[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 53 (Friday, March 18, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 14825-14826]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-6382]


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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION

17 CFR Parts 1, 16, and 38

RIN 3038-AD09


Core Principles and Other Requirements for Designated Contact 
Markets

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'') is 
extending the comment period for proposed regulation 38.502(a) 
(``Minimum Centralized Market Trading Percentage Requirement''), in 
light of the recent public release of the off-market volume data 
referenced by the Commission in the Federal Register release for the 
notice of proposed rulemaking for ``Core Principles and Other 
Requirements for Designated Contract Markets'', 75 FR 80572 (Dec. 22, 
2010). The comment period is being extended for this regulation to 
permit interested persons to submit comments on off-market volume data 
that has recently been made available to the public and to which the 
Commission referred in its notice of proposed rulemaking.

DATES: Submit comments on or before April 18, 2011.

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ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by RIN number, by any of 
the following methods:
     Agency Web site, via its Comments Online process: http://comments.cftc.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments 
through the Web site.
     Mail: David A. Stawick, Secretary of the Commission, 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st 
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20581.
     Hand Delivery/Courier: Same as mail above.
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.Regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.

Please submit comments by only one method.
    All comments must be submitted in English, or if not, accompanied 
by an English translation. Comments will be posted as received to 
http://www.cftc.gov. You should submit only information that you wish 
to make available publicly. If you wish the Commission to consider 
information that may be exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of 
Information Act (``FOIA''), a petition for confidential treatment of 
the exempt information may be submitted according to the procedures 
established in Sec.  145.9 of the Commission's regulations.\1\ The 
Commission reserves the right, but shall have no obligation, to review, 
pre-screen, filter, redact, refuse, or remove any or all of your 
submission from http://www.cftc.gov that it may deem to be 
inappropriate for publication, such as obscene language. All 
submissions that have been redacted or removed that contain comments on 
the merits of the rulemaking will be retained in the public comment 
file and will be considered as required under the Administrative 
Procedure Act and other applicable laws, and may be accessible under 
FOIA.
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    \1\ Commission regulations referred to herein are found at 17 
CFR Ch. 1 (2010). They are accessible on the Commission's Web site 
at http://www.cftc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy Markowitz, Assistant Deputy 
Director, 202-418-5453, [email protected], or Nadia Zakir, Attorney-
Advisor, 202-418-5720, [email protected], Division of Market Oversight, 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st 
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Street, NW., Washington, DC 20581.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 22, 2010, the Commission 
published in the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking, in 
which it proposed rules, guidance, and acceptable practices, to be 
applicable to the designation and operation of contract markets, as 
well as the listing, trading, and execution of swaps on designated 
contract markets.\2\ The notice of proposed rulemaking would implement 
certain provisions of sections 723, 733, and 735 of the Wall Street 
Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the ``Dodd-Frank Act''). The 
comment period for the proposed rulemaking closed on February 22, 2011.
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    \2\ See Core Principles and Other Requirements for Designated 
Contract Markets, 75 FR 80572, 80588-89, Dec. 22, 2010.
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    Since the close of the proposed rulemaking, data has been made 
publicly available to support the rulemaking, in particular, proposed 
Sec.  38.502(a), the proposed ``minimum centralized market trading 
percentage requirement.'' Discussion of this proposed requirement is 
available in the notice of proposed rulemaking at pages 80588 and 80589 
of the Federal Register publication. The data has been made available 
on the Commission's Web site at http://comments.cftc.gov/FederalRegister/Proposed.aspx?Type=ListAll&Year=2010, the same location 
as the Commission's notice of proposed rulemaking. All persons wishing 
to comment on proposed regulation 38.502(a) (``Minimum Centralized 
Market Trading Percentage Requirement''), in light of the data that has 
been made available may do so by submitting comments using one of the 
methods provided above through April 18, 2011.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on March 14, 2011, by the Commission.
David A. Stawick,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2011-6382 Filed 3-17-11; 8:45 am]
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