[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 198 (Friday, October 12, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62272-62273]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-25091]


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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 Investor Education and Advocacy, Washington, DC 
20549-0213.

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 (the ``Commission'') has submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget (``OMB'') a request 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'') other than separate accounts 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 personnel and affiliated 
persons of the depositor, the distribution and

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redemption of securities, the trustee or custodian, 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 two initial filings on Form 
N-8B-2 and 6 post-effective amendment filings to the Form annually. The 
Commission estimates that each registrant filing an initial Form N-8B-2 
would spend 10 hours in preparing and filing the Form and that the 
total hour burden for all initial Form N-8B-2 filings would be 20 
hours. Also, the Commission estimates that each UIT filing a post-
effective amendment to Form N-8B-2 would spend 6 hours in preparing and 
filing the amendment and that the total hour burden for all post-
effective amendments to the Form would be 36 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 56. Estimates of the 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 
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. 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.
    The public may view the background documentation for this 
information collection at the following Web site, www.reginfo.gov. 
Comments should be directed to: (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 by sending an email to: [email protected]; and (ii) Thomas Bayer, Director/Chief Information 
Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission, c/o Remi Pavlik-Simon, 
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: October 5, 2012.
Kevin M. O'Neill,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-25091 Filed 10-11-12; 8:45 am]
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