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Analysis can be accessed in ADAMS 

under Accession No. ML20168B041. 

The FY 2017 Service Contract Inventory 

Analysis was published on the NRC’s 

website at the following location: 

https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/ 

contracting.html. 

• Attention: The PDR, where you may 

examine and order copies of public 

documents, is currently closed. You 

may submit your request to the PDR via 

email at pdr.resource@nrc.gov or call 1– 

800–397–4209 or 301–415–4737, 

between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

• Availability of the Service Contract 

Inventory: The NRC’s FY 2018 Service 

Contract Inventory data is included in a 

Government-wide service contract 

inventory that was published at the 

following location: https://

www.acquisition.gov/service-contractinventory. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jill 

Daly, Office of Administration, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–8079 or email: Jill.Daly@

nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with Section 743 of Division 

C of the FY 2010 Consolidated 

Appropriations Act, Public Law 111– 

117, the NRC is publishing this notice 

to advise the public of the availability 

of its FY 2018 Service Contract 

Inventory and FY 2017 Service Contract 

Inventory Analysis. 

The inventory provides information 

on service contracts with a value of 

$150,000.00 or more that were awarded 

in FY 2018. The inventory includes the 

following: 

1. A description of the services 

purchased; 

2. The role the contracted services 

played in achieving agency objectives; 

3. The dollar amount obligated for the 

services under the contract, and the 

funding source for the contract; 

4. The contract type and date of the 

award; 

5. The name of the contractor and 

place of performance; 

6. The dollar amount invoiced for 

services under the contract; 

7. The number and work location of 

contractor and first-tier subcontractor 

employees, expressed as full-time 

equivalents for direct labor, 

compensated under the contract; 

8. Whether the contract is a personal 

services contract; and 

9. Whether the contract was awarded 

on a non-competitive basis. 

The FY 2017 Inventory Analysis 

provides information on specific service 

contract actions that were analyzed as 

part of the NRC’s FY 2017 Service 

Contract Inventory. 

The purpose of the analysis is to 

determine if contract labor is being used 

in an effective and appropriate manner 

and if the mix of federal employees and 

contractors in the agency is effectively 

balanced. 

Dated: February 5, 2021. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

James C. Corbett, 

Deputy Director, Office of Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2021–02794 Filed 2–10–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY 

CORPORATION 

Solicitation of Nominations for 

Appointment to the Advisory 

Committee of the Pension Benefit 

Guaranty Corporation 

AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation (PBGC) is soliciting 

nominations for appointment to the 

Advisory Committee of the PBGC. 

DATES: Nominations must be received 

on or before March 29, 2021. Please 

allow three weeks for regular mail 

delivery to PBGC. 

ADDRESSES: Nominations must be 

submitted electronically to 

OfficeOfTheDirector@pbgc.gov as email 

attachments in Word or pdf format, or 

by mail to Office of the Director, 

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, 

1200 K Street NW, Washington, DC 

20005–4026. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation 

(PBGC or the Corporation) administers 

the pension plan termination insurance 

program under Title IV of the Employee 

Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 

(ERISA). Section 4002(h) of ERISA 

provides for the establishment of an 

Advisory Committee to the Corporation. 

The Advisory Committee consists of 

seven members appointed by the 

President from among individuals 

recommended by the PBGC Board of 

Directors, which consists of the 

Secretaries of Labor, Treasury, and 

Commerce. The Advisory Committee 

members are as follows: 

• Two representatives of employee 

organizations; 

• two representatives of employers 

who maintain pension plans; and 

• three representatives of the general 

public. 

No more than four members of the 

Committee shall be members of the 

same political party. Anyone currently 

subject to federal registration 

requirements as a lobbyist is not eligible 

for appointment. 

Advisory Committee members must 

have experience with employee 

organizations, employers who maintain 

defined benefit pension plans, the 

administration or advising of pension 

plans, or in related fields. Appointments 

are for 3-year terms. Reappointments are 

possible but are subject to the 

appointment process. 

The Advisory Committee’s prescribed 

duties include advising the Corporation 

as to its policies and procedures relating 

to investment of moneys, and other 

issues as the Corporation may request or 

as the Advisory Committee determines 

appropriate. The Advisory Committee 

meets at least six times each year. At 

least one meeting is a joint meeting with 

the PBGC Board of Directors. 

