82 FR 25895 - Order Making Fiscal Year 2017 Annual Adjustments to Transaction Fee Rates
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 106 (June 5, 2017)
Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 106 (June 5, 2017)
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| FR Document | 2017-11555 |
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 106 (Monday, June 5, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 25895-25902] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-11555] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION [Release No. 34-80816/May 31, 2017] Order Making Fiscal Year 2017 Annual Adjustments to Transaction Fee Rates I. Background Section 31 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (``Exchange Act'') requires each national securities exchange and national securities association to pay transaction fees to the Commission.\1\ Specifically, Section 31(b) requires each national securities exchange to pay to the Commission fees based on the aggregate dollar amount of sales of certain securities (``covered sales'') transacted on the exchange.\2\ Section 31(c) requires each national securities association to pay to the Commission fees based on the aggregate dollar amount of covered sales transacted by or through any member of the association other than on an exchange.\3\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ 15 U.S.C. 78ee. \2\ 15 U.S.C. 78ee(b). \3\ 15 U.S.C. 78ee(c). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Section 31 of the Exchange Act requires the Commission to annually adjust the fee rates applicable under Sections 31(b) and (c) to a uniform adjusted rate.\4\ Specifically, the Commission must adjust the fee rates to a uniform adjusted rate that is reasonably likely to produce aggregate fee collections (including assessments on security futures transactions) equal to the regular appropriation to the Commission for the applicable fiscal year.\5\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \4\ In some circumstances, the SEC also must make a mid-year adjustment to the fee rates applicable under Sections 31(b) and (c). \5\ 15 U.S.C. 78ee(j)(1) (the Commission must adjust the rates under Sections 31(b) and (c) to a ``uniform adjusted rate that, when applied to the baseline estimate of the aggregate dollar amount of sales for such fiscal year, is reasonably likely to produce aggregate fee collections under [Section 31] (including assessments collected under [Section 31(d)]) that are equal to the regular appropriation to the Commission by Congress for such fiscal year.''). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Commission is required to publish notice of the new fee rates under Section 31 not later than 30 days after the date on which an Act making a regular appropriation for the applicable fiscal year is enacted.\6\ On May 5, 2017, the President signed into law the ``Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017,'' which includes a regular appropriation of $1,605,000,000 to the SEC for fiscal year 2017. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \6\ 15 U.S.C. 78ee(g). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. Fiscal Year 2017 Annual Adjustment to the Fee Rate The new fee rate is determined by (1) subtracting the sum of fees estimated to be collected prior to the effective date of the new fee rate \7\ and estimated assessments on security futures transactions to be collected under Section 31(d) of the Exchange Act for all of fiscal year 2017 \8\ from an amount equal to the regular appropriation to the Commission for fiscal year 2017, and (2) dividing by the estimated aggregate dollar amount of covered sales for the remainder of the fiscal year following the effective date of the new fee rate.\9\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \7\ The sum of fees to be collected prior to the effective date of the new fee rate is determined by applying the current fee rate to the dollar amount of covered sales prior to the effective date of the new fee rate. The exchanges and FINRA have provided data on the dollar amount of covered sales through March 2017. To calculate the dollar amount of covered sales from April 2017 to the effective date of the new fee rate, the Commission is using the methodology described in the Appendix A of this order. \8\ The Commission is using the same methodology it has used previously to estimate assessments on security futures transactions to be collected in fiscal year 2017. An explanation of the methodology appears in Appendix A. \9\ To estimate the aggregate dollar amount of covered sales for the remainder of fiscal year 2017 following the effective date of the new fee rate, the Commission is using the methodology described in Appendix A of this order. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The regular appropriation to the Commission for fiscal year 2017 is $1,605,000,000. The Commission estimates that it will collect $1,189,634,934 in fees for the period prior to the effective date of the new fee rate and $65,181 in assessments on [[Page 25896]] round turn transactions in security futures products during all of fiscal year 2017. Using the methodology described in Appendix A, the Commission estimates that the aggregate dollar amount of covered sales for the remainder of fiscal year 2017 to be $17,994,658,216,678. The uniform adjusted rate is computed by dividing the residual fees to be collected of $415,299,885 by the estimated aggregate dollar amount of covered sales for the remainder of fiscal year 2017 of $17,994,658,216,678; this results in a uniform adjusted rate for fiscal year 2017 of $23.10 per million.