[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 121 (Friday, June 24, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 36665]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-3280]


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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 18f-1, SEC File No. 270-187, OMB Control No. 3235-
0211
    Form N-18F-1, SEC File No. 270-187, OMB Control No. 3235-0211

    Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), the Securities and Exchange 
Commission (``Commission'') has submitted to the Office of Management 
and Budget (``OMB'') a request for extension of the previously approved 
collection of information discussed below.
    Rule 18f-1 [17 CFR 270.18f-1] enables a registered open-
endmanagement investment company (``fund'') that may redeem its 
securities in-kind, by making a one-time election, to commit to make 
cash redemptions pursuant to certain requirements without violating 
section 18(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 [15 U.S.C. 80a-
18(f)]. A fund relying on the rule must file Form N-18F-1 [17 CFR 
274.51] to notify the Commission of this election. The Commission staff 
estimates that approximately 38 funds file Form N-18F-1 annually, and 
that each response takes approximately one hour. Based on these 
estimates, the total annual burden hours associated with the rule is 
estimated to be 38 hours.
    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. The collection of information required by rule 18f-1 
is necessary to obtain the benefits of the rule. 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.
    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 10202, 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, 100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC 20549. Comments must be 
submitted to OMB within 30 days of this notice.

    Dated: June 16, 2005.
Jill M. Peterson,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. E5-3280 Filed 6-23-05; 8:45 am]
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