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SUMMARY: This is an amendment of the
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OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY POLICY
Executive Office of the President;
Transparency and Open Government
SUMMARY: The President’s January 21,
2009, memorandum entitled,
Transparency and Open Government,
directed the Chief Technology Officer,
in coordination with the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) and the
General Services Administration (GSA),
to develop a set of recommendations
that will inform an Open Government
Directive. This directive will be issued
by OMB and will instruct executive
departments and agencies on specific
actions to implement the principles set
forth in the President’s memorandum.
Members of the public are invited to
participate in the process of developing
recommendations via email or the
White House Web site at https://
www.whitehouse.gov/open offering
comments, ideas, and proposals about
possible initiatives and about how to
increase openness and transparency in
government.
DATES: Comments must be received by
June 19, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments by one of
the following methods:
• https://www.whitehouse.gov/open.
• E-mail: opengov@ostp.gov.
• Mail: Office of Science and
Technology Policy, Attn: Open
Government Recommendations, 725
17th Street, Washington, DC 20502.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice could be made available to
the public online or by alternative
means. For this reason, please do not
include in your comments information
of a confidential nature, such as
sensitive personal information or
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proprietary information. If you submit
an e-mail comment, your e-mail address
will be captured automatically and
included as part of the comment that is
placed in the public docket and made
available on the Internet.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Office of Science and Technology
Policy, Attn: Open Government, 725
17th Street, NW., Washington, DC
20502.
In his
January 21, 2009, Presidential
Memorandum to the Heads of Executive
Departments and Agencies, published in
the Federal Register [74 FR 4685,
January 26, 2009], the President
outlined three principles for promoting
a transparent and open government:
• Transparency promotes
accountability and provides information
to citizens about what their Government
is doing;
• Participation enhances the
Government’s effectiveness and
improves the quality of its decisions by
tapping knowledge that is widely
dispersed in society; and
• Collaboration harnesses innovative
tools, methods, and systems to promote
cooperation across all levels of
Government and with the private sector.
The Presidential Memorandum requests
recommendations to inform an OMB
Directive that will instruct executive
departments and agencies on specific
actions to implement the three
principles of transparency,
participation, and collaboration.
The purpose of this Federal Register
notice is to solicit public participation
in the development of those
recommendations. There is a great deal
of dispersed information among the
nation’s citizens. With twenty-first
century tools, the United States is in a
unique position to take advantage of
that dispersed information to inform the
policymaking process. Our goal is to use
the principles of open government to
obtain fresh ideas about open
government itself.
Comments on open government may
relate to government-wide or agencyspecific policy, project ideas, and
relevant examples. Comments may
address law, policy, technology, culture,
and practice on issues such as:
• What government information
should be more readily available on-line
or more easily searched?
• How might the operations of
government be made more transparent
and accountable?
• How might federal advisory
committees, rulemaking, or electronic
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rulemaking be better used to improve
decisionmaking?
• What alternative models exist to
improve the quality of decisionmaking
and increase opportunities for citizen
participation?
• What are the limitations to
transparency?
• What strategies might be employed
to adopt greater use of Web 2.0 in
agencies?
• What policy impediments to
innovation in government currently
exist?
• What changes in training or hiring
of personnel would enhance
innovation?
• What performance measures are
necessary to determine the effectiveness
of open government policies?
This public process is not intended to,
and does not, create any right or benefit,
substantive or procedural, enforceable at
law or in equity by any party against the
United States, its departments, agencies,
or entities, its officers, employees, or
agents, or any other person.
John P. Holdren,
Director, Office of Science and Technology
Policy.
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Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of
Proposed Rule Change Relating to the
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Options Traded on the Exchange
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May 14, 2009.
Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(‘‘Act’’) 1 and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,2
notice is hereby given that on May 8,
2009, The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC
(‘‘Nasdaq’’) filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (‘‘SEC’’ or
‘‘Commission’’) the proposed rule
change as described in Items I and II
below, which Items have been prepared
by Nasdaq. Nasdaq filed the proposed
rule change as a ‘‘non-controversial’’
proposed rule change pursuant to
Section 19(b)(3)(A) of the Act 3 and Rule
19b-4(f)(6) thereunder,4 which renders
the proposal effective upon filing with
1 15
U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
CFR 240.19b-4.
3 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A).
