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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
[Release No. 34-35003; File No. S7-27-93]

 

Consolidated Tape Association; Notice of Filing and Immediate 
Effectiveness of Sixteenth Charges Amendment to the Restated 
Consolidated Tape Association Plan

November 23, 1994.
    Pursuant to Rule 11Aa3-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 
(``Act''), notice is hereby given that on November 18, 1994, the 
Consolidated Tap Association (``CTA'') and Consolidated Quotation 
(``CQ'') Plan Participants filed with the Securities and Exchange 
Commission (``Commission'' or ``SEC'') amendments to the Restated CTA 
Plan increasing CTA charges to ticker subscribers. The new rates are 
effective as of January 1, 1995.
    CTA/CQ has designated the proposals as changing a charge collected 
on behalf of all the participants, permitting them to become effective 
upon filing, pursuant to the terms of Rule 11Aa3-2(c)(3)(i) under the 
Act. The Commission is publishing this notice to solicit comments from 
interested persons on the amendments.

I. Description and Purpose of the Amendments

    The purpose of the amendment is to recover the ticker network 
expense increases that common carriers have recently imposed on the CTA 
Plan Participants. The present fees of $110.00 per connection for 
Network A and Network B have been in effect since 1985. Since 1985, 
each of the Networks has absorbed a number of increases in common 
carrier costs. The most recent increases effected in August 1994, 
however, were significant and CTA has determined to pass the increased 
costs along to customers. Effective January 1, 1995, Network A charges 
will increase to $160.00 for those subscribers in the continental USA 
that are serviced via the AT&T terrestrial network that Dow Jones 
manages for the CTA Plan Participants and to existing customers located 
in Montreal and Toronto; the fee for all other locations in Canada will 
be based on the cost of delivering the ticker signal to the subscriber. 
Rates for subscribers located south of Chambers Street in New York 
City, where facilities are leased from NYNEX, and for customers 
presently receiving the signal via satellite, remain unchanged. Network 
B charges will increase to $130.00 per unit, effective January 1, 1995, 
for all customers presently receiving service in the continental USA 
and Toronto, Canada, including subscribers in downtown New York City 
and those currently receiving the ticker signal via satellite; the fee 
for all other locations in Canada will be based on the cost of 
delivering the ticker to the subscriber.

II. Solicitation of Comments

    Rule 11Aa-3(c)(3) under the Act provides that the proposed 
amendment may be put into effect upon filing with the Commission. The 
Commission may summarily abrogate the amendment within 60 days of its 
filing and require refiling and approval of the amendments by 
Commission order pursuant to Rule 11Aa3-2(c) (2), if it appears to the 
Commission that such action is necessary or appropriate in the public 
interest, for the protection of investors and maintenance of fair and 
orderly markets, to remove impediments to and perfect the mechanisms of 
a National Market System, or otherwise in furtherance of the purposes 
of the Act.
    Interested persons are invited to submit written data, views, and 
arguments concerning the foregoing. Persons making written submissions 
should file six copies thereof with the Secretary, Securities and 
Exchange Commission, 450 Fifth Street, NW., Washington, D.C. 20549. 
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 will also be 
available for inspection and copying at the principal office of the 
CTA/CQ. All submission should refer to the file number in the caption 
above and should be submitted by December 21, 1994.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Market Regulation, 
pursuant to delegated authority.\1\
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    \1\17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(27) (1989).
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Jonathan G. Katz,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-29463 Filed 11-29-94; 8:45 am]
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