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POSTAL SERVICE 

Product Change—Priority Mail 

Express, Priority Mail, and USPS 

Ground Advantage® Negotiated 

Service Agreement 

AGENCY: Postal ServiceTM. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Postal Service gives 

notice of filing a request with the Postal 

Regulatory Commission to add a 

domestic shipping services contract to 

the list of Negotiated Service 

Agreements in the Mail Classification 

Schedule’s Competitive Products List. 

DATES: Date of required notice: January 

15, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sean C. Robinson, 202–268–8405. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

United States Postal Service® hereby 

gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 

3642 and 3632(b)(3), on January 6, 2025, 

it filed with the Postal Regulatory 

Commission a USPS Request to Add 

Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail & 

USPS Ground Advantage® Contract 

1242 to Competitive Product List. 

Documents are available at 

www.prc.gov, Docket Nos. MC2025– 

1057, K2025–1056. 

Sean C. Robinson, 

Attorney, Corporate and Postal Business Law. 

[FR Doc. 2025–00801 Filed 1–14–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7710–12–P 

POSTAL SERVICE 

Product Change—Priority Mail and 

USPS Ground Advantage® Negotiated 

Service Agreement 

AGENCY: Postal ServiceTM. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Postal Service gives 

notice of filing a request with the Postal 

Regulatory Commission to add a 

domestic shipping services contract to 

the list of Negotiated Service 

Agreements in the Mail Classification 

Schedule’s Competitive Products List. 

DATES: Date of required notice: January 

15, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sean Robinson, 202–268–8405. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

United States Postal Service® hereby 

gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 

3642 and 3632(b)(3), on January 6, 2025, 

it filed with the Postal Regulatory 

Commission a USPS Request to Add 

Priority Mail & USPS Ground 

Advantage® Contract 583 to 

Competitive Product List. Documents 

are available at www.prc.gov, Docket 

Nos. MC2025–1043, K2025–1042. 

Sean Robinson, 

Attorney, Corporate and Postal Business Law. 

[FR Doc. 2025–00803 Filed 1–14–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7710–12–P 

POSTAL SERVICE 

Product Change—Priority Mail 

Express, Priority Mail, and USPS 

Ground Advantage® Negotiated 

Service Agreement 

AGENCY: Postal ServiceTM. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Postal Service gives 

notice of filing a request with the Postal 

Regulatory Commission to add a 

domestic shipping services contract to 

the list of Negotiated Service 

Agreements in the Mail Classification 

Schedule’s Competitive Products List. 

DATES: Date of required notice: January 

15, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sean C. Robinson, 202–268–8405. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

United States Postal Service® hereby 

gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 

3642 and 3632(b)(3), on January 6, 2025, 

it filed with the Postal Regulatory 

Commission a USPS Request to Add 

Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail & 

USPS Ground Advantage® Contract 

1243 to Competitive Product List. 

Documents are available at 

www.prc.gov, Docket Nos. MC2025– 

1058, K2025–1057. 

Sean C. Robinson, 

Attorney, Corporate and Postal Business Law. 

[FR Doc. 2025–00802 Filed 1–14–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7710–12–P 

POSTAL SERVICE 

Product Change—Priority Mail 

Express, Priority Mail, and USPS 

Ground Advantage® Negotiated 

Service Agreement 

AGENCY: Postal ServiceTM. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Postal Service gives 

notice of filing a request with the Postal 

Regulatory Commission to add a 

domestic shipping services contract to 

the list of Negotiated Service 

Agreements in the Mail Classification 

Schedule’s Competitive Products List. 

DATES: Date of required notice: January 

15, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sean C. Robinson, 202–268–8405. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

United States Postal Service® hereby 

gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 

3642 and 3632(b)(3), on January 6, 2025, 

it filed with the Postal Regulatory 

Commission a USPS Request to Add 

Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail & 

USPS Ground Advantage® Contract 

1236 to Competitive Product List. 

Documents are available at 

www.prc.gov, Docket Nos. MC2025– 

1053, K2025–1052. 

Sean C. Robinson, 

Attorney, Corporate and Postal Business Law. 

[FR Doc. 2025–00795 Filed 1–14–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7710–12–P 

POSTAL SERVICE 

Product Change—Priority Mail 

Express, Priority Mail, and USPS 

Ground Advantage® Negotiated 

Service Agreement 

AGENCY: Postal ServiceTM. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Postal Service gives 

notice of filing a request with the Postal 

Regulatory Commission to add a 

domestic shipping services contract to 

the list of Negotiated Service 

Agreements in the Mail Classification 

Schedule’s Competitive Products List. 

