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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Combined Notice of Filings

    Take notice that the Commission has received the following Natural
Gas Pipeline Rate and Refund Report filings:

Filings Instituting Proceedings

    Docket Numbers: RP14-334-000.
    Applicants: Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America.
    Description: Negotiated Rate--Tenaska LPS-RO 142972 to be effective
1/1/2014.
    Filed Date: 12/31/13.
    Accession Number: 20131231-5127.
    Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/13/14.

    Docket Numbers: RP14-335-000.
    Applicants: Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P.
    Description: Measurement Variance/Fuel Use Factors of Iroquois Gas
Transmission System, L.P.
    Filed Date: 12/31/13.
    Accession Number: 20131231-5133.
    Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/13/14.

    Docket Numbers: RP14-336-000.
    Applicants: Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company.
    Description: Negotiated Rates--Cherokee AGL--Replacement
Shiippers--Jan 2014 to be effective 1/1/2014.
    Filed Date: 12/31/13.
    Accession Number: 20131231-5136.
    Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/13/14.

    Docket Numbers: RP14-337-000.
    Applicants: Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC.
    Description: Penalty Revenue Crediting Report of Columbia Gas
Transmission, LLC.
    Filed Date: 12/31/13.
    Accession Number: 20131231-5140.
    Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/13/14.

    Docket Numbers: RP14-338-000.
    Applicants: Columbia Gulf Transmission Company, LLC.
    Description: Penalty Revenue Crediting Report of Columbia Gulf
Transmission, LLC.
    Filed Date: 12/31/13.
    Accession Number: 20131231-5141.
    Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/13/14.

    Docket Numbers: RP14-339-000.
    Applicants: Central Kentucky Transmission Company.
    Description: Penalty Revenue Crediting Report of Central Kentucky
Transmission Company.
    Filed Date: 12/31/13.
    Accession Number: 20131231-5142.
    Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/13/14.

    Docket Numbers: RP14-340-000.
    Applicants: Crossroads Pipeline Company.
    Description: Penalty Revenue Crediting Report of Crossroads
Pipeline Company.
    Filed Date: 12/31/13.
    Accession Number: 20131231-5143.
    Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/13/14.

    Docket Numbers: RP14-341-000.
    Applicants: Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC.
    Description: CCRM Implementation 2014 to be effective 2/1/2014.
    Filed Date: 12/31/13.
    Accession Number: 20131231-5150.
    Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/13/14.

    Docket Numbers: RP14-341-000.
    Applicants: Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC.
    Description: CCRM Implementation 2014 to be effective 2/1/2014.
    Filed Date: 12/31/13.
    Accession Number: 20131231-5151.
    Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/13/14.

    Docket Numbers: RP14-342-000.
    Applicants: Cheyenne Plains Gas Pipeline Company, L.
    Description: Firm Transportation Service Agreement Update to be
effective 1/1/2014.
    Filed Date: 12/31/13.
    Accession Number: 20131231-5236.
    Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/13/14.

    Docket Numbers: RP14-343-000.
    Applicants: Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, L.L.C.
    Description: Volume No. 2--Seneca Resources Corp--Amend Neg Rate
Agmt to be effective 1/1/2014.
    Filed Date: 12/31/13.
    Accession Number: 20131231-5247.
    Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/13/14.

    Docket Numbers: RP14-305-000.
    Applicants: Equitrans, L.P.
    Descriptions: Negotiated Rate Service Agreement--EQT Energy to be
effective 1/1/2014.
    Filed Date: 12/19/13.
    Accession Number: 20131219-5127.
    Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/6/14.

    Docket Numbers: RP14-322-000.
    Applicants: Joint Petition of Tallgrass Interstate Gas
Transmission, LLC, Anadarko Energy Services Company, and Wyoming
Interstate Company, L.L.C.
    Descriptions: Grant of Limited Waiver and Request for Expedited
Consideration.
    Filed Date: 12/23/2013.
    Accession Number: 20131223-5269.
    Comment Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/6/2014.

    Docket Numbers: RP14-324-000.
    Applicants: Natural Gas Pipeline of America LLC.
    Descriptions: Negotiated Rate Filing--Tallgrass Interstate Gas. To
be effective 12/30/2013.
    Filed Date: 12/27/2013.
    Accession Number: 20131227-5067.
    Comment Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/8/2014.

