[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 105 (Friday, June 2, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25635-25639]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-11400]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-80799; File No. SR-NYSE-2017-23]


Self-Regulatory Organizations; New York Stock Exchange LLC; 
Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change To Eliminate Requirements That 
Will Be Duplicative of CAT

May 26, 2017.
    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 May 22, 2017, New York Stock Exchange LLC (``NYSE'' or the 
``Exchange'') 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 
Exchange. 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 Exchange proposes to delete the Order Audit Trail System 
(``OATS'') rules in the Rule 7400 Series and amend Rule 8211 governing 
submission of Electronic Blue Sheet trading data (``EBS'') as these 
Rules provide for the collection of information that is duplicative of 
the data collection requirements of the CAT once the Financial Industry 
Regulatory Authority (``FINRA'') publishes a notice announcing the date 
that it will retire its OATS and EBS rules. The proposed rule change is 
available on the Exchange's Web site at www.nyse.com, at the principal 
office of the Exchange, 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 self-regulatory organization 
included statements concerning the purpose of, and basis for, the 
proposed rule change and discussed any comments it received on the 
proposed rule change. The text of those statements may be examined at 
the places specified in Item IV below. The Exchange has prepared 
summaries, set forth in sections A, B, and C below, of the most 
significant parts of such statements.

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

1. Purpose
Background
    Bats BYX Exchange, Inc., Bats BZX Exchange, Inc., Bats EDGA 
Exchange, Inc., Bats EDGX Exchange, Inc., BOX Options Exchange LLC, C2 
Options Exchange, Incorporated, Chicago Board Options Exchange, 
Incorporated, Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc., FINRA, Investors' Exchange 
LLC, Miami International Securities Exchange, LLC, MIAX PEARL, LLC, 
NASDAQ BX, Inc., Nasdaq GEMX, LLC, Nasdaq ISE, LLC, Nasdaq MRX, LLC,\3\ 
NASDAQ PHLX LLC, The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC, the Exchange, NYSE MKT 
LLC, NYSE Arca, Inc. and NYSE National, Inc.\4\ (collectively, the 
``Participants'') filed with the Commission, pursuant to Section 11A of 
the Exchange Act \5\ and Rule 608 of Regulation NMS thereunder,\6\ the 
CAT NMS Plan.\7\ The Participants filed the Plan to comply with Rule 
613 of Regulation NMS under the Exchange Act.\8\ The Plan was published 
for comment in the Federal Register on May 17, 2016,\9\ and approved by 
the Commission, as modified, on November 15, 2016.\10\ On March 21, 
2017, the Commission approved \11\ the Exchange's new Rule 6800 Series 
to implement provisions of the CAT NMS Plan that are applicable to 
Exchange member organizations.\12\
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    \3\ ISE Gemini, LLC, ISE Mercury, LLC and International 
Securities Exchange, LLC have been renamed Nasdaq GEMX, LLC, Nasdaq 
MRX, LLC, and Nasdaq ISE, LLC, respectively. See Securities Exchange 
Act Release No. 80248 (March 15, 2017), 82 FR 14547 (March 21, 2017) 
(SR-ISEGemini-2017-13); Securities Exchange Act Release No. 80326 
(March 29, 2017), 82 FR 16460 (April 4, 2017) (SR-ISEMercury-2017-
05); and Securities Exchange Act Release No. 80325 (March 29, 2017), 
82 FR 16445 (April 4, 2017) (SR-ISE-2017-25).
    \4\ National Stock Exchange, Inc. has been renamed NYSE 
National, Inc. See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 79902 
(January 30, 2017), 82 FR 9258 (February 3, 2017) (SR-NSX-2016-16).
    \5\ 15 U.S.C. 78k-1.
    \6\ 17 CFR 242.608.
    \7\ See Letter from the Participants to Brent J. Fields, 
Secretary, Commission, dated September 30, 2014; and Letter from 
Participants to Brent J. Fields, Secretary, Commission, dated 
February 27, 2015. On December 24, 2015, the Participants submitted 
an amendment to the CAT NMS Plan. See Letter from Participants to 
Brent J. Fields, Secretary, Commission, dated December 23, 2015.
    \8\ 17 CFR 242.613.
    \9\ Securities Exchange Act Release No. 77724 (April 27, 2016), 
81 FR 30614 (May 17, 2016) (File No. 4-698).
    \10\ Securities Exchange Act Release No. 79318 (Nov. 15, 2016), 
81 FR 84696 (November 23, 2016) (File No. 4-698) (``Approval 
Order'').
    \11\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 80256 (March 15, 
2017), 82 FR 14526 (March 21, 2017) (SR-NYSE-2017-01) (Order 
Approving Proposed Rule Changes to Adopt Consolidated Audit Trail 
Compliance Rules).
    \12\ The Rule 6800 Series utilizes the term ``Industry Member,'' 
which applies to the Exchange's member organizations. The term 
``member organization'' means a ``registered broker or dealer 
(unless exempt pursuant to the Act) that is a member of FINRA or 
another registered securities exchange. Member organizations that 
transact business with public customers or conduct business on the 
Floor of the Exchange shall at all times be members of FINRA. A 
registered broker or dealer must also be approved by the Exchange 
and authorized to designate an associated natural person to effect 
transactions on the floor of the Exchange or any facility thereof. 
This term shall include a natural person so registered, approved and 
licensed who directly effects transactions on the floor of the 
Exchange or any facility thereof.'' See Rule 2(b)(i). The term 
``member organization'' also includes any registered broker or 
dealer that is a member of FINRA or a registered securities 
exchange, consistent with the requirements of section 2(b)(i) of 
this Rule, which does not own a trading license and agrees to be 
regulated by the Exchange as a member organization and which the 
Exchange has agreed to regulate. See Rule 2(b)(ii).

