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Turkey Point subsequent license renewal application and initial supplements.
NRC’s Record of Decision pertaining to Subsequent Renewed Facility
Operating License Nos. DPR–31 and DPR–41, dated December 4,
2019.
Commission Memorandum and Order CLI–22–02, dated February 24,
2022.
Commission Memorandum and Order CLI–22–06, dated June 3, 2022
Letter to William D. Maher, Licensing Director, Nuclear Licensing
Projects, FPL—Turkey Point Units 3 and 4 Subsequent License Renewal Application Supplement Environmental Review, dated September 28, 2022.

Dated: October 4, 2022.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John M. Moses,
Deputy Director, Division of Rulemaking,
Environmental, and Financial Support, Office
of Nuclear Materials, Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2022–21919 Filed 10–6–22; 8:45 am]
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Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request; Extension: Rule
237
Upon Written Request, Copies Available
From: Securities and Exchange
Commission Office of FOIA Services
100 F Street NE
Notice is hereby given that, pursuant
to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the
‘‘Commission’’) has submitted to the
Office of Management and Budget a
request for extension and approval of
the collection of information discussed
below.
In Canada, as in the United States,
individuals can invest a portion of their
earnings in tax-deferred retirement
savings accounts (‘‘Canadian retirement
accounts’’). These accounts, which
operate in a manner similar to
individual retirement accounts in the
United States, encourage retirement
savings by permitting savings on a taxdeferred basis. Individuals who
establish Canadian retirement accounts
while living and working in Canada and
who later move to the United States
(‘‘Canadian-U.S. Participants’’ or
‘‘participants’’) often continue to hold
their retirement assets in their Canadian
retirement accounts rather than
prematurely withdrawing (or ‘‘cashing

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out’’) those assets, which would result
in immediate taxation in Canada.
Once in the United States, however,
these participants historically have been
unable to manage their Canadian
retirement account investments. Most
securities that are ‘‘qualified
investments’’ for Canadian retirement
accounts are not registered under the
U.S. securities laws. Those securities,
therefore, generally cannot be publicly
offered and sold in the United States
without violating the registration
requirement of the Securities Act of
1933 (‘‘Securities Act’’).1 As a result of
this registration requirement, CanadianU.S. Participants previously were not
able to purchase or exchange securities
for their Canadian retirement accounts
as needed to meet their changing
investment goals or income needs.
The Commission issued a rulemaking
in 2000 that enabled Canadian-U.S.
Participants to manage the assets in
their Canadian retirement accounts by
providing relief from the U.S.
registration requirements for offers of
securities of foreign issuers to CanadianU.S. Participants and sales to Canadian
retirement accounts.2 Rule 237 under
the Securities Act 3 permits securities of
foreign issuers, including securities of
foreign funds, to be offered to CanadianU.S. Participants and sold to their
Canadian retirement accounts without
1 15 U.S.C. 77. In addition, the offering and
selling of securities of investment companies
(‘‘funds’’) that are not registered pursuant to the
Investment Company Act of 1940 (‘‘Investment
Company Act’’) is generally prohibited by U.S.
securities laws. 15 U.S.C. 80a.
2 See Offer and Sale of Securities to Canadian
Tax-Deferred Retirement Savings Accounts, Release
Nos. 33–7860, 34–42905, IC–24491 (June 7, 2000)
[65 FR 37672 (June 15, 2000)]. This rulemaking also
included new rule 7d–2 under the Investment
Company Act, permitting foreign funds to offer
securities to Canadian-U.S. Participants and sell
securities to Canadian retirement accounts without
registering as investment companies under the
Investment Company Act. 17 CFR 270.7d–2.
3 17 CFR 230.237.

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being registered under the Securities
Act.
Rule 237 requires written offering
documents for securities offered and
sold in reliance on the rule to disclose
prominently that the securities are not
registered with the Commission and are
exempt from registration under the U.S.
securities laws. The burden under the
rule associated with adding this
disclosure to written offering documents
is minimal and is non-recurring. The
foreign issuer, underwriter, or brokerdealer can redraft an existing prospectus
or other written offering material to add
this disclosure statement, or may draft
a sticker or supplement containing this
disclosure to be added to existing
offering materials. In either case, based
on discussions with representatives of
the Canadian fund industry, the staff
estimates that it would take an average
of 10 minutes per document to draft the
requisite disclosure statement.
The Commission understands that
there are approximately 2,553 Canadian
issuers other than funds that may rely
on rule 237 to make an initial public
offering of their securities to CanadianU.S. Participants.4 The staff estimates
that in any given year approximately 25
(or 1 percent) of those issuers are likely
to rely on rule 237 to make a public
offering of their securities to
participants, and that each of those 25
issuers, on average, distributes 3
different written offering documents
concerning those securities, for a total of
75 offering documents.
The staff therefore estimates that
during each year that rule 237 is in
4 This estimate is based on the following
calculation: 3,461 total issuers—(82 closed-end
funds + 826 exchange-traded products) = 2,553 total
equity and bond issuers. See The MiG Report,
Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture
Exchange (January 2022) (providing number of
issuers on the Toronto Exchange). This calculation
excludes Canadian funds to avoid double-counting
disclosure burdens under rule 237 and rule 7d–2.

