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least every 15 seconds, the market value
of a Share for each Fund, the most
recent NAV for each Fund, the number
of Shares outstanding for each Fund,
and the estimated cash amount and total
cash amount per Creation Unit. Amex
will also make available on its Web site
daily trading volume, the closing prices,
the NAV, and the final dividend
amounts to be paid for each Fund.
Furthermore, the value of each
Underlying Index will be updated intraday as its individual component
securities change in price and
disseminated at least every 60 seconds
from 9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Eastern Time
by Amex or another organization
authorized by the relevant Underlying
Index provider. The Trust’s Web site
will contain a variety of other
quantitative information for the Shares
of each Fund. Finally, each Fund’s total
portfolio composition will be disclosed
on the Web site of the Trust or another
relevant Web site as determined by the
Trust and/or Amex.
Furthermore, the Commission
believes that the proposal is reasonably
designed to preclude trading of the
Shares when transparency is impaired.
Trading in the Shares will be subject to
NYSE Arca Equities Rule 7.34, which
provides that, if the listing market halts
trading when the IIV is not being
calculated or disseminated, the
Exchange also would halt trading. The
Exchange also may halt trading in the
Shares of a Fund when trading is not
occurring in the securities comprising
an Underlying Index and/or the
Financial Instruments of a Fund.
The Commission notes that, if the
Shares should be delisted by the listing
exchange, the Exchange would no
longer have authority to trade the Shares
pursuant to this order.
In support of this proposal, the
Exchange has made the following
representations:
1. The Exchange’s surveillance
procedures are adequate to properly
monitor Exchange trading of the Shares
in all trading sessions and to deter and
detect violations of Exchange rules.
2. Prior to the commencement of
trading, the Exchange would inform its
ETP Holders in an Information Bulletin
of the special characteristics and risks
associated with trading the Shares. In
particular, the Information Bulletin will
disclose that the procedures for
purchases and redemptions of Shares in
Creation Units are described in each
Fund’s prospectus, and that Shares are
not individually redeemable, but are
redeemable only in Creation Unit
aggregations or multiples thereof. The
Information Bulletin would also discuss
the risks involved in trading the Shares
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during the Opening and Late Trading
Sessions when an updated IIV will not
be calculated or publicly disseminated.
3. Prior to the commencement of
trading, the Exchange would inform its
ETP Holders in an Information Bulletin
of the requirement that ETP Holders
deliver a prospectus to investors
purchasing newly issued Shares prior to
or concurrently with the confirmation of
a transaction.
This approval order is conditioned on
the Exchange’s adherence to these
representations.
The Commission finds good cause for
approving this proposal before the
thirtieth day after the publication of
notice thereof in the Federal Register.
As noted previously, the Commission
previously found that the listing and
trading of the Shares on Amex is
consistent with the Act. The
Commission presently is not aware of
any regulatory issue that should cause it
to revisit that finding or would preclude
the trading of the Shares on the
Exchange pursuant to UTP. Therefore,
accelerating approval of this proposal
should benefit investors by creating,
without undue delay, additional
competition in the market for the
Shares.
V. Conclusion
It is therefore ordered, pursuant to
Section 19(b)(2) of the Act,25 that the
proposed rule change (SR–NYSEArca–
2007–79), as amended, be and it hereby
is, approved on an accelerated basis.
For the Commission, by the Division of
Market Regulation, pursuant to delegated
authority.26
Nancy M. Morris,
Secretary.
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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Comment Request
The Social Security Administration
(SSA) publishes a list of information
collection packages that require
clearance by the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) in compliance with
Pub. L. 104–13, the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, effective October
1, 1995. The information collection
packages included in this notice are for
new information collections.
SSA is soliciting comments on the
accuracy of the agency’s burden
estimate; the need for the information;
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its practical utility; ways to enhance its
quality, utility, and clarity; and on ways
to minimize burden on respondents,
including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology. Written
comments and recommendations
regarding the information collection(s)
should be submitted to the OMB Desk
Officer and the SSA Reports Clearance
Officer. The information can be mailed,
faxed or emailed to the individuals at
the addresses and fax numbers listed
below:
(OMB), Office of Management and
Budget, Attn: Desk Officer for SSA,
Fax: 202–395–6974, E-mail address:
OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov.
(SSA), Social Security Administration,
DCBFM, Attn: Reports Clearance
Officer, 1333 Annex Building, 6401
Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21235,
Fax: 410–965–6400, E-mail address:
OPLM.RCO@ssa.gov.
The information collections listed
below have been submitted to OMB for
clearance. Your comments on the
information collections would be most
useful if received by OMB and SSA
within 30 days from the date of this
publication. You can obtain a copy of
the OMB clearance packages by emailing OPLM.RCO@ssa.gov.
1. Authorization for SSA to Disclose
Tax Information for Your Appeal of
Your Medicare Part B Income-Related
Monthly Adjustment Premium
Amount—20 CFR 418.1350–NEW.
