Document ID: SEC-2006-1668-0001
Agency: sec
Document Type: Notice
Title: Self-regulatory organizations; proposed rule changes: Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board
Posted Date: 2006-12-20T05:00Z

[Federal Register: December 20, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 244)]
[Notices]               
[Page 76400-76404]
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-54930; File No. SR-MSRB-2006-10]

 
Self-Regulatory Organizations; Municipal Securities Rulemaking 
Board; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change Relating to Amendments 
to Rule G-27, on Supervision, Rule G-8, on Recordkeeping, and Rule G-9, 
on Record Retention

December 13, 2006.
    Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 
(``Act''),\1\ and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\2\ notice is hereby given that 
on November 24, 2006, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board 
(``MSRB'' or ``Board'') filed with the Securities and Exchange 
Commission (``SEC'' or ``Commission'') the proposed rule change as 
described in Items I, II, and III below, which Items have been prepared 
by the MSRB. The Commission is publishing this notice to solicit 
comments on the proposed rule change from interested persons.
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    \1\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
    \2\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
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I. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Terms of Substance 
of the Proposed Rule Change

    The MSRB is filing with the Commission a proposed rule change 
consisting of amendments to Rule G-27, on supervision, and the related 
recordkeeping and record retention requirements of Rules G-8 and G-9. 
The text of the proposed rule change is available on the MSRB's Web 
site (http://www.msrb.org), at the MSRB's principal office, 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 MSRB included statements 
concerning the purpose of and basis for the proposed rule change and 
discussed any

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comments it received on the proposed rule change. The text of these 
statements may be examined at the places specified in Item IV below. 
The MSRB has prepared summaries, set forth in Sections A, B, and C 
below, of the most significant aspects of such statements.

A. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement of the Purpose of, and 
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change

