Document ID: SEC-2019-0059-0001
Agency: sec
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Posted Date: 2019-02-01T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 22 (Friday, February 1, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 1262]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-00631]

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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-5, SEC File No. 270-172, OMB Control No. 3235-0169

    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 (``OMB'') a request for extension of the 
previously approved collection of information discussed below.
    Form N-5 (17 CFR 239.24 and 274.5) is the form used by small 
business investment companies (``SBICs'') to register their securities 
under the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77a et seq.) (``Securities 
Act'') and the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a-1 et seq.) 
(``Investment Company Act''). Form N-5 is the registration statement 
form adopted by the Commission for use by an SBIC that has been 
licensed as such under the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 or 
which has received the preliminary approval of the Small Business 
Administration (``SBA'') and has been notified by the SBA that the 
company may submit a license application Form N-5 is an integrated 
registration form and may be used as the registration statement under 
both the Securities Act and the Investment Company Act. The purpose of 
Form N-5 is to meet the filing and disclosure requirements of both the 
Securities Act and Investment Company Act, and to provide investors 
with information sufficient to evaluate an investment in an SBIC. The 
information that is required to be filed with the Commission permits 
verification of compliance with securities law requirements and assures 
the public availability and dissemination of the information.
    The Commission did not receive any filings on Form N-5 in the last 
three years (and in the three years before that, received only one Form 
N-5 filing). Nevertheless, for purposes of this PRA, we conservatively 
estimate that at least one Form N-5 will be filed in the next three 
years, which translates to about 0.333 filings on Form N-5 per year. 
The currently approved internal burden of Form N-5 is 352 hours per 
response. We continue to believe this estimate for Form N-5's internal 
hour burden is appropriate. Therefore, the number of currently approved 
aggregate burden hours, when calculated using the current estimate for 
number of filings, is about 117 internal hours per year. The currently 
approved external cost burden of Form N-5 is $30,000 per filing. We 
continue to believe this estimate for Form N-5's cost burden is 
appropriate. Therefore, we estimate that the aggregate cost burden, 
when calculated using the Commission's estimate of 0.333 filings per 
year, is about $10,000 in external costs per year.
    Estimates of average burden hours and costs are made solely for the 
purposes of the Paperwork Reduction Act, and are not derived from a 
comprehensive or even representative survey or study of the costs of 
Commission rules and forms. Compliance with the collection of 
information requirements of Form N-5 is 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 OMB 
control number.
    The public may view the background documentation for this 
information collection at the following website, 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: 
Lindsay.M.Abate@omb.eop.gov and (ii) Charles Riddle, Acting Director/
Chief Information Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission, c/o 
Candace Kenner, 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: January 29, 2019.
Eduardo A. Aleman,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-00631 Filed 1-31-19; 8:45 am]
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