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same file as the submission itself, and 

not as separate files. 

Public Inspection of Submissions: 

Within one business day of receipt, nonconfidential submissions will be placed 

in a public file, open for inspection at 

the USTR reading room, Office of the 

United States Trade Representative, 

Annex Building, 1724 F Street, NW., 

Room 1, Washington, DC. An 

appointment to review the file must be 

scheduled at least 48 hours in advance 

and may be made by calling Jacqueline 

Caldwell at (202) 395–6186. The USTR 

reading room is open to the public from 

10 a.m. to 12 noon and from 1 p.m. to 

4 p.m., Monday through Friday. 

Rachel S. Bae, 

Director for Intellectual Property and 

Innovation. 

[FR Doc. E8–20572 Filed 9–4–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3190–W8–P 

OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT 

CORPORATION 

September 15, 2008 Public Hearing 

Time and Date: 2 p.m., Monday, 

September 15, 2008. 

Place: Offices of the Corporation, 

Twelfth Floor Board Room, 1100 New 

York Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. 

Status: Hearing open to the Public at 

2 p.m. 

Purpose: Public Hearing in 

conjunction with each meeting of 

OPIC’s Board of Directors, to afford an 

opportunity for any person to present 

views regarding the activities of the 

Corporation. 

Procedures: Individuals wishing to 

address the hearing orally must provide 

advance notice to OPIC’s Corporate 

Secretary no later than 5 p.m. Thursday, 

September 11, 2008. The notice must 

include the individual’s name, title, 

organization, address, and telephone 

number, and a concise summary of the 

subject matter to be presented. 

Oral presentations may not exceed ten 

(10) minutes. The time for individual 

presentations may be reduced 

proportionately, if necessary, to afford 

all participants who have submitted a 

timely request to participate an 

opportunity to be heard. 

Participants wishing to submit a 

written statement for the record must 

submit a copy of such statement to 

OPIC’s Corporate Secretary no later than 

5 p.m. Thursday, September 11, 2008. 

Such statements must be typewritten, 

double-spaced, and may not exceed 

twenty-five (25) pages. 

Upon receipt of the required notice, 

OPIC will prepare an agenda for the 

hearing identifying speakers, setting 

forth the subject on which each 

participant will speak, and the time 

allotted for each presentation. The 

agenda will be available at the hearing. 

A written summary of the hearing will 

be compiled, and such summary will be 

made available, upon written request to 

OPIC’s Corporate Secretary, at the cost 

of reproduction. 

Contact Person for Information: 

Information on the hearing may be 

obtained from Connie M. Downs at (202) 

336–8438, via facsimile at (202) 218–

0136, or via e-mail at 

Connie.Downs@opic.gov. 

Dated: September 3, 2008. 

Connie M. Downs, 

OPIC Corporate Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–20753 Filed 9–3–08; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 3210–01–P 

OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT 

CORPORATION 

September 18, 2008 Board of Directors 

Meeting 

Time and Date: Thursday, September 

18, 2008, 10 a.m. (Open Portion); 10:15 

a.m. (Closed Portion). 

Place: Offices of the Corporation, 

Twelfth Floor Board Room, 1100 New 

York Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. 

Status: Meeting OPEN to the Public 

from 10 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Closed 

portion will commence at 10:15 a.m. 

(approx.). 

Matters To Be Considered: 

1. President’s Report 

2. Approval of July 17, 2008 Minutes 

(Open Portion) 

Further Matters To Be Considered: 

(Closed to the Public 10:15 a.m.) 

