Document ID: SEC-2021-0311-0001
Agency: sec
Document Type: Notice
Title: Self-Regulatory Organizations; Proposed Rule Changes: Nasdaq PHLX, LLC
Posted Date: 2021-03-04T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 41 (Thursday, March 4, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12733-12734]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-04427]

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-91220; File No. SR-Phlx-2021-03]

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Nasdaq PHLX LLC; Notice of 
Designation of a Longer Period for Commission Action on a Proposed Rule 
Change To Modify Phlx Options 8, Section 26, ``Trading Halts, Business 
Continuity and Disaster Recovery''

February 26, 2021.
    On January 7, 2021, Nasdaq PHLX LLC (``Phlx'' or ``Exchange'') 
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission''), 
pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 
(``Act''),\1\ and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\2\ a proposed rule change to 
modify Phlx Options 8, Section 26 (Trading Halts, Business Continuity 
and Disaster Recovery) to make available an audio and video 
communication program to serve as a ``virtual trading crowd'' in the 
event the physical trading floor becomes unavailable, the back-up 
trading floor becomes inoperable or the Exchange otherwise determines 
not to operate its back-up trading floor. The proposed rule change was 
published in the Federal Register on January 14, 2021.\3\
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    \1\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
    \2\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
    \3\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 90880 (January 8, 
2021), 86 FR 3217.
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    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 to 90 days as the Commission may designate 
if it finds such longer period

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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 this proposed rule change is February 28, 2021. The 
Commission is extending this 45-day time period.
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    \4\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2).
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    The Commission finds that it is appropriate to designate a longer 
period within which to take action on the proposal so that it has 
sufficient time to consider the proposed rule change. Accordingly, the 
Commission, pursuant to Section 19(b)(2) of the Act,\5\ designates 
April 14, 2021, as the date by which the Commission shall either 
approve or disapprove, or institute proceedings to determine whether to 
disapprove, the proposed rule change (File No. SR-Phlx-2021-03).
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    \5\ Id.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets, 
pursuant to delegated authority.\6\
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    \6\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(31).
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J. Matthew DeLesDernier,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-04427 Filed 3-3-21; 8:45 am]
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