[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 94 (Wednesday, May 16, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 27599]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-9369]


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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:
    Form N-8B-2; SEC File No. 270-186; OMB Control No. 3235-0186.

    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-8B-2 (17 CFR 274.12) is the form used by unit investment 
trusts (``UITs'') that are currently issuing securities, including UITs 
that are issuers of periodic payment plan certificates and UITs of 
which a management investment company is the sponsor or depositor, to 
comply with the filing and disclosure requirements imposed by section 
8(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a-8(b)). Form 
N-8B-2 requires disclosure about the organization of a UIT, its 
securities, the trustee, the personnel and affiliated persons of the 
depositor, the distribution and redemption of securities, and financial 
statements. The Commission uses the information provided in the 
collection of information to determine compliance with section 8(b) of 
the Investment Company Act.
    Based on the Commission's industry statistics, the Commission 
estimates that there would be approximately one initial filing on Form 
N-8B-2 and 9 post-effective amendment filings to the Form annually. The 
Commission estimates that each registrant filing an initial Form N-8B-2 
would spend 44 hours in preparing and filing the Form and that the 
total hour burden for all initial Form N-8B-2 filings would be 44 
hours. Also, the Commission estimates that each UIT filing a post-
effective amendment to Form N-8B-2 would spend 16 hours in preparing 
and filing the amendment and that the total hour burden for all post-
effective amendments to the Form would be 144 hours. By combining the 
total hour burdens estimated for initial Form N-8B-2 filings and post-
effective amendments filings to the Form, the Commission estimates that 
the total annual burden hours for all registrants on Form N-8B-2 would 
be 188. Estimates of the burden hours are made solely for the purposes 
of the PRA, and are not derived from a comprehensive or even a 
representative survey or study of the costs of SEC rules and forms.
    The information provided on Form N-8B-2 is mandatory. The 
information provided on Form N-8B-2 will not be kept confidential. The 
Commission 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.
    Please direct general comments regarding the above information to 
the following persons: (i) Desk Officer for the Securities and Exchange 
Commission, 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, Securities and Exchange Commission, C/O Shirley 
Martinson, 6432 General Green Way, Alexandria, VA, 22312; or send an 
email to: [email protected]. Comments must be submitted to OMB 
within 30 days of this notice.

    Dated: May 11, 2007.
Florence E. Harmon,
Deputy Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E7-9369 Filed 5-15-07; 8:45 am]
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