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32 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A). 

33 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(6). As required under Rule 

19b–4(f)(6)(iii), the Exchange provided the 

Commission with written notice of its intent to file 

the proposed rule change, along with a brief 

description and the text of the proposed rule 

change, at least five business days prior to the date 

of filing of the proposed rule change, or such 

shorter time as designated by the Commission. 

34 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(6). 

35 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(6)(iii). 

36For purposes only of waiving the 30-day 

operative delay, the Commission has also 

considered the proposed rule’s impact on 

efficiency, competition, and capital formation. See 

15 U.S.C. 78c(f). 

37 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). 

1This Line connects to a former line of railroad 

for which SGLR received abandonment authority in 

2004, subject to environmental, public use, trail 

use, and standard employee protective conditions. 

See Seminole Gulf Ry.—Aban. Exemption—in 

Sarasota Cty., Fla., AB 400 (Sub-No. 3X) (STB 

served Apr. 2, 2004.) That line was subsequently 

transferred to Sarasota County for interim trail use 

and rail banking and developed into a trail. 

III. Date of Effectiveness of the 

Proposed Rule Change and Timing for 

Commission Action 

Because the proposed rule change 

does not (i) significantly affect the 

protection of investors or the public 

interest; (ii) impose any significant 

burden on competition; and (iii) become 

operative for 30 days from the date on 

which it was filed, or such shorter time 

as the Commission may designate, it has 

become effective pursuant to Section 

19(b)(3)(A) of the Act 32 and Rule 19b– 

4(f)(6) thereunder.33

A proposed rule change filed 

pursuant to Rule 19b–4(f)(6) under the 

Act 34 normally does not become 

operative for 30 days after the date of its 

filing. However, Rule 19b–4(f)(6)(iii) 35

permits the Commission to designate a 

shorter time if such action is consistent 

with the protection of investors and the 

public interest. The Exchange has asked 

the Commission to waive the 30-day 

operative delay so that the Exchange 

may, as soon as possible, implement the 

changes proposed by this filing. The 

Exchange notes that the proposal will 

promote consistency between the 

Exchange and other options exchanges 

that accept complex orders. For this 

reason, the Commission believes the 

waiver of the operative delay is 

consistent with the protection of 

investors and the public interest. 

Accordingly, the Commission hereby 

waives the operative delay and 

designates the proposed rule change 

operative upon filing.36

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 

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 (http://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/sro.shtml); or 

• Send an email to rule-comments@

sec.gov. Please include File Number SR– 

BatsEDGX–2017–43 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–BatsEDGX–2017–43. 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 Web site (http://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 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. Copies of such 

filing also will be available for 

inspection and copying at the principal 

office of the Exchange. 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. All 

submissions should refer to File 

Number SR–BatsEDGX–2017–43, and 

should be submitted on or before 

November 27, 2017. 

For the Commission, by the Division of 

Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated 

authority.37

Eduardo A. Aleman, 

Assistant Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–24051 Filed 11–3–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 10193] 

Certification Pursuant to Section 

7041(A)(L) of the Department of State, 

Foreign Operations, and Related 

Programs Appropriations Act, 2017 

By virtue of the authority vested in 

me as Secretary of State pursuant to 

section 7041(a)(1) of the Department of 

State, Foreign Operations, and Related 

Programs Appropriations Act, 2017 

(Div. J, Pub. L. 115–31), I hereby certify 

that the Government of Egypt is 

sustaining the strategic relationship 

with the United States and meeting its 

obligations under the 1979 Egypt-Israel 

Peace Treaty. 

This determination shall be published 

in the Federal Register and, along with 

the accompanying Memorandum of 

Justification, shall be reported to 

Congress. 

Dated: October 16, 2017. 

Rex W. Tillerson, 

Secretary of State. 

[FR Doc. 2017–24091 Filed 11–3–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–31–P 

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

[Docket No. AB 400 (Sub-No. 6X)] 

Seminole Gulf Railway, L.P.— 

Abandonment Exemption—in Sarasota 

County, Fla. 

Seminole Gulf Railway, L.P. (SGLR) 

has filed a verified notice of exemption 

under 49 CFR pt. 1152 subpart F— 

Exempt Abandonments to abandon a 

1.71-mile segment of its line of railroad 

known as the Venice Branch, between 

milepost SW 890.29 and milepost SW 

892.00 outside of the City of Sarasota, in 

Sarasota County, Fla. (the Line).1 SGLR 

will also be abandoning a connecting 

industrial spur. The Line traverses 


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2The Board will grant a stay if an informed 

decision on environmental issues (whether raised 

by a party or by the Board’s Office of Environmental 

Analysis (OEA) in its independent investigation) 

cannot be made before the exemption’s effective 

date. See Exemption of Out-of-Serv. Rail Lines, 5 

I.C.C.2d 377 (1989). Any request for a stay should 

be filed as soon as possible so that the Board may 

take appropriate action before the exemption’s 

effective date. 

3Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing 

fee, which is currently set at $1,800. See 

Regulations Governing Fees for Servs. Performed in 

Connection with Licensing & Related Servs.—2017 

Update, EP 542 (Sub-No. 25), slip op. App. C at 20 

(STB served July 28, 2017). 

United States Postal Service Zip Codes 

34233 and 34238. 

