Agency Information Collection Activities: Approved Collection; Comment Request; Rules, Regulations, and Forms for Domestic and Foreign Futures and Options Relating to Registration with the Commission

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION

RIN 3038-AB45

Agency Information Collection Activities: Approved Collection;

Comment Request; Rules, Regulations, and Forms for Domestic and Foreign

Futures and Options Relating to Registration with the Commission

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501

et seq.), this notices announces that the Office of Management and

budget (OMB) has approved the following collection of information: OMB

Control Number 3038-0023, Rules, Regulations, and Forms for Domestic

and Foreign Futures and Options Relating to Registration with the

Commission, expiration date November 30, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan Elliot, Commodity Futures

Trading Commission, 1155 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC 20581;

Telephone: (202) 418-5464, FAX (202) 418-5536, email [email protected]

and refer to OMB Control Number 3038-0023.

Abstract: On August 26, 1999, the CFTC published a notice of

proposed rulemaking (64 FR 46613) proposing to adopt amendments to Part

30 of the Commission's regulations to clarify when foreign futures and

options brokers who are members of a foreign board of trade must

register or obtain an exemption from registration. This collection of

information reflects the Commission's proposal to codify some of the

interpretations and positions the Commission has taken regarding

registration requirements under these rules. Responses to the

collection of information are mandatory pursuant to Sections

2(a)(1)(A), 4(b), and 4c of the Commodity Exchange Act.

The estimated average burden of the collection is as follows:

Estimated number of respondents: 73,610.

Estimated total annual responses: 76,860.

Estimated total number of hours of annual burden in fiscal year:

12,645.

Estimated average number of hours per response: 0.16.

The Commission welcomes comments concerning the accuracy of this

burden estimate and any suggestions for reducing the burden.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Barbara W. Black, Commodity Futures Trading

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Commission, 1155 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC 20581; telephone:

(202) 418-5130; FAX (202) 418-5541; email [email protected].

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 OMB control numbers for the

CFTC's regulations were published on December 30, 1981. See 46 FR 63035

(Dec. 30,1981). The Federal Register notice with a 60-day comment

period soliciting comments on this collection of information was

published on August 31, 1999 (64 FR 47452).

Issued by the Commission in Washington, DC, on December 6, 1999.

Jean A. Webb,

Secretary of the Commission.

[FR Doc. 99-32031 Filed 12-9-99; 8:45 am]

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