DATES: Date of required notice: January 

15, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sean C. Robinson, 202–268–8405. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

United States Postal Service® hereby 

gives notice that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 

3642 and 3632(b)(3), on January 6, 2025, 

it filed with the Postal Regulatory 

Commission a USPS Request to Add 

Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail & 

USPS Ground Advantage® Contract 

1230 to Competitive Product List. 

Documents are available at 

www.prc.gov, Docket Nos. MC2025– 

1047, K2025–1046. 

Sean C. Robinson, 

Attorney, Corporate and Postal Business Law. 

[FR Doc. 2025–00789 Filed 1–14–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7710–12–P 

RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD 

Agency Forms Submitted for OMB 

Review, Request for Comments 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35), the Railroad Retirement 

Board (RRB) is forwarding an 

Information Collection Request (ICR) to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 


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Affairs (OIRA), Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB). Our ICR describes 

the information we seek to collect from 

the public. Review and approval by 

OIRA ensures that we impose 

appropriate paperwork burdens. 

The RRB invites comments on the 

proposed collections of information to 

determine (1) the practical utility of the 

collections; (2) the accuracy of the 

estimated burden of the collections; (3) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information that is the 

subject of collection; and (4) ways to 

minimize the burden of collections on 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Comments to the RRB or OIRA must 

contain the OMB control number of the 

ICR. For proper consideration of your 

comments, it is best if the RRB and 

OIRA receive them within 30 days of 

the publication date. 

1. Title and purpose of information 

collection: Application for Employee 

Annuity Under the Railroad Retirement 

Ac; OMB 3220–0002. 

Section 2(a) of the Railroad 

Retirement Act (RRA) (45 U.S.C. 231a) 

provides for payments of age and 

service, disability, and supplemental 

annuities to qualified employees. An 

annuity cannot be paid until the 

employee stops working for a railroad 

employer. In addition, the age and 

service employee must relinquish any 

rights held to such jobs. A disabled 

employee does not need to relinquish 

employee rights until attaining Full 

Retirement Age, or if earlier, when their 

spouse is awarded a spouse annuity. 

Benefits become payable after the 

employee meets certain other 

requirements, which depend on the type 

of annuity payable. The requirements 

for obtaining the annuities are 

prescribed in 20 CFR 216 and 220. 

To collect the information needed to 

help determine an applicant’s 

entitlement to, and the amount of, an 

employee retirement annuity the RRB 

uses Forms AA–1, Application for 

Employee Annuity; AA–1d, Application 

for Determination of Employee 

Disability; G–204, Verification of 

Workers Compensation/Public Disability 

Benefit Information, and electronic 

Forms AA–1cert, Application Summary 

and Certification, and AA–1sum, 

Application Summary. 

The AA–1 application process obtains 

information from an applicant about 

their marital history, work history, 

military service, benefits from other 

governmental agencies, railroad 

pensions and Medicare entitlement for 

either an age and service or disability 

annuity. An RRB representative 

interviews the applicant either at a field 

office, an itinerant point, or by 

telephone. During the interview, the 

RRB representative enters the 

information obtained into an on-line 

information system. Upon completion of 

the interview, the on-line information 

system generates Form AA–1cert, 

Application Summary and Certification, 

or Form AA–1sum, Application 

Summary, a summary of the information 

that was provided for the applicant to 

review and approve. Form AA–1cert 

documents approval using the 

traditional pen and ink ‘‘wet’’ signature, 

and Form AA–1sum documents 

approval using the alternative signature 

method called Attestation. When the 

RRB representative is unable to contact 

the applicant in person or by telephone, 

for example, the applicant lives in 

another country, a manual version of 

Form AA–1 is used. 

Form AA–1d, Application for 

Determination of Employee’s Disability, 

is completed by an employee who is 

filing for a disability annuity under the 

RRA, or a disability freeze under the 

Social Security Act, for early Medicare 

based on a disability. Form G–204, 

Verification of Worker’s Compensation/ 

Public Disability Benefit Information, is 

used to obtain and verify information 

concerning a worker’s compensation or 

a public disability benefit that is or will 

be paid by a public agency to a disabled 

railroad employee. 

One response is requested of each 

respondent. Completion of the forms is 

required to obtain/retain a benefit. 

