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The Office of the Whistleblower is considering recommending that the Commission adopt additional amendments to the rules governing the Whistleblower Program established by section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Act.  The Commission proposed to amend Rule 21F-3(b)(3) to revise the scope of potential related actions (i.e., the non-Commission actions) that could be covered by the SEC’s whistleblower program in situations where another award program might also apply to that same action.  The Commission also proposed a new paragraph (d) to Rule 21F-6, which would affirm the Commission’s statutory authority to consider the dollar amount of a potential award when determining the award amount, but clarifies that the Commission may exercise its discretion to use that authority for the limited purpose of increasing the award amount and may not use it for the purpose of decreasing an award (either when applying the award factors under Rule 21F-6(b) or otherwise). Finally, the Commission proposed certain conforming and technical amendments.