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any burden on competition that is not
necessary or appropriate in furtherance
of the purposes of the Act. The
Exchange does not believe the proposed
rule change will impose any burden on
intra-market and inter-market
competition that is not necessary or
appropriate in furtherance of the
purposes of the Act because the
proposed changes are not intended to
address competitive issues but rather
are corrective, non-substantive changes
that are concerned solely with
correcting the title of the Certificate of
Formation to reflect current, accurate
information.

proposed rule change operative upon
filing.13
At any time within 60 days of the
filing of the proposed rule change, the
Commission summarily may
temporarily suspend such rule change if
it appears to the Commission that such
action is necessary or appropriate in the
public interest, for the protection of
investors, or otherwise in furtherance of
the purposes of the Act. If the
Commission takes such action, the
Commission shall institute proceedings
to determine whether the proposed rule
change should be approved or
disapproved.

business days between the hours of
10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of the
filing also will be available for
inspection and copying at the principal
office of the Exchange. All comments
received will be posted without change.
Persons submitting comments are
cautioned that we do not redact or edit
personal identifying information from
comment submissions. You should
submit only information that you wish
to make available publicly. All
submissions should refer to File
Number SR–PEARL–2020–29, and
should be submitted on or before
December 30, 2020.

C. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement on Comments on the
Proposed Rule Change Received From
Members, Participants, or Others
Written comments were neither
solicited nor received.

IV. Solicitation of Comments
Interested persons are invited to
submit written data, views, and
arguments concerning the foregoing,
including whether the proposed rule
change is consistent with the Act.
Comments may be submitted by any of
the following methods:

For the Commission, by the Division of
Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated
authority.14
J. Matthew DeLesDernier,
Assistant Secretary.

Electronic Comments
• Use the Commission’s internet
comment form (http://www.sec.gov/
rules/sro.shtml); or
• Send an email to rule-comments@
sec.gov. Please include File Number SR–
PEARL–2020–29 on the subject line.

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Paper Comments
• Send paper comments in triplicate
to Secretary, Securities and Exchange
Commission, 100 F Street NE,
Washington, DC 20549–1090.
All submissions should refer to File
Number SR–PEARL–2020–29. This file
number should be included on the
subject line if email is used. To help the
Commission process and review your
comments more efficiently, please use
only one method. The Commission will
post all comments on the Commission’s
internet website (http://www.sec.gov/
rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the
submission, all subsequent
amendments, all written statements
with respect to the proposed rule
change that are filed with the
Commission, and all written
communications relating to the
proposed rule change between the
Commission and any person, other than
those that may be withheld from the
public in accordance with the
provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be
available for website viewing and
printing in the Commission’s Public
Reference Room, 100 F Street NE,
Washington, DC 20549 on official

Upon Written Request Copies Available
From: Securities and Exchange
Commission, Office of FOIA Services,
100 F Street NE, Washington, DC
20549–02736

III. Date of Effectiveness of the
Proposed Rule Change and Timing for
Commission Action
Because the foregoing proposed rule
change does not: (i) Significantly affect
the protection of investors or the public
interest; (ii) impose any significant
burden on competition; and (iii) become
operative for 30 days from the date on
which it was filed, or such shorter time
as the Commission may designate, it has
become effective pursuant to Section
19(b)(3)(A) of the Act 9 and Rule 19b–
4(f)(6) thereunder.10
A proposed rule change filed
pursuant to Rule 19b–4(f)(6) under the
Act 11 normally does not become
operative for 30 days after the date of its
filing. However, Rule 19b–4(f)(6)(iii) 12
permits the Commission to designate a
shorter time if such action is consistent
with the protection of investors and the
public interest. The Exchange has
requested that the Commission waive
the 30-day operative delay. As the
proposed rule change raises no novel
issues and merely corrects the title of
the Exchange’s Certificate of Formation,
the Commission believes that waiver of
the 30-day operative delay is consistent
with the protection of investors and the
public interest. Accordingly, the
Commission hereby waives the
operative delay and designates the
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U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A).
CFR 240.19b–4(f)(6). In addition, Rule 19b–
4(f)(6)(iii) requires a self-regulatory organization to
give the Commission written notice of its intent to
file the proposed rule change, along with a brief
description and text of the proposed rule change,
at least five business days prior to the date of filing
of the proposed rule change, or such shorter time
as designated by the Commission. The Exchange
has satisfied this requirement.
11 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(6).
12 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(6)(iii).
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13 For purposes only of waiving the 30-day
operative delay, the Commission also has
considered the proposed rule’s impact on
efficiency, competition, and capital formation. See
15 U.S.C. 78c(f).

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[SEC File No. 270–238, OMB Control No.
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Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request