\10\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \10\ Appendix A shows the process of calculating the fiscal year 2017 annual adjustment and includes the data used by the Commission in making this adjustment. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. Effective Date of the Uniform Adjusted Rate Under Section 31(j)(4)(A) of the Exchange Act, the fiscal year 2017 annual adjustments to the fee rates applicable under Sections 31(b) and (c) of the Exchange Act shall take effect on the later of October 1, 2016, or 60 days after the date on which a regular appropriation to the Commission for fiscal year 2017 is enacted.\11\ The regular appropriation to the Commission for fiscal year 2017 was enacted on May 5, 2017, and accordingly, the new fee rates applicable under Sections 31(b) and (c) of the Exchange Act will take effect on July 4, 2017. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \11\ 15 U.S.C. 78ee(j)(4)(A). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. Conclusion Accordingly, pursuant to Section 31 of the Exchange Act, It is hereby ordered that the fee rates applicable under Sections 31(b) and (c) of the Exchange Act shall be $23.10 per $1,000,000 effective on July 4, 2017. By the Commission. Eduardo A. Aleman, Assistant Secretary. Appendix A This appendix provides the methodology for determining the annual adjustment to the fee rates applicable under Sections 31(b) and (c) of the Exchange Act for fiscal year 2017. Section 31 of the Exchange Act requires the fee rates to be adjusted so that it is reasonably likely that the Commission will collect aggregate fees equal to its regular appropriation for fiscal year 2017. To make the adjustment, the Commission must project the aggregate dollar amount of covered sales of securities on the securities exchanges and certain over-the-counter (``OTC'') markets over the course of the year. The fee rate equals the ratio of the Commission's regular appropriation for fiscal year 2017 (less the sum of fees to be collected during fiscal year 2017 prior to the effective date of the new fee rate and aggregate assessments on security futures transactions during all of fiscal year 2017) to the estimated aggregate dollar amount of covered sales for the remainder of the fiscal year following the effective date of the new fee rate. For 2017, the Commission has estimated the aggregate dollar amount of covered sales by projecting forward the trend established in the previous decade. More specifically, the dollar amount of covered sales was forecasted for months subsequent to March 2017, the last month for which the Commission has data on the dollar volume of covered sales.\12\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \12\ To determine the availability of data, the Commission compares the date of the appropriation with the date the transaction data are due from the exchanges (10 business days after the end of the month). If the business day following the date of the appropriation is equal to or subsequent to the date the data are due from the exchanges, the Commission uses these data. The appropriation was signed on May 5, 2017. The first business day after this date was May 8, 2017. Data for March 2017 were due from the exchanges on April 14, 2017, while data for April 2017 were due on May 12, 2017. As a result, the Commission used March 2017 and earlier data to forecast volume for April 2017 and later months. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following sections describe this process in detail. A. Baseline Estimate of the Aggregate Dollar Amount of Covered Sales for Fiscal Year 2017 First, calculate the average daily dollar amount of covered sales (``ADS'') for each month in the sample (February 2007-March 2017). The monthly total dollar amount of covered sales (exchange plus certain OTC markets) is presented in column C of Table A. Next, model the monthly change in the natural logarithm of ADS as a first order autoregressive process (``AR(1)''), including monthly indicator variables to control for seasonality. Use the estimated AR(1) model to forecast the monthly change in the log level of ADS. These percent changes can then be applied to obtain forecasts of the total dollar volume of covered sales. The following is a more formal (mathematical) description of the procedure: 1. Begin with the monthly data for total dollar volume of covered sales (column C). The sample spans ten years, from February 2007-March 2017.\13\ Divide each month's total dollar volume by the number of trading days in that month (column B) to obtain the average daily dollar volume (ADS, column D). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \13\ Because the model uses a one period lag in the change in the log level of average daily sales, two additional months of data are added to the table so that the model is estimated with 120 observations. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. For each month t, calculate [Delta] LN ADS (shown in column E) as the log growth rate of ADS, that is, the difference between the natural logarithm of ADS in month t and its value in the prior month. 3. Estimate the AR(1) model [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN05JN17.004 with Dt m representing monthly indicator variables, yt representing the log growth rate in ADS ([Delta] LN ADS), and et representing the error term for month t. The model can be estimated using standard commercially available software. The estimated parameter values are b = -0.2768 and [alpha]1 - [alpha]12 as follows: k1 (JAN) = 0.0636, [alpha]2 (FEB) = 0.398, [alpha]3 (MAR) = -0.0118, [alpha]4 (APR) = 0.0593, [alpha]5 (MAY) = 0.0388, [alpha]6 (JUN) = 0.0123, [alpha]7 (JUL) = -0.0444, [alpha]8 (AUG) = 0.0029, [alpha]9 (SEP) = 0.0349, [alpha]10 (OCT) = 0.0474, [alpha]11 (NOV) = -0.0141, [alpha]12 (DEC) = -0.0820. The root-mean spared error (RMSE) of the regression is 0.1171. 