[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 35 (Tuesday, February 22, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 9659]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-03622]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[SEC File No. 270-135, OMB Control No. 3235-0175]


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:
    Form N-8A

    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.
    The Investment Company Act of 1940 (``Investment Company Act'') (15 
U.S.C. 80a-1 et seq.) requires investment companies to register with 
the Commission before they conduct any business in interstate commerce. 
Section 8(a) of the Investment Company Act provides that an investment 
company shall be deemed to be registered upon receipt by the Commission 
of a notification of registration in such form as the Commission 
prescribes. Form N-8A (17 CFR 274.10) is the form for notification of 
registration that the Commission has adopted under section 8(a). The 
purpose of such notification of registration provided on Form N-8A is 
to notify the Commission of the existence of investment companies 
required to be registered under the Investment Company Act and to 
enable the Commission to administer the provisions of the Investment 
Company Act with respect to those companies. After an investment 
company has filed its notification of registration under section 8(a), 
the company is then subject to the provisions of the Investment Company 
Act which govern certain aspects of its organization and activities, 
such as the composition of its board of directors and the issuance of 
senior securities. Form N-8A requires an investment company to provide 
its name, state of organization, form of organization, classification, 
the name and address of each investment adviser of the investment 
company, the current value of its total assets, and certain other 
information readily available to the investment company. If the 
investment company is filing a registration statement as required by 
Section 8(b) of the Investment Company Act concurrently with its 
notification of registration, Form N-8A requires only that the 
registrant file the cover page (giving its name, address, and agent for 
service of process) and sign the form in order to effect registration.
    Based on recent filings of notifications of registration on Form N-
8A, we estimate that about 101 investment companies file such 
notifications each year. An investment company must only file a 
notification of registration on Form N-8A once. The currently approved 
average hour burden per investment company of preparing and filing a 
notification of registration on Form N-8A is one hour. Based on the 
Commission staff's experience with the requirements of Form N-8A and 
with disclosure documents generally--and considering that investment 
companies that are filing notifications of registration on Form N-8A 
simultaneously with the registration statement under the Investment 
Company Act are only required by Form N-8A to file a signed cover 
page--we continue to believe that this estimate is appropriate. 
Therefore, we estimate that the total annual hour burden to prepare and 
file notifications of registration on Form N-8A is 101 hours. The 
currently approved cost burden of Form N-8A is $449. We are updating 
the estimated costs burden to $496 to account for the effects of 
inflation. Therefore, we estimate that the total annual cost burden 
associated with preparing and filing notifications of registration on 
Form N-8A is about $50,096.
    Estimates of average burden hours and costs are made solely for the 
purposes of the Paperwork Reduction Act, and are not derived from a 
comprehensive or even representative survey or study of the costs of 
Commission rules and forms. Compliance with the collection of 
information requirements of Form N-8A is mandatory. 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 OMB 
control number.
    The public may view the 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) David Bottom, Director/Chief 
Information Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission, c/o John R. 
Pezzullo, 100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 20549 or send an email to: 
[email protected]. Written comments and recommendations for the 
proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of 
publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find 
this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently under 
30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search 
function.

    Dated: February 15, 2022.
J. Matthew DeLesDernier,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-03622 Filed 2-18-22; 8:45 am]
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