Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals

Federal Register: December 23, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 245)

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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 30e-1; SEC File No. 270-21; OMB Control No. 3235-0025.

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.

The title for the collection of information is: Rule 30e-1 (CFR 270.30e-1) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a-1 et seq.) Reports to Stockholders of Management Companies. Section 30(e)

(15 U.S.C. 80a-29(e)) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

(``Investment Company Act'') requires a registered investment company

(``fund'') to transmit to its shareholders, at least semi-annually, reports containing financial statements and other financial information as the Commission may prescribe by rules and regulations. In addition,

Section 30(f) permits the Commission to require by rule that semi- annual reports include such other information as the Commission deems necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors. Rule 30e-1 generally requires a fund to transmit to its shareholders, at least semi-annually, reports containing the information that is required to be included in such reports by the fund's registration statement form under the Investment Company Act.

Failure to require the collection of this information would seriously impede the amount of current information available to shareholders and the public about funds and would prevent the Commission from implementing the regulatory program required by statute. Approximately 2,800 funds, with a total of approximately 10,460 portfolios, respond to rule 30e-1 annually. The proposed frequency of response is semi- annual. The estimate of the total annual reporting burden of the collection of information is approximately 114.2 hours per portfolio, and the total estimated annual burden for the industry is 1,194,532 hours (114.2 hours x 10,460 portfolios). Providing the information required by rule 30e-1 is mandatory. Responses will not be kept confidential. Estimates of the 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

SEC rules and forms.

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 at 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.

December 16, 2010.

Florence E. Harmon,

Deputy Secretary.

FR Doc. E9-30432 Filed 12-22-09; 8:45 am

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