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39 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A). 

40 17 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. 

41See supra note 7. 

42For purposes only of waiving the 30-day 

operative delay, the Commission has also 

considered the proposed rule’s impact on 

efficiency, competition, and capital formation. See 

15 U.S.C. 78c(f). 43 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). 

C. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement on Comments on the 

Proposed Rule Change Received From 

Members, Participants, or Others 

The Exchange has neither solicited 

nor received written comments on the 

proposed rule change. 

III. Date of Effectiveness of the 

Proposed Rule Change and Timing for 

Commission Action 

Because the 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 39 and Rule 19b– 

4(f)(6) thereunder.40

The Exchange has asked the 

Commission to waive the 30-day 

operative delay so that the proposal may 

become operative immediately upon 

filing. The Commission notes that BZX 

is requesting approval to list a series of 

Managed Fund Shares that was 

previously approved by the Commission 

to list and trade, and is currently listed 

and traded, on Arca and that the 

Exchange has represented that this 

proposal is substantively identical to the 

Prior Proposal, and the issuer represents 

that all material representations 

contained within the Prior Proposal 

remain true.41 Accordingly, the 

Commission believes that the proposal 

raises no new or novel regulatory issues 

and that waiver of the 30-day operative 

delay is consistent with the protection 

of investors and the public interest. The 

Commission therefore waives the 30-day 

operative delay and designates the 

proposed rule change to be operative 

upon filing.42

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. 

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: 

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 SRCboeBZX–2018–085 on the subject line. 

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–CboeBZX–2018–085. 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 

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–CboeBZX–2018–085 and 

should be submitted on or before 

January 7, 2019. 

For the Commission, by the Division of 

Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated 

authority.43

Eduardo A. Aleman, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–27206 Filed 12–14–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: Notice is hereby given, 

pursuant to the provisions of the 

Government in the Sunshine Act, Pub. 

L. 94–409, the Securities and Exchange 

Commission will hold an Open Meeting 

on Wednesday, December 19, 2018 at 

9:00 a.m. 

PLACE: The meeting will be held in 

Auditorium LL–002 at the 

Commission’s headquarters, 100 F 

Street NE, Washington, DC 20549. 

STATUS: This meeting will begin at 9:00 

a.m. (ET) and will be open to the public. 

Seating will be on a first-come, firstserved basis. Visitors will be subject to 

security checks. The meeting will be 

webcast on the Commission’s website at 

www.sec.gov. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: The subject 

matters of the Open Meeting will be the 

Commission’s consideration of: 

• Whether to approve the 2019 

budget of the Public Company 

Accounting Oversight Board and the 

related annual accounting support fee 

for the Board under Section 109 of the 

Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. 

• Whether to issue a Request for 

Comment on the nature and content of 

quarterly reports and earnings releases 

issued by reporting companies. 

• Whether to adopt Rule of Practice 

194 pursuant to Section 15F(b)(6) of the 

Securities Exchange Act of 1934. 

• Whether to propose rules under 

Section 15F(i)(2) of the Securities 

Exchange Act of 1934 that would 

require security-based swap dealers and 

major security-based swap participants 

to comply with certain risk mitigation 

techniques with respect to portfolios of 

security-based swaps not submitted for 

clearing to a central counterparty. 

• Whether to adopt rules to 

implement Section 955 of the DoddFrank Wall Street Reform and Consumer 

Protection Act by requiring disclosure 

about the ability of a company’s 

employees or directors to hedge or offset 

any decrease in the market value of 

equity securities granted as 

compensation to, or held directly or 

indirectly by, an employee or director. 


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1The Board modified its OFA procedures 

effective July 29, 2017. Among other things, the 

OFA process now requires potential offerors in all 

abandonment and discontinuance proceedings to 

file a formal expression of intent to file an offer. The 

process also requires potential offerors, in their 

formal expression of intent, to make a preliminary 

financial responsibility showing based on a 

calculation using information contained in the 

carrier’s filing and publicly available information. 

See Offers of Financial Assistance, EP 729 (STB 

served June 29, 2017); 82 FR 30,997 (July 5, 2017). 

• Whether to propose a new rule and 

rule amendments to allow funds to 

acquire shares of other funds (i.e., ‘‘fund 

of funds’’ arrangements), including 

arrangements involving exchange-traded 

funds, without first obtaining exemptive 

orders from the Commission. 

At times, changes in Commission 

priorities require alterations in the 

scheduling of meeting items. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

For further information and to ascertain 

what, if any, matters have been added, 

deleted, or postponed; please contact 

Brent J. Fields from the Office of the 

Secretary at (202) 551–5400. 

Dated: December 12, 2018. 