Medicare Part B beneficiaries who wish
to appeal SSA’s reconsideration of their
Income-Related Monthly Adjustment
Amount (IRMAA) must ensure that the
relevant Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
income tax data is made available to the
Health and Human Services
Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) who
will consider their appeal. Currently,
SSA is using IRS Form–8821 to obtain
beneficiary authorization to disclose the
IRS beneficiary tax data to the ALJ. With
IRS’s concurrence, SSA has developed
its own form for this purpose, the SSA–
54. The respondents are Medicare Part
B recipients who want to appeal SSA’s
reconsideration of their IRMAA amount.
Type of Request: Revision to an
existing OMB-approved information
collection.
Type of Request: New information
collection.
Number of Respondents: 6,000.
Frequency of Response: 1.
Average Burden Per Response: 15
minutes.
Estimated Annual Burden: 1,500
hours.
2. Race & Ethnicity Qualitative
Research—0960–NEW. Collection
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Background. Currently, SSA has no
reliable, statistically valid means of
capturing race/ethnicity data in our core
business process. While some Race/
Ethnicity data is collected by Form SS–
5, the Application for Social Security
Card, it is not provided to SSA through
other means of enumerating individuals;
e.g., the Enumeration at Birth and
Enumeration at Entry processes.
Additionally, it is not collected during
the disability application process. We
believe that adding race/ethnicity as
questions to SSA’s applications for
benefits will enable SSA to improve its
administrative data. Consequently, we
intend to collect this information in
other SSA application processes. OMB
mandated that Federal agencies
collecting race and ethnicity
information must use consistent
standards established by OMB. We will
follow the OMB standards when
collecting our Race/Ethnicity data.
Race & Ethnicity Qualitative Research
Before SSA collects Race/Ethnicity
data, we plan to conduct several
voluntary focus groups with members of
the public to assess their opinions,
reactions and recommendations on a
proposed form that will be used to
collect the information. The questions
and race and ethnicity categories will
follow the standards developed by
OMB. The information from this
research will be used to develop a
comprehensive collection form. The
respondents are members of the public
who volunteer to participate in the
Race/Ethnicity questions focus groups.
Note: Please note that this Federal Register
Notice is only for the Race and Ethnicity
Quality Research focus groups. We will post
a separate Federal Register Notice in the
future for the actual Race and Ethnicity
information collection.
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Type of Request: New information
collection.
Number of Respondents: 96 (8 focus
groups, 12 participants).
Frequency of Response: 1.
Average Burden per Response: 90
minutes.
Estimated Annual Burden: 144 hours.
Dated: October 3, 2007.
Elizabeth A. Davidson,
Reports Clearance Officer, Social Security
Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
[Public Notice 5954]
Office of the Secretary
Determination and Certification Under
Section 599E of the Foreign
Operations, Export Financing, and
Related Programs Appropriations Act,
2006 (Pub. L. 109–102), as Carried
Forward by the Revised Continuing
Appropriations Resolution, 2007 (Pub.
L. 110–5)
Pursuant to the authority vested in me
as Secretary of State, including under
section 559E of the Foreign Operations,
Export Financing, and Related Programs
Appropriations Act, 2006 (Pub. L. 109–
102), as carried forward by the Revised
Continuing Appropriations Resolution,
2007 (Pub. L. 110–5), I hereby determine
and certify that:
(1) Assistance for the fiscal year will be
provided only for individuals who have (A)
verifiably renounced and terminated any
affiliation or involvement with FTOs or other
illegal armed groups; and (B) are meeting all
the requirements of the Colombian
Demobilization Program, including having
disclosed their involvement in past crimes
and their knowledge of the FTO’s structure,
financing sources, illegal assets, and the
location of kidnapping victims and bodies of
the disappeared;
(2) the Government of Colombia is
providing full cooperation to the Government
of the United States to extradite the leaders
and members of the FTOs who have been
indicted in the United States for murder,
kidnapping, narcotics trafficking, and other
violations of United States law;
(3) the Government of Colombia is
implementing a concrete and workable
framework for dismantling the organizational
structures of foreign terrorist organizations;
and
(4) funds shall not be made available as
cash payments to individuals and are
available only for activities under the
following categories: Verification,
reintegration (including training and
education), vetting, recovery of assets for
reparations for victims, and investigations
and prosecutions.
This Determination shall be published
in the Federal Register and copies shall
be transmitted to the appropriate
committees of Congress.
Dated: September 28, 2007.
Condoleezza Rice,
Secretary of State, Department of State.
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Notice of Request for Renewal of a
Previously Approved Collection
Office of the Secretary,
Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the U.S. Department
of Transportation’s (DOT) intention to
request an extension of the information
collection request (ICR) OMB No. 2105–
0552, Reports by Carriers on Incidents
Involving Animals During Air
Transport. The current information
collection request approved by OMB
expires on March 31, 2008.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by December 10, 2007.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods:
• Web site: https://
www.regulations.gov.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility,
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Ave., SE., Washington, DC
20590–0001.