Previous Requests for Comments: The 

RRB has already published the initial 

60-day notice (89 FR 88826 on 

November 8, 2024) required by 44 

U.S.C. 3506(c)(2). That request elicited 

no comments. 

Information Collection Request (ICR) 

Title: Application for Employee 

Annuity Under the Railroad Retirement 

Act. 

OMB Control No.: 3220–0002. 

Form(s) submitted: AA–1, AA–1cert, 

AA–1d, AA–1sum and G–204. 

Type of request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected public: Individuals or 

Households. 

Abstract: The Railroad Retirement Act 

provides for payment of age, disability 

and supplemental annuities to qualified 

employees. The application and related 

forms obtain information about the 

applicant’s family work history, military 

service, disability benefits from other 

government agencies and public or 

private pensions. The information is 

used to determine entitlement to and 

the amount of the annuity applied for. 

Changes proposed: The RRB proposes 

no changes to Form AA–1, Form AA–1 

(internet), Form AA–1cert, AA–1sum 

and Form G–204. The RRB proposes the 

following changes to Form AA–1d: 

• Section 1, General Instructions, the 

date is being updated to 06/06/24, 

• Section 6, Information About Your 

Daily Activities, add ‘‘Sleeping’’ to the 

activity list for question 34, 

• Section 6, Information about Your 

Daily Activities, add a question 35b, 

‘‘Describe and explain if your condition 

affects your memory, concentration, or 

ability to understand and follow 

instructions. (Include when this change 

began.)’’, 

• Section 7, Information About You 

Work and Earnings, question 43, update 

to 12–2024 in example, 

• Section 11, Certification, question 

63, remove the word ‘‘criminal’’ from 

the sentence to read ‘‘I know that if I am 

receiving a disability annuity and fail to 

report work and earnings promptly, I am 

committing a crime punishable by 

Federal law that may result in 

prosecution and/or penalty deductions 

in my annuity payments’’, 

• Corrected the abbreviation word 

‘‘Cont.’’ to ‘‘Continued’’ throughout 

form, and 

• Correct grammar, spacing, heading 

and other issues within the form for 

consistency. 

The burden estimate for the ICR is as 

follows: 

Form No. Annual 

responses 

Time 

(minutes) 

Burden 

(hours) 

AA–1 (without assistance) ........................................................................................................... 30 62 31 

AA–1cert (with assistance) .......................................................................................................... 5,425 30 2,712 

AA–1sum (with assistance) ......................................................................................................... 2,750 29 1,329 

AA–1 (Internet) (without assistance) ........................................................................................... 0 45 0 

AA–1d (with assistance) .............................................................................................................. 2,600 60 2,817 


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Form No. Annual 

responses 

Time 

(minutes) 

Burden 

(hours) 

AA–1d (without assistance) ......................................................................................................... 5 90 8 

G–204 .......................................................................................................................................... 20 15 5 

Total ...................................................................................................................................... 10,830 ........................ 6,902 

2. Title and purpose of information 

collection: Application for Survivor 

Insurance Annuities; OMB 3220–0030. 

Under section 2(d) of the Railroad 

Retirement Act (RRA) (45 U.S.C. 231a), 

monthly survivor annuities are payable 

to surviving widow(er)s, parents, 

unmarried children, and in certain 

cases, divorced spouses, mothers 

(fathers), remarried widow(er)s, and 

grandchildren of deceased railroad 

employees if there are no qualified 

survivors of the employee immediately 

eligible for an annuity. The 

requirements relating to the annuities 

are prescribed in 20 CFR 216, 217, 218, 

and 219. 

To collect the information needed to 

help determine an applicant’s 

entitlement to, and the amount of, a 

survivor annuity the RRB uses Forms 

AA–17, Application for Widow(er)’s 

Annuity; AA–17b, Applications for 

Determination of Widow(er)’s Disability; 

AA–18, Application for Mother’s/ 

Father’s and Child’s Annuity; AA–19, 

Application for Child’s Annuity; AA– 

19a, Application for Determination of 

Child’s Disability; AA–20, Application 

for Parent’s Annuity, and electronic 

Forms AA–17cert, Application 

Summary and Certification and AA– 

17sum, Application Summary. 