4. For the first month calculate the forecasted value of the log growth rate of ADS as [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN05JN17.005 For the next month use the forecasted value of the log growth rate of the first month to calculate the forecast of the next month. This process iterates until a forecast is generated for all remaining months in the fiscal year. These data appear in column F. [[Page 25897]] [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN05JN17.006 7. For May 2017, proceed in a similar fashion. Using the estimates for April 2017 along with the b parameter and the [alpha]5 parameter (for May 2017) to generate a forecast for the one-month change in the log level of average daily sales. Convert the estimated log change in average daily sales to estimated percent change in ADS as in step 6, above to obtain a forecast ADS of $291,814,240,988. Multiply this figure by the 22 trading days in May 2017 to obtain a total dollar volume forecast of $6,419,913,301,735. 8. Repeat this procedure for subsequent months. B. Using the Forecasts From A To Calculate the New Fee Rate 1. Use Table A to estimate fees collected for the period October 1, 2016 through July 3, 2017. The projected aggregate dollar amount of covered sales for this period is $54,570,409,807,040. Actual and projected fee collections at the current fee rate of $21.80 per million are $1,189,634,934. [[Page 25898]] [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN05JN17.007 3. Subtract the amounts $1,189,634,934 and $65,181 from the target off-setting collection amount set by Congress of $1,605,000,000, leaving $415,299,885 to be collected on dollar volume for the period July 4, 2017 through September 30, 2017. 4. Use Table A to estimate dollar volume for the period July 4, 2017 through September 30, 2017. The estimate is $17,994,658,216,678. Finally, compute the fee rate required to produce the additional $415,299,885 in revenue. This rate is $415,299,885 divided by $17,994,658,216,678 or 0.00002307906. 5. Round the result to the seventh decimal point, yielding a rate of 0.0000231 (or $23.10 per million). This table summarizes the estimates of the aggregate dollar amount of covered sales, by time period. The figures in this table can be used to determine the new fee rate. Table A--Baseline Estimate of the Aggregate Dollar Amount of Sales ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fee rate calculation ------------------------------------------------------------------------ a. Baseline estimate of the aggregate dollar amount of $54,288,056 sales, 10/01/2016 to 06/30/2017 ($Millions)............ b. Baseline estimate of the aggregate dollar amount of 282,354 sales, 07/01/2017 to 07/03/2017 ($Millions)............ c. Baseline estimate of the aggregate dollar amount of 5,364,725 sales, 07/04/2017 to 07/31/2017 ($Millions)............ d. Baseline estimate of the aggregate dollar amount of 12,629,933 sales, 08/01/2017 to 09/30/2017 ($Millions)............ e. Estimated collections in assessments on security 0.065 futures products in fiscal year 2017 ($Millions)....... f. Implied fee rate (($1,605,000,000 - $21.80 * (a + b) - 23.10 e)/(c + d)............................................ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F) (G) (H) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of trading Total dollar Average daily [Delta] LN Forecast [Delta] Forecast average Forecast total Month days in amount of sales dollar amount of ADS LN ADS daily dollar dollar amount of month sales (ADS) amount of sales sales -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb-07............... 19 3,946,799,860,532 207,726,308,449 #N/A ................... ................... ................... Mar-07............... 22 5,245,051,744,090 238,411,442,913 0.13778 ................... ................... ................... Apr-07............... 20 4,274,665,072,437 213,733,253,622 -0.10927 ................... ................... ................... May-07............... 22 5,172,568,357,522 235,116,743,524 0.09535 ................... ................... ................... Jun-07............... 21 5,586,337,010,802 266,016,048,133 0.12347 ................... ................... ................... Jul-07............... 21 5,938,330,480,139 282,777,641,911 0.06110 ................... ................... ................... Aug-07............... 23 7,713,644,229,032 335,375,836,045 0.17059 ................... ................... ................... Sep-07............... 19 4,805,676,596,099 252,930,347,163 -0.28214 ................... ................... ................... Oct-07............... 23 6,499,651,716,225 282,593,552,879 0.11090 ................... ................... ................... Nov-07............... 21 7,176,290,763,989 341,728,131,619 0.19001 ................... ................... ................... Dec-07............... 20 5,512,903,594,564 275,645,179,728 -0.21490 ................... ................... ................... Jan-08............... 21 7,997,242,071,529 380,821,051,025 0.32322 ................... ................... ................... Feb-08............... 