Agencies and Commissions September 14, 2016 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The FTC plans to conduct a qualitative survey of consumers who recently purchased an automobile and financed that purchase through a dealer. Through a survey research firm, the FTC seeks to interview consumers about the consumers' experience in selecting, purchasing, and financing an automobile from a dealer. The interviews also will involve reviewing the consumer's documentation from the purchase and financing. This is the second of two notices required under the Paperwork Reduction Act (``PRA'') in which the FTC seeks public comments on its proposed consumer research. The proposed information collection described below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (``OMB'') for review, as required by the PRA.

DoD, GSA, and NASA are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to raise the dollar threshold requirement for the audit of prime contract settlement proposals and subcontract settlements from $100,000 to $750,000.

In accordance with Sec. 103(c)(6) of the Presidio Trust Act, 16 U.S.C. 460bb appendix, and in accordance with the Presidio Trust's bylaws, notice is hereby given that a public meeting of the Presidio Trust Board of Directors will be held commencing 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 6, 2016, at the Officers' Club, 50 Moraga Avenue, Presidio of San Francisco, California. The Presidio Trust was created by Congress in 1996 to manage approximately eighty percent of the former U.S. Army base known as the Presidio, in San Francisco, California. The purposes of this meeting are to take action on the minutes of a previous Board meeting; to provide the Chairperson's report; to provide the Chief Executive Officer's report; to provide committee reports; to provide partners' reports; to receive public feedback on priorities; and to receive public comment in accordance with the Trust's Public Outreach Policy. Individuals requiring special accommodation at this meeting, such as needing a sign language interpreter, should contact Mollie Matull at 415.561.5300 prior to September 29, 2016.

At the request of Advisors Series Trust (``AST'') and Orinda Asset Management, LLC (``Orinda,'' and together, the ``Applicants''), the Commission intends to rescind an order previously issued to Applicants under section 6(c) of the Act that granted an exemption from section 15(a) of the Act and rule 18f-2 under the Act, as well as from certain disclosure requirements.\1\

Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974 the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is proposing to add an additional general routine use, add an additional routine use to PBGC-3, Employee Payroll, Leave, and Attendance Records, add an additional routine use to PBGC- 19, Office of General Counsel Case Management System, delete a routine use from PBGC-22, Telework and Alternative Worksite Records, establish a new system of records, PBGC-24, Participant Debt Collection, and make various technical and clarifying changes to eighteen existing systems of records.