# Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Extension: Form N-CEN
*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 a request for extension of the previously approved collection of information discussed below.
The title for the collection of information is “Form N-CEN under the Investment Company Act of 1940.” Form N CEN is used to collect annual, census-type information for registered funds. Filers must submit this report electronically using the Commission's electronic filing system “(EDGAR”) in Extensible Markup Language (“XML”) format. The purpose of Form N-CEN is to satisfy the filing and disclosure requirements of Section 30 of the Investment Company Act, and of rule 30a-1 thereunder.
We estimate that the average annual hour burden to complete the generally applicable items on Form N-CEN response will be 18 hours per year. We estimate that the aggregate annual hour burden to complete the generally applicable items will be 59,490 hours per year. We therefore estimate that filers would have total average annualized paperwork related expenses related to complete the generally applicable items of $605,520 for reports on Form N-CEN.
The requirements of this collection of information are mandatory. Responses 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 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 April 29, 2024 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: March 25, 2024.
Sherry R. Haywood,
Assistant Secretary.