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(C) That are submitted by the parties 

to the derivatives clearing organization, 

in accordance with § 23.506 of this 

chapter; 

(D) For which the executing parties 

have clearing arrangements in place 

with clearing members of the 

derivatives clearing organization; and 

(E) For which the executing parties 

identify the derivatives clearing 

organization as the intended 

clearinghouse. 

(v) All swaps not executed on a swap 

execution facility or a designated 

contract market and submitted for 

clearing. A derivatives clearing 

organization shall have rules that 

provide that all swaps submitted to the 

derivatives clearing organization for 

clearing shall include written 

documentation that memorializes all of 

the terms of the transaction and legally 

supersedes any previous agreement. The 

confirmation of all terms of the 

transaction shall take place at the same 

time as the swap is accepted for 

clearing. 

10. Amend § 39.15 by revising 

paragraph (d) and adding paragraph (e) 

to read as follows: 

§ 39.15 Treatment of funds. 

* * * * * 

(d) Transfer of customer positions. A 

derivatives clearing organization shall 

have rules providing that, upon the 

request of a customer and subject to the 

consent of the receiving clearing 

member, the derivatives clearing 

organization will promptly transfer all 

or a portion of such customer’s portfolio 

of positions and related funds from the 

carrying clearing member of the 

derivatives clearing organization to 

another clearing member of the 

derivatives clearing organization, 

without requiring the close-out and rebooking of the positions prior to the 

requested transfer. 

(e) Permitted investments. Funds and 

assets belonging to clearing members 

and their customers that are invested by 

a derivatives clearing organization shall 

be held in instruments with minimal 

credit, market, and liquidity risks. Any 

investment of customer funds or assets 

by a derivatives clearing organization 

shall comply with § 1.25 of this part, as 

if all such funds and assets comprise 

customer funds subject to segregation 

pursuant to section 4d(a) of the Act and 

Commission regulations thereunder. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on February 24, 

2011, by the Commission. 

David A. Stawick, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

Note: The following appendices will not 

appear in the Code of Federal Regulations 

Appendices to Requirements for 

Processing, Clearing and Transfer of 

Customer Positions—Commission 

Voting Summary and Statements of 

Commissioners 

Appendix 1—Commission Voting 

Summary 

On this matter, Chairman Gensler and 

Commissioners Dunn, Sommers, Chilton and 

O’Malia voted in the affirmative; no 

Commissioner voted in the negative. 

Appendix 2—Statement of Chairman 

Gary Gensler 

I support the proposed rulemaking 

regarding straight-through processing 

because it furthers the goal of expanding 

access to and strengthening the financial 

integrity of the swap markets. These 

proposed regulations would require and 

establish uniform standards for prompt 

processing, submission and acceptance for 

clearing of swaps eligible for clearing. Such 

uniform standards, similar to the practices in 

the futures markets, lower risk because they 

allow market participants to get the prompt 

benefit of clearing rather than having to first 

enter into a bilateral transaction that would 

subsequently be moved into a clearinghouse. 

In addition, I support the requirement for 

prompt and efficient transfer of customer 

positions from a carrying clearing member of 

a clearinghouse to another clearing member 

of the clearinghouse, upon a customer’s 

request. This would promote efficiency and 

avoid unnecessary delay and market 

disruption. Furthermore, users of derivatives 

could get the benefit of greater competition 

amongst clearing members. 

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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 

20 CFR Parts 404, 405, and 416 

[Docket No. SSA–2007–0053] 

Compassionate Allowances for 

Autoimmune Disease, Office of the 

Commissioner; Hearing 

AGENCY: Social Security Administration. 

ACTION: Announcement of public 

hearing. 