SGLR has certified that: (1) No local 

or overhead traffic has moved over the 

Line for more than 10 years; (2) because 

the Line is not a through route, there is 

no overhead traffic on the Line; (3) no 

formal complaint filed by a user of rail 

service on the Line (or by a state or local 

government entity acting on behalf of 

such user) regarding cessation of service 

over the Line either is pending with the 

Surface Transportation Board (Board) or 

with any U.S. District Court or has been 

decided in favor of complainant within 

the two-year period; and (4) the 

requirements at 49 CFR 1105.7(c) 

(environmental report), 49 CFR 1105.11 

(transmittal letter), 49 CFR 1105.12 

(newspaper publication), and 49 CFR 

1152.50(d)(1) (notice to governmental 

agencies) have been met. 

As a condition to this exemption, any 

employee adversely affected by the 

abandonment shall be protected under 

Oregon Short Line Railroad— 

Abandonment Portion Goshen Branch 

Between Firth & Ammon, in Bingham & 

Bonneville Counties, Idaho, 360 I.C.C. 

91 (1979). To address whether this 

condition adequately protects affected 

employees, a petition for partial 

revocation under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) 

must be filed. 

Provided no formal expression of 

intent to file an offer of financial 

assistance (OFA) has been received, this 

exemption will be effective on 

December 6, 2017, unless stayed 

pending reconsideration. Petitions to 

stay that do not involve environmental 

issues,2 formal expressions of intent to 

file an OFA under 49 CFR 

1152.27(c)(2),3 and interim trail use/rail 

banking requests under 49 CFR 1152.29 

must be filed by November 16, 2017. 

Petitions to reopen or requests for 

public use conditions under 49 CFR 

1152.28 must be filed by November 24, 

2017, with the Surface Transportation 

Board, 395 E Street SW., Washington, 

DC 20423–0001. 

A copy of any petition filed with the 

Board should be sent to Eric M. Hocky, 

Clark Hill, PLC, One Commerce Square, 

2005 Market Street, Suite 1000, 

Philadelphia, PA 19103. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio. 

SGLR has filed a combined 

environmental and historic report that 

addresses the effects, if any, of the 

abandonment on the environment and 

historic resources. OEA will issue an 

environmental assessment (EA) by 

November 9, 2017. Interested persons 

may obtain a copy of the EA by writing 

to OEA (Room 1100, Surface 

Transportation Board, Washington, DC 

20423–0001) or by calling OEA at (202) 

245–0305. Assistance for the hearing 

impaired is available through the 

Federal Information Relay Service at 

(800) 877–8339. Comments on 

environmental and historic preservation 

matters must be filed within 15 days 

after the EA becomes available to the 

public. 

Environmental, historic preservation, 

public use, or trail use/rail banking 

conditions will be imposed, where 

appropriate, in a subsequent decision. 

Pursuant to the provisions of 49 CFR 

1152.29(e)(2), SGLR shall file a notice of 

consummation with the Board to signify 

that it has exercised the authority 

granted and fully abandoned the Line. If 

consummation has not been effected by 

SGLR’s filing of a notice of 

consummation by November 6, 2018, 

and there are no legal or regulatory 

barriers to consummation, the authority 

to abandon will automatically expire. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at 

WWW.STB.GOV. 

Decided: October 30, 2017. 

By the Board, Scott M. Zimmerman, Acting 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Tammy Lowery, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2017–23963 Filed 11–3–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

[Docket Number USTR–2017–0022] 

Applications for Inclusion on the 

Binational Panels Roster Under the 

North American Free Trade Agreement 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative. 

ACTION: Invitation for applications. 

SUMMARY: The North American Free 

Trade Agreement (NAFTA) provides for 

the establishment of a roster of 

individuals to serve on binational 

panels convened to review final 

determinations in antidumping or 

countervailing duty (AD/CVD) 

proceedings and amendments to AD/ 

CVD statutes of a NAFTA Party. The 

United States annually renews its 

selections for the roster. The Office of 

the United States Trade Representative 

(USTR) invites applications from 

eligible individuals wishing to be 

included on the roster for the period 

April 1, 2018, through March 31, 2019. 

DATES: USTR must receive your 

application by November 17, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: You should submit your 

application through the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov, using docket 

number USTR–2017–0022. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments 

below. While USTR strongly prefers 

electronic submissions, you also may 

submit your application by fax, to 

Sandy McKinzy at (202) 395–3640. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Katherine Wang, Assistant General 

Counsel, Katherine_E_Wang@

ustr.eop.gov, (202) 395–6214. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Binational Panel AD/CVD Reviews 

Under the NAFTA 

Article 1904 of the NAFTA provides 

that a party involved in an AD/CVD 

proceeding may obtain review by a 

binational panel of a final AD/CVD 

determination of one NAFTA Party with 

respect to the products of another 

NAFTA Party. Binational panels decide 

whether AD/CVD determinations are in 

accordance with the domestic laws of 

the importing NAFTA Party using the 

standard of review that would have 

been applied by a domestic court of the 

importing NAFTA Party. A panel may 

uphold the AD/CVD determination, or 

may remand it to the national 

administering authority for action not 

inconsistent with the panel’s decision. 

Panel decisions may be reviewed in 

specific circumstances by a threemember extraordinary challenge 

committee, selected from a separate 

roster composed of 15 current or former 

judges. 

Article 1903 of the NAFTA provides 

that a NAFTA Party may refer an 

amendment to the AD/CVD statutes of 

another NAFTA Party to a binational 

panel for a declaratory opinion as to 

whether the amendment is inconsistent 

with the General Agreement on Tariffs 

and Trade (GATT), the GATT 

Antidumping or Subsidies Codes, 

successor agreements, or the object and 

purpose of the NAFTA with regard to 

the establishment of fair and predictable 

conditions for the liberalization of trade. 

If the panel finds that the amendment is 


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