[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 149 (Monday, August 4, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45863-45864]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-19729]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION


Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Upon Written Request, Copies Available From: Securities and Exchange 
Commission, Office of Filings and Information Services, Washington, 
DC 20549.
Extension:
    Rule 11a-2; SEC File No. 270-267; OMB Control No. 3235-0272.

    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'') is soliciting comments on the collection of 
information summarized below. The Commission plans to submit to the 
Office of Management and Budget a request for an extension of the 
previously approved collection of information discussed below.
    The title for the collection of information is ``Rule 11a-2 Under 
the Investment Company Act of 1940: Offers of Exchange by Certain 
Registered Separate Accounts or Others the Terms of Which Do Not 
Require Prior Commission Approval.''
    Rule 11a-2 [17 CFR 270.11a-2] permits certain registered insurance 
company separate accounts, subject to certain conditions, to make 
exchange offers without prior approval by the Commission of the terms 
of those offers. Rule 11a-2 requires disclosure, in certain 
registration statements filed pursuant to the 1933 Act, of any 
administrative fee or sales load imposed in connection with an exchange 
offer.
    There are currently 711 registrants governed by Rule 11a-2. The 
Commission includes the estimated burden of complying with the 
information collection required by Rule 11a-2 in the total number of 
burden hours estimated for completing the relevant registration 
statements and reports the burden of Rule 11a-2 in the separate PRA 
submissions for those registration statements (see the separate PRA 
submissions for Form N-3 [17 CFR 274.11b], Form N-4 [17 CFR 274.11c] 
and Form N-6 [17 CFR 274.11d]). The Commission is requesting a burden 
of one hour for Rule 11a-2 for administrative purposes.
    The estimate of average burden hours is made solely for the 
purposes of the Paperwork Reduction Act, and is not derived from a 
comprehensive or even a representative survey or study of the costs of 
Commission rules or forms. With regard to Rule 11a-2, the Commission 
includes the estimate of burden hours in the total number of burden 
hours estimated for completing the relevant registration statements and 
reported on the separate PRA submissions for those statements (see the 
separate PRA submissions for Form N-3, Form N-4 and Form N-6).
    The information collection requirements imposed by Rule 11a-2 are 
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 control number.
    Written comments are invited on: (a) Whether the collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the Commission, including whether the information has practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the Commission's estimate of the burden of 
the collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility, and clarity of the information collected; and (d) ways to 
minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology. Consideration will be given to 
comments and suggestions submitted in writing within 60 days of this 
publication.
    Please direct your written comments to Kenneth A. Fogash, Acting 
Associate

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Executive Director/CIO, Office of Information Technology, Securities 
and Exchange Commission, 450 5th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20549.

    Dated: July 24, 2003.
Margaret H. McFarland,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-19729 Filed 8-1-03; 8:45 am]
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