UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

FORM N-Q/A

QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANY

Investment Company Act file number   811-21619    

Nuveen Equity Premium Income Fund

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

     333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606     
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

Kevin J. McCarthy—Vice President and Secretary
     333 West Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60606     
(Name and address of agent for service)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:      312-917-7700     

Date of fiscal year end:        12/31      

Date of reporting period:    9/30/2007   

Form N-Q is to be used by management investment companies, other than small business investment companies registered on Form N-5 (§§ 239.24 and 274.5 of this chapter), to file reports with the Commission, not later than 60 days after the close of the first and third fiscal quarters, pursuant to rule 30b1-5 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (17 CFR 270.30b1-5). The Commission may use the information provided on Form N-Q in its regulatory, disclosure review, inspection, and policymaking roles.

A registrant is required to disclose the information specified by Form N-Q, and the Commission will make this information public. A registrant is not required to respond to the collection of information contained in Form N-Q unless the Form displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) control number. Please direct comments concerning the accuracy of the information collection burden estimate and any suggestions for reducing the burden to the Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, 450 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20549-0609. The OMB has reviewed this collection of information under the clearance requirements of 44 U.S.C. § 3507.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	Item 1. Schedule of Investments
	Item 2. Controls and Procedures
	Item 3. Exhibits
SIGNATURES
Certification

Item 1. Schedule of Investments

Portfolio of Investments (Unaudited)

