5924 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 25 / Monday, February 7, 2000 / Notices

5The Exchange presently requires the completion

of forms and procedures for registering new floor

members pursuant to various Phlx Rules, including

Rule 202, Registrant (Specialists); Rule 214,

Violations of Rules (Specialists); Rule 604,

Registration and Termination of Registered Person;

Rule 623, Fingerprinting; Rule 1020, Registration

and Functions of Options Specialists; Rule 1014,

Obligations and Restrictions Applicable to

Specialists and Registered Options Traders; and

Rule 1061, Registration of Floor Brokers.

6 15 U.S.C. 78f.

7 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(5).

8 15 U.S.C. 78f(c)(3)(B).

9 Id. 10 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12).

and change in status of trading floor

members, which includes floor brokers,

specialists, and market makers,

including Registered Options Traders on

any Exchange trading floor. Phlx Rule

620(b) addresses non-member/clerk

registration of all trading floor

personnel, including clerks, interns,

stock execution clerks and any other

associated persons of member/

participant organizations who are not

required to be registered pursuant to

Phlx Rule 620(a).5

The exchange believes that the

proposal to require all floor personnel to

be registered with the Exchange and to

require all member/participant

organizations to notify the exchange of

any change in the status of such

personnel is consistent with Section 6 of

the Act,6 in general, and with Sections

6(b)(5) 7 and 6(c)(3)(B),8 in particular.

Specifically, new Phlx Rule 620 is

designed to promote just and equitable

principles of trade, to remove

impediments to and perfect the

mechanism of a free and open market

and a national market system and, in

general, to protect investors and the

public interest by ensuring that all

trading floor personnel are properly

registered and, thus, monitored. In

addition, Section 6(c)(3)(B) 9 provides

that a national securities exchange may

examine and verify the qualifications of

an applicant to become a person

associated with a member in accordance

with procedures established by the rules

of the Exchange and require any person

associated with a member, or any class

of such persons, to be registered with

the Exchange in accordance with

procedures so established.

B. Self-Regulatory Organization’s

Statement on Burden on Competition

The Exchange does not believe that

the proposed rule will impose any

inappropriate burden on competition.

C. Self-Regulatory Organization’s

Statement on Comments on the

Proposed Rule Change Received From

Members, Participants or Others

No written comments were either

solicited or received.

III. Date of Effectiveness of the

Proposed Rule Change and Timing for

Commission Action

Within 35 days of the date of

publication of this notice in the Federal

Register or within such longer period (i)

as the Commission may designate up to

90 days of such date if it finds such

longer period to be appropriate and

publishes its reasons for so finding or

(ii) as to which the self-regulatory

organization consents, the Commission

will:

A. by order approve the proposed rule

change, or

B. institute proceedings to determine

whether the proposed rule change

should be 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.

Persons making written submissions

should file six copies thereof with the

Secretary, Securities and Exchange

Commission, 450 Fifth Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20540–0609. 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 inspection and copying at

the Commission’s Public Reference

Room. Copies of such filing will also be

available for inspection and copying at

the principal office of the Exchange. All

submissions should refer to File No.

SR–Phlx–99–46 and should be

submitted by February 28, 2000.

For the Commission, by the Division of

Market Regulation, pursuant to delegated

authority.10

Margaret H. McFarland,

Deputy Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–2662 Filed 2–4–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8010–01–M

OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL

Appointment of Member to Agency

Performance Review Board

AGENCY: Office of Special Counsel

(OSC).

ACTION: Notice.

Authority: 5 U.S.C. § 4314(c)(4).P=’04’≤

SUMMARY: This notice announces the

appointment of the following individual

to serve as a new member of the

Performance Review Board previously

established by the OSC pursuant to 5

U.S.C. 4314(c)(2): Steven J. Mandel,

Associate Solicitor, Fair Labor

Standards Division, Office of the

Solicitor, U.S. Department of Labor.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: M.

Marie Glover, Director of Personnel,

Management Division, U.S. Office of

Special Counsel, 1730 M Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20036–4505, telephone

(202) 653–8964.

Dated: February 1, 2000.

Elaine Kaplan,

Special Counsel.

[FR Doc. 00–2634 Filed 2–4–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7405–01–U

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 3217]

Culturally Significant Objects Imported

for Exhibition Determinations: ‘‘The

Renaissance Portrait in Northern Italy:

The Art of Giovanni Battista Moroni’’

AGENCY: United States Department of

State.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the

following determinations: Pursuant to

the authority vested in me by the Act of

October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985, 22 U.S.C.

2459), the Foreign Affairs Reform and

Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 Stat.

2681, et seq.), Delegation of Authority

No. 234 of October 1, 1999, and

Delegation of Authority No. 236 of

October 19, 1999, as amended, I hereby

determine that the objects to be

included in the exhibition ‘‘The

Renaissance Portrait in Northern Italy:

The Art of Giovanni Battista Moroni,’’

imported from abroad for temporary

exhibition without profit within the

United States, are of cultural

significance. These objects are imported

pursuant to loan agreements with

foreign lenders. I also determine that the

exhibition or display of the exhibit

objects at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort

Worth, Texas, from on or about