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Agency name Organization name Position title Authorization 

No. Effective date 

Bureau of International Labor Affairs.Senior Counselor ........................... DL200168 08/17/2020 

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR 

THE HUMANITIES.

National Endowment for the Humanities.Congressional Affairs Specialist ....

Strategic Advisor ............................

NH200005 

NH200004 

08/13/2020 

08/17/2020 

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND 

BUDGET.

Office of the General Counsel ....... Confidential Assistant .................... BO200045 08/28/2020 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE ............ Bureau of Economic and Business 

Affairs.

General Counsel ............................ DS200085 08/01/2020 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY.Office of the Assistant Secretary 

(Public Affairs).

Director, Public Affairs ................... DY200126 08/03/2020 

Secretary of the Treasury .............. Special Advisor .............................. DY200124 08/26/2020 

The following Schedule C appointing 

authorities were revoked during August 

2020. 

Agency name Organization name Position title Request No. Date vacated 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ........ Office of Legislative Affairs ............ Confidential Assistant .................... DJ180153 08/15/2020 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 3301 and 3302; E.O. 

10577, 3 CFR, 1954–1958 Comp., p. 218. 

Office of Personnel Management. 

Alexys Stanley, 

Regulatory Affairs Analyst. 

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BILLING CODE 6325–39–P 

OFFICE OF PERSONNEL 

MANAGEMENT 

Excepted Service 

AGENCY: Office of Personnel 

Management (OPM). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice identifies 

Schedule A, B, and C appointing 

authorities applicable to a single agency 

that were established or revoked from 

October 1, 2020 to October 31, 2020. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julia 

Alford, Senior Executive Resources 

Services, Senior Executive Services and 

Performance Management, Employee 

Services, 202–606–2246. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with 5 CFR 213.103, 

Schedule A, B, and C appointing 

authorities available for use by all 

agencies are codified in the Code of 

Federal Regulations (CFR). Schedule A, 

B, and C appointing authorities 

applicable to a single agency are not 

codified in the CFR, but the Office of 

Personnel Management (OPM) 

publishes a notice of agency-specific 

authorities established or revoked each 

month in the Federal Register at 

www.gpo.gov/fdsys/. OPM also 

publishes an annual notice of the 

consolidated listing of all Schedule A, 

B, and C appointing authorities, current 

as of June 30, in the Federal Register. 

Schedule A 

32. Small Business Administration (Sch 

A, 213.3132) 

(a) When the President under 42 

U.S.C. 5170–5189, the Secretary of 

Agriculture under 7 U.S.C. 1961, or the 

Small Business Administration under 

15 U.S.C. 636(b)(1) declares an area to 

be a disaster area, positions filled by 

time-limited appointment of employees 

to make and administer disaster loans in 

the area under the Small Business Act, 

as amended. Service under this 

authority may not exceed 7 years. 

Exception to this time limit may only be 

made with prior U.S. Office of 

Personnel Management approval. No 

one may be appointed under this 

authority to positions engaged in longterm maintenance of loan portfolios. 

Schedule B 

No Schedule B Authorities to report 

during October 2020. 

Schedule C 

The following Schedule C appointing 

authorities were approved during 

October 2020. 

Agency name Organization name Position title Authorization 

No. Effective date 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Office of the Secretary ................... Deputy White House Liaison ......... DA200154 10/20/2020 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE .. Minority Business Development 

Agency.

Advisor ........................................... DC200151 10/29/2020 

Office of Public Affairs ................... Deputy Speech Writer .................... DC210001 10/05/2020 

Office of the Chief of Staff ............. Director, Center for Faith and Opportunity Initiatives.DC200129 10/13/2020 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ...... Office of the Secretary of Defense Deputy White House Liaison ......... DD210003 10/13/2020 

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY ..... Office Deputy Under Secretary of 

Army.

Special Assistant ............................ DW200046 10/13/2020 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION .. Office of the General Counsel ....... Confidential Assistant .................... DB210001 10/09/2020 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ........ Office of the Assistant Secretary 

for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

Deputy Chief of Staff ..................... DE200204 10/05/2020 

Office of Management ................... Senior Advisor ................................ DE200195 10/02/2020 

Office of the Secretary ................... Deputy White House Liaison ......... DE210002 10/05/2020 


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY.