The on-line automated survivor 

annuity application (Forms AA–17, 

AA–18, AA–19, and AA–20) process 

obtains information about an applicant’s 

marital history, work history, benefits 

from other government agencies, and 

Medicare entitlement for a survivor 

annuity. An RRB representative 

interviews the applicant either at a field 

office (preferred), an itinerant point, or 

by telephone. During the interview, the 

RRB representative enters the 

information obtained into an on-line 

information system. Upon completion of 

the interview, the system generates, for 

the applicant’s review, either Form AA– 

17cert or AA–17sum, which provides a 

summary of the information that the 

applicant provided or verified. Form 

AA–17cert, Application Summary and 

Certification, requires a tradition pen 

and ink ‘‘wet’’ signature. Form AA– 

17sum, Application Summary, 

documents the alternate signing method 

called ‘‘Attestation,’’ which is an action 

taken by the RRB representative to 

confirm and annotate in the RRB 

records (1) the applicant’s intent to file 

an application; (2) the applicant’s 

affirmation under penalty of perjury that 

the information provided is correct; and 

(3) the applicant’s agreement to sign the 

application by proxy. When the RRB 

representative is unable to contact the 

applicant in person or by telephone, for 

example, the applicant lives in another 

country, a manual version of the 

appropriate form is used. One response 

is requested of each respondent. 

Completion of the forms is required to 

obtain a benefit. 

Previous Requests for Comments: The 

RRB has already published the initial 

60-day notice (89 FR 88827 on 

November 8, 2024) required by 44 

U.S.C. 3506(c)(2). That request elicited 

no comments. 

Information Collection Request (ICR) 

Title: Application for Survivor 

Insurance Annuities. 

OMB Control No.: 3220–0030. 

Form(s) submitted: AA–17b, AA– 

17cert, AA–17sum, and AA–19a. 

Type of request: Extension without 

change of a currently approved 

collection. 

Affected public: Individuals or 

Households. 

Abstract: Under Section 2(d) of the 

Railroad Retirement Act, monthly 

survivor annuities are payable to 

surviving widow(er)s, parents, 

unmarried children, and in certain 

cases, divorced wives (husbands), 

mothers (fathers), remarried widow(er)s 

and grandchildren of deceased railroad 

employees. The collection obtains 

information needed by the RRB to 

determine entitlement to and the 

amount of the annuity applied for. 

Changes proposed: The RRB proposes 

no changes to forms AA–17cert. 

The RRB proposes the following 

changes to Form AA–17b: 

• Section 1, General Instructions, the 

date is being updated to 12/13/24, 

• Section 6, Information About Your 

Daily Activities, remove the word 

‘‘even’’ from question 33 in sentence 

‘‘NOT AT ALL—I cannot do the activity 

even with or without assistance’’, 

• Section 6, Information About Your 

Daily Activities, add ‘‘Sleeping’’ to the 

activity list for question 33, 

• Section 6, Information About Your 

Daily Activities, rename question 34 to 

be question 34a, 

• Section 6, Information about Your 

Daily Activities, add a question 34b, 

‘‘Describe and explain if your condition 

affects your memory, concentration, or 

ability to understand and follow 

instructions. (Include when this change 

began.)’’, 

• Section 7, Information About You 

Work and Earnings, question 46, update 

to 12–2024 in example, 

• Section 10, Certification, question 

65, remove the word ‘‘criminal’’ from 

the sentence to read ‘‘I know that if I am 

receiving a disability annuity and fail to 

report work and earnings promptly, I am 

committing a crime punishable by 

Federal law that may result in 

prosecution and/or penalty deductions 

in my annuity payments’’, and 

• Correct grammar, spacing, and 

heading issues within the form for 

consistency 

The RRB proposes the following 

changes to Form AA–19a: 

• Section 1, General Instructions, the 

date is being updated to 12/13/24 

• Section 5, Information About Your 

Daily Activities, remove the word 

‘‘even’’ from question 28 in sentence 

‘‘NOT AT ALL—I cannot do the activity 

even with or without assistance’’, 

• Section 5, Information About The 

Child’s Daily Activities, add ‘‘Sleeping’’ 

to the activity list for question 28. 

• Section 5, Information About The 

Child’s Daily Activities, rename 

question 29 to be question 29a. 

• Section 5, Information about Your 

Daily Activities, add a question 29b, 

‘‘Describe and explain if your condition 

affects your memory, concentration, or 

ability to understand and follow 

instructions. (Include when this change 

began.)’’ 

• Section 7, Information About You 

Work and Earnings, question 74, update 

to 12–2024 in example. 

• Section 10, Certification, question 

99, remove the word ‘‘criminal’’ from 

the sentence to read ‘‘I know that if I am 

receiving a disability annuity and fail to 

report work and earnings promptly, I am 

committing a crime punishable by 

Federal law that may result in 

prosecution and/or penalty deductions 

in my annuity payments’’, and 

• Correct grammar, spacing, and 

heading issues within the form for 

consistency. 