• Hand Delivery: West Building,
Ground Floor, Rm. W–12–140, 1200
New Jersey Ave., SE., Washington, DC
20590–0001 (between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
EST, Monday through Friday, except on
Federal holidays).
Instructions: All submissions must
include the agency name and docket
number for this notice. Note that all
comments received will be posted
without change to https://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided.
• Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to https://
www.regulations.gov at any time or
West Building, Ground Floor, Rm. W–
12–140, 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE.,
Washington, DC 20590–0001, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m. EST, Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Thomas Goodman or Blane Workie,
Office of the General Counsel, U.S.
Department of Transportation, W–96–
422, 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE.,
Washington, DC 20590–0001, (202) 366–
0205. Refer to OMB Control Number
2105–0552.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Reports by Carriers on Incidents
Involving Animals During Air
Transport.
OMB Control Number: 2105–0552.
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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request
The Social Security Administration (SSA) publishes a list of
information collection packages that require clearance by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with Pub. L. 104-13, the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, effective October 1, 1995. The
information collection packages included in this notice are for new
information collections.
SSA is soliciting comments on the accuracy of the agency's burden
estimate; the need for the information; its practical utility; ways to
enhance its quality, utility, and clarity; and on ways to minimize
burden on respondents, including the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information technology. Written comments
and recommendations regarding the information collection(s) should be
submitted to the OMB Desk Officer and the SSA Reports Clearance
Officer. The information can be mailed, faxed or emailed to the
individuals at the addresses and fax numbers listed below:
(OMB), Office of Management and Budget, Attn: Desk Officer for SSA,
Fax: 202-395-6974, E-mail address: OIRA--Submission@omb.eop.gov.
(SSA), Social Security Administration, DCBFM, Attn: Reports Clearance
Officer, 1333 Annex Building, 6401 Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21235,
Fax: 410-965-6400, E-mail address: OPLM.RCO@ssa.gov.
The information collections listed below have been submitted to OMB
for clearance. Your comments on the information collections would be
most useful if received by OMB and SSA within 30 days from the date of
this publication. You can obtain a copy of the OMB clearance packages
by e-mailing OPLM.RCO@ssa.gov.
1. Authorization for SSA to Disclose Tax Information for Your
Appeal of Your Medicare Part B Income-Related Monthly Adjustment
Premium Amount--20 CFR 418.1350-NEW. Medicare Part B beneficiaries who
wish to appeal SSA's reconsideration of their Income-Related Monthly
Adjustment Amount (IRMAA) must ensure that the relevant Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) income tax data is made available to the Health
and Human Services Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) who will consider
their appeal. Currently, SSA is using IRS Form-8821 to obtain
beneficiary authorization to disclose the IRS beneficiary tax data to
the ALJ. With IRS's concurrence, SSA has developed its own form for
this purpose, the SSA-54. The respondents are Medicare Part B
recipients who want to appeal SSA's reconsideration of their IRMAA
amount.
Type of Request: Revision to an existing OMB-approved information
collection.
Type of Request: New information collection.
Number of Respondents: 6,000.
Frequency of Response: 1.
Average Burden Per Response: 15 minutes.
Estimated Annual Burden: 1,500 hours.
2. Race & Ethnicity Qualitative Research--0960-NEW. Collection
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Background. Currently, SSA has no reliable, statistically valid means
of capturing race/ethnicity data in our core business process. While
some Race/Ethnicity data is collected by Form SS-5, the Application for
Social Security Card, it is not provided to SSA through other means of
enumerating individuals; e.g., the Enumeration at Birth and Enumeration
at Entry processes. Additionally, it is not collected during the
disability application process. We believe that adding race/ethnicity
as questions to SSA's applications for benefits will enable SSA to
improve its administrative data. Consequently, we intend to collect
this information in other SSA application processes. OMB mandated that
Federal agencies collecting race and ethnicity information must use
consistent standards established by OMB. We will follow the OMB
standards when collecting our Race/Ethnicity data.
Race & Ethnicity Qualitative Research
Before SSA collects Race/Ethnicity data, we plan to conduct several
voluntary focus groups with members of the public to assess their
opinions, reactions and recommendations on a proposed form that will be
used to collect the information. The questions and race and ethnicity
categories will follow the standards developed by OMB. The information
from this research will be used to develop a comprehensive collection
form. The respondents are members of the public who volunteer to
participate in the Race/Ethnicity questions focus groups.
Note: Please note that this Federal Register Notice is only for
the Race and Ethnicity Quality Research focus groups. We will post a
separate Federal Register Notice in the future for the actual Race
and Ethnicity information collection.
Type of Request: New information collection.
Number of Respondents: 96 (8 focus groups, 12 participants).
Frequency of Response: 1.
Average Burden per Response: 90 minutes.
Estimated Annual Burden: 144 hours.
Dated: October 3, 2007.
Elizabeth A. Davidson,
Reports Clearance Officer, Social Security Administration.
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