[Federal Register: August 27, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 166)]
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

 
Sunshine Act Meetings

Federal Register Citation of Previous Announcement: [67 FR 54506, 
August 22, 2002].

Status: Open meetings/closed meetings.

Place: 450 Fifth Street, NW., Washington, DC.

Date and Time of Previously Announced Meeting: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 
at 10 a.m., Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 10 a.m., and Thursday, August 
29, 2002, at 10 a.m.

Change in the Meeting: Additional meeting/time change/delete items.
    An additional Open Meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 28, 
2002, at 10 a.m., in Room 1C30, the William O. Douglas Room. The Closed 
Meeting previously announced to be held on Wednesday, August 28, 2002 
at 10 a.m., has been rescheduled to immediately follow the open meeting 
on Wednesday, August 28, 2002.
    The following additional item will be considered at an Open Meeting 
scheduled for Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 10 a.m.:
    The Commission will consider whether to adopt rules that would 
require a registered investment company's principal executive and 
financial officers to certify Form N-SAR, implementing Section 302 of 
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. In addition, the Commission will 
consider whether to propose amendments to its rules and forms that 
would (1) Designate the shareholder reports of management investment 
companies as reports filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 
and (2) require each registered management investment company's 
principal executive officer and principal financial officer to certify 
the information contained in its shareholder reports in the manner 
required by Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
    The following item previously scheduled for the open meeting on 
Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 10 a.m., is now scheduled for the open 
meeting on Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 10 a.m.:
    The Commission will consider whether the National Association of 
Securities Dealers, Inc. (``NASD'') and the Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. 
(``Nasdaq'') have satisfied the conditions that must be implemented 
prior to or at the same time as Nasdaq's implementation of a new order 
display and collection facility (``SuperMontage''). The conditions, 
which were imposed by the Commission in a prior order granting 
conditional approval of the SuperMontage, include an alternative 
display facility established by the NASD for the display of market 
maker and ECN quotes.
    The following items will not be considered at the closed meeting 
scheduled for Wednesday, August 28, 2002, immediately following the 10 
a.m. open meeting:
    Formal orders of investigation;
    Litigation matter;
    Institution and settlement of injunctive actions;
    Institution and settlement of administrative proceedings of an 
enforcement nature; and
    The following items have been added to the closed meeting scheduled 
for Thursday, August 29, 2002:
    Formal orders of investigation;
    Litigation matter;
    Regulatory matter bearing enforcement implications;
    Institution and settlement of injunctive actions;
    Institution and settlement of administrative proceedings of an 
enforcement nature; and
    Commissioner Goldschmid, as duty officer, determined that 
Commission business required the above changes and that no earlier 
notice thereof was possible.
    For further information please contact the Office of the Secretary 
at (202) 942-7070.

    Dated: August 22, 2002.
Margaret H. McFarland,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-21961 Filed 8-23-02; 1:33 pm]
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