Notice2026-01660

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Extension: Form N-17D-1

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January 28, 2026

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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 18 (Wednesday, January 28, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3765-3766]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-01660]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[OMB Control No. 3235-0229]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; Extension: Form N-17D-1

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. 350l-3520), the Securities and Exchange 
Commission (SEC or ``Commission'') has submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget a request for extension of the previously 
approved collection of information discussed below.
    Section 17(d) (15 U.S.C. 80a-17(d)) of the Investment Company Act 
of 1940 (``Act'') authorizes the Commission to adopt rules that protect 
funds and their security holders from overreaching by affiliated 
persons when the fund and the affiliated person participate in any 
joint enterprise or other joint arrangement or profit-sharing plan. 
Rule 17d-1 under the Act (17 CFR 270.17d-1) prohibits funds and their 
affiliated persons from participating in a joint enterprise, unless an 
application regarding the transaction has been filed with and approved 
by the Commission. Subparagraph (d)(3) of the rule provides an 
exemption from this requirement for any loan or credit advance to, or 
acquisition of securities or other property of, a small business 
concern, or any agreement to do any of these transactions 
(``investments'') made by a small business investment company 
(``SBIC'') and a bank that is an affiliated person of (1) the SBIC or 
(2) an affiliated person of the SBIC (``affiliated bank''). The 
exemption requires the Commission to prescribe reports about the 
investments, and the Commission has designated Form N-17D-1 (``form'') 
as the form for reports required by rule 17d-1(d)(3).\1\
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    \1\ See 17 CFR 270.17d-2.
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    SBICs and their affiliated banks use Form N-17D-1 to report any 
contemporaneous investments in a small business concern. The form 
provides shareholders and persons seeking to make an informed decision 
about investing in an SBIC an opportunity to learn about transactions 
of the SBIC that have the potential for self-dealing and other forms of 
overreaching by affiliated persons at the expense of shareholders.
    Form N-17D-1 requires SBICs and their affiliated banks to report 
identifying information about the small business concern and the 
affiliated bank. The report must include, among other things, the 
SBIC's and affiliated bank's outstanding investments in the small 
business concern, the use of the proceeds of the investments made 
during the reporting period, any changes in the nature and amount of 
the affiliated bank's investment, the name of any affiliated person of 
the SBIC or the affiliated bank (or any affiliated person of the 
affiliated person of the SBIC or the affiliated bank) who has any 
interest in the transactions, the basis of the affiliation, the nature 
of the interest, and the consideration the affiliated person has 
received or will receive.
    There are no SBICs currently registered with the Commission and, 
thus, we estimate that annually there will be no transactions that 
trigger the obligations to file the form.\2\ The Commission requests 
authorization to maintain an inventory of one burden hour to ease 
future renewals of Form N-

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17D-1's collection of information analysis should an SBIC register with 
the Commission in the future and engage in a transaction that would 
necessitate reporting on the form. If an SBIC were to file on Form N-
17D-1, we estimate the cost would be $266.\3\ Providing the information 
required by this form is mandatory, and the Commission will not keep 
responses on Form N-17D-1 confidential.
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    \2\ The Commission has not received a filing on Form N-17D-1 
since March 23, 1987.
    \3\ The estimated wage figure is based on published rates for 
Senior Accountants ($266); the $266/hour figure for a Senior 
Accountant is from Securities Industry and Financial Markets 
Association's Management & Professional Earnings in the Securities 
Industry 2013, modified by Commission staff to account for an 1800-
hour work-year and multiplied by 5.35 to account for bonuses, firm 
size, employee benefits and overhead.
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    The estimate of average burden hours is made solely for the 
purposes of the Paperwork Reduction Act, and is not derived from a 
comprehensive or even a representative survey or study of the costs of 
Commission rules. 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 OMB Control Number.
    The public may view and comment on this information collection 
request at: <a href="https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202509-3235-008">https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202509-3235-008</a> or send an email comment to 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b9f4fbe197f6f4fb97f6f0ebf897eafcfae6dddccad2e6d6dfdfd0dadccbf9d6d4db97dcd6c997ded6cf"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a3eee1fb8deceee18deceaf1e28df0e6e0fcc7c6d0c8fcccc5c5cac0c6d1e3cccec18dc6ccd38dc4ccd5">[email&#160;protected]</span></a> within 30 days of the day 
after publication of this notice by March 2, 2026.

    Dated: January 26, 2026.
Sherry R. Haywood,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2026-01660 Filed 1-27-26; 8:45 am]
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