4 17 CFR 240.19b-4(f)(6).
the Commission. The Commission is
publishing this notice to solicit
comments on the proposed rule change
from interested persons.
A. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule
Change
I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Terms of Substance of
the Proposed Rule Change
1. Purpose
This proposed rule change is based
directly on recent rule change proposals
of NASDAQ OMX PHLX, Inc. (‘‘Phlx’’) 5
and other option exchanges.6
This rule change is being proposed,
subsequent to the merger of The
NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (‘‘NASDAQ
OMX’’) and the Philadelphia Stock
Exchange, Inc. (now NASDAQ OMX
PHLX),7 to more closely align, to the
extent practicable, certain listing rules
of the Exchange (NOM) and Phlx.8
Chapter IV, Sections 3 and 4 (referred
to in this filing as ‘‘Sections 3 and 4’’
or individually as ‘‘Section 3’’ and
‘‘Section 4’’) generally indicate on
which underlying securities the
Exchange may initially list and continue
to list options. The purpose of the
proposed rule change is to revise
Sections 3 and 4 to enable the listing
and trading of options on: Index-Linked
Securities that are principally traded on
a national securities exchange and an
‘‘NMS stock’’ as defined in Rule 600 of
Regulation NMS; Index Multiple ETFs
and Index Inverse ETFs (together known
as ‘‘Multiple Inverse ETFs’’); Currency
Nasdaq proposes for NOM to modify
Chapter IV, Section 3 (Criteria for
Underlying Securities) and Section 4
(Withdrawal of Approval of Underlying
Securities) of its options rules to: (1)
Enable listing and trading of options on
equity index-linked securities,
commodity-linked securities, currencylinked securities, fixed income indexlinked securities, futures-linked
securities, and multifactor index-linked
securities (collectively referred to as
‘‘Index-Linked Securities’’) that are
principally traded on a national
securities exchange and an ‘‘NMS
stock’’ as defined in Rule 600 of
Regulation NMS; (2) enable listing and
trading of options on Index Multiple
Exchange Traded Fund Shares (‘‘Index
Multiple ETFs’’) and Index Inverse
Exchange Traded Fund Shares (‘‘Index
Inverse ETFs’’); (3) enable listing and
trading of options on certain funds that
hold specified non-U.S. currencies
(‘‘Currency Trust Shares’’); and (4)
enable listing and trading of options on
commodity pool interests that hold and/
or manage portfolios or baskets of
securities, commodity futures contracts,
options on commodity futures contracts,
swaps, forward contracts and/or options
on physical commodities and/or nonU.S. currency (‘‘Commodity Pool
ETFs’’).
The text of the proposed rule change
is available from Nasdaq’s Web site at
https://nasdaq.cchwallstreet.com, at
Nasdaq’s principal office, and at the
Commission’s Public Reference Room.
II. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule
Change
In its filing with the Commission,
Nasdaq included statements concerning
the purpose of, and basis for, the
proposed rule change. The text of these
statements may be examined at the
places specified in Item IV below.
Nasdaq has prepared summaries, set
forth in Sections A, B, and C below, of
the most significant aspects of such
statements.
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5 See Securities Exchange Act Release Nos. 58571
(September 17, 2008), 73 FR 55188 (September 24,
2008) (SR–Phlx–2008–60) (notice of filing and
immediate effectiveness regarding Index-Linked
Securities and Currency Trust Shares); 57715 (April
25, 2009), 73 FR 23518 (April 30, 2008) (SR–Phlx–
2008–30) (notice of filing and immediate
effectiveness regarding Index Multiple ETFs and
Index Inverse ETFs); and 55951 (June 25, 2007), 72
FR 37298 (July 9, 2007) (SR–Phlx–2007–35)
(approval order regarding Commodity Pool ETFs).
6 See, regarding Index-Linked Securities,
Exchange Act Release Nos. 58204 (July 22, 2008),
73 FR 43807 (July 28, 2008) (SR–CBOE–2008–64)
(approval order); and 58985 (November 20, 2008),
73 FR 72538 (November 28, 2008) (SR–ISE–2008–
86) (notice of filing and immediate effectiveness).
