Document ID: SEC-2014-0327-0001
Agency: sec
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Posted Date: 2014-02-24T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 36 (Monday, February 24, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10209-10210]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-03784]

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

Upon Written Request, Copies Available From: U.S. Securities and 
Exchange Commission, Office of Investor Education and Advocacy, 
Washington, DC 20549-0213.

Extension:
    Rule 15Ba2-6T; SEC File No. S7-19-10, OMB Control No. 3235-0659.

    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 of extension of the previously approved 
collection of information provided for in Rule 15Ba2-6T--Temporary 
Registration as a Municipal Advisor; Required Amendments; and 
Withdrawal from Temporary Registration (17 CFR 240.15Ba2-6T), under the 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78a et seq.) (``Exchange 
Act'').
    Paragraph (a) of Rule 15Ba2-6T requires municipal advisors, as 
defined in Section 15B(e)(4) of the Exchange Act (15 U.S.C. 78o-
4(e)(4)), to electronically file with the Commission on the 
Commission's Web site at the following link, Municipal Advisor 
Registration, the information set forth in Form MA-T (17 CFR 249.1300T) 
to temporarily register or withdraw from temporary registration.
    Paragraph (b)(1) of Rule 15Ba2-6T requires municipal advisors to 
promptly amend their temporary registration whenever information 
concerning Items 1 (Identifying Information) or 3 (Disciplinary 
Information) of Form MA-T becomes inaccurate in any way.
    Paragraph (b)(2) of Rule 15Ba2-6T requires municipal advisors to 
promptly amend their temporary registration whenever they wish to 
withdraw from registration.
    Paragraph (c) of Rule 15Ba2-6T provides that every initial 
registration, amendment to registration, or withdrawal from 
registration filed pursuant to this rule constitutes a ``report'' 
within the meaning of applicable provisions of the Exchange Act.
    Paragraph (d) of Rule 15Ba2-6T provides that every Form MA-T, 
including every amendment to or withdrawal from registration, is 
considered filed with the Commission when the electronic form on the 
Commission's Web site is completed and the Commission has sent 
confirmation to the municipal advisor that the form was filed.
    Paragraph (e) of Rule 15Ba2-6T provides that all temporary 
registrations of municipal advisors will expire on the earlier of: (1) 
The date that the municipal advisor's permanent registration, submitted 
pursuant to the Exchange Act and the rules thereunder, is approved or 
disapproved by the Commission; (2) the date on which the municipal 
advisor's temporary registration is rescinded by the Commission; (3) 
for a municipal advisor that has not applied for permanent registration 
with the Commission in accordance with the Exchange Act and the rules 
thereunder, forty-five days after the compliance date of such rules for 
the municipal advisor; or (4) December 31, 2014.
    Paragraph (f) of Rule 15Ba2-6T provides that Rule 15Ba2-6T will 
expire on December 31, 2014.
    The primary purpose of Rule 15Ba2-6T is to provide information 
about municipal advisors to investors and issuers, as well as the 
Commission pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer 
Protection Act.
    Commission staff estimates that approximately 100 new municipal 
advisors will file Form MA-T during the period January 1, 2014 through 
December 31, 2014. Commission staff estimates that each of the 
approximately 100 new municipal advisors will spend an average of 2.5 
hours preparing each Form MA-T. Therefore the estimated total reporting 
burden associated with completing Form MA-T is 250 hours. Additionally, 
Commission staff estimates that approximately 1,150 municipal advisors 
currently registered with the Commission and the estimated

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100 new municipal advisors will amend (or withdraw) their Form MA-T 
once during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014, 
and that it will take approximately 30 minutes to amend (or withdraw) 
their form, which means the total burden associated with amending Form 
MA-T is 625 hours. Therefore, the total annual burden associated with 
completing and amending Form MA-T is 875 hours.
    The Commission believes that some municipal advisors will seek 
outside counsel to help them comply with the requirements of Rule 
15Ba2-6T and Form MA-T, and assumes that 100 municipal advisors will 
consult outside counsel for one hour for this purpose. The hourly rate 
for an attorney is $379, according to the Securities Industry and 
Financial Markets Association's publication titled Management & 
Professional Earnings in the Securities Industry 2012, as modified by 
Commission staff to account for an 1,800-hour work year and multiplied 
by 5.35 to account for bonuses, firm size, employee benefits, and 
overhead. The Commission estimates the total cost for these 100 
municipal advisors to hire outside counsel to review their compliance 
with the requirements of Rule 15Ba2-6T and Form MA-T to be 
approximately $37,900.
    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 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) Thomas Bayer, 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: February 18, 2014.
Kevin M. O'Neill,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-03784 Filed 2-21-14; 8:45 am]
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