[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 164 (Friday, August 23, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52586-52587]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-20574]


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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:
    Rule 15Bc3-1 and Form MSDW; SEC File No. 270-93, OMB Control No. 
3235-0087.

    Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995 (``PRA'') (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities and 
Exchange Commission (``Commission'') has submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget (``OMB'') a request for approval of extension of 
the previously approved collection of information provided for in Rule 
15Bc3-1 (17 CFR 240.15Bc3-1) and Form MSDW (17 CFR 249.1110) under the 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 U.S.C. 78a et seq.).
    Rule 15Bc3-1 provides that a notice of withdrawal from registration 
with the Commission as a bank municipal securities dealer must be filed 
on Form MSDW. The Commission uses the information contained in Form 
MSDW in determining whether it is in the public interest to permit a 
bank municipal securities dealer to withdraw its registration. This 
information is also important to the municipal securities dealer's 
customers and to the public, because it provides, among other things, 
the name and address of a person to contact regarding any of the 
municipal securities dealer's unfinished business.
    Based upon past submissions, the staff estimates that, on an annual 
basis, approximately three bank municipal securities dealers will file 
a notice of withdrawal from registration with the

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Commission as a bank municipal securities dealer on Form MSDW. The 
staff estimates that the average number of hours necessary to comply 
with the notice requirements set out in Rule 15Bc3-1 and Form MSDW is 
0.5 per respondent, for a total burden of 1.5 hours per year. The staff 
estimates that the average internal compliance cost per hour is 
approximately $310. Therefore, the estimated total cost of compliance 
for the respondents is approximately $465.
    Providing the information on the application is mandatory in order 
to register with the Commission as a bank municipal securities dealer. 
The information contained in the application 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 under the PRA unless it 
displays a currently valid OMB control number.
    The public may view 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 email to: [email protected]; and 
(ii) Thomas Bayer, Director/Chief Information Officer, Securities and 
Exchange Commission, c/o Remi Pavlik-Simon, 100 F Street NE., 
Washington, DC 20549 or by email to: [email protected]. Comments 
must be submitted to OMB within 30 days of this notice.

    Dated: August 19, 2013.
Kevin M. O'Neill,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-20574 Filed 8-22-13; 8:45 am]
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