International Product Change-Priority Mail Express International, Priority Mail International & First-Class Package International Service Agreement, 32260 [2023-10696]
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POSTAL SERVICE
International Product Change—Priority
Mail Express International, Priority Mail
International & First-Class Package
International Service Agreement
Postal ServiceTM.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Postal Service gives
notice of filing a request with the Postal
Regulatory Commission to add a Priority
Mail Express International, Priority Mail
International & First-Class Package
International Service contract to the list
of Negotiated Service Agreements in the
Competitive Product List in the Mail
Classification Schedule.
DATES: Date of notice: May 19, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Christopher C. Meyerson, (202) 268–
7820.
SUMMARY:
The
United States Postal Service® hereby
gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C.
3642 and 3632(b)(3), on May 15, 2023,
it filed with the Postal Regulatory
Commission a USPS Request to Add
Priority Mail Express International,
Priority Mail International & First-Class
Package International Service Contract
20 to Competitive Product List.
Documents are available at
www.prc.gov, Docket Nos. MC2023–157
and CP2023–161.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Tram T. Pham,
Attorney, Ethics and Legal Compliance.
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Extension: Rule 613 of Regulation NMS
Upon Written Request, Copies Available
From: Securities and Exchange
Commission; Office of FOIA Services;
100 F Street NE, Washington, DC
20549–2736
Notice is hereby given that pursuant
to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(‘‘PRA’’) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the
Securities and Exchange Commission
(‘‘Commission’’) is soliciting comments
on the existing collection of information
provided for in connection with a
National Market System (NMS) Plan
filed with the Commission under Rule
613 (17 CFR 242.613), under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15
U.S.C. 78a et seq.). The Commission
plans to submit this existing collection
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of information to the Office of
Management and Budget (‘‘OMB’’) for
extension and approval.
Rule 613 of Regulation NMS (17 CFR
part 242) required national securities
exchanges and national securities
associations (‘‘Participants’’) to jointly
submit to the Commission a national
market system (‘‘NMS’’) plan to govern
the creation, implementation, and
maintenance of a consolidated audit
trail (‘‘CAT’’) and Central Repository for
the collection of information for NMS
securities. On February 27, 2015, the
Participants submitted the CAT NMS
Plan to the Commission.1 On April 27,
2016, the Commission published a
notice soliciting comments from the
public (‘‘CAT NMS Plan Notice’’).2 On
November 15, 2016, the Commission
approved the CAT NMS Plan (‘‘CAT
NMS Plan Order’’), including the
information collections proposed in the
CAT NMS Plan Notice, and certain
additional information collections.3
Since July 2020, the date of the last
PRA renewal, the Commission believes
one additional information collection
was completed: a one-time independent
audit of the fees, costs, and expenses
incurred by the Participants on behalf of
CAT NMS, LLC prior to the Effective
Date 4 of the Plan; 5 In addition. certain
information collection requirements
1 See Letter from Participants to Brent J. Fields,
Secretary, Commission, dated February 27, 2015.
The Participants filed the CAT NMS Plan on
September 30, 2014. See Letter from the
Participants, to Brent J. Fields, Secretary,
Commission, dated September 30, 2014. The CAT
NMS Plan filed on February 27, 2015, was an
amendment to and replacement of the Initial CAT
NMS Plan (the ‘‘Amended and Restated CAT NMS
Plan’’). On December 24, 2015, the Participants
submitted an Amendment to the Amended and
Restated CAT NMS Plan. See Letter from
Participants to Brent J. Fields, Secretary,
Commission, dated December 23, 2015 (the
‘‘Amendment’’). On February 9, 2016, the
Participants filed with the Commission an identical,
but unmarked, version of the Amended and
Restated CAT NMS Plan, dated February 27, 2015,
as modified by the Amendment, as well as a copy
of the request for proposal issued by the
Participants to solicit Bids from parties interested
in serving as the Plan Processor for the consolidated
audit trail. Unless the context otherwise requires,
the ‘‘CAT NMS Plan’’ shall refer to the Amended
and Restated CAT NMS Plan, as modified by the
Amendment.