20 6,139,080,448,887 306,954,022,444 -0.21563 ................... ................... ................... Mar-08............... 20 6,767,852,332,381 338,392,616,619 0.09751 ................... ................... ................... Apr-08............... 22 6,150,017,772,735 279,546,262,397 -0.19104 ................... ................... ................... May-08............... 21 6,080,169,766,807 289,531,893,657 0.03510 ................... ................... ................... Jun-08............... 21 6,962,199,302,412 331,533,300,115 0.13546 ................... ................... ................... Jul-08............... 22 8,104,256,787,805 368,375,308,537 0.10537 ................... ................... ................... Aug-08............... 21 6,106,057,711,009 290,764,652,905 -0.23659 ................... ................... ................... Sep-08............... 21 8,156,991,919,103 388,428,186,624 0.28959 ................... ................... ................... Oct-08............... 23 8,644,538,213,244 375,849,487,532 -0.03292 ................... ................... ................... Nov-08............... 19 5,727,998,341,833 301,473,596,939 -0.22051 ................... ................... ................... Dec-08............... 22 5,176,041,317,640 235,274,605,347 -0.24793 ................... ................... ................... Jan-09............... 20 4,670,249,433,806 233,512,471,690 -0.00752 ................... ................... ................... [[Page 25899]] Feb-09............... 19 4,771,470,184,048 251,130,009,687 0.07274 ................... ................... ................... Mar-09............... 22 5,885,594,284,780 267,527,012,945 0.06325 ................... ................... ................... Apr-09............... 21 5,123,665,205,517 243,984,057,406 -0.09212 ................... ................... ................... May-09............... 20 5,086,717,129,965 254,335,856,498 0.04155 ................... ................... ................... Jun-09............... 22 5,271,742,782,609 239,624,671,937 -0.05958 ................... ................... ................... Jul-09............... 22 4,659,599,245,583 211,799,965,708 -0.12343 ................... ................... ................... Aug-09............... 21 4,582,102,295,783 218,195,347,418 0.02975 ................... ................... ................... Sep-09............... 21 4,929,155,364,888 234,721,684,042 0.07301 ................... ................... ................... Oct-09............... 22 5,410,025,301,030 245,910,240,956 0.04657 ................... ................... ................... Nov-09............... 20 4,770,928,103,032 238,546,405,152 -0.03040 ................... ................... ................... Dec-09............... 22 4,688,555,303,171 213,116,150,144 -0.11273 ................... ................... ................... Jan-10............... 19 4,661,793,708,648 245,357,563,613 0.14088 ................... ................... ................... Feb-10............... 19 4,969,848,578,023 261,570,977,791 0.06399 ................... ................... ................... Mar-10............... 23 5,563,529,823,621 241,892,601,027 -0.07821 ................... ................... ................... Apr-10............... 21 5,546,445,874,917 264,116,470,234 0.08790 ................... ................... ................... May-10............... 20 7,260,430,376,294 363,021,518,815 0.31807 ................... ................... ................... Jun-10............... 22 6,124,776,349,285 278,398,924,967 -0.26541 ................... ................... ................... Jul-10............... 21 5,058,242,097,334 240,868,671,302 -0.14480 ................... ................... ................... Aug-10............... 22 4,765,828,263,463 216,628,557,430 -0.10607 ................... ................... ................... Sep-10............... 21 4,640,722,344,586 220,986,778,314 0.01992 ................... ................... ................... Oct-10............... 21 5,138,411,712,272 244,686,272,013 0.10187 ................... ................... ................... Nov-10............... 21 5,279,700,881,901 251,414,327,710 0.02713 ................... ................... ................... Dec-10............... 22 4,998,574,681,208 227,207,940,055 -0.10124 ................... ................... ................... Jan-11............... 20 5,043,391,121,345 252,169,556,067 0.10424 ................... ................... ................... Feb-11............... 19 5,114,631,590,581 269,191,136,346 0.06532 ................... ................... ................... Mar-11............... 23 6,499,355,385,307 282,580,668,926 0.04854 ................... ................... ................... Apr-11............... 20 4,975,954,868,765 248,797,743,438 -0.12732 ................... ................... ................... May-11............... 21 5,717,905,621,053 272,281,220,050 0.09020 ................... ................... ................... Jun-11............... 22 5,820,079,494,414 264,549,067,928 -0.02881 ................... ................... ................... Jul-11............... 20 5,189,681,899,635 259,484,094,982 -0.01933 ................... ................... ................... Aug-11............... 23 8,720,566,877,109 379,155,081,613 0.37925 ................... ................... ................... Sep-11............... 21 6,343,578,147,811 302,075,149,896 -0.22727 ................... ................... ................... Oct-11............... 