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11Securities Exchange Act Release No. 51808, 70 

FR 37495, 37498–99 (June 29, 2005) (S7–10–04) 

(Final Rule). 

12See Cboe Global Markets U.S. Options Market 

Volume Summary, Month-to-Date (March 29, 2023), 

available at https://markets.cboe.com/us/options/ 

market_statistics/. 

13See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 51808 

(June 9, 2005), 70 FR 37496, 37499 (June 29, 2005). 

14NetCoalition v. SEC, 615 F.3d 525, 539 (D.C. 

Cir. 2010) (quoting Securities Exchange Act Release 

No. 59039 (December 2, 2008), 73 FR 74770, 74782– 

83 (December 9, 2008) (SR–NYSEArca-2006–21)). 

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

16 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f). 17 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). 

individual stocks for all types of orders, 

large and small.’’ 11

The Exchange does not believe that 

the proposed rule changes will impose 

any burden on intermarket competition 

that is not necessary or appropriate in 

furtherance of the purposes of the Act 

because the proposed fees and programs 

apply to Exchange proprietary products, 

which are traded exclusively on the 

Exchange. To the extent that the 

proposed changes make Cboe Options a 

more attractive marketplace for market 

participants at other exchanges, such 

market participants are welcome to 

become Cboe Options market 

participants. 

Additionally, the Exchange notes that 

it operates in a highly competitive 

market. TPHs have numerous 

alternative venues that they may 

participate on and direct their order 

flow, including 17 other options 

exchanges, as well as off-exchange 

venues, where competitive products are 

available for trading. Based on publicly 

available information, no single options 

exchange has more than 16% of the 

market share.12 Therefore, no exchange 

possesses significant pricing power in 

the execution of option order flow. 

Indeed, participants can readily choose 

to send their orders to other exchange, 

and, additionally off-exchange venues, 

if they deem fee levels at those other 

venues to be more favorable. Moreover, 

the Commission has repeatedly 

expressed its preference for competition 

over regulatory intervention in 

determining prices, products, and 

services in the securities markets. 

Specifically, in Regulation NMS, the 

Commission highlighted the importance 

of market forces in determining prices 

and SRO revenues and, also, recognized 

that current regulation of the market 

system ‘‘has been remarkably successful 

in promoting market competition in its 

broader forms that are most important to 

investors and listed companies.’’ 13 The 

fact that this market is competitive has 

also long been recognized by the courts. 

In NetCoalition v. Securities and 

Exchange Commission, the D.C. Circuit 

stated as follows: ‘‘[n]o one disputes 

that competition for order flow is 

‘fierce.’ . . . As the SEC explained, ‘[i]n 

the U.S. national market system, buyers 

and sellers of securities, and the brokerdealers that act as their order-routing 

agents, have a wide range of choices of 

where to route orders for execution’; 

[and] ‘no exchange can afford to take its 

market share percentages for granted’ 

because ‘no exchange possesses a 

monopoly, regulatory or otherwise, in 

the execution of order flow from broker 

dealers’. . ..’’.14 Accordingly, the 

Exchange does not believe its proposed 

fee change imposes any burden on 

competition that is not necessary or 

appropriate in furtherance of the 

purposes of the Act. 

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) 

of the Act 15 and paragraph (f) of Rule 

19b–4 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 will 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– 

CBOE–2024–044 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–CBOE–2024–044. 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 

a.m. and 3 p.m. Copies of the filing also 

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 

subject to copyright protection. All 

submissions should refer to file number 

SR–CBOE–2024–044 and should be 

submitted on or before November 12, 

2024. 

For the Commission, by the Division of 

Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated 

authority.17

J. Matthew DeLesDernier, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–24371 Filed 10–21–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

[Disaster Declaration #20701 and #20702; 

NORTH CAROLINA Disaster Number NC– 

20007] 

Presidential Declaration Amendment of 

a Major Disaster for the State of North 

Carolina 

AGENCY: Small Business Administration. 

ACTION: Amendment 2. 

SUMMARY: This is an amendment of the 

Presidential declaration of a major 


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disaster for the State of North Carolina 

(FEMA–4827–DR), dated 09/28/2024. 

Incident: Tropical Storm Helene. 

Incident Period: 09/25/2024 and 

continuing. 

DATES: Issued on 10/15/2024. 

Physical Loan Application Deadline 

Date: 11/27/2024. 

Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan 

Application Deadline Date: 06/30/2025. 

ADDRESSES: Visit the MySBA Loan 

Portal at https://lending.sba.gov to 

apply for a disaster assistance loan. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alan Escobar, Office of Disaster 

Recovery & Resilience, U.S. Small 

Business Administration, 409 3rd Street 

SW, Suite 6050, Washington, DC 20416, 

(202) 205–6734. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The notice 

of the President’s major disaster 

declaration for the State of North 

Carolina, dated 09/28/2024, is hereby 

amended to include the following areas 

as adversely affected by the disaster: 

Primary Counties (Physical Damage and 

Economic Injury Loans): Cabarrus, 

Cherokee, Forsyth, Graham, Iredell, 

Lee, Nash, Rowan, Stanly, Surry, 

Union, Yadkin. 