See also, regarding Index Multiple ETFs and Index
Inverse ETFs, Exchange Act Release No. 56715
(October 29, 2007), 72 FR 62287 (November 2, 2007)
(SR–CBOE–2007–119) (approval order); and 56871
(November 30, 2007), 72 FR 68924 (December 6,
2007) (SR–ISE–2007–87) (approval order). See also,
regarding Commodity Pool Units (ETFs), 55630
(April 13, 2007), 72 FR 19993 (April 20, 2007) (SR–
CBOE–2007–21) (approval order); and 55635 (April
16, 2007), 72 FR 19999 (April 20, 2007) (SR–ISE–
2007–16) (approval order). See also, regarding
Currency Trust Shares, Securities Exchange Act
Release No. 54983 (December 20, 2006), 71 FR
78476 (December 29, 2006) (AMEX–2006–87)
(approval order).
7 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 58179
(July 17, 2008), 73 FR 42874 (July 23, 2008) (SR–
Phlx–2008–31). See also Securities Exchange Act
Release No. 58183 (July 17, 2008), 73 FR 26182
(May 8, 2008) (SR–NASDAQ–2008–035).
8 See, e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release No.
59697 (April 2, 2009), 74 FR 16249 (April 9, 2009),
(SR–Phlx–2009–23) (notice of filing); and 59794
(April 20, 2009), 74 FR 18761 (April 24, 2009) (SR–
Phlx–2009–17) (approval order).
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OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY
Executive Office of the President; Transparency and Open
Government
SUMMARY: The President's January 21, 2009, memorandum entitled,
Transparency and Open Government, directed the Chief Technology
Officer, in coordination with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
and the General Services Administration (GSA), to develop a set of
recommendations that will inform an Open Government Directive. This
directive will be issued by OMB and will instruct executive departments
and agencies on specific actions to implement the principles set forth
in the President's memorandum. Members of the public are invited to
participate in the process of developing recommendations via email or
the White House Web site at https://www.whitehouse.gov/open offering
comments, ideas, and proposals about possible initiatives and about how
to increase openness and transparency in government.
DATES: Comments must be received by June 19, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments by one of the following methods:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/open.
E-mail: opengov@ostp.gov.
Mail: Office of Science and Technology Policy, Attn: Open
Government Recommendations, 725 17th Street, Washington, DC 20502.
Comments submitted in response to this notice could be made
available to the public online or by alternative means. For this
reason, please do not include in your comments information of a
confidential nature, such as sensitive personal information or
proprietary information. If you submit an e-mail comment, your e-mail
address will be captured automatically and included as part of the
comment that is placed in the public docket and made available on the
Internet.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Office of Science and Technology
Policy, Attn: Open Government, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC
20502.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In his January 21, 2009, Presidential
Memorandum to the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies,
published in the Federal Register [74 FR 4685, January 26, 2009], the
President outlined three principles for promoting a transparent and
open government:
Transparency promotes accountability and provides
information to citizens about what their Government is doing;
Participation enhances the Government's effectiveness and
improves the quality of its decisions by tapping knowledge that is
widely dispersed in society; and
Collaboration harnesses innovative tools, methods, and
systems to promote cooperation across all levels of Government and with
the private sector.
The Presidential Memorandum requests recommendations to inform an OMB
Directive that will instruct executive departments and agencies on
specific actions to implement the three principles of transparency,
participation, and collaboration.
The purpose of this Federal Register notice is to solicit public
participation in the development of those recommendations. There is a
great deal of dispersed information among the nation's citizens. With
twenty-first century tools, the United States is in a unique position
to take advantage of that dispersed information to inform the
policymaking process. Our goal is to use the principles of open
government to obtain fresh ideas about open government itself.
Comments on open government may relate to government-wide or
agency-specific policy, project ideas, and relevant examples. Comments
may address law, policy, technology, culture, and practice on issues
such as:
What government information should be more readily
available on-line or more easily searched?
How might the operations of government be made more
transparent and accountable?
How might federal advisory committees, rulemaking, or
electronic
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rulemaking be better used to improve decisionmaking?
What alternative models exist to improve the quality of
decisionmaking and increase opportunities for citizen participation?
What are the limitations to transparency?
What strategies might be employed to adopt greater use of
Web 2.0 in agencies?
What policy impediments to innovation in government
currently exist?
What changes in training or hiring of personnel would
enhance innovation?
What performance measures are necessary to determine the
effectiveness of open government policies?
This public process is not intended to, and does not, create any
right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in
equity by any party against the United States, its departments,
agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other
person.
John P. Holdren,
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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