[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 93 (Monday, May 14, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22302-22303]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-10144]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[SEC File No. 270-095, OMB Control No. 3235-0084]


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

Upon Written Request, Copies Available From: Securities and Exchange 
Commission, Office of FOIA Services, 100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 
20549-2736

Extension:
    Rule 17Ac2-1

    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 
17Ac2-1 (17 CFR 240.17Ac2-1), under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 
(15 U.S.C. 78a et seq.).
    Rule 17Ac2-1, pursuant to Section 17A(c) of the Exchange Act, 
generally requires transfer agents for whom the Commission is the 
transfer agent's Appropriate Regulatory Agency (``ARA''), to file an 
application for registration with the Commission on Form TA-1 and to 
amend their registrations under certain circumstances.
    Specifically, Rule 17Ac2-1 requires transfer agents to file a Form 
TA-1

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application for registration with the Commission where the Commission 
is their ARA. Such transfer agents must also amend their Form TA-1 if 
the existing information on their Form TA-1 becomes inaccurate, 
misleading, or incomplete within 60 days following the date the 
information became inaccurate, misleading or incomplete. Registration 
filings on Form TA-1 and amendments thereto must be filed with the 
Commission electronically, absent an exemption, on EDGAR pursuant to 
Regulation S-T (17 CFR 232).
    The Commission annually receives approximately 186 filings on Form 
TA-1 from transfer agents required to register as such with the 
Commission. Included in this figure are approximately 178 amendments 
made annually by transfer agents to their Form TA-1 as required by Rule 
17Ac2-1(c) to address information that has become inaccurate, 
misleading, or incomplete and approximately 8 new applications by 
transfer agents for registration on Form TA-1 as required by Rule 
17Ac2-1(a). Based on past submissions, the staff estimates that on 
average approximately twelve hours are required for initial completion 
of Form TA-1 and that on average one and one-half hours are required 
for an amendment to Form TA-1 by each such firm. Thus, the subtotal 
burden for new applications for registration filed on Form TA-1 each 
year is 96 hours (12 hours times 8 filers) and the subtotal burden for 
amendments to Form TA-1 filed each year is 267 hours (1.5 hours times 
178 filers). The cumulative total is 363 burden hours per year (96 
hours plus 267 hours).
    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 website: 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) Pamela Dyson, Director/Chief 
Information Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission, c/o Remi 
Pavlik-Simon, 100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 20549, or by sending an 
email to:
    [email protected]. Comments must be submitted to OMB within 30 
days of this notice.

    Dated: May 8, 2018.
Eduardo A. Aleman,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-10144 Filed 5-11-18; 8:45 am]
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