1. Purpose
    Over the past two years, NASD and the New York Stock Exchange 
(``NYSE'') have adopted a series of rule changes designed to strengthen 
the supervisory control procedures of their member firms. Specifically, 
NASD amended its Rule 3010 (Supervision) to include more stringent 
office inspection rules, and adopted new Rule 3012 (Supervisory Control 
System) to require the testing and verification of a firm's supervisory 
procedures.\3\
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    \3\ The NASD and NYSE amendments are substantially similar.
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    MSRB Rule G-27, on supervision, requires brokers, dealers and 
municipal securities dealers (collectively referred to as ``dealers'') 
to supervise their municipal securities activities by designating 
individuals with supervisory responsibilities for municipal securities 
activities, adopting written supervisory procedures, and reviewing 
transactions and correspondence. Similarly, NASD Rule 3010 requires 
dealers to establish a supervisory system, adopt written supervisory 
procedures, review transactions and correspondence, and, most recently, 
to conduct internal inspections with minimum inspection cycles. NASD 
also recently adopted new Rule 3012 to require that dealers: (1) Test 
and verify that its supervisory procedures are sufficient, and amend or 
create additional supervisory procedures where the testing and 
verification identify a need; and (2) establish procedures that are 
reasonably designed to review and supervise, on a day-to-day basis, the 
customer account activity conducted by the dealer's producing managers.
    In April 2006, the MSRB published for comment draft amendments to 
Rule G-27, which incorporated most of the NASD requirements contained 
in Rules 3010 and 3012 in order to promote regulatory consistency and 
make these requirements specifically applicable to the municipal 
securities activities of securities firms and bank dealers.\4\ The 
Board received two comment letters in response to the notice, both of 
which expressed support for the draft amendments, as more fully 
described below.\5\ Based on the comment letters received, as well as 
discussions with various industry participants and the relevant 
regulatory agencies, the Board determined to adopt the draft amendments 
with one substantive revision relating to the designation of 
appropriate principal. Although the new supervisory activities required 
under the proposed rule change are derived from NASD requirements, 
these activities relate specifically to a dealer's municipal securities 
activities and require in-depth knowledge of MSRB rules. Therefore, the 
Board believes it is appropriate that these supervisory activities be 
undertaken by a municipal securities principal (or a municipal fund 
securities limited principal in the case of activities related to 
municipal fund securities). The proposed rule change clarifies these 
requirements by amending the ``Appropriate Principal'' provision in 
Rule G-27(b)(ii)(C).\6\
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    \4\ MSRB Notice 2006-11 (April 21, 2006).
    \5\ Although the notice specifically requested comment from bank 
dealers, particularly on their ability to comply with the new 
requirements relating to tape recording of conversations, office 
inspection, and the new supervisory control provisions, the Board 
did not receive comment letters from bank dealers. Based on the 
absence of comment letters from this segment of the industry, as 
well as informal discussions with the bank regulatory agencies, the 
Board has no reason to believe that bank dealers will be unable to 
comply with the new requirements for supervision.
    \6\ This provision is also amended to make clear that 
supervision with respect to correspondence under Rule G-27(e) is to 
be undertaken by a municipal securities principal (or a municipal 
fund securities limited principal in the case of correspondence 
relating to municipal fund securities) or a municipal securities 
sales principal.
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    The MSRB believes that adopting most of the requirements of NASD 
Rules 3010 and 3012 will help ensure a coordinated regulatory approach 
in the area of supervision, and will facilitate inspection and 
enforcement.\7\ The proposed amendments to Rule G-27 are described 
below.
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    \7\ The MSRB notes that NASD Rule 3013 (Annual Certification of 
Compliance and Supervisory Processes) requires NASD member firms to 
designate a principal to serve as chief compliance officer and to 
certify, on an annual basis, that the member has in place processes 
to establish, maintain, review, test and modify written compliance 
policies and written supervisory procedures designed to achieve 
compliance with applicable NASD rules, MSRB rules and federal 
securities laws and regulations. This requirement became fully 
operative on April 1, 2006. Since all NASD member firms are subject 
to this rule (which requires that firms have supervisory procedures 
for compliance with MSRB rules), the Board has not incorporated this 
requirement into amended Rule G-27. Bank dealers, however, are not 
currently subject to this requirement since they are not NASD 
members. Therefore, after the Rule G-27 amendments have been in 
effect for approximately a year, the Board will seek feedback from 
the bank regulators concerning bank dealers' ability to comply with 
the new supervisory requirements over that time period. Assuming 
there are no compliance problems or concerns in this area, the Board 
will then consider the propriety of adopting an annual certification 
requirement for bank dealers.
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Description of Proposed Amendments

    The proposed amendments modify section (b) of Rule G-27, on 
supervisory system; add new subsection (c)(ii), on tape recording of 
conversations; add new subsection (c)(iii) on updating written 
supervisory procedures; add new section (d), on internal inspections; 
add new section (f), on supervisory control system; and add new 
definitions section (g). As a general principle, the requirements of 
Rule G-27 apply only with respect to those registered persons who 
engage in municipal securities activities and those offices in which 
such municipal securities activities are undertaken (regardless of the 
level or amount of such municipal securities activities).

Supervisory System

    The proposed amendments modify section (b) of Rule G-27, on 
supervisory system, to include the following five provisions: \8\
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    \8\ These provisions are based on NASD Rule 3010(a)(3)-(7).
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     Designation of certain locations as offices of supervisory 
jurisdiction (``OSJ'') (G-27(b)(iii));
     Designation of one or more appropriately registered 
principals in each OSJ, including the main office, and one or more 
appropriately registered representatives or principals in each non-OSJ 
branch office with authority to carry out the supervisory 
responsibilities assigned to that office by the dealer (G-27(b)(iv));
     Assignment of each registered person to an appropriately 
registered representative or principal who shall be responsible for 
supervising that person's activities (G-27(b)(v));
     Reasonable efforts to determine that all supervisory 
personnel are qualified by virtue of experience or training to carry 
out their assigned responsibilities (G-27(b)(vi)); and
     Participation of each registered representative and 
principal in an annual meeting to discuss compliance matters (G-
27(b)(vii)).
    The amendments also include a reference in Rule G-27(b)(ii)(C) to 
``municipal fund securities limited principal'' that is added to 
explicitly affirm the supervisory functions that such a principal may 
undertake pursuant to Rule G-3, on professional qualifications. 
Specifically, paragraph (b)(iv)(C) of Rule G-3 allows a municipal fund 
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principal to ``undertake all actions required or permitted under any 
Board rule to be taken by a municipal securities principal, but solely 
with respect to activities related to municipal fund securities.''