1. Report from Audit Committee 

2. Finance Project—Costa Rica, El 

Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras 

3. Finance Project—Liberia 

4. Finance Project—South Africa 

5. Finance Project—Mexico, 

Nicaragua, El Salvador, Peru, Armenia, 

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, 

Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Cambodia, 

Bosnia, Kenya 

6. Finance Project—Botswana 

7. Finance Project—Bulgaria and the 

Balkans 

8. Finance Project—Asia 

9. Finance Project—South Asia 

10. Finance Project—Global 

11. Finance Project—Global 

12. Finance Project—Global 

13. Finance Project—Global 

14. Finance Project—Latin America 

15. Finance Project—Latin America 

16. Finance Project—Latin America 

17. Finance Project—Mexico and 

Central America 

18. Finance Project—Central and 

South America 

19. Approval of July 17, 2008 Minutes 

(Closed Portion) 

20. Pending Major Projects 

21. Reports 

Contact Person for Information: 

Information on the meeting may be 

obtained from Connie M. Downs at (202) 

336–8438. 

Dated: September 3, 2008. 

Connie M. Downs, 

Corporate Secretary, Overseas Private 

Investment Corporation. 

[FR Doc. E8–20754 Filed 9–3–08; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 3210–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Upon Written Request, Copies Available 

From: Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Investor 

Education and Advocacy, 

Washington, DC 20549–0213. 

Extension: 

Form N–17D–1; SEC File No. 270–231; 

OMB Control No. 3235–0229. 

Notice is hereby given that, pursuant 

to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), 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. 

Section 17(d) (15 U.S.C. 80a–17(d)) of 

the Investment Company Act of 1940 

(‘‘Act’’) authorizes the Commission to 

adopt rules that protect funds and their 

security holders from overreaching by 

affiliated persons when the fund and the 

affiliated person participate in any joint 

enterprise or other joint arrangement or 

profit-sharing plan. Rule 17d–1 under 

the Act (17 CFR 270.17d–1) prohibits 

funds and their affiliated persons from 

participating in a joint enterprise, unless 

an application regarding the transaction 

has been filed with and approved by the 

Commission. Paragraph (d)(3) of the rule 

provides an exemption from this 

requirement for any loan or advance of 

credit to, or acquisition of securities or 

other property of, a small business 

concern, or any agreement to do any of 

the foregoing (‘‘investments’’) made by a 

small business investment company 

(‘‘SBIC’’) and an affiliated bank, 

provided that reports about the 

investments are made on forms the 

Commission may prescribe. Rule 17d–2 

(17 CFR 270.17d–2) designates Form N–

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1As of May 22, 2008, five SBICs were registered 

with the Commission. 

2This estimate of hours is based on past 

conversations with representatives of SBICs and 

accountants that have filed the form. 

3Commission staff estimates that the annual 

burden would be incurred by a senior accountant 

with an average hourly wage rate of $185 per hour. 

See Securities Industry Association and Financial 

Markets Association, Report on Management and 

Professional Earnings in the Securities Industry—

2007 (2007), modified to account for an 1800-hour 

work year and multiplied by 5.35 to account for 

bonuses, firm size, employee benefits and overhead. 

17D–1 (17 CFR 274.200) (‘‘form’’) as the 

form for reports required by rule 17d–

1. 

SBICs and their affiliated banks use 

form N–17D–1 to report any 

contemporaneous investments in a 

small business concern. The form 

provides shareholders and persons 

seeking to make an informed decision 

about investing in an SBIC an 

opportunity to learn about transactions 

of the SBIC that have the potential for 

self dealing and other forms of 

overreaching by affiliated persons at the 

expense of shareholders. 

Form N–17D–1 requires SBICs and 

their affiliated banks to report 

identifying information about the small 

business concern and the affiliated 

bank. The report must include, among 

other things, the SBIC’s and affiliated 

bank’s outstanding investments in the 

small business concern, the use of the 

proceeds of the investments made 

during the reporting period, any 

changes in the nature and amount of the 

affiliated bank’s investment, the name of 

any affiliated person of the SBIC or the 

affiliated bank (or any affiliated person 

of the affiliated person of the SBIC or 

the affiliated bank) who has any interest 

in the transactions, the basis of the 

affiliation, the nature of the interest, and 

the consideration the affiliated person 

has received or will receive. 

