Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Extension: Rule 17a-6, 69355 [2022-25101]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 222 / Friday, November 18, 2022 / Notices to expend 25 hours in connection with this notice requirement (based on each SDR providing 50 notices, at half-hour per notice), for a one-time aggregate burden of 75 hours, with no associated ongoing burdens. This equates to 25 hours per year when annualized over three years. Commission staff estimates that a total of three SDRs may incur costs associated with the requirement that they maintain records of all information related to initial and subsequent requests for data access. On average, compliance with this provision is expected to require 360 hours initially and 280 hours annually per SDR, for a total burden of 1,080 hours initially and 840 hours annually across three SDRs. This equates to 1,200 hours per year when annualized over three years. Commission staff further estimates that those SDRs each will require $40,000 annually in connection with that requirement, for a total cost of $120,000 annually across three SDRs. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information under the PRA unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The public may view background documentation for this information collection at the following website: www.reginfo.gov. Find this particular information collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or by using the search function. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent by December 19, 2022 to (i) MBX.OMB.OIRA.SEC_desk_officer@ omb.eop.gov and (ii) David Bottom, Director/Chief Information Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission, c/o John Pezzullo, 100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 20549, or by sending an email to: PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov.’’ Dated: November 14, 2022. Sherry R. Haywood, Assistant Secretary. [FR Doc. 2022–25100 Filed 11–17–22; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8011–01–P khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION [SEC File No. 270–506, OMB Control No. 3235–0564] Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Extension: Rule 17a–6 Upon Written Request, Copies Available From: Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of FOIA Services, VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:46 Nov 17, 2022 Jkt 259001 100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 20549–2736. 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. Section 17(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the ‘‘Act’’) generally prohibits affiliated persons of a registered investment company (‘‘fund’’) from borrowing money or other property from, or selling or buying securities or other property to or from, the fund or any company that the fund controls. Rule 17a–6 (17 CFR 270.17a– 6) permits a fund, or a company controlled by the fund, and a ‘‘portfolio affiliate’’ of the fund (a company that is an affiliated person of the fund because the fund controls the company, or holds five percent or more of the company’s outstanding voting securities) to engage in principal transactions that would otherwise be prohibited under section 17(a) of the Act under certain conditions. A fund may not rely on the exemption in the rule to enter into a principal transaction with a portfolio affiliate if certain prohibited participants (e.g., directors, officers, employees, or investment advisers of the fund) have a financial interest in a party to the transaction. Rule 17a–6 specifies certain interests that are not ‘‘financial interests,’’ including any interest that the fund’s board of directors (including a majority of the directors who are not interested persons of the fund) finds to be not material. A board making this finding is required to record the basis for the finding in its meeting minutes. This recordkeeping requirement is a collection of information under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (‘‘PRA’’). The rule is designed to permit transactions between funds and their portfolio affiliates in circumstances in which it is unlikely that the affiliate would be in a position to take advantage of the fund. In determining whether a financial interest is ‘‘material,’’ the board of the fund should consider whether the nature and extent of the interest in the transaction is sufficiently small that a reasonable person would not believe that the interest affected the determination of whether to enter into the transaction or arrangement or the terms of the transaction or arrangement. The information collection requirements in rule 17a–6 are intended to ensure that Commission staff can review, in the PO 00000 Frm 00118 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 69355 course of its compliance and examination functions, the basis for a board of director’s finding that the financial interest of an otherwise prohibited participant in a party to a transaction with a portfolio affiliate is not material. Based on public filings made with the Commission, we estimate that annually 335 funds and their series (collectively, ‘‘funds’’) may rely on rule 17a–6 to engage in otherwise prohibited transactions under section 17(a) of the 1940 Act. This estimate is based on publicly available Form N–CEN filings. Solely for the purposes of this PRA extension, we assume that each of these funds has engaged in one transaction per reporting period that resulted in a paperwork burden pursuant to rule 17a– 6. We estimate that compliance with the recordkeeping requirement for rule 17a– 6 will impose a burden of .2 hours (12 minutes) for each transaction for which there is a paperwork burden. Therefore, we estimate 67 burden hours to be associated with rule 17a–6 recordkeeping requirements annually, with an associated internal cost of $5,762. The estimate of burden hours and burden costs is made solely for the purposes of the PRA. The estimate is not derived from a comprehensive or even a representative survey or study of the costs of Commission rules. Complying with this collection of information requirement is necessary to obtain the benefit of relying on rule 17a–6. 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. The public may view background documentation for this information collection at the following website: www.reginfo.gov. Find this particular information collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or by using the search function. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice by December 19, 2022 to (i) MBX.OMB.OIRA.SEC_desk_officer@ omb.eop.gov and (ii) David Bottom, Director/Chief Information Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission, c/ o John Pezzullo, 100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 20549, or by sending an email to: PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov. Dated: November 14, 2022. Sherry R. Haywood, Assistant Secretary. [FR Doc. 2022–25101 Filed 11–17–22; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8011–01–P E:\FR\FM\18NON1.SGM 18NON1