Nuveen Equity Premium Income Fund (JPZ)
September 30, 2007

Shares			Description							Value
			Common Stocks – 99.3%
			Aerospace & Defense – 3.1%
	71,400		Boeing Company							$	7,496,286
	100,000		Honeywell International Inc.								5,947,000
	32,000		Raytheon Company								2,042,240
	89,400		United Technologies Corporation								7,194,912
			Total Aerospace & Defense								22,680,438
			Air Freight & Logistics – 0.2%
	16,859		United Parcel Service, Inc., Class B								1,266,111
			Airlines – 0.2%
	22,200		AMR Corporation-DEL, (1)								494,838
	14,800		Continental Airlines, inc., (1)								488,844
			Total Airlines								983,682
			Auto Components – 0.2%
	21,200		American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc.								535,300
	30,487		Cooper Tire & Rubber								743,883
	666		WABCO Holdings Inc.								31,136
			Total Auto Components								1,310,319
			Automobiles – 0.5%
	204,000		Ford Motor Company, (1)								1,731,960
	48,800		General Motors Corporation								1,790,960
	4,000		Harley-Davidson, Inc.								184,840
			Total Automobiles								3,707,760
			Beverages – 1.3%
	106,397		Coca-Cola Company								6,114,636
	40,810		PepsiCo, Inc.								2,989,741
			Total Beverages								9,104,377
			Biotechnology – 0.0%
	310		Genentech, Inc., (1)								24,186
			Building Products – 0.1%
	25,567		Masco Corporation								592,387
			Capital Markets – 2.9%
	46,000		Charles Schwab Corporation								993,600
	19,900		Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.								4,313,126
	10,500		Jefferies Group, Inc.								292,215
	177,861		JPMorgan Chase & Co.								8,149,591
	20,300		Legg Mason, Inc.								1,711,087
	31,400		Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.								2,238,192
	23,500		Morgan Stanley								1,480,500
	59,400		Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc., Class A								1,605,582
			Total Capital Markets								20,783,893
			Chemicals – 2.7%
	51,511		Dow Chemical Company								2,218,064
	148,600		E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company								7,364,616
	40,400		Eastman Chemical Company								2,695,892
	42,998		Lubrizol Corporation								2,797,450
	36,100		Lyondell Chemical Company								1,673,235
	19,000		NL Industries Inc.								215,270
	53,293		Olin Corporation								1,192,697
	63,622		RPM International, Inc.								1,523,747
			Total Chemicals								19,680,971
			Commercial Banks – 7.1%
	383,779		Bank of America Corporation								19,292,569
	18,300		Comerica Incorporated								938,424
	3,000		Federated Investors Inc.								119,100
	52,600		HSBC Holdings PLC, Sponsored ADR								4,870,760
	145,300		Lloyds TSB Group PLC, Sponsored ADR								6,460,038
	38,700		TrustCo Bank Corporation NY								422,991
	175,300		U.S. Bancorp								5,702,509
	112,400		Wachovia Corporation								5,636,860
	34,100		Washington Mutual, Inc.								1,204,071
	190,800		Wells Fargo & Company								6,796,296
			Total Commercial Banks								51,443,618
			Commercial Services & Supplies – 1.1%
	3,800		Avery Dennison Corporation								216,676
	90,303		Deluxe Corporation								3,326,763
	3,200		Manpower Inc.								205,920
	23,000		Pitney Bowes Inc.								1,044,660
	5,800		Priceline.com Incorporated, (1)								514,750
	8,500		R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company								310,760
	65,671		Waste Management, Inc.								2,478,424
			Total Commercial Services & Supplies								8,097,953
			Communications Equipment – 2.6%
	17,600		ADTRAN, Inc.								405,328
	30,600		Avaya Inc., (1)								518,976
	8,828		Ciena Corporation, (1)								336,170
	275,350		Cisco Systems, Inc., (1)								9,116,839
	56,100		Corning Incorporated								1,382,865
	11,875		JDS Uniphase Corporation, (1)								177,650
	149,100		Motorola, Inc.								2,762,823
	92,889		QUALCOMM Inc.								3,925,489
			Total Communications Equipment								18,626,140
			Computers & Peripherals – 4.0%
	51,646		Apple, Inc., (1)								7,929,727
	102,593		Dell Inc., (1)								2,831,567
	93,700		EMC Corporation, (1)								1,948,960
	129,100		Hewlett-Packard Company								6,427,889
	70,044		International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)								8,251,183
	10,457		McAfee Inc., (1)								364,636
	133,600		Sun Microsystems Inc., (1)								749,496
			Total Computers & Peripherals								28,503,458
			Consumer Finance – 0.0%
	11,750		Discover Financial Services								244,400
			Containers & Packaging – 0.6%
	9,900		Chesapeake Corporation								83,754
	65,700		Packaging Corp. of America								1,909,899
	87,489		Sonoco Products Company								2,640,418
			Total Containers & Packaging								4,634,071
			Diversified Consumer Services – 0.0%
	1,700		ITT Educational Services, Inc., (1)								206,873
			Diversified Financial Services – 4.2%
	16,900		A. G. Edwards, Inc.								1,415,375
	91,104		Capitalsource Inc.								1,843,945
	438,000		Citigroup Inc.								20,441,459
	8,700		CME Group, Inc.								5,109,945
