Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals

Federal Register: December 1, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 231)

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Upon Written Request, Copies Available From: Securities and Exchange

Commission, Office of Filings and Information Services, Washington, DC 20549.

Extension:

Form N-2; SEC File No. 270-21; OMB Control No. 3235-0026.

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'') is soliciting comments on the collection of information summarized below. The Commission plans to submit this existing collection of information to the Office of Management and

Budget for extension and approval.

The title for the collection of information is ``Form N-2 (17 CFR 239.14 and 274.11a-1) under the Securities Act of 1933 and under the

Investment Company Act of 1940, Registration Statement of Closed-End

Management Investment Companies.'' Form N-2 is the form used by closed- end management investment companies (``closed-end funds'') to register as investment companies under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15

U.S.C. 80a-1 et seq.) (``Investment Company Act'') and to register their securities under the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77a et seq.) (``Securities Act''). The primary purpose of the registration process is to provide disclosure of financial and other information to investors and potential investors for the purpose of evaluating an investment in a security. Form N-2 also permits closed-end funds to provide investors with a prospectus containing information required in a registration statement prior to the sale or at the time of confirmation of delivery of securities. The form also may be used by the Commission in its regulatory review, inspection, and policy-making roles.

The Commission estimates that there are 140 initial registration statements and 60 post-effective amendments to initial registration statements filed on Form N-2 annually and that the average number of portfolios referenced in each initial filing and post-effective amendment is 1. The Commission further estimates that the hour burden for preparing and filing a post-effective amendment on Form N-2 is 116.5 hours per portfolio. The total annual hour burden for preparing and filing post-effective amendments is 6,990 hours (60 post-effective amendments x 1 portfolios x 116.5 hours per portfolio). The estimated annual hour burden for preparing and filing initial registration statements is 79,478 hours (140 initial registration statements x 1 portfolios x 567.7 hours per portfolio). The total annual hour burden for Form N-2, therefore, is estimated to be 86,468 hours (6,990 hours + 79,478 hours).

The information collection requirements imposed by Form N-2 are 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 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: nfraser@omb.eop.gov; and (ii) Lewis W. Walker, Acting Director/CIO,

Securities and Exchange Commission, C/O Shirley Martinson, 6432 General

Green Way, Alexandria, VA 22312; or send an e-mail to: PRA_

Mailbox@sec.gov. Comments must be submitted to OMB within 30 days of this notice.

Dated: November 17, 2008.

Florence E. Harmon,

Acting Secretary.

FR Doc. E8-28428 Filed 11-28-08; 8:45 am

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