Brent J. Fields, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–27317 Filed 12–13–18; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 

[Docket No. SSA–2018–0061] 

Agreement on Social Security Between 

the United States and Slovenia; Entry 

Into Force 

AGENCY: Social Security Administration 

(SSA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: We are giving notice that an 

agreement coordinating the United 

States (U.S.) and Slovenian social 

security programs will go into force 

effective on February 1, 2019. The 

Agreement with Slovenia, which was 

signed on January 17, 2017, is similar to 

U.S. social security agreements already 

in force with 28 other countries— 

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, 

Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, 

Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, 

Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, 

Korea (South), Luxembourg, the 

Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, 

the Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, 

Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and 

Uruguay. Section 233 of the Social 

Security Act authorizes agreements of 

this type. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Like the 

other agreements, the U.S.-Slovenian 

Agreement eliminates dual social 

security coverage. This situation exists 

when a worker from one country works 

in the other country and has coverage 

under the social security systems of 

both countries for the same work. 

Without such agreements in force, when 

dual coverage occurs, the worker, the 

worker’s employer, or both may be 

required to pay social security 

contributions to the two countries 

simultaneously. Under the U.S.- 

Slovenian Agreement, a worker who is 

sent by an employer in one country to 

work in the other country for 5 or fewer 

years remains covered only by the 

sending country. The Agreement 

includes additional rules that eliminate 

dual U.S. and Slovenian coverage in 

other work situations. 

The Agreement also helps eliminate 

situations where workers suffer a loss of 

benefit rights because they have divided 

their careers between the two countries. 

Under the Agreement, workers may 

qualify for partial U.S. benefits or partial 

Slovenian benefits based on combined 

(totalized) work credits from both 

countries. 

Persons who wish to receive copies of 

the agreement or who want more 

information about its provisions may 

write to the Social Security 

Administration, Office of Data 

Exchange, Policy Publications, and 

International Negotiations, 4700 Annex 

Building, 6401 Security Boulevard, 

Baltimore, MD 21235 or visit the Social 

Security website at 

www.socialsecurity.gov/international. 

The full text of the agreement and its 

accompanying administrative 

arrangement are available at https://

www.ssa.gov/international/Agreement_

Texts/slovenia.html. 

Nancy A. Berryhill, 

Acting Commissioner of Social Security. 

[FR Doc. 2018–27166 Filed 12–14–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4191–02–P 

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

[Docket No. AB 33 (Sub–No. 336X)] 

Union Pacific Railroad Company— 

Abandonment Exemption—in Douglas 

County, Neb. 

On November 27, 2018, Union Pacific 

Railroad Company (UP) filed with the 

Surface Transportation Board (Board) a 

petition under 49 U.S.C. 10502 for 

exemption from the provisions of 49 

U.S.C. 10903 to abandon an 

approximately 0.28-mile rail line known 

as the Omaha Belt Industrial Lead, 

extending from milepost 485.55 near 

Grover Street to milepost 485.27, the 

point switch on the Wimmer Wye just 

west of Dahlman Avenue, all in Omaha, 

Douglas County, Neb. (the Line). The 

Line traverses United States Postal ZIP 

Codes 68105 and 68107. 

UP states that it seeks to abandon the 

Line and sell the track and property to 

Darling Ingredients, the only shipper on 

the Line, which plans to use the track 

and property to support expansion of its 

plant, and that UP will continue to serve 

Darling Ingredients in substantially the 

same manner as it does today. 

According to UP, based on the 

information in its possession, the Line 

does not contain federally granted 

rights-of-way, and any documentation 

in UP’s possession will be made 

available promptly to those requesting 

it. 

The interest of railroad employees 

will be protected by the conditions set 

forth in Oregon Short Line Railroad— 

Abandonment Portion Goshen Branch 

Between Firth & Ammon, in Bingham & 

Bonneville Counties, Idaho, 360 I.C.C. 

91 (1979). 

By issuing this notice, the Board is 

instituting an exemption proceeding 

pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 10502(b). A final 

decision will be issued by March 15, 

2019. 

Any offer of financial assistance 

(OFA) under 49 CFR 1152.27(b)(2) will 

be due no later than 10 days after 

service of a decision granting the 

petition for exemption.1 Each OFA must 

be accompanied by a $1,800 filing fee. 

See 49 CFR 1002.2(f)(25). 

All interested persons should be 

aware that, following abandonment, the 

Line may be suitable for other public 

use, including interim trail use. Any 

request for a public use condition under 

49 CFR 1152.28 or for trail use/rail 

banking under 49 CFR 1152.29 will be 

due no later than January 3, 2019. Each 

trail request must be accompanied by a 

$300 filing fee. See 49 CFR 

1002.2(f)(27). 

All filings in response to this notice 

must refer to Docket No. AB 33 (Sub-No. 

336X) and must be sent to: (1) Surface 

Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20423–0001; and (2) 

Jeremy M. Berman, Union Pacific 

Railroad Company, 1400 Douglas Street, 

MS #1580, Omaha, NE 68179. Replies to 

the petition are due on or before January 

3, 2019. 

Persons seeking further information 

concerning abandonment procedures 

may contact the Board’s Office of Public 

Assistance, Governmental Affairs, and 

Compliance (OPAGAC) at (202) 245– 

0238 or refer to the full abandonment 

regulations at 49 CFR part 1152. 

Questions concerning environmental 

issues may be directed to the Board’s 


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