[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 67 (Tuesday, April 8, 1997)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 16690-16691]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-8874]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

17 CFR Part 232

[Release Nos. 33-7411; 34-38465; 35-26699; 39-2351; IC-22595]
RIN 3235-AG96


Adoption of Updated EDGAR Filer Manual; Correction and Further 
Delay of Implementation

AGENCY: Securities and Exchange Commission.

ACTION: Final rule; correction and further delay of implementation.

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SUMMARY: The Commission is postponing the implementation of an updated 
edition of the EDGAR Filer Manual which was published in the Federal 
Register on February 27, 1997 (62 FR 8877) and March 24, 1997 (62 FR 
13820) in order to resolve technical issues, resulting from a power 
outage, that delayed system implementation from March 24, 1997 to April 
14, 1997 and is correcting a typographical error in an instruction to 
the amendatory language for Sec. 232.301.

DATES: The correction to Sec. 232.301 is effective March 10, 1997. The 
implementation of the new edition of the EDGAR Filer Manual is delayed 
until April 14, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
In the Office of Information Technology, David T. Copenhafer at (202) 
942-8800; for questions concerning investment company filings, Ruth 
Armfield Sanders, Senior Counsel, Division of Investment Management, at 
(202) 942-0591; and for questions with respect to documents subject to 
review by the Division of Corporation Finance, Margaret R. Black at 
(202) 942-2940.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On February 21, 1997, the Commission 
announced the adoption of an updated EDGAR Filer Manual (``Filer 
Manual''), which sets forth the technical formatting requirements 
governing the preparation and submission of electronic filings through 
the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (``EDGAR'') 
system.\1\ Compliance with the provisions of the Filer Manual is 
required in order to assure the timely

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acceptance and processing of filings made in electronic format. Filers 
should consult the Filer Manual in conjunction with the Commission's 
rules governing mandated electronic filing when preparing documents for 
electronic submission.\2\
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    \1\ The Filer Manual originally was adopted on April 1, 1993, 
and became effective on April 26, 1993. Release No. 33-6986 (April 
1, 1993) [58 FR 18638]. The most recent update to the Filer Manual 
was adopted in Release No. 33-7394 (February 21, 1997) [62 FR 8877], 
and became effective on March 10, 1997. On March 19, 1997, the 
Commission issued a release correcting and delaying the 
implementation of the EDGAR Filer Manual. See Release No. 33-7405 
(March 19, 1997) 62 FR 13820 (March 24, 1997).
    \2\ See Release Nos. 33-6977 (February 23, 1993) [58 FR 14628], 
IC-19284 (February 23, 1993) [58 FR 14848], 35-25746 (February 23, 
1993) [58 FR 14999], and 33-6980 (February 23, 1993) [58 FR 15009] 
for a comprehensive treatment of the rules adopted by the Commission 
governing mandated electronic filing. See also Release No. 33-7122 
(December 19, 1994) [59 FR 67752], in which the Commission made the 
EDGAR rules final and applicable to all domestic registrants and 
adopted minor amendments to the EDGAR rules; Release No. 33-7394, in 
which the Commission adopted the most recent update to the Filer 
Manual; and Release No. 33-7369 (December 5, 1996) [61 FR 65440], in 
which the Commission proposed additional minor technical amendments 
to the EDGAR rules.
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    A power outage that occurred at 4:30 a.m. on March 21, 1997 
prevented system implementation on March 24, 1997. The Commission, 
therefore, is postponing the implementation of the Filer Manual from 
March 24, 1997 to April 14, 1997.
    An incorrect page reference in the March 24th issue is being 
corrected for Sec. 232.301.

Need for Correction

    As published, the correction to the final regulations contains an 
error which may prove to be misleading and is in need of clarification.

Correction of Publication

    Accordingly, the publication of March 24, 1997 of the final 
regulations, which were the subject of FR Doc. No. 97-7340, is 
corrected as follows:


Sec. 232.301  [Corrected]

    On page 13821, second column, in the amendatory instruction to 
Sec. 232.301, first line, page ``8876'' is corrected to read ``8878''.

    Dated: April 2, 1997.
Margaret H. McFarland,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-8874 Filed 4-7-97; 8:45 am]
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