The RRB proposes minor changes to 

the Form AA–17sum: 


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• Update the outdated office hours 

with a link to the RRB website and the 

toll-free number, and 

• Remove the date that the applicant 

would be notified of a decision in the 

application process. 

The burden estimate for the ICR is as 

follows: 

Form No. Annual 

responses 

Time 

(minutes) 

Burden 

(hours) 

AA–17 Application Process: 

AA–17cert ............................................................................................................................. 900 20 300 

AA–17sum ............................................................................................................................ 2,100 19 665 

AA–17b: 

(With assistance) .................................................................................................................. 175 50 146 

(Without assistance) ............................................................................................................. 20 60 18 

AA–19a: 

(With assistance) .................................................................................................................. 200 50 167 

(Without assistance) ............................................................................................................. 15 70 18 

Total ............................................................................................................................... 3,410 ........................ 1,314 

3. Title and purpose of information 

collection: Continuing Disability Report; 

OMB 3220–0187. Under section 2 of the 

Railroad Retirement Act (45 U.S.C. 

231a), an annuity is not payable or is 

reduced for any month in which the 

annuitant works for a railroad or earns 

more than prescribed dollar amounts 

from either non-railroad employment or 

self-employment. Certain types of work 

may indicate an annuitant’s recovery 

from disability. The provisions relating 

to the reduction or non-payment of an 

annuity by reason of work, and an 

annuitant’s recovery from disability for 

work, are prescribed in 20 CFR 220.17– 

220.20. The RRB conducts continuing 

disability reviews (CDR) to determine 

whether an annuitant continues to meet 

the disability requirements of the law. 

Provisions relating to when and how 

often the RRB conducts CDR’s are 

prescribed in 20 CFR 220.186. 

Form G–254, Continuing Disability 

Report, is used by the RRB to develop 

information for a CDR determination, 

including a determination prompted by 

a report of work, return to railroad 

service, allegation of medical 

improvement, or a routine disability 

review call-up. Form G–254a, 

Continuing Disability Update Report, is 

used to help identify a disability 

annuitant whose work activity and/or 

recent medical history warrants 

completion of Form G–254 for a more 

extensive review. 

Completion is required to retain a 

benefit. One response is requested of 

each respondent to Forms G–254 and G– 

254a. 

Previous Requests for Comments: The 

RRB has already published the initial 

60-day notice (89 FR 88828 on 

November 8, 2024) required by 44 

U.S.C. 3506(c)(2). That request elicited 

no comments. 

Information Collection Request (ICR) 

Title: Continuing Disability Report. 

OMB Control No.: 3220–0187. 

Forms submitted: G–254, G–254a, and 

RL–8a. 

Type of request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected public: Individuals or 

Households. 

Abstract: Under the Railroad 

Retirement Act, a disability annuity can 

be reduced or not paid, depending on 

the amount of earnings and type of work 

performed. The collection obtains 

information about a disabled annuitant’s 

employment and earnings. 

Changes proposed: The RRB proposes 

the following changes to Form G–254: 

• Section 5, Information about Your 

Condition before Full Retirement Age, 

remove the word ‘‘even’’ from question 

31a in sentence ‘‘NOT AT ALL—I 

cannot do the activity even with or 

without assistance’’, 

• Section 5, Information about Your 

Condition before Full Retirement Age, 

add ‘‘Sleeping’’ to the activity list for 

question 31a, 

• Section 5, Information about Your 

Condition before Full Retirement Age, 

add a question 31e, ‘‘Describe and 

explain if your condition affects your 

memory, concentration, or ability to 

understand and follow instructions. 

(Include when this change began.)’’, and 

• Correct grammar, spacing, and 

heading issues within the form for 

consistency. 

The burden estimate for the ICR is as 

follows: 

Form No. Annual 

responses 

Time 

(minutes) 

Burden 

(hours) 

G–254: 

Annuitant ............................................................................................................................... 900 40 600 

Employer verification ............................................................................................................ 100 5 8 

Doctor, hospital, or clinic verification .................................................................................... 100 5 8 

Vocational, Rehabilitation Counselor verification) ................................................................ 100 5 8 

Other governmental agency verification ............................................................................... 100 5 8 

School verification ................................................................................................................ 100 5 8 

G–254a ........................................................................................................................................ 1350 5 113 

Total ............................................................................................................................... 2750 ........................ 753 

Additional Information or Comments: 

Copies of the forms and supporting 

documents or comments regarding the 

information collection should be 

addressed to Brian Foster, Railroad 

Retirement Board, 844 North Rush 

Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611–1275 or 

emailed to Brian.Foster@rrb.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 

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‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

Brian Foster, 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2025–00767 Filed 1–14–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7905–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[SEC File No. 270–101, OMB Control No. 