By February 19, 2021, the term of one 

of the Advisory Committee members 

representing the general public will 

have expired. Therefore, PBGC is 

seeking nominations for one seat. 

PBGC is committed to equal 

opportunity in the workplace and seeks 

a broad-based and diverse Advisory 

Committee. 

If you or your organization wants to 

nominate one or more people for 

appointment to the Advisory Committee 

to represent the general public, you may 

submit nominations to PBGC. 

Nominations may be in the form of a 

letter, resolution or petition, signed by 

the person making the nomination. 

PBGC encourages you to include 

additional supporting letters of 

nomination. PBGC will not consider 

self-nominees who have no supporting 

letters. Please do not include any 

information that you do not want 

publicly disclosed. 

Nominations, including supporting 

letters, should: 

• State the person’s qualifications to 

serve on the Advisory Committee 

(including any specialized knowledge or 

experience relevant to the nominee’s 

proposed Advisory Committee position 

to represent the general public); 

• state that the candidate will accept 

appointment to the Advisory Committee 

if offered; 

• include the nominee’s full name, 

work affiliation, mailing address, phone 

number, and email address; 

• include the nominator’s full name, 

mailing address, phone number, and 

email address; and 

• include the nominator’s signature, 

whether sent by email or otherwise. 


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1 15 U.S.C. 78a. 

2 17 CFR 240.19b–4. 

3Unless otherwise specified, capitalized terms 

used in this filing are defined as set forth in the 

Compliance Rule. 

4See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 90223 

(October 19, 2020), 85 FR 67576 (October 23, 2020) 

(‘‘Allocation Exemptive Order’’). 

5Section 1.1 of the CAT NMS Plan defines an 

‘‘Allocation Report’’ as ‘‘a report made to the 

Central Repository by an Industry Member that 

identifies the Firm Designated ID for any account(s), 

including subaccount(s), to which executed shares 

are allocated and provides the security that has 

been allocated, the identifier of the firm reporting 

the allocation, the price per share of shares 

allocated, the side of shares allocated, the number 

of shares allocated to each account, and the time of 

the allocation; provided for the avoidance of doubt, 

any such Allocation Report shall not be required to 

be linked to particular orders or executions.’’ 

6See letter from the Participants to Vanessa 

Countryman, Secretary, Commission, dated August 

27, 2020 (the ‘‘Exemption Request’’). 

7 ‘‘A step-out allows a broker-dealer to allocate all 

or part of a client’s position from a previously 

executed trade to the client’s account at another 

broker-dealer. In other words, a step-out functions 

as a client’s position transfer, rather than a trade; 

there is no exchange of shares and funds and no 

change in beneficial ownership.’’ See FINRA, Trade 

Reporting Frequently Asked Questions, at Section 

301, available at: https://www.finra.org/filingreporting/market-transparencyreporting/tradereporting-faq. 

8Correspondent clearing flips are the movement 

of a position from an executing broker’s account to 

a different account for clearance and settlement, 

allowing a broker-dealer to execute a trade through 

another broker-dealer and settle the trade in its own 

account. See, e.g., The Depository Trust & Clearing 

PBGC will contact nominees for 

information on their political affiliation 

and their status as registered lobbyists. 

Nominees should be aware of the time 

commitment for attending meetings and 

actively participating in the work of the 

Advisory Committee. Historically, this 

has meant a commitment of at least 15 

days per year. PBGC has a process for 

vetting nominees under consideration 

for appointment. 

Issued in Washington, DC. 

Gordon Hartogensis, 

Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation. 

[FR Doc. 2021–02830 Filed 2–10–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7709–02–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Release No. 34–91074; File No. SR–IEX– 

2021–02] 

Self-Regulatory Organizations; 

Investors Exchange LLC; Notice of 

Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of 

Proposed Rule Change To Amend the 

Rule 11.600 Series, the Exchange’s 

Compliance Rule Regarding the 

National Market System Plan 

Governing the Consolidated Audit Trail 

February 5, 2021. 