Office of Public Affairs ................... Deputy Associate Administrator for 

Policy.

EP200109 10/17/2020 

Office of the Administrator ............. Senior Advisor ................................ EP200102 10/02/2020 

White House Liaison ...................... EP210001 10/02/2020 

Office of the Assistant Administrator for Mission Support.Senior Advisor ................................ EP200119 10/09/2020 

Office of the Associate Administrator for Congressional and 

Intergovernmental Relations.

Assistant Deputy Associate Administrator for Senate Affairs.EP200090 10/02/2020 

Office of the General Counsel ....... Special Advisor for the Office of 

General Counsel.

EP200116 10/02/2020 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES.

Office of Global Affairs ................... Chief of Staff .................................. DH200186 10/16/2020 

Office of Refugee Resettlement/Office of the Director.

Confidential Assistant ....................

Special Assistant ............................

........................................................

DH210003 

DH210004 

10/17/2020 

10/17/2020 

Office of the Assistant Secretary 

for Health.

Policy Advisor ................................ DH200184 10/09/2020 

Office of the Assistant Secretary 

for Legislation.

Policy Advisor ................................ DH200185 10/17/2020 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY.

Office of Management Directorate

Office of Strategy, Policy, and 

Plans.

Communications Specialist ............

Special Assistant ............................

DM210009 

DM210014 

10/13/2020 

10/19/2020 

Office of the General Counsel ....... Oversight Counsel ......................... DM190073 10/17/2020 

United States Immigration and 

Customs Enforcement.

Press Assistant .............................. DM210004 10/13/2020 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING 

AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT.

Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations.Congressional Relations Specialist DU200133 10/29/2020 

Office of Public Affairs ................... Special Assistant ............................ DU210009 10/29/2020 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Office of the Assistant Secretary— 

Policy, Management and Budget.

Senior Advisor ................................ DI200099 10/26/2020 

Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs.Senior Advisor ................................ DI200102 10/26/2020 

Secretary’s Immediate Office ......... White House Liaison ...................... DI200122 10/05/2020 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ........ Office of Justice Programs ............ Advisor for Research and Statistics DJ200157 10/09/2020 

Office of the Attorney General ....... Advisor ........................................... DJ200171 10/20/2020 

Deputy White House Liaison and 

Advisor.

DJ210002 10/20/2020 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR ........... Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs.Senior Legislative Officer ............... DL200160 10/09/2020 

Office of Wage and Hour Division Policy Advisor ................................ DL200190 10/17/2020 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION.

Office of Communications .............. Communication Specialist .............. NN200040 10/01/2020 

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND 

BUDGET.

Office of the Director ...................... Special Assistant ............................ BO200036 10/09/2020 

Office of Health Division ................ Special Assistant ............................ BO200046 10/09/2020 

Natural Resource Programs .......... Confidential Assistant .................... BO210002 10/29/2020 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION.Office of Investment and Innovation.Senior Advisor ................................ SB210001 10/09/2020 

Office of Field Operations .............. Senior Advisor ................................ SB210002 10/17/2020 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.Office of Public Affairs ................... Press Secretary and Senior Public 

Affairs Advisor.

DT200133 10/07/2020 

Office of the Assistant Secretary 

for Research and Technology.

Economic Advisor .......................... DT200145 10/07/2020 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY.Secretary of the Treasury .............. Associate Director of Scheduling 

and Advance.

DY200123 10/09/2020 

Office of the Under Secretary for 

International Affairs.

Senior Advisor ................................ DY200125 10/09/2020 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS.

Office of Intergovernmental Affairs 

Office of the Assistant Secretary 

for Congressional and Legislative Affairs.

Special Assistant ............................

Special Assistant ............................

DV200105 

DV200097 

10/01/2020 

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1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1). 

2 17 CFR 240.19b–4. 