21 6,163,272,963,688 293,489,188,747 -0.02884 ................... ................... ................... Nov-11............... 21 5,493,906,473,584 261,614,593,980 -0.11497 ................... ................... ................... Dec-11............... 21 5,017,867,255,600 238,946,059,790 -0.09063 ................... ................... ................... Jan-12............... 20 4,726,522,206,487 236,326,110,324 -0.01103 ................... ................... ................... Feb-12............... 20 5,011,862,514,132 250,593,125,707 0.05862 ................... ................... ................... Mar-12............... 22 5,638,847,967,025 256,311,271,228 0.02256 ................... ................... ................... Apr-12............... 20 5,084,239,396,560 254,211,969,828 -0.00822 ................... ................... ................... May-12............... 22 5,611,638,053,374 255,074,456,972 0.00339 ................... ................... ................... Jun-12............... 21 5,121,896,896,362 243,899,852,208 -0.04480 ................... ................... ................... Jul-12............... 21 4,567,519,314,374 217,500,919,732 -0.11455 ................... ................... ................... Aug-12............... 23 4,621,597,884,730 200,939,038,467 -0.07920 ................... ................... ................... Sep-12............... 19 4,598,499,962,682 242,026,313,825 0.18604 ................... ................... ................... Oct-12............... 21 5,095,175,588,310 242,627,408,967 0.00248 ................... ................... ................... Nov-12............... 21 4,547,882,974,292 216,565,855,919 -0.11363 ................... ................... ................... Dec-12............... 20 4,744,922,754,360 237,246,137,718 0.09120 ................... ................... ................... Jan-13............... 21 5,079,603,817,496 241,885,896,071 0.01937 ................... ................... ................... Feb-13............... 19 4,800,663,527,089 252,666,501,426 0.04360 ................... ................... ................... Mar-13............... 20 4,917,701,839,870 245,885,091,993 -0.02721 ................... ................... ................... Apr-13............... 22 5,451,358,637,079 247,789,028,958 0.00771 ................... ................... ................... May-13............... 22 5,681,788,831,869 258,263,128,721 0.04140 ................... ................... ................... Jun-13............... 20 5,623,545,462,226 281,177,273,111 0.08501 ................... ................... ................... Jul-13............... 22 5,083,861,509,754 231,084,614,080 -0.19620 ................... ................... ................... Aug-13............... 22 4,925,611,193,095 223,891,417,868 -0.03162 ................... ................... ................... Sep-13............... 20 4,959,197,626,713 247,959,881,336 0.10211 ................... ................... ................... Oct-13............... 23 5,928,804,028,970 257,774,088,216 0.03882 ................... ................... ................... Nov-13............... 20 5,182,024,612,049 259,101,230,602 0.00514 ................... ................... ................... Dec-13............... 21 5,265,282,994,173 250,727,761,627 -0.03285 ................... ................... ................... Jan-14............... 21 5,808,700,114,288 276,604,767,347 0.09822 ................... ................... ................... Feb-14............... 19 6,018,926,931,054 316,785,627,950 0.13564 ................... ................... ................... Mar-14............... 21 6,068,617,342,988 288,981,778,238 -0.09186 ................... ................... ................... Apr-14............... 21 6,013,948,953,528 286,378,521,597 -0.00905 ................... ................... ................... May-14............... 21 5,265,594,447,318 250,742,592,729 -0.13289 ................... ................... ................... Jun-14............... 21 5,159,506,989,669 245,690,809,032 -0.02035 ................... ................... ................... Jul-14............... 22 5,364,099,567,460 243,822,707,612 -0.00763 ................... ................... ................... Aug-14............... 21 5,075,332,147,677 241,682,483,223 -0.00882 ................... ................... ................... Sep-14............... 21 5,507,943,363,243 262,283,017,297 0.08180 ................... ................... ................... Oct-14............... 23 7,796,638,035,879 338,984,262,430 0.25653 ................... ................... ................... Nov-14............... 19 5,340,847,027,697 281,097,211,984 -0.18725 ................... ................... ................... Dec-14............... 22 6,559,110,068,128 298,141,366,733 0.05887 ................... ................... ................... Jan-15............... 20 6,185,619,541,044 309,280,977,052 0.03668 ................... ................... ................... Feb-15............... 19 5,723,523,235,641 301,238,065,034 -0.02635 ................... ................... ................... Mar-15............... 22 6,395,046,297,249 290,683,922,602 -0.03566 ................... ................... ................... Apr-15............... 21 5,625,548,298,004 267,883,252,286 -0.08169 ................... ................... ................... May-15............... 20 5,521,351,972,386 276,067,598,619 0.03009 ................... ................... ................... Jun-15............... 22 6,005,521,460,806 272,978,248,218 -0.01125 ................... ................... ................... Jul-15............... 