Specialized Disclosure Report (sd)
May 24 2016 - 2:29PM
Edgar (US Regulatory)
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM SD
Specialized Disclosure Report
HOUGHTON
MIFFLIN HARCOURT COMPANY
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Delaware
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001-36166
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27-1566372
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(State or other jurisdiction
of corporation)
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(Commission
File Number)
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(IRS Employer
Identification No.)
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222 Berkeley Street
Boston, MA
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02116
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(Address of principal executive offices)
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(zip code)
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William F. Bayers
Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company
(617) 351-5000
(Name and
telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact in connection with this report)
Check the appropriate box to
indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information in this form applies:
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Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2015.
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Section 1 - Conflict Minerals Disclosure
Item 1.01
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Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company is a global
learning company organized along two reportable segments, Education and Trade Publishing. As used in this report on Form SD, the terms the Company, we, or our refer to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company; the term
Conflict Minerals Rule refers to Rule 13p-1 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; the term conflict minerals refers to columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite and wolframite (including their
derivatives tungsten, tantalum and tin) and gold; and the term covered countries refers to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its adjoining countries the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi,
Tanzania, Zambia and Angola.
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Conflict Minerals Disclosure
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In order to comply with the Conflict Minerals Rule, the
Company developed process guidelines (Process Guidelines) to, among other things (i) identify products that the Company manufactured or contracted to manufacture in a specified calendar year containing conflict minerals necessary to
the functionality or production of such products; (ii) conduct a reasonable country of origin inquiry (RCOI) with respect to such conflict minerals, which inquiry is designed to determine whether any such conflict minerals
originated from a covered country or were from recycled or scrap sources; and (iii) exercise due diligence on the source and chain of custody of such conflict minerals, the framework for which, among other aspects of our Process Guidelines, was
designed to conform to an internationally recognized framework for due diligence measures for reasonable supply chain management of minerals from conflict-affected areas.
In accordance with our Process Guidelines we undertook an applicability assessment to determine whether any of the products that the Company
manufactured or contracted to manufacture in 2015 may have contained conflict minerals (at risk products). Based on this applicability assessment, we determined that the Company contracted to manufacture products at risk of containing
conflict minerals. Accordingly, we surveyed our manufacturing partners and direct suppliers of at-risk products with respect to, among other things, the existence and origin of any conflict minerals contained in such products, including the
existence and origin of any conflict minerals contained in components thereof supplied to them from their suppliers, using the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (CRMT 4.01b). As a result of these measures, we
determined that a novelty book in our Trade Publishing segment (covered product) that the Company contracted to manufacture in 2015 contained small amounts of tin (in solder) and gold (in wiring) necessary to the functionality and
production of the product (necessary conflict minerals).
Further, in accordance with our Process Guidelines we conducted a
good faith reasonable country of origin inquiry to determine whether any of the necessary conflict minerals contained in the covered product originated from a covered country or were from recycled or scrap sources. Our RCOI included surveying our
manufacturing partners and direct suppliers of at-risk products as discussed above. The survey results from the manufacturing partner of the covered product indicated that the necessary conflict minerals did not originate from a covered country (or
from recycled or scrap sources). Based on the results of our RCOI, we have no reason to believe that the necessary conflict minerals contained in the covered product originated in a covered country.
This report on Form SD is available in the Investor Relations section of our website
at
www.hmhco.com
under the heading Investor Resources. The content on our website is referenced herein for general information only, and the content or any other information on our website is not intended to form a part of this
report on Form SD and is not incorporated by reference into this report on Form SD or into any other report we file with or furnish to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Not applicable.
Section 2 Exhibits
Not applicable.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the duly
authorized undersigned.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company
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/s/ William F. Bayers
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May 24, 2016
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By: William F. Bayers
Executive Vice President,
Secretary and
General Counsel
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(Date)
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