations governs the activities of DCMs. The

information collected pursuant to part 38 is necessary for the

Commission to evaluate whether entities operating as, or applying to

become DCMs, comply with the part 38 requirements including 23 core

principles.

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\1\ 7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.

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In June 2012, the Commission implemented core principles and other

requirements for DCMs (``DCM Final Rules'').\2\ The Commission stated

in the DCM Final Rules that 18 DCMs were registered with the

Commission.\3\ However, since publication of the DCM Final Rules, the

number of DCMs registered with the Commission has decreased from 18 to

15. Accordingly, the Commission is revising the below burden statement

from the DCM Final Rules to account for the decrease in the number of

registered DCMs.

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\2\ 77 FR 36612 (June 19, 2012).

\3\ Id. at 36663.

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Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer

Protection Act (``Dodd-Frank Act'') added new section 5h to the

Commodity Exchange Act (``CEA'') to impose requirements concerning the

registration and operation of swap execution facilities (``SEFs''),

which the Commission has incorporated in part 37 of its regulations.

These information collections are needed for the Commission to ensure

that SEFs comply with these requirements. Among other requirements,

part 37 of the Commission's regulations imposes SEF registration

requirements for a trading platform or system, obligates SEFs to

provide transaction confirmations to swap counterparties, and requires

SEFs to comply with 15 core principles.

In September 2016, the Commission published a 30-Day Notice of

Intent to Renew Collection 3038-0074 (30-Day Renewal Notice) and stated

that 23 SEFs were registered with the Commission.\4\ However, since

publication of the 30-Day Renewal Notice, the Commission has granted

permanent registration to two additional SEFs, for a total of 25

registered SEFs. Therefore, the Commission is revising the below burden

statement from the 30-Day Renewal Notice to account for the increase in

the number of registered SEFs.

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\4\ 81 FR 65630 (Sept. 23, 2016).

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In a separate document published elsewhere in this issue of the

Federal Register, the Commission adopted regulation 9.11(b)(3)(ii)

requiring a DCM or SEF (collectively, ``exchange'') to include two

additional elements in the disciplinary or access denial notice action

provided to the National Futures Association. First, an exchange must

include the type of product (as applicable) involved in the adverse

action.\5\ Requiring an exchange to provide this information in the

disciplinary or access denial notice will provide the Commission,

market participants, the public, and other exchanges with greater

transparency concerning where market abuses originate and whether the

abuses are concentrated among certain product types. Second, an

exchange must indicate in its notice of disciplinary or access denial

actions whether the violation underlying the notice resulted in

financial harm to any customers. This requirement codifies the

clarification contained in an advisory previously issued by the

Commission (``Part 9 Advisory'').\6\ The Commission believes

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that the inclusion of customer harm is essential because it cannot

effectively perform its regulatory and oversight functions without

knowledge of those instances in which brokers violate their fiduciary

duty to customers by taking advantage of customer orders and engaging

in fraudulent activity. The collections of information are mandatory.

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\5\ For example, a product trading on a designated contract

market might be specified as a July 2016 Eurodollar future; while a

product trading on a swap execution facility may be a CDX North

American High Yield Series 26 5 year.

\6\ The Part 9 Advisory permitted an exchange to file

disciplinary or access denial notices with the Commission or the

National Futures Association. 64 FR 39915 (July 23, 1999).

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With respect to the collection of information, the CFTC invites

comments on:

Whether the proposed collection of information is

necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the

Commission, including whether the information will have a practical

use;

The accuracy of the Commission's estimate of the burden of

the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the

methodology and assumptions used;

Ways to enhance the quality, usefulness, and clarity of

the information to be collected; and

Ways to minimize the burden of collection of information

on those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate

automated electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection

techniques or other forms of information technology; e.g., permitting

electronic submission of responses.

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.\7\

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\7\ 17 CFR 145.9.

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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 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.

Burden Statement: The Commission believes that the additional

burden for an exchange to add the two additional elements in the

contents of the disciplinary or access denial notice is de minimis.\8\

Accordingly, the Commission is maintaining its current estimate of the

burden for both collections as result of these reporting requirements.

However, the Commission is amending its estimates for the collections

to account for the change in the number of DCMs and SEFs currently

registered with the Commission. The current respondent burden for these

collections are estimated to be as follows:

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\8\ The Commission stated in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

that the burden associated with Commission regulation 9.11(b)(3)(ii)

requiring an exchange to specify the product involved in the

disciplinary or access denial action would be de minimis. 82 FR 7745

(Jan. 23, 2017). The Commission did not receive any comments

regarding this determination. The Commission estimates that it will

take an exchange just a few seconds to add the product involved in

the adverse action and whether the violation underlying the notice

resulted in financial harm to any customers.

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OMB Control No. 3038-0052 (Core Principles and Other

Requirements for Designated Contract Markets).

Number of Respondents: 15.

Estimated Annual Burden Hours per Respondent: 490.5.

Estimated Total Burden Hours on Respondents: 7,357.5.

Frequency of Collection: As applicable.

OMB Control No. 3038-0074 (Core Principles and Other

Requirements for Swap Execution Facilities).

Number of Respondents: 25.

Estimated Annual Burden Hours per Respondent: 1,000.

Estimated Total Burden Hours on Respondents: 25,000.

Frequency of Collection: As applicable.

The regulations require no new startup or operations and

maintenance costs.

(Authority 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.)

Dated: January 9, 2018.

Christopher Kirkpatrick,

Secretary of the Commission.

[FR Doc. 2018-00469 Filed 1-11-18; 8:45 am]

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