[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 134 (Wednesday, July 14, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 42228]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-16016]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

Upon Written Request, Copy Available From: Securities and Exchange 
Commission, Office of Filings and Information Services, Washington, DC 
20549.

Extension: Form N-8A; File No. 270-135; OMB Control No. 3235-0175.

    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 extension of the previously approved collection 
of information discussed below.
    Form N-8A--Notification of Registration of Investment Companies. 
Form N-8A [17 CFR 274.10] is the form that investment companies file to 
notify the Commission of the existence of active investment companies. 
After an investment company has filed its notification of registration 
under section 8(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 [15 U.S.C. 
80a-1 et seq.] (``1940 Act''), the company is then subject to the 
provisions of the 1940 Act which govern certain aspects of its 
organization and activities, such as the composition of its board of 
directors and the issuance of senior securities. Form N-8A requires an 
investment company to provide its name, state of organization, form of 
organization, classification, if it is a management company, the name 
and address of each investment adviser of the investment company, the 
current value of its total assets and certain other information readily 
available to the investment company. If the investment company is 
filing simultaneously its notification of registration and registration 
statement, Form N-8A requires only that the registrant file the cover 
page (giving its name, address and agent for service of process) and 
sign the form in order to effect registration.
    The Commission uses the information provided in the notification on 
Form N-8A to determine the existence of active investment companies and 
to enable the Commission to administer the provisions of the 1940 Act 
with respect to those companies. Each year approximately 263 investment 
companies file a notification on Form N-8A, which is required to be 
filed only once by an investment company. The Commission estimates that 
preparing Form N-8A requires an investment company to spend 
approximately 1 hour so that the total burden of preparing Form N-8A 
for all affected investment companies is 263 hours. Estimates of 
average burden hours are made solely for the purposes of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act, and are not derived from a comprehensive or even a 
representative survey or study of the costs of Commission rules and 
forms.
    The collection of information on Form N-8A is mandatory. The 
information provided on Form N-8A is not 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 OMB 
control number.
    General 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, or email to: [email protected]; and (ii) R. Corey Booth, Director/Chief 
Information Officer, 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: July 6, 2004.
Margaret H. McFarland,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 04-16016 Filed 7-13-04; 8:45 am]
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