Extension:
Rule 17a–7

Notice is hereby given that, pursuant
to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), the Securities
and Exchange Commission
(‘‘Commission’’) has submitted to the
Office of Management and Budget a
request for extension of the previously
approved collection of information
described below.
Rule 17a–7 (17 CFR 270.17a–7) (the
‘‘rule’’) under the Investment Company
Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a–1 et seq.)
(the ‘‘Act’’) is entitled ‘‘Exemption of
certain purchase or sale transactions
between an investment company and
certain affiliated persons thereof.’’ It
provides an exemption from section
17(a) of the Act for purchases and sales
of securities between registered
investment companies (‘‘funds’’), that
are affiliated persons (‘‘first-tier
affiliates’’) or affiliated persons of
affiliated persons (‘‘second-tier
affiliates’’), or between a fund and a
first- or second-tier affiliate other than
another fund, when the affiliation arises
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solely because of a common investment
adviser, director, or officer. Rule 17a–7
requires funds to keep various records
in connection with purchase or sale
transactions effected in reliance on the
rule. The rule requires the fund’s board
of directors to establish procedures
reasonably designed to ensure that the
rule’s conditions have been satisfied.
The board is also required to determine,
at least on a quarterly basis, that all
affiliated transactions effected during
the preceding quarter in reliance on the
rule were made in compliance with
these established procedures. If a fund
enters into a purchase or sale
transaction with an affiliated person, the
rule requires the fund to compile and
maintain written records of the
transaction.1 The Commission’s
examination staff uses these records to
evaluate for compliance with the rule.
While most funds do not commonly
engage in transactions covered by rule
17a–7, the Commission staff estimates
that nearly all funds have adopted
procedures for complying with the
rule.2 Of the approximately 2,915
currently active funds, the staff
estimates that virtually all have already
adopted procedures for compliance with
rule 17a–7. This is a one-time burden,
and the staff therefore does not estimate
an ongoing burden related to the
policies and procedures requirement of
the rule for funds.3 The staff estimates
that there are approximately 90 new
funds that register each year, and that
each of these funds adopts the relevant
policies and procedures. The staff
estimates that it takes approximately 4
hours to develop and adopt these
policies and procedures. Therefore, the
total annual burden related to
developing and adopting these policies
and procedures would be approximately
360 hours.4
Of the 2,915 existing funds, the staff
assumes that approximately 25%, (or
729) enter into transactions affected by
rule 17a–7 each year (either by the fund
directly or through one of the fund’s
1 The written records are required to set forth a
description of the security purchased or sold, the
identity of the person on the other side of the
transaction, and the information or materials upon
which the board of directors’ determination that the
transaction was in compliance with the procedures
was made.
2 Unless stated otherwise, these estimates are
based on conversations with the examination and
inspections staff of the Commission and fund
representatives.
3 Based on our reviews and conversations with
fund representatives, we understand that funds
rarely, if ever, need to make changes to these
policies and procedures once adopted, and
therefore we do not estimate a paperwork burden
for such updates.
4 This estimate is based on the following
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series), and that the same percentage
(25%, or 23 funds) of the estimated 90
funds that newly register each year will
also enter into these transactions, for a
total of 752 5 companies that are affected
by the recordkeeping requirements of
rule 17a–7. These funds must keep
records of each of these transactions,
and the board of directors must
quarterly determine that all relevant
transactions were made in compliance
with the company’s policies and
procedures. The rule generally imposes
a minimal burden of collecting and
storing records already generated for
other purposes.6 The staff estimates that
the burden related to making these
records and for the board to review all
transactions would be 3 hours annually
for each respondent, (2 hours spent by
compliance attorneys and 1 hour spent
by the board of directors) 7 or 2,256 total
hours each year.8
Based on these estimates, the staff
estimates the combined total annual
burden hours associated with rule
17a–7 is 2,616 hours.9 The staff also
estimates that there are approximately
752 respondents and 6,016 total
responses.10
The estimates of burden hours are
made solely for the purposes of the
Paperwork Reduction Act, and are not
derived from a comprehensive or even
a representative survey or study of the
costs of Commission rules. The
collection of information required by
rule 17a–7 is necessary to obtain the
benefits of the rule. Responses will not
be kept confidential. An agency may not
conduct or sponsor, and a person is not
required to respond to, a collection of
information unless it displays a
currently valid control number.
5 This estimate is based on the following
calculation: (729 + 23 = 752).
6 Commission staff believes that rule 17a–7 does
not impose any costs associated with record
preservation in addition to the costs that funds
already incur to comply with the record
preservation requirements of rule 31a–2 under the
Act. Rule 31a–2 requires companies to preserve
certain records for specified periods of time.
7 The staff estimates that funds that rely on rule
17a–7 annually enter into an average of 8 rule
17a–7 transactions each year. The staff estimates
that the compliance attorneys of the companies
spend approximately 15 minutes per transaction on
this recordkeeping, and the board of directors
spends a total of 1 hour annually in determining
that all transactions made that year were done in
compliance with the company’s policies and
procedures.
8 This estimate is based on the following
calculation: (3 hours × 752 companies = 2,256
hours).
9 This estimate is based on the following
calculation: (360 hours + 2,256 hours = 2,616 total
hours).
10 This estimate is based on the following
calculations: 752 funds that engage in rule 17a–7
transactions × 8 transactions per year = 6,016.

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The public may view background
documentation for this information
collection at the following website:
www.reginfo.gov. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function. Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to (i) www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain and (ii) David Bottom,
Director/Chief Information Officer,
Securities and Exchange Commission,
c/o Cynthia Roscoe, 100 F Street NE,
Washington, DC 20549, or by sending an
email to: [email protected].
Dated: December 4, 2020.
J. Matthew DeLesDernier,
Assistant Secretary.
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[Release No. 34–90563; File No. SR–
PEARL–2020–30]

Self-Regulatory Organizations; MIAX
PEARL, LLC; Notice of Filing of a
Proposed Rule Change To Amend the
Exchange’s By-Laws in Connection
With an Equity Rights Program
December 3, 2020.

Pursuant to the provisions of 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 November 24, 2020, MIAX PEARL,
LLC (‘‘MIAX PEARL’’ or the
‘‘Exchange’’) filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission
(‘‘Commission’’) a proposed rule change
as described in Items I, II, and III below,
which Items have been prepared by the
Exchange. The Commission is
publishing this notice to solicit
comments on the proposed rule change
from interested persons.
I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Terms of Substance of
the Proposed Rule Change
The Exchange is filing a proposal to
amend the Exchange’s By-Laws.
The text of the proposed rule change
is available on the Exchange’s website at
http://www.miaxoptions.com/rulefilings/pearl at MIAX PEARL’s principal
office, and at the Commission’s Public
Reference Room.
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