3See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 90645 

(December 11, 2020), 85 FR 81982 (December 17, 

2020) (‘‘Notice’’). 

4See proposed Rule 11.510; Notice, supra note 3, 

at 81982. The Exchange did not propose any 

changes to the coil delay that applies to inbound 

order messages, including order cancellations and 

modifications, from users at the POP to the IEX 

system and from the system routing logic to the 

order book. See proposed Rule 11.510; Notice, 

supra note 3, at 81984. The Exchange does not 

apply a coil delay to its communications with the 

Securities Information Processors (‘‘SIP(s)’’) or away 

trading centers, and those aspects of the Exchange 

likewise are not changing under the proposal. See 

Notice, supra note 3, at 81983. 

5See Notice, supra note 3, at 81983. 

6 Id. 

7 Id. 

8 Id. If a user sends a routable order to the 

Exchange, after traversing the inbound latency 

(including the coil) from the POP to the IEX system, 

the order is directed to the system routing logic. Id. 

The current 350 microsecond latency on order 

messages between the IEX routing logic and order 

book is implicated when the routing logic has 

determined to route to the IEX order book all or part 

of the routable order submitted by the user, and is 

in addition to the 350 microsecond latency between 

the POP and the IEX system. Id. As a result, 

currently, users connected at the POP experience a 

cumulative, one-way latency of 700 microseconds 

on routable order messages to and from the IEX 

system. Id. at 81983–84; see also Rule 11.230(b), 

11.510(c)(1), and proposed Supplementary Material 

(‘‘Supp.’’) .03 to Rule 11.510. 

9See Notice, supra note 3, at 81983. 

10See proposed Rule 11.510(a); see also Notice, 

supra note 3, at 81984. Specifically, the Exchange 

proposed to amend Rule 11.510(a) to state that 

outbound communications from the IEX system to 

the POP will not traverse the physical distance 

provided by coiled optical fiber and instead will be 

subject to an equivalent 37 microseconds of latency 

due to traversing the geographic distribution and 

network connectivity between the system at the 

primary data center and the network access point 

of the POP. See proposed Rule 11.510(a). Relatedly, 

the Exchange proposed to amend Rule 11.510(b)(2) 

to state that, for outbound communications 

(including, without limitation, execution report 

messages found in the Exchange’s FIX 

Specification, quote and trade update messages 

found in the Exchange’s TOPS and DEEP 

specifications, and DROP messages), the Exchange’s 

connectivity infrastructure is designed to provide 

an equivalent 37 microseconds of latency from the 

system at the primary data center to the Exchangeprovided network interface at the POP. See 

proposed Rule 11.510(b)(2). 

11See Notice; supra note 3, at 81986. Specifically, 

the Exchange proposed to amend Rule 11.510(c)(1) 

to state that all outbound communications 

(including, without limitation, execution report 

messages found in the Exchange’s FIX specification) 

from the order book to the system routing logic are 

subject to 37 microseconds of latency, which is in 

addition to the 37 microsecond latency on 

outbound communications from the IEX system to 

the POP described in proposed Rule 11.510(b)(2). 

See proposed Rule 11.510(c)(1); see also proposed 

Supp. .03 (stating that all responses from the IEX 

order book to the system routing logic are subject 

to 37 microseconds of latency and all messages 

from the system routing logic to users are subject 

to an additional 37 microseconds of outbound 

latency). Users connected to IEX at the POP 

therefore would experience a cumulative delay of 

74 microseconds on outbound messages from the 

IEX system regarding their routable orders. See 

proposed Rule 11.510(c)(1); see also proposed 

Supp. .03. Users would continue to experience a 

cumulative latency of 700 microseconds on 

inbound routable order messages. See proposed 

Rule 11.510(c)(1); proposed Supp. .03; Notice, 

supra note 3, at 81984. In addition, the Exchange 

proposed to amend Rule 11.510(c)(2)(A) to specify 

that the IEX routing logic may only receive 

Exchange data products subject to 37 microseconds 

of latency, equivalent to the outbound latency 

applicable to all other data product recipients that 

is described in proposed Rule 11.510(b)(2). See 

proposed Rule 11.510(c)(2)(A). 

