[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 215 (Monday, November 8, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 64796]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-3036]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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

Extension: Rule 58 and Form U-9C-3; SEC File No. 270-400; OMB 
Control No. 3235-0457.

    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 for extension of the previously approved collection of 
information discussed below.
    Rule 58 [17 CFR 250.58], under the Public Utility Holding Company 
Act of 1935 (``Act''), as amended (15 U.S.C. 79 et seq.) allows 
registered holding companies and their subsidiaries to acquire energy-
related and gas-related companies. Under that rule, acquisitions are 
made, within certain limits, without prior Commission approval under 
section 10 of the Act. To monitor compliance, the rule requires that 
within sixty days after the end of the first calendar quarter in which 
any exempt acquisition is made, and each calendar quarter thereafter, 
the registered holding company is required to file with the Commission 
a Certificate of Notification on Form U-9C-3 containing the information 
prescribed by that form. The information collection by the Commission 
is required by rule 58. The Commission uses this information to 
determine the existence of financial detriment, regarding the 
acquisition of certain energy-related companies, to the interests the 
Act is designed to protect. The Commission estimates that the total 
annual reporting burden is 464 annual burden hours to comply with these 
requirements, i.e., 29 respondents x 16 = 464 burden hours.
    The estimates of average burden hours are made 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.
    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.
    Please direct general comments regarding the above information 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 e-mail to [email protected]; and (ii) 
R. Corey Booth, Director/Chief Information Officer, Office of 
Information Technology, Securities and Exchange Commission, 450 5th 
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20549. Comments must be submitted to OMB 
within 30 days of this notice.

    Dated: November 2, 2004.
Margaret H. McFarland,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. E4-3036 Filed 11-5-04; 8:45 am]
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