Tape Recording of Conversations

    The amendments incorporate NASD Rule 3010(b)(2), on tape recording 
of conversations, in Rule G-27(c)(ii). Subsection (c)(ii) requires 
dealers to establish special supervisory procedures, including the tape 
recording of conversations, when they have hired more than a specified 
percentage of registered persons from certain firms that have been 
expelled or have had their broker/dealer registrations revoked for 
violations of sales practice rules. The requisite percentage varies 
depending on the size of the dealer, from 40 percent for a small dealer 
to 20 percent for a larger dealer. The dealer must establish the 
required supervisory procedures within 30 days of receiving notice from 
their registered securities association or bank regulator, or obtaining 
actual knowledge that it is subject to this provision of the rule.
    Under this provision, if the requisite percentage of a dealer's 
sales force previously was employed by a disciplined firm, the dealer 
will be required to adopt special written procedures to supervise the 
telemarketing activities of all its registered persons. The procedures 
require, at a minimum, that the dealer tape record all telephone 
conversations between all of its registered persons and both existing 
and potential customers for a period of two years. The measures 
required by this provision are designed to prevent a recurrence of 
sales practice abuse or other customer harm that caused the disciplined 
firm to have its registration revoked.
    This provision also requires dealers subject to the taping 
requirement to establish reasonable procedures for reviewing tape 
recordings to ensure compliance with securities laws and applicable 
rules and regulations, to retain and catalog the tapes, and to submit 
reports to the appropriate registered securities association or bank 
regulator on their supervision of telemarketing.

Updating Written Supervisory Procedures

    Subsection (c)(iii) is added to replace existing section (e), which 
currently requires a dealer to revise and update its written 
supervisory procedures as necessary to respond to changes in Board or 
other applicable rules. Proposed subsection (c)(iii) has language that 
mirrors the language in NASD Rule 3010(b)(4), and requires each dealer 
to keep a copy of procedures at each location where supervisory 
activities are conducted and to amend its written supervisory 
procedures within a reasonable time after changes occur.

