Open-end management investment
companies are required to submit to the Commission information
included in their registration statements, or information included
in or amended by post-effective amendments thereto, in response to
Items 2, 3, and 4 (“risk/return summary information”) of Form N-1A
(OMB Control No. 3235-0307) in interactive eXtensible Business
Reporting Language (XBRL) data format. On Oct. 30, 2018, the
Commission proposed amendments to certain rules and forms that
would require variable annuity and variable life insurance contract
issuers to also use the Inline XBRL format for the submission of
certain required disclosures in variable contract statutory
prospectuses.
Currently, the approved annual
hour burden for complying with the newly-retitled “Investment
Company Interactive Data” requirements is 178,803 internal burden
hours to use Inline XBRL format to tag fund risk/return summary
items. The new estimate is 206,943 hours, representing an increase
of 28,140 burden hours as a result of the rule amendments requiring
issuers of variable annuities and variable life insurance contracts
to use Inline XBRL to tag certain disclosures. The increase in
hourly burdens is due to an increase in the number of registrants
that would be required to use Inline XBRL format to tag certain
disclosures, and an increase in the number of filings to be tagged.
Currently, the total external cost burden for software and/or
consulting services is $10,000,647. The new estimate is
$10,614,447, representing an increase of $613,800 due to the
increase in the number of registrants that would incur the cost of
goods and services purchased to comply with the proposed Inline
XBRL requirements.
$21,200,000
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Bradley Gude 2025515590
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.