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Federal Register / Vol. 91, No. 148 / Tuesday, August 4, 2026 / Notices
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–ISE–2026–44. 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
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at the principal office of the Exchange.
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protection. All submissions should refer
to file number SR–ISE–2026–44 and
should be submitted on or before
August 25, 2026.
For the Commission, by the Division of
Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated
authority.23
Sherry R. Haywood,
Assistant Secretary.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Extension: Rule
17a–19 and Form X–17A–19
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 Rule 17a–19 (17 CFR
240.17a–19) and Form X–17A–19 under
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15
U.S.C. 78a et seq.). The Commission
plans to submit this existing collection
of information to the Office of
Management and Budget (‘‘OMB’’) for
extension and approval.

Rule 17a–19 requires every national
securities exchange and registered
national securities association to file a
Form X–17A–19 with the Commission
and the Securities Investor Protection
Corporation (‘‘SIPC’’) within 5 business
days of the initiation, suspension, or
termination of any member and, when
terminating the membership interest of
any member, to notify that member of
its obligation to file financial reports as
required by Exchange Act Rule 17a–5(b)
(17 CFR 240.17a–5(b)). There are
currently a total of 30 national securities
exchanges and registered national
securities associations that are potential
respondents under the rule.
Commission staff anticipates that the
national securities exchanges and
registered national securities
associations collectively will make 206
total filings annually pursuant to Rule
17a–19 and that each filing will take
approximately 15 minutes. The total
reporting burden is estimated to be
approximately 52 total annual hours.
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 OMB
Control Number.
Written comments are invited on: (a)
whether this proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the SEC,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of
the SEC’s estimate of the burden
imposed by the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and the assumptions
used; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) ways to minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including
through the use of automated, electronic
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Please direct your written comments
on this 60-Day Collection Notice to
Austin Gerig, Director/Chief Data
Officer, Securities and Exchange
Commission, c/o Tanya Ruttenberg via
email to PaperworkReductionAct@
sec.gov by October 5, 2026.
Dated: July 31, 2026.
Sherry R. Haywood,
Assistant Secretary.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Extension: Rule
30b1–8 and Form N–CR
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
(44 U.S.C. § 3501 et seq.), the Securities
and Exchange Commission (‘‘SEC’’ or
‘‘Commission’’) is soliciting comments
on the proposed collection of
information discussed below.
A money market fund is required to
file Form N–CR if a portfolio security
defaults, an affiliate provides financial
support to the fund, or the fund
experiences a significant decline in its
shadow price.1 In most cases, a money
market fund is required to submit a brief
summary filing on Form N–CR within
one business day of the occurrence of
the event, and a follow up filing within
four business days that includes a more
complete description and information.
Compliance with rule 30b1–8 is
mandatory for any fund that holds itself
out as a money market fund in reliance
on rule 2a 7. Responses to the disclosure
requirements will not be kept
confidential.
The Commission estimates that it will
receive, in the aggregate, an average of
1 report per year filed on Form N–CR.2
Taking into account a blend of legal and
financial in-house professionals, as well
as the additional burdens associated
with the amendments,3 we estimate that
1 17 CFR 270.30b1–8.
2 The number of reports per year filed on Form
N–CR, based on initial and follow-up amendment
filings with the Commission in 2023–2025, was 0,
0, and 2 respectively.
3 We have estimated the time costs for a financial
manager to be $731 per hour, costs for lawyers to
be $744 per hour, and costs for a computer
programmer to be $416 per hour; to calculate the
occupational hourly rates the Commission uses
occupational mean hourly wage data from the
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
(OEWS) program of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
(BLS) for [‘‘Securities, Commodity Contracts, and
Other Financial Investments and Related
Activities’’ (NAICS 523)][the private sector]; see
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics,
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, https://
www.bls.gov/oes/; see also Standard Occupational
Classification, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,
https://www.bls.gov/soc/ (describing occupational
classification system used by BLS); Exec. Off. of the
President, Off. of Mgmt. & Budget, North American
Industry Classification System (2022), available at
https://www.census.gov/naics/reference_files_tools/

23 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12).