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    The Plan is designed to create, implement and maintain a CAT that 
would capture customer and order event information for orders in NMS 
Securities and OTC Equity Securities, across all markets, from the time 
of order inception through routing, cancellation, modification, or 
execution in a single consolidated data source. Pursuant to Appendix C 
of the CAT NMS Plan, each Participant is required to conduct analyses 
of which of its existing trade and order data rules and systems require 
the collection of information that is duplicative of information 
collected for the CAT.\13\ In addition, among other things, Section C.9 
of Appendix C to the Plan, as modified by the Commission, requires each 
Participant to ``file with the SEC the relevant rule change filing to 
eliminate or modify its duplicative rules within six (6) months of the 
SEC's approval of the CAT NMS Plan.'' \14\ The Plan notes that ``the 
elimination of such rules and the retirement of such systems [will] be 
effective at such time as CAT Data meets minimum standards of accuracy 
and reliability.'' \15\
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    \13\ Appendix C of CAT NMS Plan, Approval Order at 85010.
    \14\ Id.
    \15\ Id.
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    After conducting its analysis of its rules in accordance with the 
CAT NMS Plan, the Exchange has determined that the information 
collected pursuant to the OATS and EBS rules is intended to be 
collected by CAT. Therefore, the Exchange believes that the Rule 7400 
Series will no longer be necessary once FINRA publishes notice 
announcing the date it will retire its OATS rules. Similarly, the 
Exchange believes that it will be necessary to clarify how the Exchange 
will request EBS data under Rule 8211 after members are reporting to 
the CAT. Accordingly, the Exchange proposes to amend Rule 8211 to add 
new Supplementary Material clarifying how the Exchange will request 
data under these rules after member organizations are reporting to the 
CAT once FINRA publishes notice announcing the date it will retire its 
OATS rules. Discussed below is a description of the duplicative rule 
requirements as well as the timeline for eliminating the duplicative 
rules.
    If the Commission approves the proposed rule change, the rule text 
will be effective; however, the amendments will not be implemented 
until FINRA publishes a notice announcing the date that it will retire 
its OATS rules, at which time the Exchange will publish a regulatory 
notice announcing implementation date of the proposed rule change. As 
discussed below, FINRA will publish its notice once the CAT achieves 
certain specific accuracy and reliability standards and FINRA has 
determined that its usage of the CAT Data has not revealed material 
issues that have not been corrected, confirmed that the CAT includes 
all data necessary to allow FINRA to continue to meet its surveillance 
obligations,\16\ and confirmed that the Plan Processor is sufficiently 
meeting all of its obligations under the CAT NMS Plan.
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    \16\ As noted in the Participants' September 23, 2016 response 
to comment letters on the Plan, the Participants ``worked to keep 
[the CAT] gap analyses up-to-date by including newly-added data 
fields in these duplicative systems, such as the new OATS data 
fields related to the tick size pilot and ATS order book changes, in 
the gap analyses.'' Letter from Participants to Brent J. Fields, 
Secretary, Commission, dated September 23, 2016, at 21. The 
Participants noted that they ``will work with the Plan Processor and 
the industry to develop detailed Technical Specifications to ensure 
that by the time Industry Members are required to report to the CAT, 
the CAT will include all data elements necessary to facilitate the 
rapid retirement of duplicative systems.'' Id.
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Duplicative OATS Requirements
    The Rule 7400 Series consists of Rules 7410 through 7470 and sets 
