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quarter (January through March) of 2007 

(i.e., the rate reported for December 15, 

2006) is 8.25 percent. 

The following table lists the 

withdrawal liability underpayment and 

overpayment interest rates for the 

specified time periods: 

From— Through— Interest rate 

(percent) 

7/1/00 ................ 3/31/01 9.50 

4/1/01 ................ 6/30/01 8.50 

7/1/01 ................ 9/30/01 7.00 

10/1/01 .............. 12/31/01 6.50 

1/1/02 ................ 12/31/02 4.75 

1/1/03 ................ 9/30/03 4.25 

10/1/03 .............. 9/30/04 4.00 

10/1/04 .............. 12/31/04 4.50 

1/1/05 ................ 3/31/05 5.25 

4/1/05 ................ 6/30/05 5.50 

7/1/05 ................ 9/30/05 6.00 

10/1/05 .............. 12/31/05 6.50 

1/1/06 ................ 3/31/06 7.25 

4/1/06 ................ 6/30/06 7.50 

7/1/06 ................ 9/30/06 8.00 

10/1/06 .............. 3/31/07 8.25 

Multiemployer Plan Valuations 

Following Mass Withdrawal 

The PBGC’s regulation on Duties of 

Plan Sponsor Following Mass 

Withdrawal (29 CFR part 4281) 

prescribes the use of interest 

assumptions under the PBGC’s 

regulation on Allocation of Assets in 

Single-Employer Plans (29 CFR part 

4044). The interest assumptions 

applicable to valuation dates in 

February 2007 under part 4044 are 

contained in an amendment to part 4044 

published elsewhere in today’s Federal 

Register. Tables showing the 

assumptions applicable to prior periods 

are codified in appendix B to 29 CFR 

part 4044. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on this 9th day 

of January 2007. 

Vincent K. Snowbarger, 

Interim Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation. 

[FR Doc. E7–337 Filed 1–11–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7709–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

Upon Written Request, Copies Available 

From: Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Filings and 

Information Services, Washington, DC 

20549. 

New Information Collection: 

Study of Marketing and Delivery of 

Financial Products to Individual 

Investors, OMB Control No. 3235-xxxx; 

SEC File No. 270–561. 

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 

(‘‘Commission’’) is soliciting comments 

on the collection of information 

summarized below. The Commission 

plans to submit this collection of 

information to the Office of 

Management and Budget for approval. 

The Commission has engaged an 

outside contractor to undertake a study 

that will involve collecting, 

categorizing, and analyzing empirical 

data regarding the marketing, sale and 

delivery of financial products, accounts, 

programs and services offered to 

individual investors by broker-dealers 

and investment advisers. The 

contractor’s findings will be 

summarized in a report for the 

Commission. 

Participation in the study will be 

voluntary. Information collected during 

the study will not be kept confidential, 

except that the identity of a study 

participant, and information that would 

identify a participant to anyone outside 

the study will not be disclosed without 

the participant’s consent, except as 

required by law. Participants in the 

study are expected to include brokerdealers, investment advisers, individual 

investors, investor advocates and 

industry groups. We estimate that there 

would be approximately 330 

participants in the study at an estimated 

1.5 hours for a total annual burden of 

approximately 500 hours. 

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 regarding the 

above information should be directed to 

the following persons: (i) Desk Officer 

for the Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, Room 10102, 

New Executive Office Building, 

Washington DC 20503 or send an e-mail 

to David_Rostker@omb.eop.gov; and (ii) 

R. Corey Booth, Director/Chief 

Information Officer, Securities and 

Exchange Commission, C/O Shirley 

Martinson 6432 General Green Way, 

Alexandria, VA 22312; or send an email to: PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov. 

Comments must be submitted to OMB 

within 30 days of this notice. 

January 3, 2007. 

Florence E. Harmon, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–300 Filed 1–11–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Upon Written Request, Copies Available 

From: U.S. Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Filing and 

Information Services, Washington, DC 

20549. 

Extension: 

Rule 35d–1; SEC File No. 270–491; OMB 

Control No. 3235–0548. 

Notice is hereby given that pursuant 

to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) (‘‘Act’’) 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 discussed below. 

Rule 35d–1 (17 CFR 270.35d–1) under 

the Investment Company Act of 1940 

(15 U.S.C. 80a–1 et seq.) generally 

requires that investment companies 

with certain names invest at least 80% 

of their assets according to what their 

names suggests. The rule provides that 

an affected investment company must 

either adopt this 80% requirement as a 

fundamental policy or adopt a policy to 

provide notice to shareholders at least 

60 days prior to any change in its 80% 

investment policy. This preparation and 

delivery of the notice to existing 

shareholders is a collection of 

information within the meaning of the 

Act. 

The Commission estimates that there 

are 7,200 open-end and closed-end 

management investment companies and 

series that have descriptive names that 

are governed by the rule. The 

Commission estimates that of these 

7,200 investment companies, 

approximately 24 provide prior notice 

to their shareholders of a change in their 

investment policies per year. The 

Commission estimates that the annual 

burden associated with the notice 

requirement of the rule is 20 hours per 

affected investment company or series. 

The total burden hours for Rule 35d–1 

is 480 per year in the aggregate (24 

responses x 20 hours per response). 

Estimates of average burden hours are 

made solely for the purposes of the Act, 

and are not derived from a 

comprehensive or even a representative 

survey or study of the costs of 

Commission rules and forms. 

The collection of information under 

Rule 35d–1 is mandatory. The 

information provided under Rule 35d–

1 is not kept confidential. An agency 

may not conduct or sponsor, and a 

person is not required to respond to a 


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