22 6,493,670,315,390 295,166,832,518 0.07815 ................... ................... ................... Aug-15............... 21 6,963,901,249,270 331,614,345,203 0.11643 ................... ................... ................... [[Page 25900]] Sep-15............... 21 6,434,496,770,897 306,404,608,138 -0.07907 ................... ................... ................... Oct-15............... 22 6,592,594,708,082 299,663,395,822 -0.02225 ................... ................... ................... Nov-15............... 20 5,822,824,015,945 291,141,200,797 -0.02885 ................... ................... ................... Dec-15............... 22 6,384,337,478,801 290,197,158,127 -0.00325 ................... ................... ................... Jan-16............... 19 6,696,059,796,055 352,424,199,792 0.19428 ................... ................... ................... Feb-16............... 20 6,659,878,908,747 332,993,945,437 -0.05671 ................... ................... ................... Mar-16............... 22 6,161,943,754,542 280,088,352,479 -0.17302 ................... ................... ................... Apr-16............... 21 5,541,076,988,322 263,860,808,968 -0.05968 ................... ................... ................... May-16............... 21 5,693,520,415,112 271,120,019,767 0.02714 ................... ................... ................... Jun-16............... 22 6,317,212,852,759 287,146,038,762 0.05743 ................... ................... ................... Jul-16............... 20 5,331,797,261,269 266,589,863,063 -0.07428 ................... ................... ................... Aug-16............... 23 5,635,976,607,786 245,042,461,208 -0.08428 ................... ................... ................... Sep-16............... 21 5,942,072,286,976 282,955,823,189 0.14386 ................... ................... ................... Oct-16............... 21 5,460,906,573,682 260,043,170,175 -0.08444 ................... ................... ................... Nov-16............... 21 6,845,287,809,886 325,966,086,185 0.22595 ................... ................... ................... Dec-16............... 21 6,208,579,880,985 295,646,660,999 -0.09763 ................... ................... ................... Jan-17............... 20 5,598,200,907,603 279,910,045,380 -0.05470 ................... ................... ................... Feb-17............... 19 5,443,426,609,533 286,496,137,344 0.02326 ................... ................... ................... Mar-17............... 23 6,661,861,914,530 289,646,170,197 0.01094 ................... ................... ................... Apr-17............... 19 ................... ................... ........... -0.0623 274,021,149,994 5,206,401,849,893 May-17............... 22 ................... ................... ........... 0.0561 291,814,240,988 6,419,913,301,735 Jun-17............... 22 ................... ................... ........... -0.0032 292,885,318,930 6,443,477,016,454 Jul-17............... 20 ................... ................... ........... -0.0435 282,353,942,739 5,647,078,854,776 Aug-17............... 23 ................... ................... ........... 0.0149 288,570,007,274 6,637,110,167,312 Sep-17............... 20 ................... ................... ........... 0.0308 299,641,156,866 5,992,823,137,329 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BILLING CODE 8011-01-P [[Page 25901]] [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TN05JN17.008 [[Page 25902]] [FR Doc. 2017-11555 Filed 6-2-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8011-01-C
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C. Self-Regulatory Organization’s those that may be withheld from the a uniform adjusted rate that is
Statement on Comments on the public in accordance with the reasonably likely to produce aggregate
Proposed Rule Change Received From provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be fee collections (including assessments
Members, Participants, or Others available for Web site viewing and on security futures transactions) equal
No written comments were either printing in the Commission’s Public to the regular appropriation to the
solicited or received. Reference Room, 100 F Street NE., Commission for the applicable fiscal
Washington, DC 20549, on official year.5
III. Date of Effectiveness of the business days between the hours of The Commission is required to
Proposed Rule Change and Timing for 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of the publish notice of the new fee rates
Commission Action filing also will be available for under Section 31 not later than 30 days
The foregoing rule change has become inspection and copying at the principal after the date on which an Act making
effective pursuant to Section office of the Exchange. All comments a regular appropriation for the
19(b)(3)(A)(ii) of the Act.11 At any time received will be posted without change; applicable fiscal year is enacted.6 On
within 60 days of the filing of the the Commission does not edit personal May 5, 2017, the President signed into
proposed rule change, the Commission identifying information from law the ‘‘Consolidated Appropriations
summarily may temporarily suspend submissions. You should submit only Act, 2017,’’ which includes a regular
such rule change if it appears to the information that you wish to make appropriation of $1,605,000,000 to the
Commission that such action is: (i) available publicly. All submissions SEC for fiscal year 2017.
