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1See 41 CFR 102–3.30(a). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elizabeth A. Reed, 202–268–3179. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

United States Postal Service® hereby 

gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 

3642 and 3632(b)(3), on October 25, 

2017, it filed with the Postal Regulatory 

Commission a USPS Request to Add 

Priority Mail Express Contract 52 to 

Competitive Product List. Documents 

are available at www.prc.gov, Docket 

Nos. MC2018–16, CP2018–32. 

Elizabeth A. Reed, 

Attorney, Corporate and Postal Business Law. 

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[Release No. 34–81958; File No. 265–30] 

Fixed Income Market Structure 

Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Securities and Exchange 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Federal Advisory 

Committee Establishment. 

SUMMARY: The Securities and Exchange 

Commission is publishing this notice to 

announce that the Chairman of the 

Commission, with the concurrence of 

the other Commissioners, intends to 

establish the Securities and Exchange 

Commission Fixed Income Market 

Structure Advisory Committee. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

submitted by the following methods: 

Electronic Comments 

• Use the Commission’s Internet 

submission form (http://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/other.shtml); or 

• Send an email message to rulecomments@sec.gov, including File No. 

265–30 on the subject line. 

Paper Comments 

• Send paper comments in triplicate 

to Brent J. Fields, Secretary, Securities 

and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street 

NE., Washington, DC 20549–1090. 

All submissions should refer to File No. 

265–30. To help us process and review 

your comments more efficiently, please 

use only one method. The Commission 

will post all comments on the 

Commission’s Internet Web site (http:// 

www.sec.gov/rules/other.shtml). 

Comments also will be available for 

Web site 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 10:00 a.m. and 

3:00 p.m. All comments received will be 

posted without change. Persons 

submitting comments are cautioned that 

we do not redact or edit personal 

identifying information from comment 

submissions. You should submit only 

information that you wish to make 

available publicly. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Dimitrious, Senior Special 

Counsel, at (202) 551–5131, or Benjamin 

Bernstein, Attorney-Adviser, at (202) 

551–5354, Division of Trading and 

Markets, Securities and Exchange 

Commission, 100 F Street NE., 

Washington, DC 20549–3628. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the requirements of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 

U.S.C.—App, the Commission is 

publishing this notice that the Chairman 

of the Commission, with the 

concurrence of the other 

Commissioners, intends to establish the 

Securities and Exchange Commission 

Fixed Income Market Structure 

Advisory Committee (the ‘‘Committee’’). 

The Chairman of the Commission 

affirms that the establishment of the 

Committee is necessary and in the 

public interest.1

The Committee’s objective is to 

provide the Commission with diverse 

perspectives on the structure and 

operations of the U.S. fixed income 

markets, as well as advice and 

recommendations on matters related to 

fixed income market structure. 

No more than 21 voting members will 

be appointed to the Committee. Such 

members shall represent a cross-section 

of those directly affected by, interested 

in, and/or qualified to provide advice to 

the Commission on matters related to 

fixed income market structure. The 

Committee’s membership will be 

balanced fairly in terms of points of 

view represented. Non-voting members 

may also be named. 

The charter will provide that the 

duties of the Committee are to be solely 

advisory. The Commission alone will 

make any determinations of actions to 

be taken and policies to be expressed 

with respect to matters within the 

Commission’s jurisdiction. The 

Committee will meet at such intervals as 

are necessary to carry out its functions. 

The charter contemplates that the full 

Committee will meet four times 

annually. Meetings of subgroups or 

subcommittees of the full Committee 

may occur more frequently. 

The Committee will operate for two 

years from the date the charter is filed 

with the appropriate entities or such 

earlier date as determined by the 

Commission unless, before the 

expiration of that time period, it is 

renewed in accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act. The 

Committee may be established 15 days 

after publication of this notice in the 

Federal Register by filing a charter for 

the Committee with the Committee on 

Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of 

the United States Senate, the Committee 

on Financial Services of the United 

States House of Representatives, and the 

Committee Management Secretariat of 

the General Services Administration. A 

copy of the charter as so filed also will 

be filed with the Chairman of the 

Commission, furnished to the Library of 

Congress, and posted on the 

Commission’s Web site at www.sec.gov. 

By the Commission. 

Dated: October 26, 2017. 

Brent J. Fields, 

Secretary. 

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Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Upon Written Request, Copies Available 

From: Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of FOIA Services, 

100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 

20549–2736 

Extension: 

Form N–54A, SEC File No. 270–182, OMB 

Control No. 3235–0237 

Notice is hereby given that, pursuant 

to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities 

and Exchange Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’) has submitted to the 

Office of Management and Budget a 

request for extension of the previously 

approved collection of information 

discussed below. 

Under the Investment Company Act 

of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a–1 et seq.) (the 

‘‘Investment Company Act’’), certain 

investment companies can elect to be 

regulated as business development 

companies, as defined in Section 

2(a)(48) of the Investment Company Act 

(15 U.S.C. 80a–2(a)(48)). Under Section 

54(a) of the Investment Company Act 

(15 U.S.C. 80a–53(a)), any company 

defined in Section 2(a)(48)(A) and (B) 

may elect to be subject to the provisions 

of Sections 55 through 65 of the 

Investment Company Act (15 U.S.C. 

80a–54 to 80a–64) by filing with the 

Commission a notification of election, if 

such company has: (1) A class of equity 


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

2 15 U.S.C. 78a. 

3 17 CFR 240.19b–4. 

