Federated Enhanced Treasury Income Fund (FETIX) CORRESP Correspondence with SEC

FEDERATED ENHANCED TREASURY INCOME FUND

4000 Ericsson Drive

Warrendale, PA 15086-7561

1-800-341-7400

January 22, 2010

Securities and Exchange Commission

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

Attention:	Keith O’Connell, Esq.
	Division of Investment Management
Re:	Federated Enhanced Treasury Income Fund (the “Fund”)
	Form N-2 Registration Statement (File No. 333-144682; 811-22098)

Gentlemen:

Pursuant to Rule 461 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), the Fund hereby requests that the staff of the Division of Investment Management accelerate the effective date of the Fund’s 1933 Act Registration Statement on Form N-2, as amended, to 2:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on Tuesday, January 26, 2010, or as soon thereafter as possible.

In connection with such request the Fund acknowledges that:

1. Should the Commission or the staff acting pursuant to delegated authority declare the registration statement effective, such action does not foreclose any action by the Commission with respect to the filing;

2. The action of the Commission or the staff acting pursuant to delegated authority in declaring the filing effective does not relieve the Fund of responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the filing; and

3. The Fund will not assert the staff’s acceleration of effectiveness of the filing as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any other person under the federal securities laws.

Furthermore, the Fund is aware that the Division of Enforcement has access to all information provided to the staff of the Division of Investment Management in connection with its review of and the Fund’s comments on this and other filings made with respect to the Registration Statement.

Very truly yours,
Federated Enhanced Treasury Income Fund
By:	/s/ C. Todd Gibson
	C. Todd Gibson, Assistant Secretary