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effect, approximately 25 respondents 5
would be required to make 75 responses
by adding the new disclosure statements
to approximately 75 written offering
documents. Thus, the staff estimates
that the total annual burden associated
with the rule 237 disclosure
requirement would be approximately 13
hours (75 offering documents × 10
minutes per document). The total
annual cost of internal burden hours is
estimated to be $5,915 (13 hours × $455
per hour of attorney time).6
In addition, issuers from foreign
countries other than Canada could rely
on rule 237 to offer securities to
Canadian-U.S. Participants and sell
securities to their accounts without
becoming subject to the registration
requirements of the Securities Act.
However, the staff believes that the
number of issuers from other countries
that rely on rule 237, and that therefore
are required to comply with the offering
document disclosure requirements, is
negligible.
These burden hour estimates are
based upon the Commission staff’s
experience and discussions with the
fund industry. The estimates of average
burden hours are made solely for the
purposes of the Paperwork Reduction
Act. These estimates are not derived
from a comprehensive or even a
representative survey or study of the
costs of Commission rules.
Compliance with the collection of
information requirements of the rule is
mandatory and is necessary to comply
with the requirements of the rule in
general. 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
control number.
The public may view background
documentation for this information
collection at the following website:
www.reginfo.gov. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function. Written comments and
5 This estimate of respondents only includes
foreign issuers. The number of respondents would
be greater if foreign underwriters or broker-dealers
draft stickers or supplements to add the required
disclosure to existing offering documents.
6 The Commission’s estimate concerning the wage
rate for attorney time is based on salary information
for the securities industry compiled by the
Securities Industry and Financial Markets
Association (‘‘SIFMA’’). The $455 per hour figure
for an attorney is from SIFMA’s Management &
Professional Earnings in the Securities Industry
2013, modified by Commission staff to account for
an 1800-hour work-year and multiplied by 5.35 to
account for bonuses, firm size, employee benefits,
overhead, and adjusted to account for the effects of
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recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice by November 7, 2022 to (i)
MBX.OMB.OIRA.SEC_desk_officer@
omb.eop.gov and (ii) David Bottom,
Director/Chief Information Officer,
Securities and Exchange Commission, c/
o John Pezzullo, 100 F Street NE,
Washington, DC 20549, or by sending an
email to: PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov.
Dated: October 3, 2022.
J. Matthew DeLesDernier,
Deputy Secretary.
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Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request; Extension: Rule
17a–3
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
(‘‘PRA’’) (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 provided for in Rule 17a–3
(17 CFR 240.17a–3), under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15
U.S.C. 78a et seq.).
Rule 17a–3 under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 establishes
minimum standards with respect to
business records that broker-dealers
registered with the Commission must
make and keep current. These records
are maintained by the broker-dealer (in
accordance with a separate rule), so they
can be used by the broker-dealer and
reviewed by Commission examiners, as
well as other regulatory authority
examiners, during inspections of the
broker-dealer.
The collections of information
included in Rule 17a–3 are necessary to
enable Commission, self-regulatory
organization (‘‘SRO’’), and state
examiners to conduct effective and
efficient examinations to determine
whether broker-dealers are complying
with relevant laws, rules, and
regulations. If broker-dealers were not
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standardized records, Commission,
SRO, and state examiners could be
unable to determine whether brokerdealers are in compliance with the
Commission’s antifraud and antimanipulation rules, financial
responsibility program, and other
Commission, SRO, and State laws, rules,
and regulations.
As of December 31, 2021 there were
3,528 broker-dealers registered with the
Commission. The Commission estimates
that these broker-dealer respondents
incur a total hour burden of
approximately 8,342,195 hours per year
to comply with Rule 17a–3.
In addition, Rule 17a–3 contains
ongoing operation and maintenance
costs for broker-dealers, including the
cost of postage to provide customers
with account information, and costs for
equipment and systems development.
The Commission estimates that the total
cost burden associated with Rule 17a–
3 would be approximately $105,320,999
per year.
Rule 17a–3 does not contain record
retention requirements. Compliance
with the rule is mandatory. The
required records are available only to
the staffs of the Commission, selfregulatory organizations of which the
broker-dealer is a member, and the
states during examination, inspections
and investigations.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
under the PRA unless it displays a
currently valid OMB control number.
The public may view the background
documentation for this information
collection at the following website,
www.reginfo.gov. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function. Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent by
November 7, 2022 to (i)
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain
and (ii) David Bottom, Director/Chief
Information Officer, Securities and
Exchange Commission, c/o John
Pezzullo, 100 F Street NE, Washington,
DC 20549, or by sending an email to:
PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov.
Dated: October 3, 2022.
J. Matthew DeLesDernier,
Deputy Secretary.
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