Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 35 / Tuesday, February 22, 2022 / Notices 9659 

1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1). 

2 17 CFR 240.19b–4. 

Dated: February 15, 2022. 

J. Matthew DeLesDernier, 

Assistant Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–03645 Filed 2–18–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[SEC File No. 270–135, OMB Control No. 

3235–0175] 

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: 

Form N–8A 

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 (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. 

The Investment Company Act of 1940 

(‘‘Investment Company Act’’) (15 U.S.C. 

80a–1 et seq.) requires investment 

companies to register with the 

Commission before they conduct any 

business in interstate commerce. 

Section 8(a) of the Investment Company 

Act provides that an investment 

company shall be deemed to be 

registered upon receipt by the 

Commission of a notification of 

registration in such form as the 

Commission prescribes. Form N–8A (17 

CFR 274.10) is the form for notification 

of registration that the Commission has 

adopted under section 8(a). The purpose 

of such notification of registration 

provided on Form N–8A is to notify the 

Commission of the existence of 

investment companies required to be 

registered under the Investment 

Company Act and to enable the 

Commission to administer the 

provisions of the Investment Company 

Act with respect to those companies. 

After an investment company has filed 

its notification of registration under 

section 8(a), the company is then subject 

to the provisions of the Investment 

Company 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, 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 a 

registration statement as required by 

Section 8(b) of the Investment Company 

Act concurrently with its notification of 

registration, 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. 

Based on recent filings of notifications 

of registration on Form N–8A, we 

estimate that about 101 investment 

companies file such notifications each 

year. An investment company must only 

file a notification of registration on 

Form N–8A once. The currently 

approved average hour burden per 

investment company of preparing and 

filing a notification of registration on 

Form N–8A is one hour. Based on the 

Commission staff’s experience with the 

requirements of Form N–8A and with 

disclosure documents generally—and 

considering that investment companies 

that are filing notifications of 

registration on Form N–8A 

simultaneously with the registration 

statement under the Investment 

Company Act are only required by Form 

N–8A to file a signed cover page—we 

continue to believe that this estimate is 

appropriate. Therefore, we estimate that 

the total annual hour burden to prepare 

and file notifications of registration on 

Form N–8A is 101 hours. The currently 

approved cost burden of Form N–8A is 

$449. We are updating the estimated 

costs burden to $496 to account for the 

effects of inflation. Therefore, we 

estimate that the total annual cost 

burden associated with preparing and 

filing notifications of registration on 

Form N–8A is about $50,096. 

Estimates of average burden hours 

and costs are made solely for the 

purposes of the Paperwork Reduction 

Act, and are not derived from a 

comprehensive or even representative 

survey or study of the costs of 

Commission rules and forms. 

Compliance with the collection of 

information requirements of Form N–8A 

is 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 OMB control number. 

The public may view the background 

documentation for this information 

collection at the following website, 

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: 

Lindsay.M.Abate@omb.eop.gov; and (ii) 

David Bottom, Director/Chief 

Information Officer, Securities and 

Exchange Commission, c/o John R. 

Pezzullo, 100 F Street NE, Washington, 

DC 20549 or send an email to: PRA_

Mailbox@sec.gov. Written comments 

and recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

Dated: February 15, 2022. 

J. Matthew DeLesDernier, 

Assistant Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–03622 Filed 2–18–22; 8:45 am] 

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[Release No. 34–94258; File No. SR– 

PEARL–2022–03] 

Self-Regulatory Organizations; MIAX 

PEARL LLC; Notice of Filing of a 

Proposed Rule Change To Amend the 

MIAX PEARL Options Fee Schedule To 

Adopt a Tiered-Pricing Structure for 

Certain Connectivity Fees; Suspension 

of and Order Instituting Proceedings 

To Determine Whether To Approve or 

Disapprove the Proposed Rule Change 

February 15, 2022. 

Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the 

Securities Exchange Act of 1934 

(‘‘Act’’),1 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,2

notice is hereby given that on February 

1, 2022, MIAX PEARL, LLC (‘‘MIAX 

Pearl’’ or ‘‘Exchange’’) filed with the 

Securities and Exchange Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’) a proposed rule change 

as described in Items I and II below, 

which Items have been prepared by the 

Exchange. The Commission is 

publishing this notice to solicit 

comments on the proposed rule change 

from interested persons and is, pursuant 

to Section 19(b)(3)(C) of the Act, hereby: 

(i) Temporarily suspending the rule 

change; and (ii) instituting proceedings 

to determine whether to approve or 

disapprove the proposed rule change. 


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