	22,000		Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation								1,298,220
	2,500		Moody’s Corporation								126,000
			Total Diversified Financial Services								30,234,944
			Diversified Telecommunication Services – 4.5%
	582,077		AT&T Inc.								24,627,677
	220,900		Citizens Communications Company								3,163,288
	107,100		Verizon Communications Inc.								4,742,388
			Total Diversified Telecommunication Services								32,533,353
			Electric Utilities – 1.5%
	27,000		Ameren Corporation								1,417,500
	33,900		Consolidated Edison, Inc.								1,569,570
	25,949		Great Plains Energy Incorporated								747,591
	60,600		OGE Energy Corp.								2,005,860
	80,800		Pepco Holdings, Inc.								2,188,064
	33,400		Progress Energy, Inc.								1,564,790
	27,000		Southern Company								979,560
			Total Electric Utilities								10,472,935
			Electrical Equipment – 1.0%
	122,400		Emerson Electric Co.								6,514,128
	400		Hubbell Incorporated, Class B								22,848
	14,000		Rockwell Automation, Inc.								973,140
			Total Electrical Equipment								7,510,116
			Electronic Equipment & Instruments – 0.0%
	6,500		Cogent Inc., (1)								101,920
			Energy Equipment & Services – 2.9%
	21,300		Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc.								2,413,077
	24,668		ENSCO International Incorporated								1,383,875
	111,600		Halliburton Company								4,285,440
	11,600		Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc.								261,812
	79,200		Schlumberger Limited								8,316,000
	17,600		Smith International, Inc.								1,256,640
	46,500		Tidewater Inc.								2,922,060
			Total Energy Equipment & Services								20,838,904
			Food & Staples Retailing – 0.7%
	36,406		CVS Caremark Corporation								1,442,770
	200		Longs Drug Stores Corporation								9,934
	38,696		SUPERVALU INC								1,509,531
	53,325		Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.								2,327,636
	1,810		Whole Foods Market, Inc.								88,618
			Total Food & Staples Retailing								5,378,489
			Food Products – 1.0%
	173,705		Kraft Foods Inc.								5,994,560
	57,000		Sara Lee Corporation								951,330
			Total Food Products								6,945,890
			Gas Utilities – 0.9%
	28,200		AGL Resources Inc.								1,117,284
	62,601		Atmos Energy Corporation								1,772,860
	81,800		Nicor Inc.								3,509,220
			Total Gas Utilities								6,399,364
			Health Care Equipment & Supplies – 0.4%
	36,000		Baxter International Inc.								2,026,080
	10,375		Medtronic, Inc.								585,254
			Total Health Care Equipment & Supplies								2,611,334
			Health Care Providers & Services – 1.6%
	26,939		Brookdale Senior Living Inc.								1,072,442
	15,450		Coventry Health Care, Inc., (1)								961,145
	161,987		Kindred Healthcare Inc., (1)								2,901,187
	6,700		Mentor Corporation								308,535
	2,100		Omnicare, Inc.								69,573
	88,646		UnitedHealth Group Incorporated								4,293,126
	27,330		Wellpoint Inc., (1)								2,156,884
			Total Health Care Providers & Services								11,762,892
			Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure – 1.1%
	17,000		Carnival Corporation								823,310
	13,566		Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc.								1,179,292
	22,661		International Game Technology								976,689
	86,900		McDonald’s Corporation								4,733,443
			Total Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure								7,712,734
			Household Durables – 1.6%
	4,100		Black & Decker Corporation								341,530
	22,017		D.R. Horton, Inc.								282,038
	1,300		KB Home								32,578
	107,400		Newell Rubbermaid Inc.								3,095,268
	12,400		Snap-on Incorporated								614,296
	25,600		Stanley Works								1,436,928
	106,700		Tupperware Corporation								3,359,983
	29,936		Whirlpool Corporation								2,667,298
			Total Household Durables								11,829,919
			Household Products – 2.6%
	53,200		Colgate-Palmolive Company								3,794,224
	22,000		Kimberly-Clark Corporation								1,545,720
	193,080		Procter & Gamble Company								13,581,247
			Total Household Products								18,921,191
			Industrial Conglomerates – 4.2%
	2,000		American Standard Companies Inc.								71,240
	657,430		General Electric Company								27,217,601
	52,800		Genuine Parts Company								2,640,000
			Total Industrial Conglomerates								29,928,841
			Insurance – 3.8%
	36,800		Allstate Corporation								2,104,592
	111,000		American International Group, Inc.								7,509,150
	24,405		Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.								707,013
	209,268		Fidelity National Title Group Inc., Class A								3,658,005
	12,500		Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.								1,156,875
	80,446		Lincoln National Corporation								5,307,023
	72,500		Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.								1,848,750
	1,100		Mercury General Corporation								59,323
	46,000		Travelers Companies, Inc.								2,315,640
	52,700		Unitrin, Inc.								2,613,393
			Total Insurance								27,279,764
			Internet & Catalog Retail – 0.4%