3235–0082] 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request; Extension: Form 11–K 

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 

(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities 

and Exchange Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’) is soliciting comments 

on the collection of information 

summarized below. The Commission 

plans to submit this existing collection 

of information to the Office of 

Management and Budget for extension 

and approval. 

Form 11–K (17 CFR 249.311) is the 

annual report designed for use by 

employee stock purchase, savings, and 

similar plans to comply with the 

reporting requirements under Section 

15(d) of the Securities and Exchange Act 

of 1934 (the ‘‘Exchange Act’’) (15 U.S.C. 

78o(d)). Section 15(d) establishes a 

periodic reporting obligation for every 

issuer of a class of securities registered 

under the Securities Act of 1933 (the 

‘‘Securities Act’’) (15 U.S.C. 77a et seq.). 

Form 11–K provides employees of an 

issuer with financial information so that 

they can assess the performance of the 

investment vehicle or stock plan. We 

estimate that Form 11–K requires 

approximately internal 95.81 burden 

hours per response and that there is an 

average of approximately 941 Form 11– 

K filings annually for a total of 90,157 

internal burden hours annually (95.81 

hours per response × 941 responses). We 

also estimate that Form 11–K requires a 

cost of approximately $7,525 per 

response for a total annual cost burden 

of $7,081,025 ($7,525 per response × 

941 responses). 

Written comments are invited on: (a) 

whether this proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden imposed by the collection 

of information; (c) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collected; and (d) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on respondents, including 

through the use of automated collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology. Consideration will be given 

to comments and suggestions submitted 

in writing within 60 days of this 

publication by March 17, 2025. 

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. 

Please direct your written comment to 

Austin Gerig, Director/Chief Data 

Officer, Securities and Exchange 

Commission, c/o Tanya Ruttenberg, 100 

F Street NE, Washington, DC 20549 or 

send an email to: PRA_Mailbox@

sec.gov. 

Dated: January 8, 2025. 

Vanessa A. Countryman, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[SEC File No. 270–335, OMB Control No. 

3235–0381] 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request; Extension: Form 40–F 

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 

(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities 

and Exchange Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’) is soliciting comments 

on the collection of information 

summarized below. The Commission 

plans to submit this existing collection 

of information to the Office of 

Management and Budget for extension 

and approval. 

Form 40–F (17 CFR 249.240f) is used 

by certain Canadian issuers to register a 

class of securities under Section 12 of 

the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 

(‘‘Exchange Act’’) (15 U.S.C. 78l) or as 

an annual report pursuant to Section 

13(a) or 15 (d) of the Exchange Act (15 

U.S.C. 78m(a) or 78o(d)). The 

information required in the Form 40–F 

is used by investors in making 

investment decisions with respect to the 

securities of such Canadian companies. 

We estimate that Form 40–F takes 

approximately 431.42 hours per 

response and that there is an average of 

approximately 175 responses annually. 

We estimate that 25% of the 431.42 

hours per response is prepared by the 

issuer for an internal burden of 18,875 

hours ((0.25 × 431.42) hours per 

response × 175 responses). 

Written comments are invited on: (a) 

whether this proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden imposed by the collection 

of information; (c) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collected; and (d) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on respondents, including 

through the use of automated collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology. Consideration will be given 

to comments and suggestions submitted 

in writing within 60 days of this 

publication by March 17, 2025. 

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. 

Please direct your written comment to 

Austin Gerig, Director/Chief Data 

Officer, Securities and Exchange 

Commission, c/o Tanya Ruttenberg, 100 

F Street NE, Washington, DC 20549 or 

send an e-mail to: PRA_Mailbox@

sec.gov. 

Dated: January 8, 2025. 

Vanessa A. Countryman, 

Secretary. 

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[SEC File No. 270–489, OMB Control No. 

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Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request; Extension: Rule 

606 of Regulation NMS 

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 

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

Securities and Exchange Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’) has submitted to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(‘‘OMB’’) a request for approval of 

extension on the previously approved 


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