Up to five SBICs may file the form in 

any year.1 The Commission estimates 

the burden of filling out the form is 

approximately one hour per response 

and would likely be completed by an 

accountant or other professional. Based 

on past filings, the Commission 

estimates that no more than one SBIC is 

likely to use the form each year. Most 

of the information requested on the form 

should be readily available to the SBIC 

or the affiliated bank in records kept in 

the ordinary course of business, or with 

respect to the SBIC, pursuant to the 

recordkeeping requirements under the 

Act. Commission staff estimates that it 

should take approximately one hour for 

an accountant or other professional to 

complete the form.2 The estimated total 

annual burden of filling out the form is 

1 hour, at an estimated total annual cost 

of $185.3 The Commission will not keep 

responses on Form N–17D–1 

confidential. 

The estimate of average burden hours 

is made solely for the purposes of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, and is not 

derived from a comprehensive or even 

a representative survey or study of the 

costs of Commission rules. 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 general comments 

regarding the above information to the 

following persons: (i) Desk Officer for 

the Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Management and 

Budget, Room 10102, New Executive 

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503 

or e-mail to: 

Alexander_T._Hunt@omb.eop.gov; and 

(ii) Lewis W. Walker, Acting Director/ 

Chief Information Officer, Securities 

and Exchange Commission, C/O Shirley 

Martinson, 6432 General Green Way, 

Alexandria, VA 22312; or send an email to: PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov. 

Comments must be submitted to OMB 

within 30 days of this notice. 

August 27, 2008. 

Florence E. Harmon, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–20616 Filed 9–4–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8010–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Upon Written Request Copies Available 

From: Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Investor 

Education and Advocacy, 

Washington, DC 20549–0213. 

Extension: 

Form N–8b–4, SEC File No. 270–180, OMB 

Control No. 3235–0247. 

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 a 

request for extension of the previously 

approved collection of information 

discussed below. 

Form N–8b–4 (17 CFR 274.14) is the 

form used by face-amount certificate 

companies to comply with the filing and 

disclosure requirements imposed by 

Section 8(b) of the Investment Company 

Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a–8(b)). Form 

N–8b–4 requires disclosure about the 

organization of a face-amount certificate 

company, its business and policies, its 

investment in securities, its certificates 

issued, the personnel and affiliated 

persons of the depositor, the 

distribution and redemption of 

securities, and financial statements. The 

Commission uses the information 

provided in the collection of 

information to determine compliance 

with Section 8(b) of the Investment 

Company Act of 1940. 

Based on the Commission’s industry 

statistics, the Commission estimates that 

there would be approximately 1 annual 

filing on Form N–8b–4. The 

Commission estimates that each 

registrant filing a Form N–8b–4 would 

spend 171 hours in preparing and filing 

the Form and that the total hour burden 

for all Form N–8b–4 filings would be 

171 hours. Estimates of the burden 

hours are made solely for the purposes 

of the PRA, and are not derived from a 

comprehensive or even a representative 

survey or study of the costs of SEC rules 

and forms. 

The information provided on Form 

N–8b–4 is mandatory. The information 

provided on Form N–8b–4 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. 

Please direct general comments 

regarding the above information to the 

following persons: (i) Desk Officer for 

the Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Management and 

Budget, Room 10102, New Executive 

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503 

or e-mail to: 

Alexander_T._Hunt@omb.eop.gov; and 

(ii) Lewis W. Walker, Acting Director/ 

Chief Information Officer, Securities 

and Exchange Commission, C/O Shirley 

Martinson, 6432 General Green Way, 

Alexandria, VA 22312; or send an email to: PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov. 

Comments must be submitted to OMB 

within 30 days of this notice. 

Dated: August 27, 2008. 

Florence E. Harmon, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–20617 Filed 9–4–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8010–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Upon Written Request, Copies Available 

From: Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Investor 

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