Document ID: SEC-2015-1277-0001
Agency: sec
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Posted Date: 2015-07-31T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 147 (Friday, July 31, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45693-45694]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-18767]

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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:
    Form N-3; SEC File No. 270-281, OMB Control No. 3235-0316.

    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 (the ``Commission'') has submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget a request for extension of the previously 
approved collection of information discussed below.
    The title for the collection of information is ``Form N-3 (17 CFR 
239.17a and 274.11b) under the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77) 
and under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a), 
Registration Statement of Separate Accounts Organized as Management 
Investment Companies.'' Form N-3 is the form used by separate accounts 
offering variable annuity contracts which are organized as management 
investment companies

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to register under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (``Investment 
Company Act'') and/or to register their securities under the Securities 
Act of 1933 (``Securities Act''). Form N-3 is also the form used to 
file a registration statement under the Securities Act (and any 
amendments thereto) for variable annuity contracts funded by separate 
accounts which would be required to be registered under the Investment 
Company Act as management investment companies except for the exclusion 
provided by Section 3(c)(11) of the Investment Company Act (15 U.S.C. 
80a-3(c)(11)). Section 5 of the Securities Act (15 U.S.C. 77e) requires 
the filing of a registration statement prior to the offer of securities 
to the public and that the statement be effective before any securities 
are sold, and Section 8 of the Investment Company Act (15 U.S.C. 80a-8) 
requires a separate account to register as an investment company.
    Form N-3 also permits separate accounts offering variable annuity 
contracts which are organized as investment companies to provide 
investors with a prospectus and a statement of additional information 
covering essential information about the separate account when it makes 
an initial or additional offering of its securities. Section 5(b) of 
the Securities Act requires that investors be provided with a 
prospectus containing the information required in a registration 
statement prior to the sale or at the time of confirmation or delivery 
of the securities. The form also may be used by the Commission in its 
regulatory review, inspection, and policy-making roles.
    Commission staff estimates that there are zero initial registration 
statements and 10 post-effective amendments to initial registration 
statements filed on Form N-3 annually and that the average number of 
portfolios referenced in each post-effective amendment is 2. The 
Commission further estimates that the hour burden for preparing and 
filing a post-effective amendment on Form N-3 is 155.2 hours per 
portfolio. The total annual hour burden for preparing and filing post-
effective amendments is 3104 hours (10 post-effective amendments x 2 
portfolios x 155.2 hours per portfolio). The estimated annual hour 
burden for preparing and filing initial registration statements is 0 
hours. The total annual hour burden for Form N-3, therefore, is 
estimated to be 3,104 hours (3,104 hours + 0 hours).
    The information collection requirements imposed by Form N-3 are 
mandatory. Responses to the collection of information 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.
    The public may view the 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 send an email 
to: PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov. Comments must be submitted to OMB within 30 
days of this notice.

    Dated: July 27, 2015.
 Robert W. Errett,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-18767 Filed 7-30-15; 8:45 am]
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