Notices. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
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BILLING CODE 8011-01-P 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. “Investor Form” SEC File No. 270-485, OMB Control No. 3235-0547 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 a request to approve the collection of information discussed below.
Investors who submit complaints, ask questions, or provide tips do so voluntarily. To make it easier for the public to contact the agency electronically, the Commission created a series of investor complaint and question electronic forms. Investors can access forms through the *SEC Center for Complaints and Enforcement Tips* portal. The Commission consolidated four paper complaint forms into one electronic form ( *the Investor Form* ) that provides drop down options to choose from in order to categorize the investor's complaint or question, and may also provide the investor with automated information about their issue.
The investor may describe their complaint and submit it without their name or contact information. The Investor Form asks investors to provide information concerning, among other things, their names, how they can be reached, the names of the individuals or entities involved, the nature of their complaint or tip, what documents they can provide, and what, if any, actions they have taken. Use of the Investor Form is strictly voluntary. Moreover, the Commission does not require investors to submit complaints, questions, tips, or other feedback.
Absent the forms, the public still has several ways to contact the agency, including telephone, facsimile, letters, and email. Approximately 20,000 investors each year voluntarily choose to use the complaint and question form. Investors who choose not to use the electronic Investor Form receive the same level of service as those who do. The dual purpose of the form is to make it easier for the public to contact the agency with complaints, questions, tips, or other feedback and to further streamline the workflow of Commission staff that record, process, and respond to investor contacts.
The SEC has used—and will continue to use—the information that investors supply on the complaint and question forms, and the electronic Investor Form to review and process the contact (which may, in turn, involve responding to questions, processing complaints, or, as appropriate, initiating enforcement investigations), to maintain a record of contacts, to track the volume of investor complaints, and to analyze trends. The Commission estimates that the total reporting burden for using the Investor Form is 5,000 hours.
The calculation of this estimate depends on the number of investors who use the forms each year and the estimated time it takes to complete the forms: 20,000 respondents × 15 minutes = 5,000 burden hours. Members of the public should be aware that an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless a currently valid Office of Management and Budget control number is displayed. Background documentation for this information collection may be viewed at the following link, *http://www.reginfo.gov* .
General comments regarding the above information should be directed to the following persons:
(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 send an email to: *Shagufta_Ahmed@omb.eop.gov;* and
(ii)Thomas Bayer, Director/Chief Information Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission, c/o Remi Pavlik-Simon, 100 F St. 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: June 18, 2014. Kevin M. O'Neill, Deputy Secretary. [FR Doc. 2014-14662 Filed 6-23-14; 8:45 am]
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