Document ID: SEC-2015-0133-0001
Agency: sec
Document Type: Notice
Title: Establishment of Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee
Posted Date: 2015-01-23T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 15 (Friday, January 23, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3673-3674]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-01159]

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-74092; File No. 265-29]

Notice of Federal Advisory Committee Establishment; Equity Market 
Structure Advisory Committee

AGENCY: Securities and Exchange Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Federal Advisory Committee Establishment.

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SUMMARY: The Securities and Exchange Commission intends to establish 
the Securities and Exchange Commission Equity 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 rule-comments@sec.gov, including 
File No. 265-29 on the subject line.

Paper Comments

     Send paper comments to Brent J. Fields, Securities and 
Exchange Commission, 100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 20549-1090.

All submissions should refer to File No. 265-29. 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; we do not edit personal identifying 
information from your submissions. You should submit only information 
that you wish to make available publicly.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Arisa Tinaves, Special Counsel, 
Securities and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 
20549-3628, (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 Chair of the Commission, with the 
concurrence of the other Commissioners, intends to establish the 
Securities and Exchange Commission Equity Market Structure Advisory 
Committee (the ``Committee''). 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. 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 equity market structure. The 
Committee's membership will be balanced fairly in terms of points of 
view represented and functions to be performed.
    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

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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 Chair of the 
Commission, furnished to the Library of Congress, and posted on the 
Commission's Web site at www.sec.gov.
    The Committee will operate for two years from the date the charter 
is filed with the appropriate entities unless the Commission directs 
that the Committee terminate on an earlier date. Prior to the 
expiration of this two-year period, the Committee's charter may be re-
established or renewed in accordance with the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act.
    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 charter will provide that the duties of the Committee are to be 
solely advisory. The Commission alone will make any determinations of 
action to be taken and policy to be expressed with respect to matters 
within the Commission's authority as to which the Committee provides 
advice or makes recommendations. The Chair of the Commission affirms 
that the establishment of the Committee is necessary and in the public 
interest.

    Dated: January 20, 2015.

    By the Commission.
Brent J. Fields,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-01159 Filed 1-22-15; 8:45 am]
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