Document ID: SEC-2020-0302-0003
Agency: sec
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Posted Date: 2023-01-30T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 19 (Monday, January 30, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 5952]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-01741]

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[SEC File No. 270-187, OMB Control No. 3235-0211]

Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Extension: Rule 18f-1 
and Form N-18f-1

Upon Written Request, Copies Available From: Securities and Exchange 
Commission, Office of FOIA Services, 100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 
20549-2736

    Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 350l-3520), the Securities and Exchange 
Commission (``Commission'') has submitted to the Office of Management 
and Budget a request for extension of the previously approved 
collection of information discussed below.
    Rule 18f-1 (17 CFR 270.18f-1) enables a registered open-end 
management investment company (``fund'') that may redeem its securities 
in-kind, by making a one-time election, to commit to make cash 
redemptions pursuant to certain requirements without violating section 
18(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a-18(f)). A 
fund relying on the rule must file Form N-18F-1 (17 CFR 274.51) to 
notify the Commission of this election. The Commission staff estimates 
that 12 funds file Form N-18F-1 annually, and that each response takes 
one hour. Based on these estimates, the total annual burden hours 
associated with the rule is estimated to be 12 hours. The estimated 
burden hours associated with rule 18f-1 and Form 18F-1 have decreased 
by 10 hours from the current allocation of 22 hours. This decrease is 
due to a decrease in the estimated number of investment companies 
filing Form N-18F-1 annually. There is no external cost associated with 
this collection of information.
    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. The collection of information required by rule 18f-1 
is necessary to obtain the benefits of the rule. 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 background documentation for this information 
collection at the following website: www.reginfo.gov. Find this 
particular information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day 
Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. 
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
by March 1, 2023 to (i) [email protected] and 
(ii) David Bottom, Director/Chief Information Officer, Securities and 
Exchange Commission, c/o John Pezzullo, 100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 
20549, or by sending an email to: [email protected].

    Dated: January 24, 2023.
Sherry R. Haywood,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2023-01741 Filed 1-27-23; 8:45 am]
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