Securities and Exchange Commission
- [OMB Control No. 3235-0184]
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 (“SEC” or “Commission”) is soliciting Form S-6 [1] is a form used for registration under the Securities Act of 1933 (“Securities Act”) [2] of securities of any unit investment trust (“UIT”) registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (“Investment Company Act”) [3] on Form N-8B-2.[4] Section 5 of the Securities Act requires the filing of a registration statement prior to the offer of securities to the public and that the statement be effective before any securities are sold.[5] Section 5(b) of the Securities Act requires that investors be provided with a prospectus containing the information required in a registration statement prior to the sale or at the time of confirmation or delivery of the securities.
Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act provides that when a prospectus is used more than nine months after the effective date of the registration statement, the information therein shall be as of a date not more than sixteen months prior to such use.[6] As a result, most UITs update their registration statements under the Securities Act on an annual basis in order that their sponsors may continue to maintain a secondary market in the units. UITs that are registered under the Investment Company Act on Form N-8B-2 file post-effective amendments to their registration statements on Form S-6 in order to update their prospectuses.[7] Compliance with Form S-6 is mandatory. Responses to the collection of information will not be kept confidential.
We estimate that approximately 1,014 filings on Form S-6.[8] Based on conversations with fund representatives ( printed page 33275) and the Commission's experience with the filing and amending of Form S-6 and with disclosure documents generally, we estimate that the reporting burden of compliance with Form S-6 is approximately 75 hours per filing. This time is spent, for example, preparing and reviewing the registration statements. Accordingly, we calculate the total estimated annual internal burden of responding to Form S-6 to be approximately 76,050 hours. We estimate that the total cost burden of preparing and filing registration statements on Form S-6 is $55,072,368.
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.
Written comments are invited on: (a) whether this proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the SEC, including whether the information will have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the SEC's estimate of the burden imposed by the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and the assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including through the use of automated, electronic collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Please direct your written comments on this 60-Day Collection Notice to Austin Gerig, Director/Chief Data Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission, c/o Tanya Ruttenberg via email to PaperworkReductionAct@sec.gov by August 3, 2026. There will be a second opportunity to comment on this SEC request following the Federal Register publishing a 30-Day Submission Notice.
Dated: June 1, 2026.
Sherry R. Haywood,
Assistant Secretary.