forth the recording and reporting requirements of the OATS Rules. The 
OATS Rules require all Exchange member organizations and associated 
persons to record in electronic form and report to FINRA, on a daily 
basis, certain information with respect to orders originated, received, 
transmitted, modified, canceled, or executed by members in all NMS 
stocks, as that term is defined in Rule 600(b)(47) of Regulation 
NMS,\17\ traded on the Exchange, including NYSE-listed securities. This 
information is used by FINRA staff to conduct surveillance and 
investigations of member firms for violations of FINRA rules and 
federal securities laws. The Exchange has determined that the 
requirements of the Rule 7400 Series are duplicative of information 
available in the CAT and thus will no longer be necessary once the CAT 
is operational.
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    \17\ 17 CFR 242.600(B)(47).
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    The Participants have provided OATS technical specifications to the 
Plan Processor for the CAT for use in developing the Technical 
Specifications for the CAT, and the Participants are working with the 
Plan Processor to include the necessary OATS data elements in the CAT 
Technical Specifications. Accordingly, the Exchange proposes to 
eliminate its OATS Rules in accordance with the proposed timeline 
discussed below.
Timeline for Elimination of Duplicative Rules
    The CAT NMS Plan states that the elimination of rules that are 
duplicative of the requirements of the CAT and the retirement of the 
related systems should be effective at such time as CAT Data meets 
minimum standards of accuracy and reliability.\18\ As discussed in more 
detail in its rule filing, FINRA believes that OATS may be retired at a 
date after all Industry Members are reporting to the CAT when the 
proposed error rate thresholds have been met, and FINRA has determined 
that its usage of the CAT Data has not revealed material issues that 
have not been corrected, confirmed that the CAT includes all data 
necessary to allow FINRA to continue to meet its surveillance 
obligations, and confirmed that the Plan Processor is sufficiently 
meeting all of its obligations under the CAT NMS Plan.\19\
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    \18\ Appendix C of CAT NMS Plan, Approval Order at 85010.
    \19\ See SR-FINRA-2017-013.
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    The CAT NMS Plan requires that a rule filing to eliminate a 
duplicative rule address whether ``the availability of certain data 
from Small Industry Members two years after the Effective Date would 
facilitate a more expeditious retirement of duplicative systems.'' \20\ 
FINRA believes that there is no effective way to retire OATS until all 
current OATS reporters are reporting to the CAT. As discussed in 
FINRA's filing, FINRA believes that having data from those Small 
Industry Members currently reporting to OATS available two years after 
the Effective Date would substantially facilitate a more expeditious 
retirement of OATS and therefore supports an amendment to the Plan that 
would require current OATS Reporters that are ``Small Industry 
Members'' to report two years after the Effective Date (instead of 
three).\21\
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    \20\ Id. [sic].
    \21\ See SR-FINRA-2017-013. FINRA has represented that it 
intends to work with the other Participants to submit a proposed 
amendment to the Plan to require Small Industry Members that are 
OATS Reporters to report two years after the Effective Date.
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    The CAT NMS Plan also requires that this rule filing address 
``whether individual Industry Members can be exempted from reporting to 
duplicative systems once their CAT reporting meets specified accuracy 
and reliability standards, including, but not limited to, ways in which 
establishing cross-system regulatory functionality or integrating data 
from existing systems and the CAT

