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###### Securities and Exchange Commission

          - [SEC File No. 270-267, OMB Control No. 3235-0272]

*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                           ( print page 3960)                        (44 U.S.C. 3501*et seq.*), the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a request for extension of the previously approved collection of information discussed below.                

                    Rule 11a-2 (17 CFR 270.11a-2) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a-1*et seq.*) permits certain registered insurance company separate accounts, subject to certain conditions, to make exchange offers without prior approval by the Commission of the terms of those offers. Rule 11a-2 requires disclosure, in certain registration statements filed pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77a*et seq.*) of any administrative fee or sales load imposed in connection with an exchange offer.                

The Commission staff estimates that 657 registrants are governed by Rule 11a-2. Based on this estimate, the total annual burden hours associated with the rule is estimated to be 657 hours. The estimated burden hours associated with rule 11a-2 has decreased by 19 hours from the current allocation of 676 hours. The decrease is due to a decrease in the number of registrants. The estimated external cost associated with this collection of information continues to be $0. The Commission includes the estimated burden of complying with the information collection required by Rule 11a-2 in the total number of burden hours estimated for completing the relevant registration statements and reports the burden of Rule 11a-2 in the separate Paperwork Reduction Act (“PRA”) submissions for those registration statements (see the separate PRA submissions for Form N-3 (17 CFR 274.11b), Form N-4 (17 CFR 274.11c) and Form N-6 (17 CFR 274.11d). The Commission is requesting a burden of one hour for Rule 11a-2 for administrative purposes.

The estimate of average burden hours is made solely for the purposes of the PRA and is not derived from a comprehensive or even a representative survey or study of the costs of Commission rules or forms. The information collection requirements imposed by Rule 11a-2 are mandatory. Responses to the collection of information 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 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 February 21, 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: January 17, 2024.

Sherry R. Haywood,

Assistant Secretary.

[FR Doc. 2024-01102 Filed 1-19-24; 8:45 am]

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