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[Notices]               
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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.

New Collection: Individual Investor Plain English Survey Project; 
SEC File No. 270-570. OMB Control No. 3235-XXXX.

    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 
(``SEC'' or ``Commission'') has submitted to the Office of Management 
and Budget (``OMB'') a request for a new collection of information 
discussed below.
    The SEC's Office of Investor Education and Advocacy seeks to 
commence a collection of information. The title of this collection is 
the Individual Investor Plain English Survey Project. This project will 
conduct focus groups and telephone surveys of individual investors in 
SEC registered securities. The project will seek to gauge the level of 
individual investor satisfaction with current and potential future SEC-
mandated disclosures, to learn whether investors believe such 
disclosures are written in plain English and are reader-friendly, and 
to ask individual investors how such disclosures might be improved. The 
Commission will use this information in order to gain a comprehensive 
understanding of a range of views. The SEC intends to hire a 
professional survey firm to conduct the focus groups and telephone 
surveys. The total annual reporting and recordkeeping burden of this 
collection of information is estimated to be less than 1,000 burden 
hours.
    There are no recordkeeping requirements brought about by this 
project. Participation in any interview will be wholly voluntary. 
Information collected during the study will not be kept confidential, 
except that the identity of a study participant, and information that 
would identify a participant to anyone outside the study, will not be 
disclosed without the participant's consent, except as provided by law.
    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

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the Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Room 10102, New 
Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503 or e-mail to: 
Alexander_T._Hunt@omb.eop.gov; and (ii) R. Corey Booth, Director/

Chief Information Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission, C/O 
Shirley Martinson, 6432 General Green Way, Alexandria, Virginia 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 11, 2008.
Florence E. Harmon,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-652 Filed 1-15-08; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8011-01-P