    Docket Numbers: RP14-325-000.
    Applicants: Texas Eastern Transmission, LP.
    Descriptions: Tariff filing per 154.403: EPC FEB 2014 filing to be
effective 2/1/2014.
    Filed Date: 12/27/2013.
    Accession Number: 20131223-5074.
    Comment Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/8/2014.

    Any person desiring to intervene or protest in any of the above
proceedings must file in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the
Commission's Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and 385.214) on or before 5
p.m. Eastern time on the specified comment date. Protests may be
considered, but intervention is necessary to become a party to the
proceeding.

Filings in Existing Proceedings

    Docket Numbers: RP13-1031-002.
    Applicants: Trailblazer Pipeline Company LLC.
    Description: Compliance and Motion to place tariff sections into
effect (Rate Case) to be effective 1/1/2014.
    Filed Date: 12/31/13.
    Accession Number: 20131231-5177.
    Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 1/13/14.

    Any person desiring to protest in any of the above proceedings must
file in accordance with Rule 211 of the Commission's Regulations (18
CFR 385.211) on or before 5 p.m. Eastern time on the specified comment
date.
    The filings are accessible in the Commission's eLibrary system by
clicking on the links or querying the docket number.
    eFiling is encouraged. More detailed information relating to filing
requirements, interventions, protests, service, and qualifying
facilities filings can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For other information, call<PHONE_NUMBER>
(toll free). For TTY, call<PHONE_NUMBER>.

    Dated: January 2, 2014.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
 Deputy Secretary.
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Upon written request, copies available from: Securities and Exchange
Commission, Office of Investor Education and Advocacy, Washington, DC
20549-0213.

Extension: Rule 12b-1, SEC File No. 270-188, OMB Control No. 3235-
0212.

    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 (the ``Commission'') is soliciting comments on the
collection of information summarized below. The Commission plans to
submit this existing collection of information to the Office of
Management and Budget for extension and approval.
    Rule 12b-1 (17 CFR 270.12b-1) permits a registered open-end
investment company (``mutual fund'') to distribute its own shares and
pay the expenses of distribution out of the mutual fund's assets
provided, among other things, that the mutual fund adopts a written
plan (``Rule 12b-1 plan'') and has in writing any agreements relating
to the implementation of the Rule 12b-1 plan. The rule in part requires
that (i) the adoption or material amendment of a Rule 12b-1 plan be
approved by the mutual fund's directors and shareholders; (ii) the
board review quarterly reports of amounts spent under the Rule 12b-1
plan; and (iii) the board consider continuation of the Rule 12b-1 plan
at least annually. Rule 12b-1 also requires funds relying on the rule
to preserve for six years, the first two years in an easily accessible
place, copies of the Rule 12b-1 plan, related agreements and reports,
as well as minutes of board meetings that describe the factors
considered and the basis for adopting or continuing a Rule 12b-1 plan.
    The board and shareholder approval requirements of Rule 12b-1 are
designed to ensure that fund shareholders and directors receive
adequate information to evaluate and approve a 12b-1 plan. The
requirement of quarterly reporting to the board is designed to ensure
that the 12b-1 plan continues to benefit the fund and its shareholders.
The recordkeeping requirements of the rule are necessary to enable
Commission staff to oversee compliance with the rule.
    Based on information filed with the Commission by funds, Commission
staff estimates that there are approximately 6,871 mutual fund
portfolios that have at least one share class subject to a rule 12b-1
plan.\1\ However, many of these portfolios are part of an affiliated
group of funds known as a ``mutual fund family'' that is overseen by a
common board of directors. Although the board must review and approve
the 12b-1 plan for each fund separately, we have allocated the costs
and hourly burden related to rule 12b-1 based on the number of fund
families that have at least one fund that charges 12b-1 fees, rather
than on the total number of mutual fund portfolios that individually
have a 12b-1 plan.\2\ Based on information filed with the Commission,
the staff estimates that there are approximately 371 fund families with
common boards of directors that have at least one fund with a 12b-1
plan.
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    \1\ This estimate is based on information from the Commission's
NSAR database.
    \2\ This allocation is based on conversations with fund
representatives on how fund boards comply with the requirements of
rule 12b-1. Despite this allocation of hourly burdens and costs, the
number of annual responses each year will continue to depend on the
number of fund portfolios with 12b-1 plans rather than the number of
fund families with 12b-1 plans. The staff estimates that the number
of annual responses per fund portfolio will be four per year
(quarterly, with the annual reviews taking place at one of the
quarterly intervals). Thus, we estimate that funds will make 27,484
responses (6871 fund portfolios x 4 responses per fund portfolio =
27,484 responses) each year.
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    Based on conversations with fund representatives, Commission staff
estimates that for each of the 371 mutual fund families with a
portfolio that has a rule 12b-1 plan, the average annual burden of
complying with the rule is 425 hours. This estimate takes into account
the time needed to prepare quarterly reports to the board of directors,
the board's consideration of those reports, and the board's annual
consideration of whether to continue the plan.\3\ We therefore estimate
that the