SUMMARY: We developed 

‘‘Compassionate Allowances’’ to provide 

benefits quickly to applicants whose 

medical conditions obviously meet the 

definition of disability under the Social 

Security Act (Act) and can be identified 

with minimal objective medical 

information. In December 2007, April 

2008, November 2008, July 2009, 

November 2009, and November 2010, 

we held Compassionate Allowance 

public hearings to help us identify the 

diseases and other serious medical 

conditions that we should consider 

under the Compassionate Allowance 

process. These hearings concerned rare 

diseases, cancers, traumatic brain injury 

and stroke, early-onset Alzheimer’s 

disease and related dementias, 

schizophrenia, and cardiovascular 

disease and multiple organ transplants, 

respectively. We will hold our next 

hearing on March 16 to address the 

advisability and possible methods of 

identifying and implementing 

compassionate allowances for both 

adults and children with autoimmune 

diseases. While the public is welcome to 

attend the hearing, only scheduled 

witnesses will present testimony. We 

plan to address other medical 

conditions at subsequent hearings. 

DATES: This hearing will be held on 

March 16, 2011, between 8:30 a.m. and 

5 p.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST), in 

Baltimore, Maryland. The hearing will 

be held at the Sheraton Baltimore City 

Center Hotel in the International 

Ballroom. The hotel’s address is 101 

West Fayette St., Baltimore, MD 21201– 

3703. You may also watch the 

proceedings live via Webcast beginning 

at 9 a.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST). 

You may access the Webcast line for the 

hearing on the Social Security 

Administration Web site at http:// 

www.socialsecurity.gov/ 

compassionateallowances/. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit written 

comments about the compassionate 

allowances initiative with respect to 

adults and children with autoimmune 

diseases, as well as topics covered at the 

hearing by: 

• E-mail addressed to 

Compassionate.Allowances@ssa.gov; or 

• Mail to Jamillah Jackson, Deputy 

Director, Office of Compassionate 

Allowances and Disability Outreach, 

ODP, ORDP, Social Security 

Administration, 4671 Annex Building, 

6401 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, 

Maryland 21235–6401. We welcome 

your comments, but we may not 

respond directly to comments sent in 

response to this notice of hearing. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Compassionate.Allowances@ssa.gov. 

You may also mail inquiries about this 

hearing to Jamillah Jackson, Deputy 

Director, Office of Compassionate 

Allowances and Disability Outreach, 

ODP, ORDP, Social Security 

Administration, 4671 Annex Building, 

6401 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, 

Maryland 21235–6401. For information 

on eligibility or filing for benefits, call 

our national toll-free number 1–800– 

772–1213 or TTY 1–800–325–0778, or 

visit Social Security online, at http:// 

www.socialsecurity.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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Background 

Under the disability programs in titles 

II and XVI of the Act, we pay benefits 

to individuals who meet our rules for 

entitlement and have medically 

determinable physical or mental 

impairments that are severe enough to 

meet the statutory definition of 

disability. The rules for determining 

disability can be very complicated, but 

some individuals have such serious 

medical conditions that their conditions 

obviously meet our disability standards 

with minimal objective medical 

evidence alone. To better address the 

needs of these individuals, we are 

looking into ways to allow benefits as 

quickly as possible based on minimal 

objective medical information. 

Will we respond to your comments? 

We will carefully consider your 

comments, although we will not 

respond directly to comments sent in 

response to this notice or the hearing. 

Additional Hearings 

You may access the transcripts of our 

prior hearings at http:// 

www.socialsecurity.gov/ 

compassionateallowances/. We plan to 

hold additional hearings on other 

conditions and will announce those 

hearings with notices in the Federal 

Register. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Programs Nos. 96.001, Social Security— 

Disability Insurance; 96.006, Supplemental 

Security Income.) 

Dated: March 3, 2011. 

Michael J. Astrue, 

Commissioner of Social Security. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 

and Enforcement 

30 CFR Part 920 

[SATS No. MD–056–FOR; Docket ID: OSM 

2010–0008] 

Maryland Regulatory Program 

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining 

Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM), 

Interior. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of 

comment period and notice of public 

hearing. 

SUMMARY: We are reopening and 

extending the public comment period 

and will be holding a public hearing on 

the proposed amendment to the State of 

Maryland’s approved regulatory 

program (the ‘‘Maryland program’’) 

published on January 28, 2011. The 

comment period is being reopened and 

extended in order to afford the public 

more time to comment and to allow 

enough time to hold a public hearing 

requested by a representative of the 

Sierra Club. We are also notifying the 

public of the date, time, and location for 

the public hearing. Maryland is 

proposing to add provisions to its 

program to regulate coal combustion 

byproducts (CCBs) and to establish 

requirements pertaining to the 

generation, storage, handling, 

processing, disposal, recycling, 

beneficial use, or other use of CCBs 

within the State. 

