Section 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") establishes a periodic
reporting obligation for every issuer of a class of securities
registered under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act").
Form 11-K is the annual report form designed for use by employee
stock purchase, savings and similar plans to facilitate their
compliance with that reporting requirement.
The amendments are intended to
continue and further the Commission’s ongoing efforts to make the
EDGAR system more comprehensive by including more filings in the
mandated electronic filing category. We anticipate that the
amendments would, in the aggregate, increase the burdens and costs
to registrants associated with compliance with the federal
securities disclosure regime. These estimated burden and cost
increases are expected to result primarily from the costs of
structuring the data in the financial statements and accompanying
footnotes of the financial statements to Form 11-K, including, for
example, the time required to becoming familiar with Inline XBRL
reporting, the acquisition of new software or the services of
consultants, and/or the training of staff. For purposes of the PRA,
we estimate that the amendments to Form 11-K will result in a net
decrease of 236 in the estimated number of annual responses, a net
increase of 70,153 burden hours, and a net increase in the cost
burden of $8,021,650 for the services of outside
professionals.
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.