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number of increments away from the national best 

bid or offer (‘‘NBBO’’) at the time the order is 

received). 

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

16 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(2). 17 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 neither solicited nor 

received comments on the proposed 

rule change. 

III. Date of Effectiveness of the 

Proposed Rule Change and Timing for 

Commission Action 

The foregoing rule change has become 

effective pursuant to Section 

19(b)(3)(A)(ii) of the Act 15 and Rule 

19b–4(f)(2) 16 thereunder. 

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. If the 

Commission takes such action, the 

Commission shall institute proceedings 

to determine whether the proposed rule 

change should be approved or 

disapproved. 

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 (https://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/sro.shtml); or 

• Send an email to rule-comments@

sec.gov. Please include File Number SR– 

CboeEDGX–2023–082 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–CboeEDGX–2023–082. 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 (https://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 

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will be available for inspection and 

copying at the principal office of the 

Exchange. Do not include personal 

identifiable information in submissions; 

you should submit only information 

that you wish to make available 

publicly. We may redact in part or 

withhold entirely from publication 

submitted material that is obscene or 

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submissions should refer to file number 

SR–CboeEDGX–2023–082 and should be 

submitted on or before January 31, 2024. 

For the Commission, by the Division of 

Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated 

authority.17

Sherry R. Haywood, 

Assistant Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00284 Filed 1–9–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 12297] 

Report to Congress Pursuant to the 

United States—Northern Triangle 

Enhanced Engagement Act 

ACTION: Notice of report. 

SUMMARY: This document provides an 

update to the Department of State’s 

report to Congress on July 19, 2023, 

regarding foreign persons who are 

determined to have knowingly engaged 

in actions that undermine democratic 

processes or institutions, significant 

corruption, or obstruction of 

investigation into such acts of 

corruption in El Salvador, Guatemala, 

and Honduras pursuant to the United 

States—Northern Triangle Enhanced 

Engagement Act, as amended. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Report to 

Congress on Foreign Persons who have 

Knowingly Engaged in Actions that 

Undermine Democratic Processes or 

Institutions, or in Significant 

Corruption, or in Obstruction of 

Investigations into Such Acts of 

Corruption, in El Salvador, Guatemala, 

Honduras, and Nicaragua Pursuant to 

Section 353(b) of the Department of 

State, Foreign Operations, and Related 

Programs Appropriations Act, 2021 

(Div. FF, Pub. L. 116–260, as 

amended) (Section 353) 

Consistent with section 353(b) of the 

United States—Northern Triangle 

Enhanced Engagement Act (Div. FF, 

Pub. L. 116–260) (the Act), as amended, 

this report is being submitted to the 

House Foreign Affairs Committee, 

Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 

House Committee on the Judiciary, and 

the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. 

This document provides an update to 

the Department of State’s report to 

Congress on July 19, 2023. Section 

353(b) requires the submission of a 

report that identifies the following 

persons in El Salvador, Guatemala, 

Honduras, and Nicaragua: foreign 

persons who the President has 

determined have knowingly engaged (1) 

in actions that undermine democratic 

processes or institutions; (2) in 

significant corruption; and (3) in 

obstruction of investigations into such 

acts of corruption, including the 

following: corruption related to 

government contracts; bribery and 

extortion; the facilitation or transfer of 

the proceeds of corruption, including 

through money laundering; and acts of 

violence, harassment, or intimidation 

directed at governmental and 

nongovernmental corruption 

investigators. On November 10, 2021, 

the President signed the Reinforcing 

Nicaragua’s Adherence to Conditions for 

Electoral Reform (RENACER) Act, 

adding Nicaragua to the countries 

within the scope of Section 353. On 

June 21, 2021, the President delegated 

his authority under section 353 to the 

Secretary of State. 

Under section 353, foreign persons 

identified in the report submitted to 

Congress are generally ineligible for 

visas and admission to the United States 

and any current visa shall be revoked 

and any other valid visa or entry 

documentation cancelled. Consistent 

with section 353(g), this report will be 

published in the Federal Register. 

This report includes individuals who 

the Secretary has determined have 

engaged in the relevant activity based 

upon credible information. The 

Department will continue to review the 

individuals listed in the report and 

consider all available tools to deter and 

disrupt corrupt and undemocratic 

activity in El Salvador, Guatemala, 

Honduras, and Nicaragua. The 

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1When the Interstate Commerce Commission, the 

Board’s predecessor, authorized MNR to acquire the 

Line in 1995, it exempted MNR from most of the 

provisions of Subtitle IV of Title 49 of the U.S. Code 

and authorized MNR to abandon the Line subject 

to the future discontinuance of trackage rights then 

held by Danbury Terminal Railroad Company. 

Metro-N. Commuter R.R.—Exemption—from 49 

U.S.C. Subtitle IV., FD 32639 (Sub-No. 1), slip op. 

at 1 (STB served Nov. 22, 2023). See also Metro-N. 

Commuter R.R.—Acquis. Exemption—the 

Maybrook Line, FD 32639 et al., slip op. at 3–4 (ICC 

served Jan. 13, 1995). MNR filed a petition seeking 

partial revocation of the Subtitle IV exemption to 

permit MNR to file for abandonment authority and 

ultimately pursue interim trail use/railbanking of a 

rail line under the National Trails System Act 

(Trails Act), 16 U.S.C. 1247(d), and 49 CFR 1152.29. 

Metro-N. Commuter R.R., FD 36239 (Sub-No. 1), 

slip op. at 1 (STB served Nov. 22, 2023). The Board 

granted that petition on November 22, 2023. Id. 

review additional credible information 

and allegations concerning corruption 

or undemocratic activity and to utilize 

all applicable authorities, as 

appropriate, to ensure corrupt or 

undemocratic officials are denied safe 

haven in the United States. 

