Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Extension: Regulation S-Rules Governing Offers and Sales Made Outside the United States Without Registration Under the Securities Act of 1933

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Securities and Exchange Commission [OMB Control No. 3235-0357] 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 (“Commission”) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget this request for extension of the previously approved collection of information discussed below. Regulation S ( 17 CFR 230.901 through 230.905 ) sets forth rules applicable to offers and sales of securities made outside the United States without registration under the Securities Act of ( printed page 22562) 1933 ( 15 U.S.C. 77a et seq. ) (“Securities Act”). Regulation S addresses the extraterritorial application of the registration requirements of the Securities Act. The information required by Regulation S is mandatory, and although the information required by Regulation S is not publicly filed with the Commission, there are no assurances of confidentiality provided with respect to such information. We estimate that the information collections in Regulation S, on average, take approximately 5 hours per response to comply with and that there are approximately 1,103 foreign private issuers that rely on Regulation S once per year, for a total of approximately 1,103 responses annually to the information collection requirements in Regulatio…