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 increase of 70,153 burden hours, and a net increase in the cost burden of $8,021,650 for the services of outside professionals.
$129,168,390
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Daniel Morris 202 551-3430 morrisdb@sec.gov
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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).
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(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;
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