Document ID: SEC-2015-0871-0001
Agency: sec
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Posted Date: 2015-05-20T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 97 (Wednesday, May 20, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29108-29109]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-12152]

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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 FOIA Services, 100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 
20549-2736.

Extension:
    Rule 17a-6; SEC File No. 270-433, OMB Control No. 3235-0489.

    Notice is hereby given that pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995 (``PRA'') (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities and Exchange 
Commission (``Commission'') has submitted to the Office of Management 
and Budget (``OMB'') a request for extension of the previously approved 
collection of information provided for in Rule 17a-6 (17 CFR 240.17a-6) 
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78a et seq.).
    Rule 17a-6 permits national securities exchanges, national 
securities associations, registered clearing agencies, and the 
Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (``MSRB'') (collectively, 
``SROs'') to destroy or convert to microfilm or other recording media 
records maintained under Rule 17a-1, if they have filed a record 
destruction plan with the Commission and the Commission has declared 
such plan effective.
    There are currently 29 SROs: 18 national securities exchanges, 1 
national securities association, the MSRB, and 9 registered clearing 
agencies. Of the 29 SROs, only 2 SRO respondents have filed a record 
destruction plan with the Commission. The staff calculates that the 
preparation and filing of a new record destruction plan should take 160 
hours. Further, any existing SRO record destruction plans may require 
revision, over time, in response to, for example, changes in document 
retention technology, which the Commission estimates will take much 
less than the 160 hours estimated for a new plan. The Commission 
estimates that each SRO that has filed a destruction plan will spend 
approximately 30 hours per year making required revisions. Thus, the

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total annual compliance burden is estimated to be 60 hours per year 
based on two respondents. The approximate compliance cost per hour is 
$380, resulting in a total internal cost of compliance for these 
respondents of $22,800 per year (60 hours @$380 per hour).
    An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required 
to respond to, a collection of information under the PRA unless it 
displays a currently valid OMB control number.
    The public may view background documentation for this information 
collection at the following Web site: 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: 
Shagufta_Ahmed@omb.eop.gov; and (ii) Pamela Dyson, Director/Chief 
Information Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission, c/o Remi 
Pavlik-Simon, 100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 20549, or by sending an 
email to: PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov. Comments must be submitted to OMB within 
30 days of this notice.

    Dated: May 14, 2015.
Robert W. Errett,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-12152 Filed 5-19-15; 8:45 am]
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