Internal Inspections

    The amendments incorporate NASD Rule 3010(c), on internal 
inspections, in new section (d) under Rule G-27. This new section 
imposes office inspection requirements that establish minimum 
inspection cycles and delineate the topics that must be covered during 
such inspections as well as the manner in which inspections are 
documented.\9\ In addition, the amendments include new section (g) 
which defines the designations ``office of supervisory jurisdiction'' 
and ``branch office'' used in section (d), among other terms.
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    \9\ The stringency of the office inspection requirements is 
graduated and based on designations of offices under specifically 
defined categories, such as office of supervisory jurisdiction, 
supervisory and non-supervisory branch offices, and non-branch 
offices.
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    Mandatory Inspection Cycles. Section (d) obligates dealers to 
inspect OSJs and supervisory branch offices on at least an annual 
basis.\10\ It also requires dealers to inspect all non-supervisory 
branch offices at least once every three years. It directs dealers, 
however, to consider when it might be appropriate to conduct more 
frequent inspection of non-supervisory branch offices. Further, Rule G-
27(d) requires dealers to inspect non-branch locations ``on a regular 
periodic schedule.'' Each dealer must document, as part of its written 
supervisory procedures, an explanation of how the dealer determined the 
frequency of its examination schedule. In establishing the schedule, 
dealers should consider the nature and complexity of the securities 
activities for which each non-branch location is responsible, and the 
frequency of customer contact at the non-branch location.
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    \10\ A ``branch office'' is defined in Rule G-27(g) as ``any 
location where one or more associated persons of a dealer regularly 
conducts the business of effecting any transactions in, or inducing 
or attempting to induce the purchase or sale of any security, or is 
held out as such, excluding [certain enumerated locations].'' A 
``supervisory branch office'' is any non-OSJ branch office that is 
responsible for supervising one or more non-branch offices.
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    Independent Office Inspections. Section (d) places limits on who is 
eligible to perform the required inspection function. This provision 
prohibits office inspections from being performed by:
     The branch office manager;
     Any person within the office who has supervisory 
responsibilities; or
     Any individual who is directly or indirectly supervised by 
such person(s).
    However, an exception to this limitation is provided if the dealer 
is so limited in size and resources that it cannot comply with it.
    Content of Inspections and Requirements for Inspection Reports. 
Dealers must document each office inspection by preparing a written 
report that documents when it conducted the inspection and the results 
of its testing and verification in the following areas:
     Safeguarding customer funds and securities;
     Maintaining books and records;
     Supervising customer accounts services by branch office 
managers;
     Transmitting funds between customer and registered 
representative and between customers and third parties;
     Validating customer address changes; and
     Validating changes in customer account information.
    Heightened Inspection Requirements. Section (d) also requires 
dealers to adopt, under certain circumstances, procedures that require 
heightened inspections designed to avoid conflicts of interest arising 
from economic, commercial or financial interests that the branch 
manager's supervisor holds in the person or activities being inspected. 
Such heightened inspection procedures are required if (1) the person 
conducting the inspection reports to the branch office manager's 
supervisor or works in an office supervised by the branch manager's 
supervisor; and (2) the branch office manager generates 20% or more of 
the revenue of the business units supervised by the branch office 
manager's supervisor.\11\ Dealers must calculate the 20% threshold in 
the same manner as when determining whether a producing manager must be 
subject to heightened supervision, as described below.
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    \11\ The 2004 NTM provides examples of such heightened 
inspection procedures under NASD Rule 3010, including, without 
limitation, unannounced office inspections; increasing the frequency 
of inspections; broadening the scope of activities inspected; and/or 
having one or more principals review or approve the inspection. The 
MSRB would view these examples as equally applicable to the 
heightened inspection procedures required under Rule G-27(d)(iii).
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Supervisory Control System