Necessary or appropriate in the public should refer to File Number SR–GEMX– II. Fiscal Year 2017 Annual Adjustment
interest; (ii) for the protection of 2017–20, and should be submitted on or to the Fee Rate
investors; or (iii) otherwise in before June 26, 2017.
furtherance of the purposes of the Act. The new fee rate is determined by (1)
For the Commission, by the Division of
If the Commission takes such action, the Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated
subtracting the sum of fees estimated to
Commission shall institute proceedings authority.12 be collected prior to the effective date of
to determine whether the proposed rule Eduardo A. Aleman,
the new fee rate 7 and estimated
should be approved or disapproved. assessments on security futures
Assistant Secretary.
transactions to be collected under
IV. Solicitation of Comments [FR Doc. 2017–11503 Filed 6–2–17; 8:45 am]
Section 31(d) of the Exchange Act for all
BILLING CODE 8011–01–P of fiscal year 2017 8 from an amount
Interested persons are invited to
submit written data, views, and equal to the regular appropriation to the
arguments concerning the foregoing, Commission for fiscal year 2017, and (2)
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE dividing by the estimated aggregate
including whether the proposed rule COMMISSION
change is consistent with the Act. dollar amount of covered sales for the
Comments may be submitted by any of [Release No. 34–80816/May 31, 2017] remainder of the fiscal year following
the following methods: the effective date of the new fee rate.9
Order Making Fiscal Year 2017 Annual The regular appropriation to the
Electronic Comments Adjustments to Transaction Fee Rates Commission for fiscal year 2017 is
• Use the Commission’s Internet I. Background
$1,605,000,000. The Commission
comment form (http://www.sec.gov/ estimates that it will collect
rules/sro.shtml); or Section 31 of the Securities Exchange $1,189,634,934 in fees for the period
• Send an email to rule-comments@ Act of 1934 (‘‘Exchange Act’’) requires prior to the effective date of the new fee
sec.gov. Please include File Number SR– each national securities exchange and rate and $65,181 in assessments on
GEMX–2017–20 on the subject line. national securities association to pay
transaction fees to the Commission.1 5 15 U.S.C. 78ee(j)(1) (the Commission must
Paper Comments Specifically, Section 31(b) requires each adjust the rates under Sections 31(b) and (c) to a
• Send paper comments in triplicate national securities exchange to pay to ‘‘uniform adjusted rate that, when applied to the
baseline estimate of the aggregate dollar amount of
to Secretary, Securities and Exchange the Commission fees based on the sales for such fiscal year, is reasonably likely to
Commission, 100 F Street NE., aggregate dollar amount of sales of produce aggregate fee collections under [Section 31]
Washington, DC 20549–1090. certain securities (‘‘covered sales’’) (including assessments collected under [Section
31(d)]) that are equal to the regular appropriation
All submissions should refer to File transacted on the exchange.2 Section to the Commission by Congress for such fiscal
Number SR–GEMX–2017–20. This file 31(c) requires each national securities year.’’).
number should be included on the association to pay to the Commission 6 15 U.S.C. 78ee(g).
subject line if email is used. To help the fees based on the aggregate dollar 7 The sum of fees to be collected prior to the
Commission process and review your amount of covered sales transacted by or effective date of the new fee rate is determined by
applying the current fee rate to the dollar amount
comments more efficiently, please use through any member of the association of covered sales prior to the effective date of the
only one method. The Commission will other than on an exchange.3 new fee rate. The exchanges and FINRA have
post all comments on the Commission’s Section 31 of the Exchange Act provided data on the dollar amount of covered sales
requires the Commission to annually through March 2017. To calculate the dollar amount
Internet Web site (http://www.sec.gov/ of covered sales from April 2017 to the effective
rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the adjust the fee rates applicable under date of the new fee rate, the Commission is using
submission, all subsequent Sections 31(b) and (c) to a uniform the methodology described in the Appendix A of
adjusted rate.4 Specifically, the this order.
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amendments, all written statements
with respect to the proposed rule Commission must adjust the fee rates to 8 The Commission is using the same methodology
it has used previously to estimate assessments on
change that are filed with the security futures transactions to be collected in fiscal
12 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12).
Commission, and all written year 2017. An explanation of the methodology
1 15 U.S.C. 78ee.
communications relating to the appears in Appendix A.
2 15 U.S.C. 78ee(b). 9 To estimate the aggregate dollar amount of
proposed rule change between the 3 15 U.S.C. 78ee(c).
covered sales for the remainder of fiscal year 2017
Commission and any person, other than 4 In some circumstances, the SEC also must make following the effective date of the new fee rate, the
a mid-year adjustment to the fee rates applicable Commission is using the methodology described in
11 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A)(ii). under Sections 31(b) and (c). Appendix A of this order.
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[FR Doc. 2017–11555 Filed 6–2–17; 8:45 am] ACTION: Notice. (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
BILLING CODE 8011–01–C Number 59008)
SUMMARY: This is a notice of an Dated: May 25, 2017.
Administrative declaration of a disaster
Linda E. McMahon,
for the State of Nevada dated 05/25/
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Administrator.
2017.
Incident: Severe Winter Storms, [FR Doc. 2017–11566 Filed 6–2–17; 8:45 am]
National Small Business Development
Centers Advisory Board Flooding and Mudslides. BILLING CODE 8025–01–P
Incident Period: 02/05/2017 through
AGENCY: U.S. Small Business 02/22/2017.
