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Rule 22e-3 (17 CFR 270.22e-3) under the Investment Company Act of 1940. Exemption for liquidation of money market funds

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(d) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Consideration will be given to
comments and suggestions submitted in
writing within 60 days of this
publication.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
under the PRA unless it displays a
currently valid OMB control number.
Please direct your written comments
to: David Bottom, Director/Chief
Information Officer, Securities and
Exchange Commission, c/o John
Pezzullo, 100 F Street NE, Washington,
DC 20549, or send an email to: PRA_
[email protected].
Dated: November 15, 2021.
J. Matthew DeLesDernier,
Assistant Secretary.
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[Release Nos. 33–11007; 34–93573; File No.
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Investor Advisory Committee Meeting

The Securities and Exchange
Commission Investor Advisory
Committee, established pursuant to
Section 911 of the Dodd-Frank Wall
Street Reform and Consumer Protection
Act of 2010, is providing notice that it
will hold a public meeting. The public
is invited to submit written statements
to the Committee.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
Thursday, December 2, 2021 from 10:00
a.m. until 4:00 p.m. (ET). Written
statements should be received on or
before December 1, 2021.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be
conducted by remote means and/or at
the Commission’s headquarters, 100 F
St NE, Washington, DC 20549. The
meeting will be webcast on the
Commission’s website at www.sec.gov.
Written statements may be submitted by
any of the following methods:

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SUMMARY:

Electronic Statements
D Use the Commission’s internet
submission form (http://www.sec.gov/
rules/other.shtml); or
D Send an email message to [email protected]. Please include File
No. 265–28 on the subject line; or

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Marc Oorloff Sharma, Chief Counsel,
Office of the Investor Advocate, at (202)
551–3302, Securities and Exchange
Commission, 100 F Street, NE,
Washington, DC 20549.
The
meeting will be open to the public,
except during that portion of the
meeting reserved for an administrative
work session during lunch. Persons
needing special accommodations to take
part because of a disability should
notify the contact person listed in the
section above entitled FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT.
The agenda for the meeting includes:
opening remarks, announcement of new
officers, and announcement regarding a
disclosure subcommittee; welcome
remarks; approval of previous meeting
minutes; a panel discussion regarding
crypto and digital assets: helping to
ensure investor protection and market
integrity in the face of new technologies;
a panel discussion regarding the SEC’s
potential role in addressing elder
financial abuse issues; a discussion of a
recommendation regarding individual
retirement accounts; subcommittee
reports; and a non-public administrative
session.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Securities and Exchange
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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D Send paper statements to Vanessa
A. Countryman, Secretary, Securities
and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street
NE, Washington, DC 20549–1090.
All submissions should refer to File
No. 265–28. This file number should be
included on the subject line if email is
used. To help us process and review
your statement more efficiently, please
use only one method.
Statements also will be available for
website viewing and printing in the
Commission’s Public Reference Room,
100 F Street NE, Room 1503,
Washington, DC 20549, on official
business days between the hours of
10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. All statements
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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Dated: November 15, 2021.
Vanessa A. Countryman,
Secretary.
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Proposed Collection; Comment
Request
Upon Written Request, Copies Available
From: Securities and Exchange
Commission, Office of FOIA Services,
100 F Street NE, Washington, DC
20549–2736
Extension:
Rule 22e–3

Notice is hereby given that, under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501–3520), the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the
‘‘Commission’’) has submitted to the
Office of Management and Budget a
request for extension of the previously
approved collection of information
discussed below.
Section 22(e) of the Investment
Company Act [15 U.S.C. 80a–22(e)]
(‘‘Act’’) generally prohibits funds,
including money market funds, from
suspending the right of redemption, and
from postponing the payment or
satisfaction upon redemption of any
redeemable security for more than seven
days. The provision was designed to
prevent funds and their investment
advisers from interfering with the
redemption rights of shareholders for
improper purposes, such as the
preservation of management fees.
Although section 22(e) permits funds to
postpone the date of payment or
satisfaction upon redemption for up to
seven days, it does not permit funds to
suspend the right of redemption for any
amount of time, absent certain specified
circumstances or a Commission order.
Rule 22e–3 under the Act [17 CFR
270.22e–3] exempts money market
funds from section 22(e) to permit them
to suspend redemptions in order to
facilitate an orderly liquidation of the
fund. Specifically, rule 22e–3 permits a
money market fund to suspend
redemptions and postpone the payment
of proceeds pending board-approved
liquidation proceedings if: (i) The fund’s
board of directors, including a majority
of disinterested directors, determines
pursuant to § 270.2a–7(c)(8)(ii)(C) that
the extent of the deviation between the
fund’s amortized cost price per share
and its current net asset value per share
calculated using available market
quotations (or an appropriate substitute
that reflects current market conditions)
may result in material dilution or other
unfair results to investors or existing
shareholders; (ii) the fund’s board of
directors, including a majority of

