Document ID: SEC-2008-1220-0001
Agency: sec
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Posted Date: 2008-09-05T04:00Z

[Federal Register: September 5, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 173)]
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[Page 51862]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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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 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 e-
mail 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]

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