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would facilitate such Individual Industry Member exemptions.'' \22\
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    \22\ Id. [sic].
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    FINRA believes that a single cut-over from OATS to CAT is highly 
preferable to a firm-by-firm approach and is not proposing to exempt 
members from the OATS requirements on a firm-by-firm basis. FINRA 
believes that that the overall accuracy and reliability thresholds for 
the CAT described above [sic] would need to be met under any conditions 
before firms could stop reporting to OATS. Moreover, as discussed above 
[sic], FINRA supports amending the Plan to accelerate the reporting 
requirements for Small Industry Members that are OATS Reporters to 
report on the same timeframe as all other OATS Reporters. If such an 
amendment were approved by the Commission, there would be no need to 
exempt members from OATS requirements on a firm-by-firm basis.\23\
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    \23\ Id.
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    The CAT NMS Plan also requires that a rule filing to eliminate a 
duplicative rule to provide ``specific accuracy and reliability 
standards that will determine when duplicative systems will be retired, 
including, but not limited to, whether the attainment of a certain 
Error Rate should determine when a system duplicative of the CAT can be 
retired.'' \24\ As discussed in Section A.3.(b) of Appendix C to the 
CAT NMS Plan, the Participants established an initial Error Rate, as 
defined in the Plan, of 5% on initially submitted data (i.e., data as 
submitted by a CAT Reporter before any required corrections are 
performed). The Participants noted in the Plan that their expectation 
was that ``error rates after reprocessing of error corrections will be 
de minimis.'' \25\ The Participants based this Error Rate on their 
consideration of ``current and historical OATS Error Rates, the 
magnitude of new reporting requirements on the CAT Reporters and the 
fact that many CAT Reporters may have never been obligated to report 
data to an audit trail.'' \26\
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    \24\ Id. [sic].
    \25\ See CAT NMS Plan, Appendix C, Section A.3(b), at n.102.
    \26\ Id.
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    As set forth in its filing, FINRA believes that, when assessing the 
accuracy and reliability of the data for the purposes of retiring OATS, 
the error thresholds should be measured in more granular ways and 
should also include minimum error rates of post-correction data, which 
represents the data most likely to be used by FINRA to conduct 
surveillance. To ensure the CAT's accuracy and reliability, FINRA is 
thus proposing that, before OATS could be retired, the CAT would 
generally need to achieve a sustained error rate for Industry Member 
reporting in each of the categories below for a period of at least 180 
days of 5% or lower, measured on a pre-correction or as-submitted basis 
and 2% or lower on a post-correction basis (measured at T+5).\27\ FINRA 
is proposing to measure the 5% pre-correction and 2% post-correction 
thresholds by averaging the error rate across the period, not require a 
5% pre-correction and 2% post-correction maximum each day for 180 
consecutive days. FINRA believes that measuring each of the thresholds 
over the course of 180 days will ensure that the CAT consistently meets 
minimum accuracy and reliability thresholds for Industry Member 
reporting while also ensuring that single-day measurements do not 
unduly affect the overall measurements.\28\ Consequently, FINRA is 
proposing to use error rates in four categories, measured separately 
for options and for equities, to assess whether the threshold pre- and 
post-correction error rates are being met.\29\
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    \27\ The Plan requires that the Plan Processor must ensure that 
regulators have access to corrected and linked order and Customer 
data by 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time on T+5. See CAT NMS Plan, Appendix C, 
Section A.2(a).
    \28\ See SR-FINRA-2017-013.
    \29\ The categories are (1) rejection rates and data 
validations; (2) intra-firm linkages; (3) order linkage rates; and 
(4) Exchange and TRF/ORF match rates.
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    In addition to these minimum error rates before OATS can be retired 
FINRA believes that during the minimum 180-day period during which the 
thresholds are calculated, FINRA's use of the data in the CAT must 
confirm that (i) usage over that time period has not revealed material 
issues that have not been corrected, (ii) the CAT includes all data 
necessary to allow the Exchange to continue to meet its surveillance 
obligations, and (iii) the Plan Processor is sufficiently meeting all 
of its obligations under the CAT NMS Plan. The Exchange believes this 
time period to use the CAT Data is necessary to reveal any errors that 
may manifest themselves only after surveillance patterns and other 
queries have been run and to confirm that the Plan Processor is meeting 
its obligations and performing its functions adequately.\30\
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    \30\ See SR-FINRA-2017-013.
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Rule 8211
    In addition to the OATS rules, Rule 8211 will also be affected by 
the implementation of the CAT. Rule 8211 is the Exchange's rule 
regarding the automated submission of specific trading data to the 
Exchange upon request (commonly referred to as ``blue sheet'' data) 
using the EBS system.
    Once broker-dealer reporting to the CAT has begun, the CAT will 
contain much of the data the Participants would otherwise have 
requested via the EBS system for purposes of NMS Securities and OTC 
Equity Securities. Consequently, the Exchange will not need to use the 
EBS system or request information pursuant to Rule 8211 for NMS 
Securities or OTC Equity Securities for time periods after CAT 
reporting has begun if the appropriate accuracy and reliability 
thresholds are achieved, including an acceptable accuracy rate for 
customer and account information. However, Rule 8211 cannot be 
completely eliminated upon the CAT achieving the appropriate thresholds 
because Exchange staff may still need to request information pursuant 
to Rule 8211 for trading activity occurring before a member 