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disinterested directors, irrevocably
approves the liquidation of the fund;
and (iii) the fund, prior to suspending
redemptions, notifies the Commission of
its decision to liquidate and suspend
redemptions. Rule 22e–3 also provides
an exemption from section 22(e) for
registered investment companies that
own shares of a money market fund
pursuant to section 12(d)(1)(E) of the
Act (‘‘conduit funds’’), if the underlying
money market fund has suspended
redemptions pursuant to the rule. A
conduit fund that suspends redemptions
in reliance on the exemption provided
by rule 22e–3 is required to provide
prompt notice of the suspension of
redemptions to the Commission. Notices
required by the rule must be provided
by electronic mail, directed to the
attention of the Director of the Division
of Investment Management or the
Director’s designee.1 Compliance with
the notification requirement is
mandatory for money market funds and
conduit funds that rely on rule 22e–3 to
suspend redemptions and postpone
payment of proceeds pending a
liquidation, and are not kept
confidential.
Commission staff estimates that, on
average, one fund would be required to
make the required notice every year.2
Commission staff further estimates that
a money market fund or conduit fund
would spend approximately one hour of
an in-house attorney’s time to prepare
and submit the notice required by the
rule. Given these estimates, the total
annual burden of the notification
requirement of rule 22e–3 for all money
market funds and conduit funds would
be approximately one hour at a cost of
$425.3 The Commission staff estimates
that there is no cost burden associated
with the information collection
requirement of rule 22e–3 other than
this cost. The estimate of average
burden hours is made solely for the
purposes of the Paperwork Reduction
Act, and is not derived from a
comprehensive or even a representative
survey or study of the costs of
Commission rules and forms.
Compliance with the collection of
information requirements of the rule is
necessary to obtain the benefit of relying
on the rule. An agency may not conduct
or sponsor, and a person is not required
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1 See

rule 22e–3(a)(3).
Commission has not received any notices
invoking rule 22e–3 to halt redemptions. However,
for administrative purposes, we are reporting one
respondent and one annual response.
3 This figure for an Attorney is from SIFMA’s
Management & Professional Earnings in the
Securities Industry 2013, modified by Commission
staff to account for an 1800-hour work-year and
inflation, and multiplied by 5.35 to account for
bonuses, firm size, employee benefits and overhead.
2 The

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to respond to, a collection of
information unless it displays a
currently valid control number.
Written comments are invited on: (a)
Whether the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the Commission,
including whether the information has
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
Commission’s estimate of the burden of
the collection of information; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information collected; and (d)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Consideration will be given to
comments and suggestions submitted in
writing within 60 days after this
publication.
Please direct your written comments
to David Bottom, Director/Chief
Information Officer, Securities and
Exchange Commission, C/O John R.
Pezzullo, 100 F Street NE, Washington,
DC 20549; or send an email to: PRA_
[email protected].
Dated: November 15, 2021.
J. Matthew DeLesDernier,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021–25172 Filed 11–17–21; 8:45 am]
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[Release No. 34–93564; File No. SR–
NYSEArca–2021–97]

Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE
Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing and
Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed
Rule Change To Amend the NYSE Arca
Options Fees and Charges and the
NYSE Arca Equities Fees and Charges
Regarding Colocation Services
November 12, 2021.

Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) 1 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(‘‘Act’’),2 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,3
notice is hereby given that on November
3, 2021, NYSE Arca, Inc. (‘‘NYSE Arca’’
or ‘‘Exchange’’) filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission
(‘‘Commission’’) the proposed rule
change as described in Items I and II
below, which Items have been prepared
by the Exchange. The Commission is
publishing this notice to solicit
1 15

U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
U.S.C. 78a.
3 17 CFR 240.19b–4.
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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 proposes to amend the
NYSE Arca Options Fees and Charges
and the NYSE Arca Equities Fees and
Charges (together, the ‘‘Fee Schedules’’)
regarding colocation services and fees to
provide Users with wireless
connectivity to CME Group market data.
The proposed rule change is available
on the Exchange’s website at
www.nyse.com, at the principal office of
the Exchange, 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, the
self-regulatory organization included
statements concerning the purpose of,
and basis for, the proposed rule change
and discussed any comments it received
on the proposed rule change. The text
of those statements may be examined at
the places specified in Item IV below.
The Exchange has prepared summaries,
set forth in sections A, B, and C below,
of the most significant parts of such
statements.
A. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule
Change
1. Purpose
The Exchange proposes to amend the
Fee Schedules regarding colocation
services and fees to provide Users 4 with
wireless connectivity to CME Group
market data.5
The Exchange currently provides
Users with wireless connections to eight
4 For purposes of the Exchange’s co-location
services, a ‘‘User’’ means any market participant
that requests to receive co-location services directly
from the Exchange. Securities Exchange Act Release
No. 76010 (September 29, 2015), 80 FR 60197
(October 5, 2015) (SR–NYSEArca–2015–82). As
specified in the Fee Schedules, a User that incurs
co-location fees for a particular co-location service
pursuant thereto would not be subject to co-location
fees for the same co-location service charged by the
Exchange’s affiliates New York Stock Exchange
LLC, NYSE American LLC, NYSE Chicago, Inc., and
NYSE National, Inc. (together, the ‘‘Affiliate
SROs’’). Each Affiliate SRO has submitted
substantially the same proposed rule change to
propose the changes described herein. See SR–
NYSE–2021–67, SR–NYSEAMER–2021–43, SR–
NYSECHX–2021–17, and SR–NYSENAT–2021–23.
5 The Exchange initially filed rule changes
relating to its co-location services with the
Securities and Exchange Commission
(‘‘Commission’’) in 2010. See Securities Exchange
Act Release No. 63275 (November 8, 2010), 75 FR
70048 (November 16, 2010) (SR–NYSEArca–2010–
100).

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