[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 53 (Monday, March 19, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 12070]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-05523]


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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:
    Credit Risk Retention--Regulation RR, SEC File No. 270-613, OMB 
Control No. 3235-0712.

    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.
    Credit Risk Retention (``Regulation RR'') (17 CFR 246.1 through 
246.22) recordkeeping and disclosure requirements implement Section 15G 
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78o-11) Section 15G 
clarifies the scope and application of Section 306(a) of the Sarbanes-
Oxley Act of 2002 (15 U.S.C. 7244(a)). Section 306(a) of the Sarbanes-
Oxley Act requires, among other things, an issuer to provide timely 
notice to its directors and executive officers and to the Commission of 
the imposition of a blackout period that would trigger a trading 
prohibition under Section 306(a)(1) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Section 
306(a)(1) prohibits any director or executive officer of an issuer of 
any equity security, from directly or indirectly, purchasing, selling 
or otherwise acquiring or transferring any equity security of that 
issuer during the blackout period with respect to such equity security, 
if the director or executive officer acquired the equity security in 
connection with his or her service or employment. Approximately 1,647 
issuers file using Regulation RR responses and it takes approximately 
14.389 hours per response. We estimate that 75% of the 14.389 hours per 
response (10.792 hours) is prepared by the registrant for a total 
annual reporting burden of 17,774 hours (10.792 hours per response x 
1,647 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 website, 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: 
[email protected]; and (ii) 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]. Comments must be submitted to OMB within 30 
days of this notice.

    Dated: March 14, 2018.
Eduardo A. Aleman,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-05523 Filed 3-16-18; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 8011-01-P