Contiguous Counties (Economic Injury 

Loans Only): 

North Carolina: Anson, Chatham, 

Davidson, Davie, Edgecombe, 

Franklin, Guilford, Halifax, Harnett, 

Johnston, Montgomery, Moore, 

Richmond, Rockingham, Stokes, 

Wake, Warren, Wilson. 

Tennessee: Monroe, Polk. 

South Carolina: Chesterfield. 

Virginia: Carroll, Patrick. 

Georgia: Fannin. 

All other information in the original 

declaration remains unchanged. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Number 59008) 

Rafaela Monchek, 

Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of 

Disaster Recovery & Resilience. 

[FR Doc. 2024–24396 Filed 10–21–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8026–09–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

[Disaster Declaration #20720 and #20721; 

NORTH CAROLINA Disaster Number NC– 

20009] 

Presidential Declaration Amendment of 

a Major Disaster for Public Assistance 

Only for the State of North Carolina 

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business 

Administration. 

ACTION: Amendment 1. 

SUMMARY: This is an amendment of the 

Presidential declaration of a major 

disaster for Public Assistance Only for 

the State of North Carolina (FEMA– 

4827–DR), dated 10/02/2024. 

Incident: Tropical Storm Helene. 

Incident Period: 09/25/2024 and 

continuing. 

DATES: Issued on 10/15/2024. 

Physical Loan Application Deadline 

Date: 12/02/2024. 

Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan 

Application Deadline Date: 07/02/2025. 

ADDRESSES: Visit the MySBA Loan 

Portal at https://lending.sba.gov to 

apply for a disaster assistance loan. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alan Escobar, Office of Disaster 

Recovery & Resilience, U.S. Small 

Business Administration, 409 3rd Street 

SW, Suite 6050, Washington, DC 20416, 

(202) 205–6734. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The notice 

of the President’s major disaster 

declaration for Private Non-Profit 

organizations in the State of North 

Carolina, dated 10/02/2024, is hereby 

amended to include the following areas 

as adversely affected by the disaster. 

Primary Counties: Swain. 

All other information in the original 

declaration remains unchanged. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Number 59008) 

Rafaela Monchek 

Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of 

Disaster Recovery & Resilience. 

[FR Doc. 2024–24397 Filed 10–21–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8026–09–P 

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 

[Docket No: SSA–2024–0040] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Comment Request 

The Social Security Administration 

(SSA) publishes a list of information 

collection packages requiring clearance 

by the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) in compliance with 

Public Law 104–13, the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, effective October 

1, 1995. This notice includes two new 

collections for OMB approval, as well as 

revisions of OMB-approved information 

collections. 

SSA is soliciting comments on the 

accuracy of the agency’s burden 

estimate; the need for the information; 

its practical utility; ways to enhance its 

quality, utility, and clarity; and ways to 

minimize burden on respondents, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. Mail, email, or 

fax your comments and 

recommendations on the information 

collection(s) to the OMB Desk Officer 

and SSA Reports Clearance Officer at 

the following addresses or fax numbers. 

(OMB) Office of Management and 

Budget, Attn: Desk Officer for SSA 

(SSA) Social Security Administration, 

OLCA, Attn: Reports Clearance 

Director, Mail Stop 3253 Altmeyer, 

6401 Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 

21235, Fax: 833–410–1631, Email 

address: OR.Reports.Clearance@

ssa.gov 

Or you may submit your comments 

online through https://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAmain by clicking on 

Currently under Review—Open for 

Public Comments and choosing to click 

on one of SSA’s published items. Please 

reference Docket ID Number [SSA– 

2024–0040] in your submitted response. 

SSA submitted the information 

collections below to OMB for clearance. 

Your comments regarding these 

information collections would be most 

useful if OMB and SSA receive them 30 

days from the date of this publication. 

To be sure we consider your comments, 

we must receive them no later than 

November 21, 2024. Individuals can 

obtain copies of these OMB clearance 

packages by writing to the 

OR.Reports.Clearance@ssa.gov. 

1. New Applicant Survey (NAS)— 

0960–NEW. Background: The Social 

Security Administration (SSA) provides 

income assistance to more than 13 

million working-age adults and children 

with disabilities through the Social 

Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and 

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) 

programs. To evaluate these 

respondents as they navigate SSA’s 

application process, we are 

implementing the New Applicant 

Survey (NAS). The objective of the New 

Applicant Survey (NAS) is to provide 

SSA’s Office of Research, 

Demonstration, and Employment 

Support (ORDES) with information 

about recent applicants’ experience at 

different stages or touchpoints in the 

disability application process. SSA will 

use findings from the survey to inform 

testable policy interventions to improve 

the application experience for applicant. 

NAS Description: The primary goal of 

NAS is to help SSA improve our current 

application process through the use of 

feedback from the public who use it. 

The research questions and survey will 

allow SSA to evaluate current practices 

and improve upon them. Ultimately, we 

expect the purpose of this survey will 

help SSA to implement a better overall 

application experience for respondents, 

as they use SSA’s systems. 


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