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comments—is appropriate for consideration of a 

particular proposal by a self-regulatory 

organization. See Securities Acts Amendments of 

1975, Senate Comm. on Banking, Housing & Urban 

Affairs, S. Rep. No. 75, 94th Cong., 1st Sess. 30 

(1975). 29 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(57). 

Interested persons are invited to 

submit written data, views, and 

arguments regarding whether the 

proposed rule change should be 

approved or disapproved by December 

22, 2023. Any person who wishes to file 

a rebuttal to any other person’s 

submission must file that rebuttal by 

January 5, 2024. 

Comments may be submitted by any 

of the following methods: 

Electronic Comments 

• Use the Commission’s internet 

comment form (https://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/sro.shtml); or 

• Send an email to rule-comments@

sec.gov. Please include file number SR– 

CboeBZX–2023–072 on the subject line. 

Paper Comments 

• Send paper comments in triplicate 

to Secretary, Securities and Exchange 

Commission, 100 F Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20549–1090. 

All submissions should refer to file 

number SR–CboeBZX–2023–072. This 

file number should be included on the 

subject line if email is used. To help the 

Commission process and review your 

comments more efficiently, please use 

only one method. The Commission will 

post all comments on the Commission’s 

internet website (https://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the 

submission, all subsequent 

amendments, all written statements 

with respect to the proposed rule 

change that are filed with the 

Commission, and all written 

communications relating to the 

proposed rule change between the 

Commission and any person, other than 

those that may be withheld from the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be 

available for website viewing and 

printing in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room, 100 F Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20549, on official 

business days between the hours of 10 

a.m. and 3 p.m. Copies of the filing also 

will be available for inspection and 

copying at the principal office of the 

Exchange. Do not include personal 

identifiable information in submissions; 

you should submit only information 

that you wish to make available 

publicly. We may redact in part or 

withhold entirely from publication 

submitted material that is obscene or 

subject to copyright protection. All 

submissions should refer to file number 

SR–CboeBZX–2023–072 and should be 

submitted on or before December 22, 

2023. Rebuttal comments should be 

submitted by January 5, 2024. 

For the Commission, by the Division of 

Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated 

authority.29

Sherry R. Haywood, 

Assistant Secretary. 

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[SEC File No. 270–813, OMB Control No. 

3235–0765] 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request; Extension: Rule 

498A 

Upon Written Request, Copies Available 

From: Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of FOIA Services, 

100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 

20549–2736 

Notice is hereby given that, pursuant 

to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(‘‘Paperwork Reduction Act’’) (44 U.S.C. 

3501–3520), the Securities and 

Exchange Commission (the 

‘‘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 498A under the Securities Act 

permits a person to satisfy its 

prospectus delivery obligations under 

section 5(b)(2) of the Securities Act for 

a contract by: (1) sending or giving to 

new investors key information 

contained in a variable contract 

statutory prospectus in the form of an 

initial summary prospectus; (2) sending 

or giving to existing investors each year 

a brief description of certain changes to 

the contract, and a subset of the 

information in the initial summary 

prospectus, in the form of an updating 

summary prospectus; and (3) providing 

the statutory prospectus and other 

materials online. Rule 498A considers a 

person to have met its prospectus 

delivery obligations for any portfolio 

companies associated with a variable 

contract if the portfolio company 

prospectuses are posted online. Under 

the rule, a registrant (or the financial 

intermediary distributing the variable 

contract) relying on the rule must send 

the variable contract statutory 

prospectus (that statutory prospectus 

must be filed as part of registration 

statement on Form N–3, N–4, or N–6, as 

applicable) and other materials to an 

investor in paper or electronic format 

upon request. 

Based on an analysis of fund filings, 

we estimate that 82% of variable 

contracts that filed annual updates to 

their registration statements use at least 

one summary prospectus under rule 

498A. In the aggregate, the Commission 

staff estimates the total annual hour 

burden to comply with rule 498A to be 

7,634 hours, at an internal time cost 

equivalent of $2,337,471, and a total 

annual external cost burden of 

$9,094,866. 

The estimate of average burden hours 

is made solely for the purposes of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act. The estimate 

is based on communications with 

industry representatives, and is not 

derived from a comprehensive or even 

a representative survey or study. 

Responses will not be kept 

confidential. 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. 

The public may view background 

documentation for this information 

collection at the following website: 

www.reginfo.gov. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice by January 2, 2024 to (i) 

MBX.OMB.OIRA.SEC_desk_officer@

omb.eop.gov and (ii) David Bottom, 

Director/Chief Information Officer, 

Securities and Exchange Commission, c/ 

o John Pezzullo, 100 F Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20549, or by sending an 

email to: PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov. 

Dated: November 27, 2023. 

Christina Z. Milnor, 

Assistant Secretary. 

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