2 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 77724
(April 27, 2016), 81 FR 30613 (May 17, 2016). The
burdens associated with the CAT NMS Plan Notice
were submitted under OMB number 3235–0671
which relates to the NMS Plan required to be filed
under Rule 613.
3 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 79318
(November 15, 2016), 81 FR 84696 (November 23,
2016), available at https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/
nms/2016/34-79318.pdf (‘‘CAT NMS Plan Order’’).
4 The ‘‘Effective Date’’ is the date the Commission
approved the CAT NMS Plan, which is November
15, 2016. See id.
5 See CAT NMS Plan Order, supra note 3, at
84940.
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have completed at least the
implementation stage, although certain
ongoing costs remain, including: (1)
development of a Central Repository
tasked with the receipt, consolidation,
and retention of reported order and
execution information submitted by
Participants and their members; 6 (2) the
requirement that each Participant, and
any member of such Participant, record
and electronically report to the Central
Repository details for each order and
Reportable Event documenting the life
of an order through the process of
original receipt or origination, routing,
modification, cancellation, and
execution (in whole or in part) for each
NMS security; 7 (3) the requirement that
the CAT NMS Plan require the Central
Repository to collect and retain on a
current and continuous basis NBBO
information for each NMS security,
transaction reports reported pursuant to
an effective transaction reporting plan,
and Last Sale Reports reported pursuant
to the Options Price Reporting
Authority Plan; 8 (4) the requirement
that the CAT NMS Plan must require
that every national securities exchange
and national securities association
develop and implement a surveillance
system, or enhance existing surveillance
systems, reasonably designed to make
use of the consolidated information
contained in the consolidated audit
trail; 9 (5) an annual requirement that
that the CAT LLC financials be (i) in
compliance with GAAP, (ii) be audited
by an independent public accounting
firm, and (iii) be made publicly
available; 10 and (6) a requirement that
each Participant conduct background
checks for its employees and contractors
that will use the CAT System.11
This Notice addresses both the
ongoing information collection
requirements noted above and the
remaining information collection
requirements noticed in the CAT NMS
Plan Notice and certain additional
information collections of the CAT NMS
Plan Order, which are: (1) a one-time
report from the Participants discussing
the feasibility and advisability of
allowing Industry Members to bulk
download the Raw Data that it has
submitted to the Central Repository; 12
(2) a one-time assessment of the nature
and extent of errors in the Customer
6 See
17 CFR 242.613.
17 CFR 242.613(c)(1), (c)(5), (c)(6), (c)(7).
8 See 17 CFR 242.613(e)(7).
9 See 17 CFR 242.613(f).
10 Id.
11 Id. The Commission believes that these
background checks are necessary to ensure that
only authorized and qualified persons are using the
CAT System.
12 Id. at 84941.
7 See
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POSTAL SERVICE
International Product Change--Priority Mail Express
International, Priority Mail International & First-Class Package
International Service Agreement
AGENCY: Postal ServiceTM.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the
Postal Regulatory Commission to add a Priority Mail Express
International, Priority Mail International & First-Class Package
International Service contract to the list of Negotiated Service
Agreements in the Competitive Product List in the Mail Classification
Schedule.
DATES: Date of notice: May 19, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher C. Meyerson, (202) 268-
7820.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The United States Postal Service[supreg]
hereby gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3642 and 3632(b)(3), on
May 15, 2023, it filed with the Postal Regulatory Commission a USPS
Request to Add Priority Mail Express International, Priority Mail
International & First-Class Package International Service Contract 20
to Competitive Product List. Documents are available at www.prc.gov,
Docket Nos. MC2023-157 and CP2023-161.
Tram T. Pham,
Attorney, Ethics and Legal Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2023-10696 Filed 5-18-23; 8:45 am]
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