4A Managed Fund Share is a security that 

represents an interest in an investment company 

registered under the Investment Company Act of 

1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a–1) (‘‘1940 Act’’) organized as 

an open-end investment company or similar entity 

that invests in a portfolio of securities selected by 

its investment adviser consistent with its 

investment objectives and policies. In contrast, an 

open-end investment company that issues 

Investment Company Units, listed and traded on 

the Exchange under NYSE Arca Rule 5.2–E(j)(3), 

seeks to provide investment results that correspond 

generally to the price and yield performance of a 

specific foreign or domestic stock index, fixed 

income securities index or combination thereof. 

5The Trust is registered under the 1940 Act. On 

June 26, 2017, the Trust filed with the Commission 

its registration statement on Form N–1A under the 

Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77a) (‘‘Securities 

Act’’), and under the 1940 Act relating to the Funds 

[sic] (File Nos. 333–215165 and 811–23222) 

(‘‘Registration Statement’’). The description of the 

operation of the Trust and the Funds [sic] herein 

is based, in part, on the Registration Statement. In 

addition, the Commission has issued an order 

granting certain exemptive relief to the Trust under 

the 1940 Act. See Investment Company Act Release 

No. 32454 (January 27, 2017) (File No. 812–13828– 

01) (‘‘Exemptive Order’’). 

6An investment adviser to an open-end fund is 

required to be registered under the Investment 

Advisers Act of 1940 (the ‘‘Advisers Act’’). As a 

result, the Manager and Sub-Adviser and their 

related personnel are subject to the provisions of 

Rule 204A–1 under the Advisers Act relating to 

codes of ethics. This Rule requires investment 

advisers to adopt a code of ethics that reflects the 

fiduciary nature of the relationship to clients as 

well as compliance with other applicable securities 

laws. Accordingly, procedures designed to prevent 

the communication and misuse of non-public 

Continued 

securities registered under Section 12 of 

the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 

U.S.C. 78a et seq.) (‘‘Exchange Act’’); or 

(2) filed a registration statement 

pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange 

Act for a class of equity securities. The 

Commission has adopted Form N–54A 

(17 CFR 274.53) as the form for 

notification of election to be regulated 

as business development companies. 

The purpose of Form N–54A is to 

notify the Commission that the 

investment company making the 

notification elects to be subject to 

Sections 55 through 65 of the 

Investment Company Act, enabling the 

Commission to administer those 

provisions of the Investment Company 

Act to such companies. 

The Commission estimates that on 

average approximately 12 business 

development companies file these 

notifications each year. Each of those 

business development companies need 

only make a single filing of Form N– 

54A. The Commission further estimates 

that this information collection imposes 

a burden of 0.5 hours, resulting in a 

total annual PRA burden of 6 hours. 

Based on the estimated wage rate, the 

total cost to the business development 

company industry of the hour burden 

for complying with Form N–54A would 

be approximately $2,070. 

The collection of information under 

Form N–54A is mandatory. The 

information provided by the form is not 

kept confidential. An agency may not 

conduct or sponsor, and a person is not 

required to respond to, a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid control number. 

The public may view the background 

documentation for this information 

collection at the following Web site, 

www.reginfo.gov. Comments should be 

directed to: (i) Desk Officer for the 

Securities and Exchange Commission, 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, Room 10102, New Executive 

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503, 

or by sending an email to: Shagufta_

Ahmed@omb.eop.gov; and (ii) Pamela 

Dyson, Director/Chief Information 

Officer, Securities and Exchange 

Commission, c/o Remi Pavlik-Simon, 

100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 20549 

or send an email to: PRA_Mailbox@

sec.gov. Comments must be submitted to 

OMB within 30 days of this notice. 

Dated: October 26, 2017. 

Eduardo A. Aleman, 

Assistant Secretary. 

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NYSEArca–2017–99] 

Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE 

Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing of Proposed 

Rule Change To List and Trade Shares 

of the Hartford Schroders Tax-Aware 

Bond ETF Under NYSE Arca Rule 

8.600–E 

October 25, 2017. 

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

Securities Exchange Act of 1934 

(‘‘Act’’) 2 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,3

notice is hereby given that, on October 

11, 2017, NYSE Arca, Inc. (‘‘Exchange’’ 

or ‘‘NYSE Arca’’) 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 proposes to list and 

trade shares of the Hartford Schroders 

Tax-Aware Bond ETF under NYSE Arca 

Rule 8.600–E (‘‘Managed Fund Shares’’). 

The proposed rule change is available 

on the Exchange’s Web site at 

www.nyse.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 

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 those 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 parts 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 Exchange proposes to list and 

trade shares (‘‘Shares’’) of the Hartford 

Schroders Tax-Aware Bond ETF 

(‘‘Fund’’) under NYSE Arca Rule 8.600– 

E, which governs the listing and trading 

of Managed Fund Shares.4 The Shares 

will be offered by the Hartford Funds 

Exchange-Traded Trust (the ‘‘Trust’’), 

which is registered with the 

Commission as an open-end 

management investment company.5 The 

Fund is a series of the Trust. 

Hartford Funds Management 

Company, LLC (‘‘HFMC’’ or ‘‘Manager’’) 

will be the investment manager to the 

Fund. ALPS Distributors, Inc. (‘‘ALPS’’ 

or the ‘‘Distributor’’) will be the 

principal underwriter to the Fund. 

HFMC is an indirect subsidiary of The 

Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. 

Schroder Investment Management North 

America Inc. (‘‘Sub-Adviser’’) will be 

the sub-adviser to the Fund and 

performs the daily investment of the 

assets for the Fund. 

Commentary .06 to Rule 8.600–E 

provides that, if the investment adviser 

to the investment company issuing 

Managed Fund Shares is affiliated with 

a broker-dealer, such investment adviser 

shall erect a ‘‘fire wall’’ between the 

investment adviser and the brokerdealer with respect to access to 

information concerning the composition 

and/or changes to such investment 

company portfolio.6 In addition, 


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