El Salvador 

Ricardo Gomez, President 

Commissioner of the Institute for Access 

to Public Information, undermined 

democratic processes or institutions by 

purposefully and wrongfully blocking 

access to public information through his 

position as President Commissioner at 

the Institute for Access to Public 

Information. 

Gerardo Guerrero, commissioner of 

the Institute for Access to Public 

Information, undermined democratic 

processes or institutions by 

purposefully and wrongfully blocking 

access to public information through his 

position as a Commissioner at the 

Institute for Access to Public 

Information. 

Andre ́s Gre ́gori Rodrı ́guez, 

commissioner of the Institute for Access 

to Public Information, undermined 

democratic processes or institutions by 

purposefully and wrongfully blocking 

access to public information through his 

position as a Commissioner at the 

Institute for Access to Public 

Information. 

Honduras 

Ricardo Arturo Salgado Bonilla, 

Current Minister of Strategic Planning, 

undermined democratic processes or 

institutions by directing the LIBRE 

party’s coordinated efforts through party 

loyalist groups (‘‘colectivos’’) to 

suppress dissent by violently 

intimidating opposition legislators 

calling for a legislative session on 

October 31, 2023. 

Mohammad Yusuf Amdani Bai, a 

private businessman, engaged in 

significant corruption by bribing 

Honduran Supreme Court officials to 

rule in favor of his business in a private 

lawsuit. 

Cristian Adolfo Sa ́nchez, engaged in 

significant corruption by participating 

in a scheme that defrauded the 

Honduran government of more than 

$300,000, and colluded with Ministry of 

Health officials to improperly award 

government contracts. 

Guatemala 

Leonor Eugenia Morales Lazo, current 

prosecutor, undermined democratic 

processes or institutions by leading a 

politically-motivated investigation to 

cast doubt on certified election results 

to disrupt the presidential transition. 

Noe Nehemı ́as Rivera Vasquez, 

current prosecutor, undermined 

democratic processes or institutions by 

bringing politically motivated charges 

against justice actors fighting corruption 

and impunity. 

Pedro Otto Hernandez Gonzalez, 

current prosecutor, undermined 

democratic processes or institutions by 

participating in a politically-motivated 

investigation to cast doubt on certified 

election results to disrupt the 

presidential transition. 

Silvia Patricia Valdes Quezada, a 

former Supreme Court of Justice 

magistrate, undermined democratic 

processes or institutions by 

participating in the ‘‘Parallel 

Commissions’’ scheme to stack the 

Supreme Court and Appellate Courts 

with corrupt judges. 

Nicaragua 

Gloria Maria Saavedra Corrales, Judge 

in the Tenth Criminal District Court of 

Hearings of Managua, undermined 

democratic processes or institutions by 

using her position and authority within 

the Nicaraguan judicial system to 

knowingly facilitate a coordinated 

campaign to suppress dissent by 

confiscating property from the Jesuit 

Central American University without a 

legal basis, in order to install a regimefriendly administration. 

Maribel del Socorro Duriez Gonza ́lez, 

President of Nicaragua’s National 

Council for Evaluation and 

Accreditation (CNEA), undermined 

democratic processes or institutions by 

taking part in a coordinated campaign to 

suppress dissent by confiscating 

property from the government’s political 

opponents, including the Central 

American University (UCA) and at least 

25 other private Nicaraguan 

universities, without a legal basis, in 

order to install a regime-friendly 

administrations. 

Ramona Rodriguez Perez, President of 

Nicaragua’s National Council of 

Universities (CNU), undermined 

democratic processes or institutions by 

taking part in a coordinated campaign to 

suppress dissent by confiscating 

property from the government’s political 

opponents, including Central American 

University (UCA) and at least 25 other 

private Nicaraguan universities, without 

a legal basis, in order to install a regimefriendly administrations. 

Alejandro Enrique Genet Cruz, Rector 

of Casimiro Sotelo University (formerly 

Central American University), 

undermined democratic processes or 

institutions by taking part in a 

coordinated campaign to retaliate 

against critics of the Ortega-Murillo 

regime and to suppress dissent by using 

his position to create policies that 

punish Casimiro Sotelo University 

faculty and students who do not take 

part in political activities for Ortega’s 

Sandinista National Liberation Front 

(FSLN) political party. 

Dated: December 20, 2023. 

Richard Verma, 

Deputy Secretary of State for Management 

and Resources. 

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BILLING CODE 4710–29–P 

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

[Docket No. AB 1311 (Sub-No. 1X)] 

Metro-North Commuter Railroad 

Company—Abandonment Exemption— 

in Dutchess and Putnam Counties, 

N.Y. 

Metro-North Commuter Railroad 

Company (MNR) has filed a verified 

notice of exemption under 49 CFR part 

1152 subpart F—Exempt Abandonments 

to abandon an approximately 41.1-mile 

rail line that runs between milepost 0.0 

and milepost 71.2, in Dutchess and 

Putnam Counties, N.Y. (the Line).1 The 

Line traverses U.S. Postal Service Zip 

Codes 12508, 12524, 12533, 12582, 

12570, 12531, 12563, 10509, and 12564. 

MNR has certified that: (1) no local 

freight or overhead traffic has moved 

over the Line during the past two years; 

(2) no formal complaint filed by a user 

of rail service on the Line (or by a state 

or local government on behalf of such 

user) regarding cessation of service over 

the Line is pending with either the 

Surface Transportation Board (Board) or 

any U.S. District Court or has been 

decided in favor of a complainant 

within the two-year period; and (3) the 

requirements at 49 CFR 1152.50(d)(1) 

(notice to government agencies) have 

been met. 

As a condition to this exemption, any 

employee adversely affected by the 


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