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[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 83 (Monday, April 30, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21420-21421]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-10643]

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    Upon written request copies available from: Securities and 
Exchange Commission, Office of Filings and Information Services, 
Washington, DC 20549

Extension
    Form U-6B-2; SEC File No. 270-169; OMB Control No. 3235-0163.

    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'') has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a 
request for extension of the previously approved collection of 
information discussed below.
    The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 [15 U.S.C. Section 
79A et seq.] requires the filing of an application and/or declaration 
on Form U-1 for prior Commission approval both for the issue and sale 
of a security and its acquisition by a company in a registered holding 
company system.\1\ Section 6(b) provides that the Commission shall 
exempt from the requirement of filing a declaration on Form U-1, by 
rules and regulations or orders and subject to such terms and 
conditions, as it deems appropriate in the public interest or for the 
protection of investors or consumers, certain security issuances and 
sales.
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    \1\ See section 6(a) (requiring prior Commission 
approval under the standards of section 7 for the issue and sale of 
securities) and section 9(a)(1) (requiring prior Commission approval 
under the standards of section 10 for the acquisition of 
securities).
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    Section 6(b) also contains a reporting requirement. It directs the 
issuer of securities exempted under section 6(b) to file with the 
commission within ten days of the issue or sale of a certificate 
notification and directs the Commission to prescribe the from of and 
information required in this certificate. Rule 20(d) prescribes Form U-
6B-2 as the form of certificate of notification to be filed pursuant to 
section 6(b). Form U-6B-2 is also prescribed by Rule 52(c) (17 CFR 
250.52(c)) and Rule 47(b) (17 CFR 250.47(b)) as the form of certificate 
of notification to be filed by a public utility subsidiary company of a 
registered holding company to notify the Commission of exempt issuances 
and sales of securities under Rule 52 Exemption of Issue and Sale of 
Certain Securities approved by state commissions and Rule 47 Exemption 
of Public Utility Subsidiaries as to Certain Securities Issued to the 
Rural

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Electrification Administration. The Commission receives about 89 Form 
U-6B-2s per year from 89 respondents who each file once, which imposes 
an annual burden of about 89 hours.
    The estimates of the average burden hours 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.
    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.
    Written comments regarding the above information should be directed 
to the following persons: (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; and (ii) Michael E. Bartell, Associate 
Executive Director, Office of Information Technology, Securities and 
Exchange Commission, 450 Fifth Street, NW., Washington, DC 20549. 
Comments must be submitted to OMB within 30 days of this notice.

    Dated: April 23, 2001.
Margaret H. McFarland,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-10643 Filed 4-27-01; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 8010-01-M
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