12See proposed Rule 11.510(a). 

There were no Schedule C appointing 

authorities revoked during October 

2020. 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 3301 and 3302; E.O. 

10577, 3 CFR, 1954–1958 Comp., p. 218. 

Office of Personnel Management. 

Alexys Stanley, 

Regulatory Affairs Analyst. 

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BILLING CODE 6325–39–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Release No. 34–91016; File No. SR–IEX– 

2020–18] 

Self-Regulatory Organizations; 

Investors Exchange, LLC; Order 

Granting Approval of Proposed Rule 

Change To Amend IEX Rule 11.510 To 

Reduce the Outbound Latency That 

Presently Applies to All Messages Sent 

From IEX Back to Users of the 

Exchange 

January 29, 2021. 

I. Introduction 

On December 9, 2020, the Investors 

Exchange LLC (‘‘Exchange’’) filed with 

the Securities and Exchange 

Commission (‘‘SEC’’ or ‘‘Commission’’), 

pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the 

Securities Exchange Act of 1934 

(‘‘Act’’) 1 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,2 a 

proposed rule change to amend IEX 

Rule (‘‘Rule’’) 11.510 to reduce the 

outbound latency that presently applies 

to all messages sent from IEX to users 

of the Exchange, as well as to make 

conforming changes to the outbound 

latency that applies to all trading 

messages sent from the IEX order book 

to the system routing logic with respect 

to routable orders. The proposed rule 

change was published for comment in 

the Federal Register on December 17, 

2020.3 The Commission received no 

comment letters on the proposed rule 

change. This order approves the 

proposed rule change. 

II. Description of the Proposal 

The Exchange proposed to amend 

Rule 11.510 to eliminate the ‘‘coil’’ 

delay that is currently applied to 

outbound order execution messages and 

IEX proprietary market data sent to IEX 

users and the IEX system routing logic 

used by IEX’s affiliated routing brokerdealer, IEX Services LLC (‘‘IEXS’’).4

Currently, users access IEX through the 

Exchange-provided network interface at 

the IEX Point-of-Presence, or ‘‘POP,’’ 

located in Secaucus, New Jersey.5

Electronic messages that users send 

inbound to the IEX system, and order 

execution messages and IEX proprietary 

market data sent outbound to users, 

traverse the IEX coil, which is a box 

containing approximately 38 miles of 

compactly coiled optical fiber cable, and 

travel an additional geographic and 

physical distance between the POP and 

the IEX system located at the Exchange’s 

primary data center in Weehawken, 

New Jersey.6 The time required for such 

communications to traverse the coil 

combined with the geographic and 

physical distance (and related 

networking) currently equates to an 

equivalent 350 microseconds of 

latency.7 IEXS is a member of the 

Exchange and its associated routing 

logic currently is subject to the same 

350 microseconds of latency as other 

members when sending order messages 

to the IEX order book and when 

receiving order execution messages and 

IEX proprietary market data.8 As a 

result, IEXS has no speed or 

informational advantage compared to 

other Exchange members and data 

recipients.9

IEX’s proposed elimination of the coil 

delay on outbound order execution 

messages and proprietary market data 

will reduce the latency on outbound 

communications to 37 microseconds, 

which latency will be due to geographic 

and physical distance and network 

connectivity.10 The proposed 

elimination of the coil delay on 

outbound order execution messages and 

proprietary market data will affect IEXS 

in the same manner that it effects other 

Exchange users, thus ensuring that the 

Exchange’s affiliated routing brokerdealer is similarly situated and not 

competitively advantaged vis-a`-vis any 

non-affiliated routing broker-dealer.11

The Exchange also proposed to make 

several non-substantive clarifying 

changes to add further detail to Rule 

11.510 to: (i) Define the term ‘‘POP’’; 12

(ii) reference the 350 microsecond 

latency on inbound communications 

from the POP to the IEX system and 

from the system routing logic to the 

order book separately from the proposed 

37 microsecond latency on outbound 

communications from the system to the 


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