Document ID: SEC-2010-1955-0001
Agency: sec
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Posted Date: 2010-12-20T05:00Z

[Federal Register: December 20, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 243)]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Form 144; OMB Control No. 3235-0101; SEC File No. 270-112]

 
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 144; OMB Control No. 3235-0101; SEC File No. 270-112.

    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

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(``Commission'') has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget 
this request for extension of the previously approved collections of 
information discussed below.
    Form 144 (17 CFR 239.144) is used to report the sale of securities 
during any three-month period that exceeds 5,000 shares or other units 
or has an aggregate sales price that does not exceed $50,000. Under 
Sections 2(11), 4(1), 4(2), 4(4) and 19(a) of the Securities Act of 
1933 (15 U.S.C. 77b, 77d(1)(2)(4) and 77s(a)) and Rule 144 (17 CFR 
230.144) there under, the Commission is authorize to solicit the 
information required to be supplied by Form 144. The objectives of the 
rule could not be met, if the information collection was not required. 
The information collected must be filed with the Commission and is 
publicly available. Form 144 takes approximately 1 burden hour per 
response and is filed by 23,361 respondents for a total of 23,361 total 
burden hours.
    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, http://
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 e-
mail to: Shagufta_Ahmed@omb.eop.gov; and (ii) Thomas Bayer, Chief 
Information Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission, c/o Remi 
Pavlik-Simon, 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: December 12, 2010.
Florence E. Harmon,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-31821 Filed 12-17-10; 8:45 am]
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