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

Securities Exchange Act of 1934 

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

notice is hereby given that, on January 

27, 2021, the Investors Exchange LLC 

(‘‘IEX’’ or the ‘‘Exchange’’) filed with the 

Securities and Exchange Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’) the proposed rule 

change as described in Items I and II 

below, which Items have been prepared 

by the self-regulatory organization. The 

Commission is publishing this notice to 

solicit comments on the proposed rule 

change from interested persons. 

I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement of the Terms of Substance of 

the Proposed Rule Change 

The Exchange is proposing to amend 

to amend the Rule 11.600 Series, the 

Exchange’s compliance rule 

(‘‘Compliance Rule’’) regarding the 

National Market System Plan Governing 

the Consolidated Audit Trail (the ‘‘CAT 

NMS Plan’’ or ‘‘Plan’’) 3 to be consistent 

with a conditional exemption granted 

by the Commission from certain 

allocation reporting requirements set 

forth in Sections 6.4(d)(ii)(A)(1) and (2) 

of the CAT NMS Plan (‘‘Allocation 

Exemption’’).4

The text of the proposed rule change 

is available at the Exchange’s website at 

www.iextrading.com, at the principal 

office of the Exchange, and at the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room. 

II. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement of the Purpose of, and the 

Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule 

Change 

In its filing with the Commission, the 

self-regulatory organization included 

statements concerning the purpose of 

and basis for the proposed rule change 

and discussed any comments it received 

on the proposed rule change. The text 

of these statement may be examined at 

the places specified in Item IV below. 

The self-regulatory organization has 

prepared summaries, set forth in 

Sections A, B, and C below, of the most 

significant aspects of such statements. 

A. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement of the Purpose of, and the 

Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule 

Change 

1. Purpose 

The purpose of this proposed rule 

change is to amend IEX Rule Series 

11.600 to be consistent with the 

Allocation Exemption. The Commission 

granted the relief conditioned upon the 

Participants’ adoption of Compliance 

Rules that implement the alternative 

approach to reporting allocations to the 

Central Repository described in the 

Allocation Exemption (referred to as the 

‘‘Allocation Alternative’’). 

(1) Request for Exemptive Relief 

Pursuant to Section 6.4(d)(ii)(A) of the 

CAT NMS Plan, each Participant must, 

through its Compliance Rule, require its 

Industry Members to record and report 

to the Central Repository, if the order is 

executed, in whole or in part: (1) An 

Allocation Report; 5 (2) the SROAssigned Market Participant Identifier 

of the clearing broker or prime broker, 

if applicable; and the (3) CAT-Order-ID 

of any contra-side order(s). Accordingly, 

the Exchange and the other Participants 

implemented Compliance Rules that 

require their Industry Members that are 

executing brokers to submit to the 

Central Repository, among other things, 

Allocation Reports and the SROAssigned Market Participant Identifier 

of the clearing broker or prime broker, 

if applicable. On August 27, 2020, the 

Participants submitted to the 

Commission a request for an exemption 

from certain allocation reporting 

requirements set forth in Sections 

6.4(d)(ii)(A)(1) and (2) of the CAT NMS 

Plan (‘‘Exemption Request’’).6 In the 

Exemption Request, the Participants 

requested that they be permitted to 

implement the Allocation Alternative, 

which, as noted above, is an alternative 

approach to reporting allocations to the 

Central Repository. Under the 

Allocation Alternative, any Industry 

Member that performs an allocation to 

a client account would be required 

under the Compliance Rule to submit an 

Allocation Report to the Central 

Repository when shares/contracts are 

allocated to a client account regardless 

of whether the Industry Member was 

involved in executing the underlying 

order(s). Under the Allocation 

Alternative, a ‘‘client account’’ would be 

any account that is not owned or 

controlled by the Industry Member. 

In addition, under the Allocation 

Alternative, an ‘‘Allocation’’ would be 

defined as: (1) The placement of shares/ 

contracts into the same account for 

which an order was originally placed; or 

(2) the placement of shares/contracts 

into an account based on allocation 

instructions (e.g., subaccount 

allocations, delivery versus payment 

(‘‘DVP’’) allocations). Pursuant to this 

definition and the proposed Allocation 

Alternative, an Industry Member that 

performs an Allocation to an account 

that is not a client account, such as 

proprietary accounts and events 

including step outs,7 or correspondent 

flips,8 would not be required to submit 


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