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

2 17 CFR 240.19b–4. 

3See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 93857 

(December 22, 2021), 86 FR 74130 (December 29, 

2021) (File No. SR–FICC–2021–009). 

4 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Cullison, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415– 

2084; email: Infocollects.Resource@

nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2021– 

0151 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

action. You may obtain publicly 

available information related to this 

action by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2021–0151. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly 

available documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. To begin the search, select 

‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For 

problems with ADAMS, please contact 

the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR) 

reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301– 

415–4737, or by email to 

PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. The supporting 

statement and NRC Form 398 are 

available in ADAMS under 

ML21214A219 and ML21214A220. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents, 

by appointment, at the NRC’s PDR, 

Room P1 B35, One White Flint North, 

11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland 20852. To make an 

appointment to visit the PDR, please 

send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov 

or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 

4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. 

(ET), Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. 

• NRC’s Clearance Officer: A copy of 

the collection of information and related 

instructions may be obtained without 

charge by contacting the NRC’s 

Clearance Officer, David Cullison, 

Office of the Chief Information Officer, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–2084; email: 

Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov. 

B. Submitting Comments 

The NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal rulemaking website (https://

www.regulations.gov). Please include 

Docket ID NRC–2021–0151 in your 

comment submission. 

The NRC cautions you not to include 

identifying or contact information in 

comment submissions that you do not 

want to be publicly disclosed in your 

comment submission. All comment 

submissions are posted at https://

www.regulations.gov and entered into 

ADAMS. Comment submissions are not 

routinely edited to remove identifying 

or contact information. 

If you are requesting or aggregating 

comments from other persons for 

submission to the OMB, then you 

should inform those persons not to 

include identifying or contact 

information that they do not want to be 

publicly disclosed in their comment 

submission. Your request should state 

that comment submissions are not 

routinely edited to remove such 

information before making the comment 

submissions available to the public or 

entering the comment into ADAMS. 

II. Background 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35), the NRC is requesting 

public comment on its intention to 

request the OMB’s approval for the 

information collection summarized 

below. 

1. The title of the information 

collection: NRC Form 398, ‘‘Personal 

Qualification Statement—Licensee.’’ 

2. OMB approval number: 3150–0090. 

3. Type of submission: Extension. 

4. The form number, if applicable: 

NRC Form 398. 

5. How often the collection is required 

or requested: Upon application for an 

initial or upgrade operator license and 

every six years for the renewal of 

operator or senior operator licenses. 

6. Who will be required or asked to 

respond: Facility licensees who are 

tasked with certifying that the 

applicants and renewal operators are 

qualified to be licensed as reactor 

operators and senior reactor operators. 

7. The estimated number of annual 

responses: 1,018. 

8. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: 1,018. 

9. The estimated number of hours 

needed annually to comply with the 

information collection requirement or 

request: 5,252. 

10. Abstract: NRC Form 398 is used to 

transmit detailed information required 

to be submitted to the NRC by a facility 

licensee on each applicant applying for 

new and upgraded licenses or license 

renewals to operate the controls at a 

nuclear reactor facility. This 

information is used to determine that 

each applicant or renewal operator 

seeking a license or renewal of a license 

is qualified to be issued a license and 

that the licensed operator would not be 

expected to cause operational errors and 

endanger public health and safety. 

III. Specific Requests for Comments 

The NRC is seeking comments that 

address the following questions: 

1. Is the proposed collection of 

information necessary for the NRC to 

properly perform its functions? Does the 

information have practical utility? 

2. Is the estimate of the burden of the 

information collection accurate? 

3. Is there a way to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected? 

4. How can the burden of the 

information collection on respondents 

be minimized, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology? 

Dated: January 27, 2022. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

David C. Cullison, 

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Release No. 34–94066; File No. SR–FICC– 

2021–009] 

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Fixed 

Income Clearing Corporation; Notice of 

Designation of Longer Period for 

Commission Action on a Proposed 

Rule Change To Enhance Capital 

Requirements and Make Other 

Changes 

January 26, 2022. 

On December 13, 2021, Fixed Income 

Clearing Corporation (‘‘FICC’’) filed 

with the Securities and Exchange 

Commission (‘‘Commission’’) proposed 

rule change SR–FICC–2021–009 (the 

‘‘Proposed Rule Change’’) pursuant to 

Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities 

Exchange Act of 1934 (‘‘Act’’) 1 and Rule 

19b–4 thereunder.2 The Proposed Rule 

Change was published for comment in 

the Federal Register on December 29, 

2021,3 and the Commission received no 

comment letters regarding the changes 

proposed in the Proposed Rule Change. 

Section 19(b)(2) of the Act 4 provides 

that, within 45 days of the publication 

of notice of the filing of a proposed rule 

change, or within such longer period up 


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5 Id. 

6 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(31). 

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

2 17 CFR 240.19b–4. 

3See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 92577 

(August 5, 2021), 86 FR 44092 (August 11, 2021) 

(SR–ISE–2021–16) (Notice of Filing and Immediate 

Effectiveness of Proposed Rule Change to Amend 

ISE’s Options Regulatory Fee) (‘‘Waiver Filing’’). 

4 Id. at 44094. 

5Prior to the Waiver Filing, the Exchange 

similarly collected ORF as described herein. 

6Participants must record the appropriate 

account origin code on all orders at the time of 

entry of the order. The Exchange represents that it 

has surveillances in place to verify that members 

mark orders with the correct account origin code. 

