Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Extension: Rule 19b-7 and Form 19b-7

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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 165 (Thursday, August 27, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55373-55374]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-17461]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[OMB Control No. 3235-0553]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; Extension: Rule 19b-7 and Form 19b-7

Upon Written Request, Copies Available From: Securities and Exchange 
Commission, Office of FOIA Services, 100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 
20549-2736

    Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities and Exchange 
Commission (``Commission'') has submitted to the Office of Management 
and Budget (``OMB'') a request for extension of the previously approved 
collection of information discussed below.
    The Exchange Act provides a framework for self-regulation under 
which various entities involved in the securities business, including 
national securities exchanges and national securities associations 
(collectively, self-regulatory organizations or ``SROs''), have primary 
responsibility for regulating their members or participants. The role 
of the Commission in this framework is primarily one of oversight; the 
Exchange Act charges the Commission with supervising the SROs and 
assuring that each complies with and advances the policies of the 
Exchange Act.
    The Exchange Act was amended by the Commodity Futures Modernization 
Act of 2000 (``CFMA''). Prior to the CFMA, federal law did not allow 
the trading of futures on individual stocks or on narrow-based stock 
indexes (collectively, ``security futures products''). The CFMA removed 
this restriction and provided that trading in security futures products 
would be regulated jointly by the Commission and the Commodity Futures 
Trading Commission (``CFTC'').
    The Exchange Act requires all SROs to submit to the SEC any 
proposals to amend, add, or delete any of their rules. Certain entities 
(Security Futures Product Exchanges) would be notice-registered 
national securities exchanges only because they trade security futures 
products. Similarly, certain entities (Limited Purpose National 
Securities Associations) would be limited-purpose national securities 
associations only because their members trade security futures 
products. The Exchange Act, as amended by the CFMA, established a 
procedure for Security Futures Product Exchanges and Limited Purpose 
National Securities Associations to provide notice of proposed rule 
changes relating to certain matters.\1\ Rule 19b-7 and Form 19b-7 
implemented this procedure. Effective April 28, 2008, the SEC amended 
Rule 19b-7 and Form 19b-7 to require that Form 19b-7 be submitted 
electronically.\2\
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    \1\ These matters are higher margin levels, fraud or 
manipulation, recordkeeping, reporting, listing standards, or 
decimal pricing for security futures products; sales practices for 
security futures products for persons who effect transactions in 
security futures products; or rules effectuating the obligation of 
Security Futures Product Exchanges and Limited Purpose National 
Securities Associations to enforce the securities laws. See 15 
U.S.C. 78s(b)(7)(A).
    \2\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 57526 (March 19, 
2008), 73 FR 16179 (March 27, 2008).
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    The collection of information is designed to provide the Commission 
with the information necessary to determine, as required by the 
Exchange Act, whether the proposed rule change is consistent with the 
Exchange Act and the rules thereunder. The information is used to 
determine if the proposed rule change should remain in effect or be 
abrogated.
    The respondents to the collection of information are SROs.\3\ The 
estimated total industry burden per year for rule changes, updating and 
posting rule changes and updating the online rulebook is 102 burden 
hours.\4\ In the

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proposed extension, there is no change to the burden hour estimate per 
respondent. However, there is an increase in the total burden hours 
because the Commission now estimates that there are three respondents 
instead of two respondents in 2023 (an increase of one respondent). 
Thus, the net change in estimated total aggregate burden hours 
increased from 68 to 102 (increase of 34 burden hours).
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    \3\ There are currently two Security Futures Product Exchanges 
and one Limited Purpose National Securities Association, the 
National Futures Association. Therefore, there are currently three 
respondents to Form 19b-7.
    \4\ This estimate is the sum of the total industry (3 
respondents) burden hours for rule filings (75 hours), updating and 
posting rule changes (3 hours) and updating rules (24 hours).
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    An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required 
to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a 
currently valid OMB Control Number.
    The public may view background documentation for this information 
collection at: <a href="https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202606-3235-007">https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202606-3235-007</a> or email comment to 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e9a4abb1c7a6a4abc7a6a0bba8c7baacaab68d8c9a82b6868f8f808a8c9ba986848bc78c8699c78e869f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="93ded1cbbddcded1bddcdac1d2bdc0d6d0ccf7f6e0f8ccfcf5f5faf0f6e1d3fcfef1bdf6fce3bdf4fce5">[email&#160;protected]</span></a> within 30 days of the day 
after publication of this notice, by September 28, 2026.

    Dated: August 24, 2026.
J. Matthew DeLesDernier,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2026-17461 Filed 8-26-26; 8:45 am]
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