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requirements is mandatory for all funds. 

Responses to the disclosure 

requirements 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 the background 

documentation for this information 

collection at the following Web site, 

www.reginfo.gov. Comments should be 

directed to: (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 by sending an email to: Shagufta_

Ahmed@omb.eop.gov; and (ii) Pamela 

Dyson, Acting Director/Chief 

Information Officer, Securities and 

Exchange Commission, c/o Remi PavlikSimon, 100 F Street NE., Washington, 

DC 20549 or send an email to: PRA_

Mailbox@sec.gov. Comments must be 

submitted to OMB within 30 days of 

this notice. 

Dated: January 27, 2015. 

Brent J. Fields, 

Secretary. 

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Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Upon Written Request, Copies Available 

from: Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of FOIA Services, 

100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 

20549–2736. 

Extension: 

Rule 12f–1. SEC File No. 270–139, OMB 

Control No. 3235–0128. 

Notice is hereby given that, pursuant 

to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(‘‘PRA’’) (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the 

Securities and Exchange Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’) has submitted to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(‘‘OMB’’) a request for approval of 

extension of the previously approved 

collection of information provided for in 

Rule 12f–1 (17 CFR 240.12f–1) under 

the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 

U.S.C. 78a et seq.). 

Rule 12f–1 (the ‘‘Rule’’), originally 

adopted in 1934 pursuant to Sections 

12(f) and 23(a) of the Securities 

Exchange Act of 1934, as modified in 

1995 and 2005, sets forth the 

information which an exchange must 

include in an application to reinstate its 

ability to extend unlisted trading 

privileges to any security for which 

such unlisted trading privileges have 

been suspended by the Commission, 

pursuant to Section 12(f)(2)(A) of the 

Act. An application must provide the 

name of the issuer, the title of the 

security, the name of each national 

securities exchange, if any, on which 

the security is listed or admitted to 

unlisted trading privileges, whether 

transaction information concerning the 

security is reported pursuant to an 

effective transaction reporting plan 

contemplated by Rule 601 of Regulation 

NMS, the date of the Commission’s 

suspension of unlisted trading 

privileges in the security on the 

exchange, and any other pertinent 

information. Rule 12f–1 further requires 

a national securities exchange seeking to 

reinstate its ability to extend unlisted 

trading privileges to a security to 

indicate that it has provided a copy of 

such application to the issuer of the 

security, as well as to any other national 

securities exchange on which the 

security is listed or admitted to unlisted 

trading privileges. 

The information required by Rule 

12f–1 enables the Commission to make 

the necessary findings under the Act 

prior to granting applications to 

reinstate unlisted trading privileges. 

This information is also made available 

to members of the public who may wish 

to comment upon the applications. 

Without the Rule, the Commission 

would be unable to fulfill these 

statutory responsibilities. 

There are currently 18 national 

securities exchanges subject to Rule 

12f–1. The burden of complying with 

Rule 12f–1 arises when a potential 

respondent seeks to reinstate its ability 

to extend unlisted trading privileges to 

any security for which unlisted trading 

privileges have been suspended by the 

Commission, pursuant to Section 

12(f)(2)(A) of the Act. The staff estimates 

that each application would require 

approximately one hour to complete. 

Thus each potential respondent would 

incur on average one burden hour in 

complying with the Rule. 

The Commission staff estimates that 

there could be as many as 18 responses 

annually and that each respondent’s 

related cost of compliance with Rule 

12f–1 would be $199.00, or, the cost of 

one hour of professional work of a 

paralegal needed to complete the 

application. The total annual related 

reporting cost for all potential 

respondents, therefore, is $3,582 (18 

responses × $199.00 per response). 

Compliance with Rule 12f–1 is 

mandatory. Rule 12f–1 does not have a 

record retention requirement per se. 

However, responses made pursuant to 

Rule 12f–1 are subject to the 

recordkeeping requirements of Rules 

17a–3 and 17a–4 of the Act. Information 

received in response to Rule 12f–1 shall 

not be kept confidential; the information 

collected is public information. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

under the PRA unless it displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

The public may view background 

documentation for this information 

collection at the following Web site: 

www.reginfo.gov. Comments should be 

directed to: (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 by sending an email to: Shagufta_

Ahmed@omb.eop.gov; and (ii) Pamela 

Dyson, Acting Director/Chief 

Information Officer, Securities and 

Exchange Commission, c/o Remi PavlikSimon, 100 F Street NE., Washington, 

DC 20549 or send an email to: PRA_

Mailbox@sec.gov. Comments must be 

submitted to OMB within 30 days of 

this notice. 

Dated: January 27, 2015. 

Brent J. Fields, 

Secretary. 

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[Release Nos. 33–9713; 34–74158, File No. 

265–27] 

Advisory Committee on Small and 

Emerging Companies 

AGENCY: Securities and Exchange 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Securities and Exchange 

Commission Advisory Committee on 

Small and Emerging Companies is 

providing notice that it will hold an 

open, public telephone meeting on 

Tuesday, February 17, 2015, beginning 

at 2:00 p.m. EST. Members of the public 

may attend the meeting by listening to 

the webcast accessible on the 

Commission’s Web site at www.sec.gov. 

Persons needing special 

accommodations to access the meeting 

because of a disability should notify the 

contact person listed below. The agenda 

for the meeting includes consideration 

of recommendations to the Commission 

regarding the definition of ‘‘accredited 

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