organization \31\ was reporting to the CAT.\32\ In addition, the Rule 
8211 applies to information regarding transactions involving securities 
that will not be reportable to the CAT, such as fixed-income 
securities; thus, the rule must remain in effect with respect to those 
transactions until those transactions are captured in the CAT.
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    \31\ The Rule 6800 Series, the Exchange's Consolidated Audit 
Trail Compliance rule, utilizes the term ``Industry Member,'' which 
applies to the Exchange's member organizations. The term ``member 
organization'' means a ``registered broker or dealer (unless exempt 
pursuant to the Act) that is a member of FINRA or another registered 
securities exchange. Member organizations that transact business 
with public customers or conduct business on the Floor of the 
Exchange shall at all times be members of FINRA. A registered broker 
or dealer must also be approved by the Exchange and authorized to 
designate an associated natural person to effect transactions on the 
floor of the Exchange or any facility thereof. This term shall 
include a natural person so registered, approved and licensed who 
directly effects transactions on the floor of the Exchange or any 
facility thereof.'' See Rule 2(b)(i). The term ``member 
organization'' also includes any registered broker or dealer that is 
a member of FINRA or a registered securities exchange, consistent 
with the requirements of section 2(b)(i) of this Rule, which does 
not own a trading license and agrees to be regulated by the Exchange 
as a member organization and which the Exchange has agreed to 
regulate. See Rule 2(b)(ii).
    \32\ Firms are required to maintain the trade information for 
pre-CAT transactions in equities and options pursuant to applicable 
rules, such as books and records retention requirements, for the 
relevant time period, which is generally three or six years 
depending upon the record. See 17 CFR 240.17a-3(a), 240.17a-4.
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    The proposed rule change proposes to add new Supplementary Material 
to the Rule 8211 to clarify how the Exchange will request data under 
these rules after member organizations are reporting to the CAT. 
Specifically, the proposed Supplementary Material to the Rule 8211 will 
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request information under Rule 8211 only if the information is not 
available in the CAT because, for example, the transactions in question 
occurred before the firm was reporting information to the CAT or 
involved securities that are not reportable to the CAT. In essence, 
under the new Supplementary Material, the Exchange will make requests 
under these rules if and only if the information is not otherwise 
available through the CAT.
    However, as noted above, FINRA believes that the CAT must meet 
certain minimum accuracy and reliability standards before FINRA could 
rely on the CAT Data to replace existing regulatory tools, including 
EBS. Consequently, the proposed Supplementary Material will be 
implemented only after FINRA publishes its notice after the CAT 
achieves the thresholds set forth above with respect to OATS and an 
accuracy rate for customer and account information of 95% for pre-
corrected data and 98% for post-correction data. In addition, as 
discussed above, FINRA can rely on CAT Data to replace EBS requests 
only after FINRA has determined that its usage of the CAT Data over a 
180-day period has not revealed material issues that have not been 
corrected, confirmed that the CAT includes all data necessary to allow 
FINRA to continue to meet its surveillance obligations, and confirmed 
that the CAT Plan Processor is fulfilling its obligations under the CAT 
NMS Plan.
    As noted, if the Commission approves the proposed rule change, the 
Exchange will announce the implementation date of the proposed rule 
change in a regulatory notice that will be published once FINRA 
publishes a notice announcing the date that it will retire its EBS 
rules, which FINRA will do once it concludes the thresholds for 
accuracy and reliability described above have been met and that the 
Plan Processor is sufficiently meeting all of its obligations under the 
CAT NMS Plan.
2. Statutory Basis
    The Exchange believes that the proposed rule change is consistent 
with Section 6(b) of the Act,\33\ in general, and furthers the 
objectives of Section 6(b)(5) of the Act,\34\ in particular, because it 
is designed to prevent fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices, 
promote just and equitable principles of trade, to foster cooperation 
and coordination with persons engaged in regulating, clearing, 
settling, processing information with respect to, and remove 
impediments to and perfect the mechanism of a free and open market and 
a national market system, and, in general, to protect investors and the 
public interest.
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    \33\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b).
    \34\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(5).
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    In particular, the Exchange believes that the proposed rule change 
implements, supports, interprets or clarifies the provisions of the 
Plan, and is designed to assist the Exchange and its Members in meeting 
regulatory obligations pursuant to, and milestones established by, the 
Plan. In approving the Plan, the SEC noted that it ``is necessary and 
appropriate in the public interest, for the protection of investors and 
the maintenance of fair and orderly markets, to remove impediments to, 
and perfect the mechanism of a national market system, or is otherwise 
in furtherance of the purposes of the Act.'' \35\ To the extent that 
this proposal implements, interprets or clarifies the Plan and applies 
specific requirements to Members, the Exchange believes that this 
proposal furthers the objectives of the Plan, as identified by the SEC, 
and is therefore consistent with the Act.
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    The Exchange also believes that adding a preamble to each current 
Rule impacted by the Plan would remove impediments to and perfect the 
mechanism of a free and open market and a national market system by 
adding clarity and transparency to the Exchange's rules, reducing 
potential confusion, and making the Exchange's rules easier to navigate 
and understand.

