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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 17 / Thursday, January 28, 2021 / Notices
documentation that can be inspected with regard to questions of proper compliance with gross margining requirements. This rule is promulgated pursuant to the Commissions rulemaking authority contained in Sections 4c, 4d, 4f, 4g and 8a of the Commodity Exchange Act, 7 U.S.C. 6c, 6d, 6f, 6g and 12a.
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. The Federal Register notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on this collection of information was published on November 27, 2020 85 FR 76037 60Day Notice. The Commission did not receive any relevant comments on the 60-Day Notice.
Burden Statement: The Commission is revising its estimate of the burden due to the reduced number of futures commission merchants in the industry.
The respondent burden for this collection is estimated to be as follows:
Respondents/Affected Entities: 53.
Estimated Total Annual Responses:
212.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 17 hours.
Frequency of collection: On occasion.
There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.
Dated: January 25, 2021.
Robert Sidman, Deputy Secretary of the Commission.
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
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Agency Information Collection Activities: Notice of Intent To Renew Collection 30380082, Whistleblower Provision 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 March 1, 2021.
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Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be submitted within 30 days of this notices publication to OIRA, at https
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Please find this particular information collection by selecting Currently under 30-day ReviewOpen for Public Comments or by using the websites 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 ICRAgency 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. 30380082, 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 Commissions 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 ADDRESSES:

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required under the Administrative Procedure Act and other applicable laws, and may be accessible under the Freedom of Information Act.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Christopher Ehrman, Director, Whistleblower Office, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 202
4187650; email: cehrman@cftc.gov, and refer to OMB Control No. 3038
0082.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: The Whistleblower Provision of Section 23 of the Commodity Exchange Act OMB Control No. 30380082. This is a request for extension of a currently approved information collection.
Abstract: 17 CFR 165.3a requires the submission of information to the Commission on a Form TCR. The Form TCR, Tip, Complaint, or Referral, and the instructions thereto, are designed to capture basic identifying information about a complainant and elicit sufficient information to determine whether the conduct alleged suggests a violation of the Commodity Exchange Act. 17 CFR
165.7b1 requires the submission of information to the Commission on a Form WBAPP. The Form WBAPP, Application for Award for Original Information Provided Pursuant to Section 23 of the Commodity Exchange Act, and the instructions thereto, are designed to elicit sufficient information to determine whether and to what extent a claimant qualifies for a whistleblower award.
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.2 On November 24, 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 74995 60-Day Notice. The Commission received no relevant comments.
Burden Statement: The respondent burden for this collection is estimated to be as follows:
Estimated Number of Respondents:
900 per year.
Estimated Average Burden Hours per Respondent: 0.5 hour.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 450 hours.
Frequency of Collection: Once.
There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.
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