[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 147 (Tuesday, August 1, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39199-39200]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-18815]



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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION


Requests Under Review by the Office of Management and Budget

Agency Clearance Officer: Michael E. Bartell, (202) 942-8800
    Upon Written Request, Copy Available From: Securities and Exchange 
Commission, Office of Filings and Information Services, 450 Fifth 
Street NW., Washington, D.C. 02549

    Proposed Amendments to:

Form N-1A, File No. 270-21
Form N-3, File No. 270-281
Form 12b-25, File No. 270-71

    Proposed New Rule:

Rule 30b3-1, File No. 270-402

    Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1980 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities and Exchange 
Commission (``Commission'') has submitted for OMB approval proposed 
amendments and a new proposed rule for the following:
    Form N-1A is the registration form used by open-end management 
investment companies (``mutual funds'') to comply with the registration 
statement requirements of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (``1940 
Act'') and to register their securities under the Securities Act of 
1933 (``1933 Act''). Form N-1A permits mutual funds, including money 
market funds, to provide investors with a simplified prospectus 
covering matters of fundamental importance about the funds. More 
detailed information is provided to interested investors through the 
Statement of Additional Information (``SAI'').
    The proposed amendments would primarily affect money market 
funds.The amendments are intended to shorten and simplify prospectuses 
for money market funds by permitting the funds to transfer substantial 
amounts of detailed information regarding their investment policies and 
operations to the SAI, and by otherwise simplifying the form's 
requirements and instructions. While prospectuses are widely 
distributed by funds to shareholders and potential investors, the SAI 
need only be made available to investors upon request. As a result, it 
is believed that the approximately 1,300 money market funds subject to 
Form N-1A's requirements would experience reduced printing and mailing 
costs associated with a briefer prospectus. There would be no reduction 
or increase in the reporting burden incurred by money market funds when 
they file their Form N-1A registration statements with the Commission 
because the funds would continue to be required to provide almost all 
of the information eliminated from the prospectus in the SAI. As a 
result, the estimated reporting burden for a money market fund filing 
Form N-1A if the proposed amendments are adopted would continue to be 
1,064.24 hours.
    Similar amendments are being proposed to Form N-3, the registration 
form used by separate accounts organized as management investment 
companies (``separate accounts'') to comply with the registration 
statement requirements of the 1940 Act and to register their securities 
under the 1933 Act. These amendments would shorten the prospectuses of 
separate accounts that are money market funds and the 53 separate money 
market accounts subject to Form N-3's requirements would experience a 
reduction in printing and mailing costs associated with a briefer 
prospectus. As described above with regard to Form N-1A, there will be 
no change in the burden associated with filing Form N-3 registration 
statements with the Commission because filers would continue to be 
required to provide almost all of the information eliminated from the 
prospectus in the SAI. As a result, the estimated reporting burden for 
a money market account filing Form N-3 if the proposed amendments are 
adopted would continue to be 518 hours.
    Additional amendments are being proposed that would not impose any 
additional recordkeeping or reporting burden on funds.
    Rule 12b-25 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (``1934 
Act'') prescribes the manner in which notification should be given to 
the Commission when certain reports required by the 1934 and 1940 Acts 
and rules thereunder are filed late. Form 12b-25 is a notification of 
the late filing by a registrant. All burdens associated with Rule 12b-
25 are reflected in the burdens reports for Form 12b-25. Under current 
burden estimates, 4,266 respondents file Form 12b-25 annually at 2.5 
burden hours per response with a total annual burden of 10,655 hours. 
Under the amendment to form 12b-25 

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being proposed, it is estimated that an additional 220 respondents will 
file Form 12b-25 annually at 2.5 burden hours per response, for an 
additional annual burden of 550 hours, and a revised total burden of 
11,105 hours.
    Proposed Rule 30b3-1 requires money market funds to file quarterly 
reports with the Commission detailing their portfolio holdings. This 
information will better enable the Commission to detect and deter money 
market fund non-compliance with the federal securities laws, 
particularly Rule 2a-7 under the 1940 Act, the rule which restricts the 
types of instruments in which money market funds can invest. The 
reports would be filed electronically through the Commission's 
electronic filing system, called EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, 
Analysis and Retrieval). It is estimated that 1,300 respondents will 
file the report four times a year at 2 burden hours per response for a 
total burden of 10,400 hours annually.
    General comments and comments concerning the accuracy of the 
estimated average burden hours for compliance with Commission rules and 
forms should be directed to Michael E. Bartell, Associate Executive 
Director, Securities and Exchange Commission, 450 Fifth Street, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20549, and the Clearance Officer for the SEC, Project 
Numbers 3235-0307 (Form N-1A), 3235-0316 (Form N-3), and 3235-0058 
(Form 12b-25), Office of Management and Budget, Room 3208, New 
Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20543.

    Dated: July 24, 1995.
Margaret H. McFarland,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-18815 Filed 7-31-95; 8:45 am]
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