DATES: We will accept written 

comments until 4 p.m., local time on 

March 28, 2011. The public hearing will 

be held on March 21, 2011, at 6 p.m. 

local time. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by ‘‘MD–056–FOR; Docket ID: 

OSM–2010–0008’’ by either of the 

following two methods: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. The proposed rule 

has been assigned Docket ID: OSM– 

2010–0008. If you would like to submit 

comments through the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov and follow the 

instructions. 

Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier: Mr. 

George Rieger, Chief, Pittsburgh Field 

Division,Office of Surface Mining 

Reclamation and Enforcement, Three 

Parkway Center, Suite 300, Pittsburgh, 

PA 15220. 

Instructions: For detailed instructions 

on submitting comments and additional 

information on the rulemaking process, 

see III. Public Comment Procedures in 

the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

of the proposed rule published on 

January 28, 2011. 

Public Hearing: The public hearing 

will be held at the Annapolis Marriot 

Waterfront Hotel, 80 Compromise 

Street, Annapolis, Maryland 21401 on 

March 21, 2011, at 6 p.m. local time. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

George Rieger, Chief, Pittsburgh Field 

Division,Telephone: (412) 937–2153. 

E-mail: grieger@osmre.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

January 28, 2011, (76 FR 5103) we 

published a proposed rule that would 

revise the Maryland program. The 

revisions would add regulations to the 

Maryland program to regulate coal 

combustion byproducts and to establish 

requirements pertaining to the 

generation, storage, handling, 

processing, disposal, recycling, 

beneficial use, or other use of coal 

combustion byproducts (CCB) within 

the State. In total, these regulations 

pertain to all CCB activities in the State, 

not just surface coal mining and 

reclamation operations. However, a 

section of the added regulations 

specifically pertains to surface coal 

mining and reclamation operations and 

is proposed to be part of Maryland’s 

federally approved state program. The 

regulation specific to surface coal 

mining and reclamation operations has 

been added as a new regulation, 

Regulation .08 under COMAR 26.20.24, 

Special Performance Standards. 

Specifically, Maryland’s Regulation 

.08 Utilization of Coal Combustion 

Byproducts, will include paragraphs 

A–H on the Purpose and Scope, 

Conditions for Utilization, and Testing 

and Monitoring. Additionally, Maryland 

is adding a Coal Combustion 

Byproducts Utilization Request 

requirement that will require a solids 

analysis of the CCBs and a Toxicity 

Characteristics Leaching Procedure 

(TCLP) leachate analysis of the CCBs. 

Maryland may also impose additional 

controls or conditions on the use of 

CCBs as it sees fit for the protection of 

human health and the environment. 

On February 14, 2011, 

(Administrative Record Number MD– 

588–010), we received a request from an 

attorney representing the Maryland 

Chapter of the Sierra Club to extend the 

comment period and to hold a public 

hearing on the amendment. We are 

granting the request to extend the public 

comment period to afford the public 

more time to comment on the 

amendment and to allow enough time to 

schedule and hold the hearing. The 

date, time and location for the public 

hearing may be found under DATES and 

ADDRESSES above. 

The hearings will be open to anyone 

who would like to attend and/or testify. 

The primary purpose of the public 

hearing is to obtain your comments on 

the proposed rule so that we can 

prepare a complete and objective 

analysis of the proposal. The purpose of 

the hearing officer is to conduct the 

hearing and receive the comments 

submitted. Comments submitted during 

the hearing will be responded to in the 

preamble to the final rule, not at the 

hearing. We appreciate all comments 

but those most useful and likely to 

influence decisions on the final rule 

will be those that either involve 

personal experience or include citations 

to, and analyses of, the Surface Mining 

Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, its 

legislative history, its implementing 

regulations, case law, other State or 

Federal laws and regulations, data, 


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