Document ID: SEC-2017-1381-0001
Agency: sec
Document Type: Notice
Title: Charter Renewals: Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee
Posted Date: 2017-08-15T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 156 (Tuesday, August 15, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38733-38734]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-17138]

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-81358; File No. 265-29]

Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee

AGENCY: Securities and Exchange Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Federal Advisory Committee Renewal.

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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, has approved the renewal of the 
Securities and Exchange Commission Equity Market Structure Advisory 
Committee.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Arisa Kettig, Senior Special Counsel, 
Division of Trading and Markets, Securities and Exchange Commission, 
100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 20549, (202) 551-5676.

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, has approved the renewal of the 
Securities and Exchange Commission Equity Market Structure Advisory 
Committee (the ``Committee''). The Chairman of the Commission affirms 
that the renewal of the Committee is necessary and in the public 
interest.
    The Committee's objective is to provide the Commission with diverse 
perspectives on the structure and operations of the U.S. equities 
markets, as well as advice and recommendations on matters related to 
equity market structure.
    No more than seventeen voting members will be appointed to the 
Committee, representing a cross-section of those directly affected by, 
interested in, and/or qualified to provide advice to the Commission on 
matters related to equity market structure. The Committee's membership 
will continue to be balanced fairly in terms of points

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of view represented and functions to be performed.
    The Charter provides 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 as to which the Committee 
provides advice or makes recommendations. The Committee will meet at 
such intervals as are necessary to carry out its functions. The charter 
contemplates that the full Committee will meet one time. Meetings of 
subgroups or subcommittees of the full Committee may occur more 
frequently.
    The Committee will terminate five months from the date it is 
renewed 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. A copy of the charter for the 
Committee has been filed with the Chairman of the Commission, 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, the Committee Management Secretariat of the General 
Services Administration, and the Library of Congress. It also has been 
posted on the Commission's Web site at www.sec.gov.

    By the Commission.

    Dated: August 9, 2017.
Brent J. Fields,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-17138 Filed 8-14-17; 8:45 am]
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