[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 173 (Wednesday, September 6, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 54094]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-22771]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    Upon Written Request; Copies Available From: Securities Exchange 
Commission, Office of Filings and Information Services, Washington, DC 
20549.
    Request for Approval: Online Investor Behavior Survey SEC File No. 
270-483; OMB Control No. 3235-new.
    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 a request for approval of an online investor behavior 
survey. The survey would be voluntary in nature. It would be completed 
by approximately 10,000 individual investors. The survey will be 
distributed by brokerage firm members of the Securities Industry 
Association and posted on the Commission's website. Each respondent 
would spend approximately 15 minutes completing the survey for an 
estimated annual total burden of 2,500 hours. The survey would enable 
the Commission to learn more about the habits and education needs of 
online investors. It will help the Commission determine how to improve 
its investor protection and education initiatives with respect to 
online investors. 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.
    Written comments regarding the above information should be directed 
to the following persons: (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; and (ii) Michael E. Bartell, Associate 
Executive Director, Office of Information Technology, Securities and 
Exchange Commission, 450 Fifth Street, NW., Washington, DC 20549. 
Comments must be submitted to OMB within 30 days of this notice.

    Dated: August 23, 2000.
Margaret H. McFarland,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-22771 Filed 9-5-00; 8:45 am]
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