Amendment of Class E Airspace; Indianapolis Executive Airport, IN, 28641 [C1-2011-9404]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Part 71
[Docket No. FAA–2010–1027; Airspace
Docket No. 10–AGL–15]
Amendment of Class E Airspace;
Indianapolis Executive Airport, IN
Correction
In rule document 2011–9404
appearing on pages 22013–22014 in the
issue of Wednesday, April 20, 2011,
make the following corrections:
§ 71.1
[Corrected]
1. On page 22014, in the second
column, on the 4th line from the bottom
of the page, ‘‘86°102′7″ W’’ should read
‘‘86°10′27″ W’’.
■ 2. On the same page, in the third
column, on the 4th line from the top of
the page, ‘‘86°092′0″ W’’ should read
‘‘86°09′20″ W’’.
■
[FR Doc. C1–2011–9404 Filed 5–17–11; 8:45 am]
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
17 CFR Part 4
RIN 3038–AC46
Commodity Pool Operators: Relief
From Compliance With Certain
Disclosure, Reporting and
Recordkeeping Requirements for
Registered CPOs of Commodity Pools
Listed for Trading on a National
Securities Exchange; CPO Registration
Exemption for Certain Independent
Directors or Trustees of These
Commodity Pools
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:
The Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (Commission or
CFTC) is adopting amendments to its
regulations as they affect certain
commodity pool operators (CPOs) of
commodity pools whose units of
participation are listed and traded on a
national securities exchange
(Amendments). Specifically, this action
codifies the relief from certain
disclosure, reporting, and recordkeeping
requirements that Commission staff
previously had issued to these CPOs on
a case-by-case basis. It also codifies
relief from the CPO registration
requirement for certain independent
directors or trustees of actively-managed
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commodity pools that Commission staff
similarly has issued.
DATES: Effective date: June 17, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Christopher W. Cummings, Special
Counsel, Division of Clearing and
Intermediary Oversight, or Barbara S.
Gold, Associate Director, Division of
Clearing and Intermediary Oversight,
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, 1155 21st Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20581, telephone
number: (202) 418–5450; facsimile
number: (202) 418–5528; and electronic
mail: ccummings@cftc.gov, or
bgold@cftc.gov, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
In order to make generally available
the relief that Commission staff
previously had issued on a case-by-case
basis to individual CPOs of publiclyoffered, exchange-listed pools, on
September 9, 2010, the Commission
published in the Federal Register
proposed amendments to its Regulations
4.12 and 4.13 1 (Proposing Release).2
The Proposing Release commenced by
explaining the history and background
of the regulation of CPOs by the
Commission under the Commodity
Exchange Act (Act) 3 and the
background and development of various
statutory and regulatory provisions
granting relief from CPO regulation.
With respect to this relief the
Commission stated:
In implementing its statutory mandate to
regulate the activities of CPOs, the
Commission has endeavored to refine its
regulations as appropriate to respond to
changing market conditions in a manner
consistent with customer protection. In
addition to the issuance of relief by
Commission staff on a case-by-case basis to
facilitate application of regulatory
requirements to new market conditions, the
Commission has provided certain
exemptions for registered CPOs from various
of the requirements of Part 4 of its
regulations, and where appropriate, it has
provided exemptions from the CPO
registration requirement itself.4
The Proposing Release then went on
to discuss the relatively recent
development of publicly-offered
commodity pools with units of
participation listed on a national
1 17 CFR 4.12 and 4.13. Commission regulations
may be accessed through the Commission’s Web
site, at https://www.cftc.gov.
2 75 FR 54794.
3 7 U.S.C. 1 et seq. (2006), as amended by The
Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer
Protection Act. Public Law 111–203, 124 Stat. 1376
(2010). The Act similarly may be accessed through
the Commission’s Web site.
4 75
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FR 54794.
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securities exchange (Commodity ETFs) 5
and to describe the numerous similar
requests for relief from CPOs of
Commodity ETFs that Commission staff
had received, and to which they had
favorably responded (Prior Relief
Letters).6 Because the requests for relief
and the Prior Relief Letters the staff had
issued in response thereto had become
fairly standardized and routine, the
Commission proposed to amend the
relevant regulations so as to make the
relief generally available to all CPOs
who meet the requisite criteria.
Thus, the Commission proposed
adding new paragraph (c) to Regulation
4.12 that, subject to specified
conditions, would permit the CPO of a
Commodity ETF to claim relief from the
specific Disclosure Document delivery
and acknowledgment requirements of
Regulation 4.21, the monthly Account
Statement delivery requirement of
Regulation 4.22, and the requirement to
keep the CPO’s books and records at its
main business address in Regulation
4.23. In addition, the Commission
proposed, subject to certain conditions,
to exempt from CPO registration an
independent director or trustee of a
Commodity ETF, where that person was
required to serve as a director or trustee
solely for purposes of constituting and
maintaining the audit committee
required for actively-managed public
companies (including actively-managed
Commodity ETFs) under provisions of
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 7 (and
Securities and Exchange Commission
rules and exchange listing requirements
adopted pursuant thereto) by adding
new paragraph (a)(5) to Regulation 4.13.
As the Proposing Release explained,
then, the Commission’s actions were
intended to respond to financial market
developments in the limited context of
CPOs whose units of participation in the
pools they operated were listed for
trading on a national securities
exchange.8 The specific changes that the
Commission proposed, as well as the
rationale for those proposed changes,
are set forth in the Proposing Release.9
In light of the generally favorable
comments it received (discussed in
Section II below), the Commission is
adopting the Amendments essentially as
proposed. In this regard, however, and
5 See 75 FR 54794, at 54794–95. The Commission
explained the origin and use of the term
‘‘Commodity ETF’’.
6 Id. at 54795–96.
7 Public Law 107–204, 116 Stat. 745, enacted July
30, 2002. See Section 10A(m) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act), 78j–1(m)
(2006), and Rule 10A–3 under the Exchange Act, 17
CFR 240.10A–3 (2010).
8 75 FR at 54795.
9 See 75 FR at 54796–98.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Part 71
[Docket No. FAA-2010-1027; Airspace Docket No. 10-AGL-15]
Amendment of Class E Airspace; Indianapolis Executive Airport, IN
Correction
In rule document 2011-9404 appearing on pages 22013-22014 in the
issue of Wednesday, April 20, 2011, make the following corrections:
Sec. 71.1 [Corrected]
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1. On page 22014, in the second column, on the 4th line from the bottom
of the page, ``86[deg]102'7'' W'' should read ``86[deg]10'27'' W''.
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2. On the same page, in the third column, on the 4th line from the top
of the page, ``86[deg]092'0'' W'' should read ``86[deg]09'20'' W''.
[FR Doc. C1-2011-9404 Filed 5-17-11; 8:45 am]
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