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Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Extension: Rule 30b1-8 and Form N-CR

Securities and Exchange Commission [OMB Control No. 3235-0705] Upon Written Request, Copies Available From: Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of FOIA Services, 100 F St...

Securities and Exchange Commission
  1. [OMB Control No. 3235-0705]

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 comments on the proposed collection of information discussed below.

A money market fund is required to file Form N-CR if a portfolio security defaults, an affiliate provides financial support to the fund, or the fund experiences a significant decline in its shadow price.[1] In most cases, a money market fund is required to submit a brief summary filing on Form N-CR within one business day of the occurrence of the event, and a follow up filing within four business days that includes a more complete description and information. Compliance with rule 30b1-8 is mandatory for any fund that holds itself out as a money market fund in reliance on rule 2a 7. Responses to the disclosure requirements will not be kept confidential.

The Commission estimates that it will receive, in the aggregate, an average of 1 report per year filed on Form N-CR.[2] Taking into account a blend of legal and financial in-house professionals, as well as the additional burdens associated with the amendments,[3] we estimate that ( printed page 49476) a fund will spend, on average, 10.5 burden hours [4] and time costs of approximately $7,104 [5] for one report. The Commission therefore estimates that the total annual burden for Form N-CR reporting will be 10.5 burden hours and the total annual time cost will be $7,104.[6]

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 by October 5, 2026.

Dated: July 30, 2026.

Sherry R. Haywood,

Assistant Secretary.

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2.  The number of reports per year filed on Form N-CR, based on initial and follow-up amendment filings with the Commission in 2023-2025, was 0, 0, and 2 respectively.

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3.  We have estimated the time costs for a financial manager to be $731 per hour, costs for lawyers to be $744 per hour, and costs for a computer programmer to be $416 per hour; to calculate the occupational hourly rates the Commission uses occupational mean hourly wage data from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for [“Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities” (NAICS 523)][the private sector]; see Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, https://www.bls.gov/​oes/​; see also Standard Occupational Classification, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, https://www.bls.gov/​soc/​ (describing occupational classification system used by BLS); Exec. Off. of the President, Off. of Mgmt. & Budget, North American Industry Classification System (2022), available at https://www.census.gov/​naics/​reference_​files_​tools/​ 2022_NAICS_Manual.pdf (describing the industry classification system used by BLS and other agencies); the mean hourly wage for each occupation is adjusted for changes in the seasonally adjusted employment cost index for private wages and salaries between the data reference period and when the data are released by BLS; see Employment Cost Index, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, https://www.bls.gov/​eci/​; the adjusted mean hourly wage is then multiplied by a factor that accounts for nonwage costs borne by employers, such as bonuses, benefits, and overhead; this factor is calculated as an average over the 10 most recently available years of data of the ratio of the Bureau of Economic Analysis's annual gross output data for [NAICS 523][the private sector] to total annual wages across all occupations for [NAICS 523][the private sector] in the OEWS data; see Gross Output by Industry, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, https://www.bea.gov/​data/​industries/​gross-output-by-industry; Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, https://www.bls.gov/​oes/​; the final product is the occupational hourly rate. See generally Updated Methodology for Calculating Occupational Hourly Rates (Dec. 19, 2025), available at https://www.sec.gov/​files/​method-occupational-hourly-rates.pdf.

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4.  When filing a report, the Commission estimates that a fund will spend on average approximately 4.5 hours of lawyer time, 4 hours of financial manager time, and 2 hours of computer programmer time to prepare, review and submit a filing.

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5.  This estimate is based on the following calculations: (4.5 hours × $744 per hour for a lawyer = $ 3,348) + (4 hours × $731 per hour for a financial manager = $2,924) + (2 hours × $416 per hour for a computer programmer) = $7,104.

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6.  This estimate is based on the following calculation: 1 reports per year × 10.5 burden hours per report = 10.5 burden hours; 1 reports per year × $ 7,104 time cost per report = $7,104 in time costs.

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[FR Doc. 2026-15727 Filed 8-3-26; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8011-01-P

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91 FR 49475

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“Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Extension: Rule 30b1-8 and Form N-CR,” thefederalregister.org (August 4, 2026), https://thefederalregister.org/documents/2026-15727/agency-information-collection-activities-proposed-collection-comment-request-extension-rule-30b1-8-and-form-n-cr.