[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 184 (Friday, September 20, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49502-49503]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-24169]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

Upon Written Request, Copies Available From:
    Securities and Exchange Commission,

[[Page 49503]]

Office of Filings and Information Services, Washington DC 20549

Proposed Amendments

Form BDW, SEC File No. 270-17, OMB Control No. 3235-0018
Rule 11Ac1-1, SEC File No. 270-404, OMB Control No. 3235-0461

    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 (``Commission'') has submitted to the Office of Management 
and Budget requests for approval of proposed amendments on previously 
approved collections of information:
    Form BDW is used by broker-dealers to withdraw from registration 
with the Commission, the self-regulatory organizations, and the states. 
It is estimated that approximately 900 broker-dealers annually will 
incur an average burden of 15 minutes, or 0.25 hours to file for 
withdrawal on Form BDW electronically with the redesignated Central 
Registration Depository system, a computer system operated by the 
National Association of Securities Dealer's Inc. that maintains 
information regarding broker-dealers and their registered personnel.
    Rule 11Ac1-1 contains two related collections of information 
necessary to disseminate to the public market markers' published 
quotations to buy and sell securities. The first collection of 
information is found in 17 CFR 11Ac1-1(c). This reporting requirement 
obligates each ``responsible broker or dealer,'' as defined under the 
rule, to communicate to its exchange or association its best bids, best 
offers, and quotation sizes for any subject security, as defined under 
the rule. The second collection of information is found in 17 CFR 
11Ac1-1(b). This reporting requirement obligates each exchange and 
association to make available to quotation vendors for dissemination to 
the public the best bid, best offer, and aggregate quotation size for 
each subject security.\1\ Brokers, dealers, other market participants, 
and members of the public rely on published quotation information to 
determine the best price and market for execution of customer orders.
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    \1\ A third reporting requirement under the Quote Rule, as 
amended at 17 CFR 11Ac1-1(c)(5), will give electronic communications 
networks (``ECNs'') the option of reporting to an exchange or 
association for public dissemination, on behalf of their over-the-
counter (``OTC'') market maker or exchange specialist customers, the 
best priced orders and a cumulative size for such orders entered by 
market makers, to satisfy such market makers' reporting obligation 
under Rule 11Ac1-1(c). Because this reporting requirement is an 
alternative method of meeting the market markers' reporting 
obligation, and because it is directed to nine or fewer persons 
(BCNs), this collection of information is not subject to OMB review 
under the PRA.
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    It is anticipated that 758 respondents, consisting of 8 national 
securities exchanges or registered national securities associations, 
180 exchange specialists and 570 OTC market makers, will make 
409,568,000 total annual responses pursuant to Rule 11Ac1-1. The total 
annual burden is estimated to be approximately 179,670 total annual 
hours.
    General comments regarding the estimated burden hours should be 
directed to the Desk Officer for the Securities and Exchange Commission 
at the address below. Any 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, Office of Information Technology, Securities and Exchange 
Commission, 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549 and Desk 
Officer for the Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of 
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 
Room 3208, New Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20503.

    Dated: September 9, 1996.
Jonathan G. Katz,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-24169 Filed 9-19-96; 8:45 am]
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