
[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 242 (Wednesday, December 17, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 75191]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-29516]


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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 FOIA Services, 100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC 
20549-2736

Extension:
    Rule 12g3-2;
    SEC File No. 270-104, OMB Control No. 3235-0119.

    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 (``Commission'') has submitted to the Office of Management 
and Budget this request for extension of the previously approved 
collection of information discussed below.
    Rule 12g3-2 (17 CFR 240.12g3-2) under the Securities Exchange Act 
of 1934 (the ``Exchange Act'') provides an exemption from Section 12(g) 
of the Exchange Act (15 U.S.C. 78l(g)) for foreign private issuers. 
Rule 12g3-2 is designed to provide investors in foreign securities with 
information about such securities and the foreign issuer. As a 
condition to the exemption, a non-Exchange Act reporting foreign 
private issuer must publish in English specified non-U.S. disclosure 
documents required by Rule 12g3-2(b) for its most recently completed 
fiscal year on its Internet Web site or through an electronic 
information delivery system in its primary trading market. In addition, 
the rule requires a foreign private issuer similarly to publish 
electronically specified non-U.S. disclosure documents in English on an 
ongoing basis for subsequent fiscal years as a condition to maintaining 
the Rule 12g3-2(b) exemption. We estimate that approximately 1,386 
respondents claim the exemption. Each respondent publishes an estimated 
12 submissions pursuant to Rule 12g3-2 per year for a total of 16,632 
responses. We estimate the number of burden hours incurred by foreign 
private issuers to produce the Rule 12g3-2(b) publications to total 
37,206, or approximately 2.237 burden hours per response (2.237 hours 
per response x 16,632 responses).
    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 the background documentation for this 
information collection at the following Web site, www.reginfo.gov . 
Comments should be directed to: (i) Desk Officer for 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 by sending an email to: 
Shagufta_Ahmed@omb.eop.gov; and (ii) Pamela Dyson, Acting 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: PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov. Comments must be submitted to OMB within 30 
days of this notice.

    Dated: December 11, 2014.
Kevin M. O'Neill,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-29516 Filed 12-16-14; 8:45 am]
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