27598 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 94 / Wednesday, May 16, 2007 / Notices 

the Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Management and 

Budget, Room 10102, New Executive 

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503 

or 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 e-mail to: 

PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov. Comments must 

be submitted to OMB within 30 days of 

this notice. 

Dated: May 11, 2007. 

Florence E. Hartmon, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–9363 Filed 5–15–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8010–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Upon Written Request, Copy Available 

From: Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Filings and 

Information Services, Washington, 

DC 20549. 

Extension: 

Form N–5; SEC File No. 270–172; OMB 

Control No. 3235–0169. 

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’’) has submitted to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(‘‘OMB’’) requests for extension of the 

previously approved collection of 

information discussed below. 

Form N–5 (17 CFR 239.24 and 

274.5)—Registration Statement of Small 

Business Investment Companies Under 

the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77a 

et seq.) and the Investment Company 

Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a–1 et seq.) 

Form N–5 is the integrated registration 

statement form adopted by the 

Commission for use by a small business 

investment company which has been 

licensed as such under the Small 

Business Investment Act of 1958 and 

has been notified by the Small Business 

Administration that the company may 

submit a license application, to register 

its securities under the Securities Act of 

1933 (‘‘Securities Act’’), and to register 

as an investment company under 

section 8 of the Investment Company 

Act of 1940 (‘‘Investment Company 

Act’’). The purpose of registration under 

the Securities Act is to ensure that 

investors are provided with material 

information concerning securities 

offered for public sale that will permit 

investors to make informed decisions 

regarding such securities. The 

Commission staff reviews the 

registration statements for the adequacy 

and accuracy of the disclosure 

contained therein. Without Form N–5, 

the Commission would be unable to 

carry out the requirements to the 

Securities Act and Investment Company 

Act for registration of small business 

investment companies. The respondents 

to the collection of information are 

small business investment companies 

seeking to register under the Investment 

Company Act and to register their 

securities for sale to the public under 

the Securities Act. The estimated 

number of respondents is one and the 

proposed frequency of response is 

annually. The estimate of the total 

annual reporting burden of the 

collection of information is 

approximately 352 hours per 

respondent, for a total of 352 hours. 

Providing the information on Form N–

5 is mandatory. Responses will not be 

kept confidential. Estimates of the 

burden hours are made solely for the 

purposes of the Paperwork Reduction 

Act, and are not derived from a 

comprehensive or even a representative 

survey or study of the costs of SEC rules 

and forms. 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 OMB control number. 

Please direct general comments 

regarding the above information to the 

following persons: (i) Desk Officer for 

the Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Management and 

Budget, Room 10102, New Executive 

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503 

or 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 e-mail to: 

PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov. Comments must 

be submitted to OMB within 30 days of 

this notice. 

Dated: May 11, 2007. 

Florence E. Harmon, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–9367 Filed 5–15–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8010–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Upon Written Request, Copy Available 

From: Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Filings and 

Information Services, Washington, DC 

20549. 

Extension: 

Form N–8A; File No. 270–135; OMB 

Control No. 3235–0175. 

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’’) has submitted to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

requests for extension of the previously 

approved collection of information 

discussed below. 

Form N–8A (17 CFR 274.10)—

Notification of Registration of 

Investment Companies Form N–8A is 

the form that investment companies file 

to notify the Commission of the 

existence of active investment 

companies. After an investment 

company has filed its notification of 

registration under section 8(a) of the 

Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 

U.S.C. 80a–1 et seq.) (‘‘1940 Act’’), the 

company is then subject to the 

provisions of the 1940 Act which govern 

certain aspects of its organization and 

activities, such as the composition of its 

board of directors and the issuance of 

senior securities. Form N–8A requires 

an investment company to provide its 

name, state of organization, form of 

organization, classification, if it is a 

management company, the name and 

address of each investment adviser of 

the investment company, the current 

value of its total assets and certain other 

information readily available to the 

investment company. If the investment 

company is filing simultaneously its 

notification of registration and 

registration statement, Form N–8A 

requires only that the registrant file the 

cover page (giving its name, address and 

agent for service of process) and sign the 

form in order to effect registration. 

The Commission uses the information 

provided in the notification on Form N–

8A to determine the existence of active 

investment companies and to enable the 

Commission to administer the 

provisions of the 1940 Act with respect 

to those companies. Each year 

approximately 156 investment 

companies file a notification on Form 

N–8A, which is required to be filed only 

once by an investment company. The 

Commission estimates that preparing 

Form N–8A requires an investment 


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