7The Exchange uses reports from OCC when 

assessing and collecting the ORF. 

8CMTA or Clearing Member Trade Assignment is 

a form of ‘‘give-up’’ whereby the position will be 

assigned to a specific clearing firm at OCC. 

9By way of example, if Broker A, an ISE Member, 

routes a customer order to CBOE and the 

transaction executes on CBOE and clears in Broker 

A’s OCC Clearing account, ORF will be collected by 

ISE from Broker A’s clearing account at OCC via 

direct debit. While this transaction was executed on 

a market other than ISE, it was cleared by an ISE 

Member in the member’s OCC clearing account in 

the customer range, therefore there is a regulatory 

nexus between ISE and the transaction. If Broker A 

was not an ISE Member, then no ORF should be 

assessed and collected because there is no nexus; 

the transaction did not execute on ISE nor was it 

cleared by an ISE Member. 

to 90 days as the Commission may 

designate if it finds such longer period 

to be appropriate and publishes its 

reasons for so finding or as to which the 

self-regulatory organization consents, 

the Commission shall either approve the 

proposed rule change, disapprove the 

proposed rule change, or institute 

proceedings to determine whether the 

proposed rule change should be 

disapproved. The 45th day after 

publication of the notice for the 

Proposed Rule Change is February 12, 

2022. 

The Commission is extending the 45- 

day period for Commission action on 

the Proposed Rule Change. The 

Commission finds that it is appropriate 

to designate a longer period within 

which to take action on the Proposed 

Rule Change so that it has sufficient 

time to consider and take action on the 

Proposed Rule Change. 

Accordingly, pursuant to Section 

19(b)(2) of the Act 5 and for the reasons 

stated above, the Commission 

designates March 29, 2022 as the date 

by which the Commission shall either 

approve, disapprove, or institute 

proceedings to determine whether to 

disapprove proposed rule change SR– 

FICC–2021–009. 

For the Commission, by the Division of 

Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated 

authority.6

J. Matthew DeLesDernier, 

Assistant Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–01964 Filed 1–31–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Release No. 34–94070; File No. SR–ISE– 

2022–02] 

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Nasdaq 

ISE, LLC; Notice of Filing and 

Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed 

Rule Change To Reduce ISE’s Options 

Regulatory Fee 

January 26, 2022. 

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 

20, 2022, Nasdaq ISE, LLC (‘‘ISE’’ or 

‘‘Exchange’’) filed with the Securities 

and Exchange Commission (‘‘SEC’’ or 

‘‘Commission’’) the proposed rule 

change as described in Items I and II, 

below, which Items have been prepared 

by the Exchange. 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 proposes to amend 

ISE’s Pricing Schedule at Options 7, 

Section 9, Part C, to reduce the ISE 

Options Regulatory Fee or ‘‘ORF’’. 

While the changes proposed herein 

are effective upon filing, the Exchange 

has designated the amendments become 

operative on February 1, 2022. 

The text of the proposed rule change 

is available on the Exchange’s website at 

https://listingcenter.nasdaq.com/ 

rulebook/ise/rules, 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 

Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule 

Change 

In its filing with the Commission, the 

Exchange 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 

statements may be examined at the 

places specified in Item IV below. The 

Exchange 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 

Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule 

Change 

1. Purpose 

ISE previously filed to waive its ORF 

from October 1, 2021 through January 

31, 2022.3 The Waiver Filing provided 

that ISE would continue monitoring the 

amount of revenue collected from the 

ORF to determine if regulatory revenues 

would exceed regulatory costs when it 

recommenced assessing ORF on 

February 1, 2022. If so, the Exchange 

committed to adjust its ORF.4 At this 

time, after a review of its regulatory 

revenues and regulatory costs, the 

Exchange proposes to reduce the ORF 

from $0.0018 (the amount of the ORF 

prior to the waiver) to $0.0014 per 

contract side as of February 1, 2022, to 

ensure that revenue collected from the 

ORF, in combination with other 

regulatory fees and fines, does not 

exceed the Exchange’s total regulatory 

costs. 

The options industry continues to 

experience high options trading 

volumes and volatility. At this time, ISE 

believes that the options volume it 

experienced in the second half of 2021 

is likely to persist into 2022. The 

anticipated options volume would 

impact ISE’s ORF collection which, in 

turn, has caused ISE to propose 

reducing the ORF to ensure that revenue 

collected from the ORF, in combination 

with other regulatory fees and fines, 

would not exceed the Exchange’s total 

regulatory costs. 

Collection of ORF 

Upon recommencement of the ORF on 

February 1, 2022,5 ISE will assess its 

ORF for each customer option 

transaction that is either: (1) Executed 

by a Member on ISE; or (2) cleared by 

an ISE Member at The Options Clearing 

Corporation (‘‘OCC’’) in the customer 

range,6 even if the transaction was 

executed by a non-Member of ISE, 

regardless of the exchange on which the 

transaction occurs.7 If the OCC clearing 

member is a ISE Member, ORF is 

assessed and collected on all cleared 

customer contracts (after adjustment for 

CMTA 8); and (2) if the OCC clearing 

member is not a ISE Member, ORF is 

collected only on the cleared customer 

contracts executed at ISE, taking into 

account any CMTA instructions which 

may result in collecting the ORF from a 

non-Member.9

In the case where a Member both 

executes a transaction and clears the 

transaction, the ORF will be assessed to 

and collected from that Member. In the 

case where a Member executes a 

transaction and a different Member 


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