[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 75 (Monday, April 20, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 21785]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-08991]
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Proposed Collection; Comment Request
Upon Written Request, Copy Available From: Securities and Exchange
Commission, Office of FOIA Services, 100 F Street NE., Washington, DC
20549-2736.
Extension:
Form N-5, SEC File No. 270-172, OMB Control No. 3235-0169.
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 (``OMB'') for extension and approval.
Form N-5 (17 CFR 239.24 and 274.5) is the form used by small
business investment companies (``SBICs'') to register their securities
under the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77a et seq.) (``Securities
Act'') and the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a-1 et seq.)
(``Investment Company Act''). Form N-5 is the registration statement
form adopted by the Commission for use by an SBIC that has been
licensed as such under the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 or
which has received the preliminary approval of the Small Business
Administration (``SBA'') and has been notified by the SBA that the
company may submit a license application Form N-5 is an integrated
registration form and may be used as the registration statement under
both the Securities Act and the Investment Company Act. The purpose of
Form N-5 is to meet the filing and disclosure requirements of both the
Securities Act and Investment Company Act, and to provide investors
with information sufficient to evaluate an investment in an SBIC. The
information that is required to be filed with the Commission permits
verification of compliance with securities law requirements and assures
the public availability and dissemination of the information.
The Commission has received one filing on Form N-5 in the last
three years, and we therefore estimate that SBICs will file about 0.333
filings on Form N-5 per year. The currently approved burden of Form N-5
is 352 hours per response. Therefore, the number of currently approved
aggregate burden hours, when calculated using the current estimate for
number of filings is about 117 hours per year. The currently approved
cost burden of Form N-5 is $30,000 per filing. We continue to believe
this estimate for Form N-5's cost burden is appropriate. Therefore, we
estimate that the aggregate cost burden, when calculated using the
Commission's estimate of 0.333 filings per year, is about $10,000 in
external costs per year.
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-5 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.
Written comments are invited on: (a) Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the Commission, including whether the information has practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the Commission's estimate of the burden of
the collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information collected; and (d) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology. Consideration will be given to
comments and suggestions submitted in writing within 60 days of this
publication.
Please direct your written comments to Pamela Dyson, Director/Chief
Information Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission, c/o Remi
Pavlik-Simon, 100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 20549; or send an email
to: [email protected].
April 15, 2015.
Brent J. Fields,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-08991 Filed 4-17-15; 8:45 am]
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