Document ID: SEC-2014-1689-0001
Agency: sec
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Posted Date: 2014-10-06T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 193 (Monday, October 6, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60201-60202]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-23708]

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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-17f-2, OMB Control No. 3235-0360, SEC File No. 270-317.

    Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 350l 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.
    Form N-17f-2 (17 CFR 274.220) under the Investment Company Act is 
entitled ``Certificate of Accounting of Securities and Similar 
Investments in the Custody of Management Investment Companies.'' Form 
N-17f-2 is the cover sheet for the accountant examination certificates 
filed under rule 17f-2 (17 CFR 270.17f-2) by registered management 
investment companies (``funds'') maintaining custody of securities or 
other investments. Form N-17f-2 facilitates the filing of the 
accountant's examination certificates prepared under rule 17f-2. The 
use of the form allows the certificates to be filed electronically, and 
increases the accessibility of the examination

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certificates to both the Commission's examination staff and interested 
investors by ensuring that the certificates are filed under the proper 
Commission file number and the correct name of a fund.
    Commission staff estimates that it takes: (i) On average 1.25 hours 
of fund accounting personnel at a total cost of $247.5 to prepare each 
Form N-17f-2; \1\ and (ii) .75 hours of administrative assistant time 
at a total cost of $55.50 to file the Form N-17f-2 with the 
Commission.\2\ Approximately 188 funds currently file Form N-17f-2 with 
the Commission. Commission staff estimates that on average each fund 
files Form N-17f-2 four times annually for a total annual hourly burden 
per fund of approximately 8 hours at a total cost of $1,212.00. The 
total annual hour burden for Form N-17f-2 is therefore estimated to be 
approximately 1504 hours. Based on the total annual costs per fund 
listed above, the total cost of Form N-17f-2's collection of 
information requirements is estimated to be approximately $227,856.\3\
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    \1\ This estimate is based on the following calculation: 1.25 x 
$198 (fund senior accountant's hourly rate) = $247.5.
    \2\ This estimate is based on the following calculation: .75 x 
$74 (administrative assistant hourly rate) = $55.50.
    \3\ This estimate is based on the following calculation: 188 
funds x $1,212.00 (total annual cost per fund) = $227,856.
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    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 and forms. Complying with the collections of 
information required by Form N-17f-2 is mandatory for those funds that 
maintain custody of their own assets. Responses 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) Thomas Bayer, 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: September 30, 2014.
Kevin M. O'Neill,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-23708 Filed 10-3-14; 8:45 am]
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