total hourly burden per year for all funds to comply with current
information collection requirements under rule 12b-1, is 157,675 hours
(371 fund families x 425 hours per fund family = 157,675 hours) over
the three year period for which we are requesting approval of the
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    \3\ We do not estimate any costs or time burden related to the
recordkeeping requirement, as funds are already required to maintain
these records pursuant to other rules, and would keep these records
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    If a currently operating fund seeks to (i) adopt a new Rule 12b-1
plan or (ii) materially increase the amount it spends for distribution
under its Rule 12b-1 plan, Rule 12b-1 requires that the fund obtain
shareholder approval. As a consequence, the fund will incur the cost of
a proxy. Based on conversations with fund industry representatives,
Commission staff estimates that approximately three funds per year
prepare a proxy in connection with the adoption or material amendment
of a Rule 12b-1 plan. The staff further estimates that the cost of each
fund's proxy is $30,000. Thus the total annual cost burden of Rule 12b-
1 to the fund industry is $90,000 (3 funds requiring a proxy x $30,000
per proxy).
    The collections of information required by Rule 12b-1 are necessary
to obtain the benefits of the rule. Notices to the Commission will not
be kept confidential. 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.
    Written comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of
the burden of the collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the information collected; and (d)
ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on
respondents, including through the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information technology. Consideration will
be given to comments and suggestions submitted in writing within 60
days of this publication.
    Please direct your written comments to Charles Boucher, Director/
CIO, Securities and Exchange Commission, C/O Shirley Martinson, 6432
General Green Way, Alexandria, VA 22312; or send an e-mail to: PRA_
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>
    Dated: August 19, 2009.
Florence E. Harmon,
Deputy Secretary.
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 34-78640; File No. SR-BatsBZX-2016-26]

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Bats BZX Exchange, Inc.; Notice of
Designation of a Longer Period for Commission Action on Proposed Rule
Change to BZX Rule 14.11(d) To Add the EURO STOXX 50[supreg] Volatility
Futures to the Definition of Futures Reference Asset

August 23, 2016.
    On June 23, 2016, Bats BZX Exchange, Inc. (``BZX'') filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (``Commission''), pursuant to
Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (``Act'') \1\
and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,\2\ a proposed rule change to amend BZX Rule
14.11(d) by adding the EURO STOXX 50[supreg] Volatility
(VSTOXX[supreg]) Futures to the definition of Futures Reference Asset.
The proposed rule change was published for comment in the Federal
Register on July 12, 2016.\3\ The Commission has received no comment
letters on the proposed rule change.
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    \1\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
    \2\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
    \3\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 78236 (Jul. 6,
2016), 81 FR 45185.
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    Section 19(b)(2) of the Act \4\ provides that, within 45 days of
the publication of notice of the filing of a proposed rule change, or
within such longer period up to 90 days as the Commission may designate
if it finds such longer period to be appropriate and publishes its
reasons for so finding or as to which the self-regulatory organization
consents, the Commission shall either approve the proposed rule change,
disapprove the proposed rule change, or institute proceedings to
determine whether the proposed rule change should be disapproved. The
Commission is extending this 45-day time period. The Commission finds
that it is appropriate to designate a longer period within which to
take action on the proposed rule change so that it has sufficient time
to consider the proposed rule change.
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    \4\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2).
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    Accordingly, the Commission, pursuant to Section 19(b)(2) of the
Act,\5\ designates October 10, 2016, as the date by which the
Commission shall either approve or disapprove or institute proceedings
to determine whether to disapprove the proposed rule change (File
Number SR-BatsBZX-2016-26).
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    \5\ Id.
    \6\ 17 CFR 200.30-3(a)(31).

    For the Commission, by the Division of Trading and Markets,
pursuant to delegated authority.\6\
Robert W. Errett,
Deputy Secretary.
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