    The amendments also include new section (f), derived from NASD Rule 
3012, which incorporates the following new requirements:
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(f) requires dealers to designate and identify one or more principals 
charged with establishing, maintaining and enforcing a system of 
``supervisory control policies and procedures'' that:
     Test and verify that a dealer's supervisory procedures are 
reasonably designed to achieve compliance with the federal securities 
laws and MSRB rules; and
     Create additional or amended supervisory procedures where 
a need for such procedures is identified by such testing.
    Annual Submission of Report to Senior Management. At least once 
annually, the principal(s) designated under section (f) must submit a 
report to senior management that details the dealer's supervisory 
control policies and procedures, summarizes the results of testing and 
identifies significant weaknesses, and discusses additional or amended 
procedures implemented in response to such testing.
    The Board recognizes that situations may arise where a dealer is 
required under the rules of another self-regulatory organization to 
produce a similar report. The Board does not intend for a dealer to 
produce duplicative reports in such situations. Instead, for purposes 
of this section (f), a dealer may prepare a single report so long as 
there is coordination in the preparation and submission of such report 
between any principal(s) designated by the dealer pursuant to the rules 
of another self-regulatory organization and the principal designated 
under Rule G-27(b)(ii)(C) or (f)(i). The dealer should adequately 
document such coordination between or among the various principals.
    Supervision of Producing Manager's Customer Account Activity. 
Section (f) requires dealers to adopt procedures to review and 
supervise daily customer account activities of each branch office 
manager, sales manager, regional or district sales manager, or any 
person performing similar supervisory functions (``producing 
managers''). These policies and procedures must include ``a means of 
customer confirmation, notification, or follow-up that can be 
documented.'' Specifically, the provision requires that policies and 
procedures must be reasonably designed to review and monitor the 
following activities:
     All transmittals of funds and securities to and from 
customer accounts;
     Changes of customer's address, including procedures to 
validate change of address; and
     Changes in customer investment objectives, including 
validation of such changes.\12\
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    \12\ If a dealer does not engage in any of these activities, 
then the dealer's supervisory control policies and procedures must 
note that the dealer is not engaged in these activities and that the 
supervisory control policies and procedures must be amended before 
the dealer may engage in such activities.
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    Independent Review of Producing Manager. Section (f) requires an 
independent review of the producing manager. This review must be 
conducted by a person or persons who are senior to, or ``otherwise 
independent'' of, the producing manager. To be considered ``otherwise 
independent'' of the producing manager, the person performing the 
review:
     Must not report, either directly or indirectly, to the 
producing manager he or she is reviewing;
     Must be located at a different office than the producing 
manager;
     Must not have supervisory authority over any of the 
activity under review, including not being directly compensated in 
whole or in part as a result of such activity; and
     Must alternate such review responsibility with another 
person at least once every two years.
    Section (f) also requires dealers to adopt, under certain 
circumstances, heightened supervisory procedures designed to avoid 
conflicts of interest arising from economic, commercial or financial 
interests that the supervisor holds in the person or activities being 
supervised. Such heightened supervisory procedures are required with 
respect to producing managers who are responsible for generating at 
least 20% of the revenue of the business which is supervised by the 
producing manager's supervisor.\13\ As noted above, the relevant 
provisions of Rule G-27 would apply if any portion of the 20% threshold 
is attributable to revenue generated through municipal securities 
transactions. However, the heightened supervision requirement does not 
apply where an otherwise independent person conducts the producing 
manager's reviews.
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    \13\ The 2004 NTM provides examples of such heightened 
supervisory procedures under NASD Rule 3012, including, without 
limitation, unannounced supervisory reviews; increasing the 
frequency of supervisory reviews by different reviewers within a 
certain time period; broadening the scope of activities reviewed; 
and/or having one or more principals approve the supervisory review 
of such producing manager. The MSRB would view these examples as 
equally applicable to the heightened supervisory procedures required 
under Rule G-27(f)(ii)(C).
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    Finally, section (f) provides an exception from the independent 
review requirement if a dealer is so limited in size and resources that 
it is unable to identify anyone who is senior to or otherwise 
independent of the producing manager to conduct the review (the 
``limited size and resource'' exception).
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    The MSRB intends generally that the provisions of Rule G-27 be read 
consistently with the analogous NASD provisions, unless the MSRB 
specifically indicates otherwise. Thus, relevant NASD interpretations 
would be presumed to apply to the comparable MSRB provision, subject to 
the MSRB's right to make distinctions when necessary and appropriate. 
The MSRB recommends that dealers, including bank dealers, regularly 
visit or link to the relevant portions of the NASD Web site on 
supervision for current NASD interpretations of such analogous 
provisions.\14\ Furthermore, the MSRB intends to continue coordinating 
its requirements relating to supervision with those of the other 
relevant self-regulatory organizations in the securities markets 
whenever appropriate for dealers engaging in municipal securities 
transactions.
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    \14\ NASD's Web site on supervision is located at http://www.nasd.com/RulesRegulation/IssueCenter/SupervisoryControl/index.htm
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    Finally, NASD Rule 3012 (Supervisory Control System) provides that 
``Any member in compliance with substantially similar requirements of 
the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. shall be deemed to be in compliance 
with the provisions of this Rule.'' We note that the amendments to Rule 
G-27 incorporate substantially all of NASD Rule 3012. Therefore, the 
MSRB believes that any dealer in compliance with similar NASD or NYSE 
requirements would be deemed in compliance with the comparable 
requirements of Rule G-27(f), on supervisory control system, so long as 
there is coordination between or among any principal(s) designated by 
the dealer pursuant to the rules of NASD or the NYSE and the 
appropriate principal designated pursuant to Rule G-27(b)(ii)(C).
2. Statutory Basis
    The MSRB believes that the proposed rule change is consistent with 
Section 15B(b)(2)(C) of the Act,\15\ which provides that the MSRB's 
rules shall:
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    \15\ 15 U.S.C. 78o-4(b)(2)(C).