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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 222 (Friday, November 18, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 69355]
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[SEC File No. 270-506, OMB Control No. 3235-0564]


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Extension: Rule 17a-6

Upon Written Request, Copies Available From: Securities and Exchange 
Commission, Office of FOIA Services, 100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 
20549-2736.

    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.
    Section 17(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the ``Act'') 
generally prohibits affiliated persons of a registered investment 
company (``fund'') from borrowing money or other property from, or 
selling or buying securities or other property to or from, the fund or 
any company that the fund controls. Rule 17a-6 (17 CFR 270.17a-6) 
permits a fund, or a company controlled by the fund, and a ``portfolio 
affiliate'' of the fund (a company that is an affiliated person of the 
fund because the fund controls the company, or holds five percent or 
more of the company's outstanding voting securities) to engage in 
principal transactions that would otherwise be prohibited under section 
17(a) of the Act under certain conditions. A fund may not rely on the 
exemption in the rule to enter into a principal transaction with a 
portfolio affiliate if certain prohibited participants (e.g., 
directors, officers, employees, or investment advisers of the fund) 
have a financial interest in a party to the transaction. Rule 17a-6 
specifies certain interests that are not ``financial interests,'' 
including any interest that the fund's board of directors (including a 
majority of the directors who are not interested persons of the fund) 
finds to be not material. A board making this finding is required to 
record the basis for the finding in its meeting minutes. This 
recordkeeping requirement is a collection of information under the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (``PRA'').
    The rule is designed to permit transactions between funds and their 
portfolio affiliates in circumstances in which it is unlikely that the 
affiliate would be in a position to take advantage of the fund. In 
determining whether a financial interest is ``material,'' the board of 
the fund should consider whether the nature and extent of the interest 
in the transaction is sufficiently small that a reasonable person would 
not believe that the interest affected the determination of whether to 
enter into the transaction or arrangement or the terms of the 
transaction or arrangement. The information collection requirements in 
rule 17a-6 are intended to ensure that Commission staff can review, in 
the course of its compliance and examination functions, the basis for a 
board of director's finding that the financial interest of an otherwise 
prohibited participant in a party to a transaction with a portfolio 
affiliate is not material.
    Based on public filings made with the Commission, we estimate that 
annually 335 funds and their series (collectively, ``funds'') may rely 
on rule 17a-6 to engage in otherwise prohibited transactions under 
section 17(a) of the 1940 Act. This estimate is based on publicly 
available Form N-CEN filings. Solely for the purposes of this PRA 
extension, we assume that each of these funds has engaged in one 
transaction per reporting period that resulted in a paperwork burden 
pursuant to rule 17a-6. We estimate that compliance with the 
recordkeeping requirement for rule 17a-6 will impose a burden of .2 
hours (12 minutes) for each transaction for which there is a paperwork 
burden. Therefore, we estimate 67 burden hours to be associated with 
rule 17a-6 recordkeeping requirements annually, with an associated 
internal cost of $5,762.
    The estimate of burden hours and burden costs is made solely for 
the purposes of the PRA. The estimate is not derived from a 
comprehensive or even a representative survey or study of the costs of 
Commission rules. Complying with this collection of information 
requirement is necessary to obtain the benefit of relying on rule 17a-
6. 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.
    The public may view background documentation for this information 
collection at the following website: www.reginfo.gov. Find this 
particular information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day 
Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. 
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
by December 19, 2022 to (i) [email protected] 
and (ii) David Bottom, Director/Chief Information Officer, Securities 
and Exchange Commission, c/o John Pezzullo, 100 F Street NE, 
Washington, DC 20549, or by sending an email to: [email protected].

    Dated: November 14, 2022.
Sherry R. Haywood,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-25101 Filed 11-17-22; 8:45 am]
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