Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals

Federal Register: January 26, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 15)

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

Upon Written Request, Copy Available From: Securities and Exchange

Commission, Office of Investor Education and Advocacy, Washington, DC 20549-0213.

Extension:

Rule 34b-1; File No. 270-305; OMB Control No. 3235-0346.

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 a request for extension of the previously approved collection of information discussed below.

Rule 34b-1 under the Investment Company Act (17 CFR 270.34b-1) governs sales material that accompanies or follows the delivery of a statutory prospectus (``sales literature'').\1\ Rule 34b-1 deems to be materially misleading any investment company sales literature required to be filed with the Commission by Section 24(b) of the Investment

Company Act (15 U.S.C. 80a-24(b)) \2\ that includes performance data, unless the sales literature also includes the appropriate uniformly computed data and the legend disclosure required in investment company advertisements by rule 482 under the Securities Act of 1933 (17 CFR 230.482). Requiring the inclusion of such standardized performance data in sales literature is designed to prevent misleading performance claims by funds and to enable investors to make meaningful comparisons among fund performance claims.

\1\ A ``statutory prospectus'' is a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 (15

U.S.C. 77j(a)).

\2\ Sales literature addressed to or intended for distribution to prospective investors is deemed filed with the Commission for purposes of Section 24(b) of the Investment Company Act upon filing with a national securities association registered under Section 15A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that has adopted rules providing standards for the investment company advertising practices of its members and has established and implemented procedures to review that advertising. See Rule 24b-3 under the Investment Company

Act (17 CFR 270.24b-3).

The Commission estimates that 3,210 respondents file approximately 13,001 responses with the Commission that include the information required by rule 34b-1. The burden from rule 34b-1 requires 2.41 hours per response resulting from creating the information required under rule 34b-1. The total burden hours for rule 34b-1 is 31,332 per year in the aggregate (13,001 responses x 2.41 hours per response). Estimates of average 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 Commission rules and forms.

The collection of information under rule 34b-1 is mandatory. The information provided under rule 34b-1 is not 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 send an e-mail to: Shagufta_

Ahmed@omb.eop.gov; and (ii) Charles Boucher, 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: January 14, 2009.

Florence E. Harmon,

Deputy Secretary.

FR Doc. E9-1459 Filed 1-23-09; 8:45 am

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