Be designed to prevent fraudulent and manipulative acts and 
practices, to promote just and equitable principles of trade, to 
foster cooperation and coordination with persons engaged in 
regulating, clearing, settling, processing information with respect

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to, and facilitating transactions in municipal securities, to remove 
impediments to and perfect the mechanism of a free and open market 
in municipal securities, and, in general, to protect investors and 
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the public interest.

    The MSRB believes that by conforming Rule G-27 to the relevant NASD 
rules on supervision and thereby making such requirements specifically 
applicable to the municipal securities activities of securities firms 
and bank dealers, the proposed rule change will promote regulatory 
consistency by facilitating dealer compliance with such requirements, 
as well as by facilitating the inspection and enforcement thereof.

B. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Burden on Competition

    The MSRB does not believe that the proposed rule change will result 
in any burden on competition that is not necessary or appropriate in 
furtherance of the purposes of the Act.

C. Self-Regulatory Organization's Statement on Comments on the Proposed 
Rule Change Received From Members, Participants, or Others

    In April 2006 the MSRB published for comment draft amendments to 
Rule G-27 which incorporated most of the NASD requirements contained in 
Rules 3010 and 3012 in order to promote regulatory consistency and make 
these requirements specifically applicable to the municipal securities 
activities of securities firms and bank dealers. In response to its 
notice, the Board received two comment letters, both of which expressed 
support for the draft amendments. The Investment Company Institute 
(``ICI'') noted that conforming MSRB requirements to those of the NASD 
``will strengthen the current supervisory systems of municipal 
securities dealers because NASD rules require a more structured and 
formalized supervisory system than Rule G-27 in its current form.'' ICI 
further stated that the proposal will ``facilitate compliance by those 
dealers that are dually registered with the MSRB and the NASD * * * 
[and that this] conformity should also enable the NASD to more 
efficiently inspect those dealers that are subject to rules of both 
self-regulatory organizations.''
    The other commentator--BSC Securities--was supportive of the draft 
amendments but was concerned about ``unintended consequences of 
rulemaking.'' BSC noted that, as a small firm, it is particularly 
concerned with costs of compliance and therefore urged the Board to 
adopt provisions that are ``identical (not `substantially similar') to 
other SRO's rules to ensure the coordination of regulatory 
approaches.'' While the Board is sensitive to the costs of compliance, 
particularly in the case of smaller dealers, we believe that the 
amendments are appropriate and will result, as ICI stated, in ``no 
substantive difference in the supervisory systems imposed by the rules 
of the MSRB and the NASD.''

III. Date of Effectiveness of the Proposed Rule Change and Timing for 
Commission Action

    Within 35 days of the date of publication of this notice in the 
Federal Register or within such longer period (i) as the Commission may 
designate up to 90 days of such date if it finds such longer period to 
be appropriate and publishes its reasons for so finding or (ii) as to 
which the self-regulatory organization consents, the Commission will:
    A. By order approve such proposed rule change, or
    B. institute proceedings to determine whether the proposed rule 
change should be disapproved.
    The MSRB has proposed that the amendments become effective six 
months after Commission approval of the proposed rule change.

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 e-mail to rule-comments@sec.gov. Please include 

File Number SR-MSRB-2006-10 on the subject line.

Paper Comments

     Send paper comments in triplicate to Nancy M. Morris, 
Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, Station Place, 100 F 
Street, NE., Washington, DC 20549-1090.

All submissions should refer to File Number SR-MSRB-2006-10. This file 
number should be included on the subject line if e-mail 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 inspection and 
copying in the Commission's Public Reference Room. Copies of such 
filing also will be available for inspection and copying at the MSRB's 
offices. All comments received will be posted without change; the 
Commission does not edit personal identifying information from 
submissions. You should submit only information that you wish to make 
available publicly. All submissions should refer to File Number SR-
MSRB-2006-10 and should be submitted on or before January 10, 2007.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Market Regulation, 
pursuant to delegated authority.\16\
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    \16\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
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Florence E. Harmon,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-21779 Filed 12-19-06; 8:45 am]

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