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a fund will spend, on average, 10.5
burden hours 4 and time costs of
approximately $7,104 5 for one report.
The Commission therefore estimates
that the total annual burden for Form
N–CR reporting will be 10.5 burden
hours and the total annual time cost will
be $7,104.6
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 OMB
Control Number.
Written comments are invited on: (a)
whether this proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the SEC,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of
the SEC’s estimate of the burden
imposed by the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and the assumptions
used; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) ways to minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including
through the use of automated, electronic
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Please direct your written comments
on this 60-Day Collection Notice to
Austin Gerig, Director/Chief Data
2022_NAICS_Manual.pdf (describing the industry
classification system used by BLS and other
agencies); the mean hourly wage for each
occupation is adjusted for changes in the seasonally
adjusted employment cost index for private wages
and salaries between the data reference period and
when the data are released by BLS; see Employment
Cost Index, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, https://
www.bls.gov/eci/; the adjusted mean hourly wage is
then multiplied by a factor that accounts for
nonwage costs borne by employers, such as
bonuses, benefits, and overhead; this factor is
calculated as an average over the 10 most recently
available years of data of the ratio of the Bureau of
Economic Analysis’s annual gross output data for
[NAICS 523][the private sector] to total annual
wages across all occupations for [NAICS 523][the
private sector] in the OEWS data; see Gross Output
by Industry, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis,
https://www.bea.gov/data/industries/gross-outputby-industry; Occupational Employment and Wage
Statistics, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, https://
www.bls.gov/oes/; the final product is the
occupational hourly rate. See generally Updated
Methodology for Calculating Occupational Hourly
Rates (Dec. 19, 2025), available at https://
www.sec.gov/files/method-occupational-hourlyrates.pdf.
4 When filing a report, the Commission estimates
that a fund will spend on average approximately 4.5
hours of lawyer time, 4 hours of financial manager
time, and 2 hours of computer programmer time to
prepare, review and submit a filing.
5 This estimate is based on the following
calculations: (4.5 hours × $744 per hour for a lawyer
= $ 3,348) + (4 hours × $731 per hour for a financial
manager = $2,924) + (2 hours × $416 per hour for
a computer programmer) = $7,104.
6 This estimate is based on the following
calculation: 1 reports per year × 10.5 burden hours
per report = 10.5 burden hours; 1 reports per year
× $ 7,104 time cost per report = $7,104 in time costs.

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Officer, Securities and Exchange
Commission, c/o Tanya Ruttenberg via
email to PaperworkReductionAct@
sec.gov by October 5, 2026.

A. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule
Change

Dated: July 30, 2026.
Sherry R. Haywood,
Assistant Secretary.

1. Purpose
Phlx proposes to amend Options 3A,
Section 3, FLEX Option Listings as it
relates to FLEX Equity Options where
the underlying security is an ETF that
is eligible for cash settlement.
Specifically, the proposed amendments
would: (1) permit newly FLEX-eligible
ETFs that satisfy heightened eligibility
thresholds of $600 million average daily
notional value and 5,616,000 shares
ADV, based on the previous one-month
period of trading statistics to be eligible
for cash settlement as a contract term;
(2) establish tiered criteria governing the
treatment of cash-settled FLEX ETF
Options where the underlying ETF
ceases to satisfy the requirements of
Options 3A, Section 3(c)(5)(A)(ii) at the
time of the Exchange’s bi-annual review;
and (3) eliminate the existing provision
limiting cash settlement as a contract
term to no more than 50 underlying
ETFs. This filing is identical to a rule
proposal by Cboe.3

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Self-Regulatory Organizations; Nasdaq
PHLX LLC; Notice of Filing and
Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed
Rule Change To Amend FLEX
Electronic Options Listing Rules
July 30, 2026.

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 July 29,
2026, Nasdaq PHLX LLC (‘‘Phlx’’ or
‘‘Exchange’’) 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 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 proposes to amend its
FLEX Options Trading Rules at Options
3A, Section 3, FLEX Option Listings.
The text of the proposed rule change
is available on the Exchange’s website at
https://listingcenter.nasdaq.com/
rulebook/phlx/rulefilings, and at the
principal office of the Exchange.
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
Exchange 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 these
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 aspects of such
statements.
1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
2 17 CFR 240.19b–4.

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Background
Prior to the adoption of the rules
described herein, FLEX Equity Options
were generally required to be settled by
physical delivery of the underlying
security upon exercise. FLEX Index
Options, by contrast, have long been
settled by delivery in cash. Cash
settlement was also available for
customized equity options transacted in
the over-the-counter (‘‘OTC’’) market,
where settlement restrictions do not
apply. The absence of a cash-settled
exchange-traded alternative for equitybased FLEX Options created a gap
between the exchange-traded and OTC
markets that exchange-traded
participants sought to bridge.
The Exchange previously submitted a
filing with the Commission adopting
cash settlement as an optional contract
term for certain FLEX Equity Options
where the underlying security is an
ETF.4 Specifically, Options 3A, Section
3(c)(5)(A)(ii) permits cash settlement for
FLEX Equity Options where the
underlying ETF has, measured over the
3 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 105929
(July 16, 2026), 91 FR 45856 (July 21, 2026) (SR–
Cboe–2026–035) (Notice of Filing of Amendment
No. 1 and Order Approving a Proposed Rule
Change, as Modified and Superseded by
Amendment No. 1, To Amend Rule 4.21 (Series of
FLEX Options).
4 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 103759
(August 21, 2025), 90 FR 41636 (August 26, 2025)
(SR–Phlx–2025–38) (Notice of Filing and Immediate
Effectiveness of Proposed Rule Change To Adopt
Electronic FLEX Options Rules).

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