comment-deadline
Every record this desk has filed under comment-deadline, newest first, each with the number of sources it can still show you.
The SEC exempted venues trading tokenized stock from being 'exchanges' at all — temporarily, conditionally, for five years — and asked the public what it thinks afterwards.
On September 17 the Securities and Exchange Commission issued an order granting 'temporary, conditional exemptive relief' to Tokenized Securities Venues from the definition of 'exchange' in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, so they can trade tokenized National Market System stock through permissioned automated market makers and liquidity pools. The conditions are real: symbol and volume limits, a requirement that a tokenized share carry the same rights as the ordinary share, written notice and an opportunity to object for the issuer when a third party does the tokenizing, smart contracts that must be 'auditable, public, and deployed on a public, permissionless distributed ledger', and a halt whenever the underlying stock halts on its primary listing exchange. Liquidity providers get a matching temporary exemption from the definition of 'dealer'. The exemptions expire five years after publication, and the order solicits comment on all of it — the second SEC action in two days whose instrument is a removal rather than a rule.
Also filed undersectokenized-securitiesmarket-structureexemptive-relief
Beretta wanted up to 25% of Ruger and two seats on its board. The FTC says two seats between competitors is an illegal interlocking directorate, and took the seats away — with 30 days for the public to object.
On September 16 the Federal Trade Commission accepted a proposed consent order resolving antitrust concerns over a stock purchase agreement between Beretta Holding S.A. and Sturm, Ruger & Co. Under the deal Beretta would raise its stake to as much as 25 percent of Ruger's outstanding shares and appoint two members of Ruger's board — which the FTC alleges would create an illegal interlocking directorate under Section 8 of the Clayton Act. The order bars Beretta from causing anyone who is not independent of Beretta to join Ruger's board, requires 15 days' advance written notice before any such appointment, and bars Beretta from hiring or entering financial relationships with an independent director it nominated until a year after that director leaves. The Commission voted 2-0; the public has 30 days to comment.
Also filed underftcantitrustclayton-actinterlocking-directorates
There are 191 federal comment windows open right now. Thirty-seven of them close within a week, and none of them will be on the news.
This desk keeps a standing sweep of dated federal commitments. Tonight it reads 191 open comment periods and 232 final rules that are published but not yet in force. Half of the open windows close inside 18 days; 37 close inside a week; 13 close in three days. Almost none of them were announced anywhere you were looking, because a comment window is not an event — it is a line in a notice, printed once, on the day the notice appears. This is an argument about what that line is actually for: not a vote you lose, but the only mechanism that forces an agency to answer you in writing, on the record, in a document a court can read afterwards. And a short, concrete, first-hand comment does more of that work than a long angry one.
Also filed undermethodfederal-registerrulemakingcivic
EPA finished repealing most of the 2024 power plant carbon rules and, the same day and in the same docket, proposed erasing the rest. One of those is closed to you. The other closes November 2.
The Federal Register issue dated September 17 carries two EPA documents with one docket number between them. The first is a final rule: it repeals most of the 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards for power plants, takes effect November 16, and the agency says it is not reopening it. The second is a supplemental proposal arguing that the Clean Air Act does not authorize EPA to regulate power plant emissions for climate reasons at all — which would rescind the 2015 findings and repeal every remaining greenhouse gas standard for the source category. Comments on the second close November 2; a virtual hearing is October 1; the last day to register to speak is September 29, and each speaker gets four minutes. EPA puts the compliance cost savings of the finished repeal at $160 billion present value at a 3% discount rate and $95 billion at 7%, and states in the same table that it has not monetized the health and welfare impacts of the emission changes.
Also filed underepaclean-air-actrulemakingfederal-registerpower-plants
The SEC proposed deleting Rule 14a-8 — the rule that makes a company print a shareholder's question on its own ballot. The comment clock does not start until the release is printed in the Federal Register, which has not happened yet.
On September 16 the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed to rescind Rule 14a-8, the shareholder proposal rule, saying it 'exceeds the scope of the Commission's statutory authority and intrudes into matters of state law.' Rescinding it would, in the Commission's own words, 'leave determinations about the role of shareholder proposals to state law and company governing documents.' A second proposal would let companies vote proxies on proposals raised outside the rule, and a third would end the requirement that companies deliver an annual report to shareholders and cut the broker search period from 20 business days to five. The comment period is 60 days from Federal Register publication — and as of this filing the proposing release has not been published there, so the deadline every affected shareholder needs is a date that does not exist yet.
Also filed undersecshareholder-proposalsrule-14a-8proxycorporate-governance
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