Administration. DATES: Effective Date: 05/25/2017. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
ACTION: Notice of open Federal Advisory Physical Loan Application Deadline
[Public Notice: 10015]
Committee meetings. Date: 07/24/2017.
Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan Biodiversity Beyond National
SUMMARY: The SBA is issuing this notice Application Deadline Date: 02/26/2018. Jurisdiction Public Meeting
to announce the location, date, time and ADDRESSES: Submit completed loan
agenda for July and August meetings of applications to: U.S. Small Business AGENCY: Department of State.
the Federal Advisory Committee for the Administration, Processing and ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
Small Business Development Centers Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport
Program. The meetings will be open to Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155. SUMMARY: The Department of State will
the public; however, advance notice of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A. hold an information session regarding
attendance is required. Escobar, Office of Disaster Assistance, issues related to a July United Nations
DATES: U.S. Small Business Administration, meeting concerning marine biodiversity
Tuesday, July 18, 2017, at 1:00 p.m. EST 409 3rd Street SW., Suite 6050, in areas beyond national jurisdiction.
Tuesday, August 15, 2017, at 1:00 p.m. Washington, DC 20416, (202) 205–6734. DATES: The meeting will be held on June
EST SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 13, 2017, 2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
ADDRESSES: All meetings will be held hereby given that as a result of the ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
via conference call. Administrator’s disaster declaration, the Harry S. Truman Main State
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: applications for disaster loans may be Building, Room 3940, 2201 C Street
Monika Nixon, Office of Small Business filed at the address listed above or other NW., Washington, DC 20520.
Development Center, U.S. Small locally announced locations. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
Business Administration, 409 Third The following areas have been you would like to participate in this
Street SW., Washington, DC 20416; determined to be adversely affected by meeting, please send your (1) name, (2)
monika.nixon@.sba.gov. the disaster: organization/affiliation, (3) email
If anyone wishes to be a listening Primary Counties: Elko address, and (4) phone number, as well
participant or would like to request Contiguous Counties: as any requests for reasonable
accommodations, please contact Monika Nevada: Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, accommodation, to Elizabeth Kim at
Nixon at the information above. White Pine KimEAB@state.gov or 202–647–4824.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant Idaho: Cassia, Owyhee, Twin Falls This information is being collected
to section 10(a) of the Federal Advisory Utah: Box Elder, Tooele pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 2651a and 22
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), The Interest Rates are: U.S.C. 4802 for the purpose of screening
SBA announces the meetings of the and pre-clearing participants to enter
National SBDC Advisory Board. This Percent the host venue at the U.S. Department
Board provides advice and counsel to For Physical Damage: of State, in line with standard security
the SBA Administrator and Associate Homeowners With Credit Avail- procedures for events of this size. The
Administrator for Small Business able Elsewhere ...................... 3.750 Department of State will use this
Development Centers. Homeowners Without Credit information consistent with the routine
The purpose of the meetings is to Available Elsewhere .............. 1.875 uses set forth in the System of Records
discuss the following issues pertaining Businesses With Credit Avail- Notices for Protocol Records (STATE-
to the SBDC Program: able Elsewhere ...................... 6.300 33) and Security Records (State–36).
SBA Update Businesses Without Credit Provision of this information is
Annual Meetings Available Elsewhere .............. 3.150
Non-Profit Organizations With
voluntary, but failure to provide
Board
Credit Available Elsewhere ... 2.500 accurate information may impede your
Assignments Non-Profit Organizations With- ability to register for the event.
Member Roundtable out Credit Available Else- SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In July
Richard Kingan, where ..................................... 2.500 2017, the United States will participate
For Economic Injury: in a two-week meeting of the United
Acting White House Liaison.
Businesses & Small Agricultural Nations General Assembly (UNGA)
[FR Doc. 2017–11490 Filed 6–2–17; 8:45 am] Cooperatives Without Credit
BILLING CODE 8025–01–P Available Elsewhere .............. 3.150
Preparatory Committee on the
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Non-Profit Organizations With- conservation and sustainable use of
out Credit Available Else- marine biological diversity beyond areas
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION where ..................................... 2.500 of national jurisdiction. This fourth
meeting of the Preparatory Committee
[Disaster Declaration #15142 and #15143] The number assigned to this disaster will end a two-year process established
for physical damage is 15142B and for by the UNGA to make substantive
Nevada Disaster #NV–00046
economic injury is 151430. recommendations on the elements of a
AGENCY:U.S. Small Business The States which received an EIDL draft text of a legally binding instrument
Administration. Declaration # are Nevada, Idaho, Utah. on the conservation and sustainable use
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