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

    The Exchange does not believe that the proposed rule change will 
impose any burden on competition that is not necessary or appropriate 
in furtherance of the purposes of the Act. The proposed change is not 
designed to address any competitive issue but rather implement 
provisions of the CAT NMS Plan, and is designed to assist the Exchange 
in meeting its regulatory obligations pursuant to the Plan.

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

    No written comments were solicited or received with respect to the 
proposed rule change.

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

    Within 45 days of the date of publication of this notice in the 
Federal Register or up to 90 days (i) as the Commission may designate 
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 or disapprove the proposed rule change, or
    (B) institute proceedings to determine whether the proposed rule 
change should be disapproved.

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 email to [email protected]. Please include 
File Number SR-NYSE-2017-23 on the subject line.

Paper Comments

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

All submissions should refer to File Number SR-NYSE-2017-23. This file 
number should be included on the subject line if email 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 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. Copies of such filing also will be available 
for inspection and copying at the principal office of the Exchange. All 
comments received will be posted without change; the Commission does 
not edit personal identifying information from submissions. You should 
submit only

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information that you wish to make available publicly. All submissions 
should refer to File Number SR-NYSE-2017-23, and should be submitted on 
or before June 23, 2017.

    For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets, 
pursuant to delegated authority.\36\
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    \36\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(12).
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Eduardo A. Aleman,
Assistant Secretary.
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