	24,004		Amazon.com, Inc., (1)								2,235,973
	17,488		IAC/InterActiveCorp., (1)								518,869
			Total Internet & Catalog Retail								2,754,842
			Internet Software & Services – 1.8%
	63,687		eBay Inc., (1)								2,485,067
	6,320		F5 Networks, Inc., (1)								235,041
	11,546		Google Inc., Class A, (1)								6,549,699
	7,100		Openwave Systems Inc.								31,098
	159,665		United Online, Inc.								2,396,572
	38,910		Yahoo! Inc., (1)								1,044,344
			Total Internet Software & Services								12,741,821
			IT Services – 0.7%
	65,710		Automatic Data Processing, Inc.								3,018,060
	2,050		FactSet Research Systems Inc.								140,528
	6,395		Fidelity National Information Services								283,746
	35,800		Paychex, Inc.								1,467,800
	34,100		Standard Register Company								433,411
			Total IT Services								5,343,545
			Leisure Equipment & Products – 0.1%
	2,138		Brunswick Corporation								48,875
	17,155		Eastman Kodak Company								459,068
	7,900		Polaris Industries Inc.								344,598
			Total Leisure Equipment & Products								852,541
			Machinery – 2.3%
	30,891		Briggs & Stratton Corporation								777,835
	75,600		Caterpillar Inc.								5,929,308
	2,400		Cummins Inc.								306,936
	9,200		Deere & Company								1,365,464
	13,600		Graco Inc.								531,896
	16,555		Ingersoll Rand Company Limited, Class A								901,751
	400		Joy Global Inc.								20,344
	6,500		Parker Hannifin Corporation								726,895
	57,966		SPX Corporation								5,365,333
	12,000		Timken Company								445,800
			Total Machinery								16,371,562
			Media – 1.7%
	45,213		CBS Corporation, Class B								1,424,210
	2,780		Citadel Broadcasting Corporation								11,565
	67,800		Clear Channel Communications, Inc.								2,538,432
	15,000		Dow Jones & Company, Inc.								895,500
	5,355		Idearc Inc.								168,522
	39,613		New York Times, Class A								782,753
	26,000		Omnicom Group Inc.								1,250,340
	183,600		Regal Entertainment Group, Class A								4,030,020
	5,800		ValueClick, Inc., (1)								130,268
	36,200		Walt Disney Company								1,244,918
	6,200		XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., Class A, (1)								87,854
			Total Media								12,564,382
			Metals & Mining – 1.6%
	16,400		Alcoa Inc.								641,568
	28,800		CONSOL Energy Inc.								1,342,080
	32,000		Nucor Corporation								1,903,040
	63,400		Southern Copper Corporation								7,850,822
			Total Metals & Mining								11,737,510
			Multiline Retail – 1.1%
	13,000		Family Dollar Stores, Inc.								345,280
	38,002		Federated Department Stores, Inc.								1,228,225
	55,400		Nordstrom, Inc.								2,597,706
	8,060		Sears Holding Corporation, (1)								1,025,232
	40,800		Target Corporation								2,593,656
			Total Multiline Retail								7,790,099
			Multi-Utilities – 1.8%
	125,900		Duke Energy Corporation								2,353,071
	82,456		Integrys Energy Group, Inc.								4,224,221
	28,500		National Fuel Gas Company								1,334,085
	49,100		ONEOK, Inc.								2,327,340
	32,100		Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated								2,824,479
			Total Multi-Utilities								13,063,196
			Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels – 8.7%
	1,100		BP Amoco PLC								76,285
	167,900		Chevron Corporation								15,712,082
	63,649		ConocoPhillips								5,586,473
	422,200		Exxon Mobil Corporation								39,078,829
	34,940		Tesoro Petroleum Corporation								1,607,939
	9,900		Valero Energy Corporation								665,082
			Total Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels								62,726,690
			Paper & Forest Products – 0.5%
	12,070		Bowater Incorporated								180,084
	47,000		Weyerhaeuser Company								3,398,100
			Total Paper & Forest Products								3,578,184
			Pharmaceuticals – 7.6%
	111,700		Abbott Laboratories								5,989,354
	246,638		Bristol-Myers Squibb Company								7,108,107
	13,040		CV Therapeutics Inc., (1)								117,099
	63,000		Eli Lilly and Company								3,586,590
	11,471		GlaxoSmithKline PLC, ADR								610,257
	164,856		Johnson & Johnson								10,831,039
	234,802		Merck & Co. Inc.								12,136,915
	426,857		Pfizer Inc.								10,428,117
	22,700		Schering-Plough Corporation								718,001
	69,200		Wyeth								3,082,860
			Total Pharmaceuticals								54,608,339
			Real Estate – 1.2%
	9,500		American Financial Realty Trust								76,475
	39,900		First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc.								1,550,913
	21,000		Health Care REIT, Inc.								929,040
	58,500		Healthcare Realty Trust, Inc.								1,559,610
	117,900		HRPT Properties Trust								1,166,031
	22,300		Lexington Corporate Properties Trust								446,223
	5,700		Liberty Property Trust								229,197
	42,800		Nationwide Health Properties, Inc.								1,289,564
	7,682		Newcastle Investment Corporation								135,357
	27,000		Senior Housing Properties Trust								595,620
	61,650		U-Store-It Trust								813,780
			Total Real Estate								8,791,810
			Road & Rail – 0.3%
	17,069		Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation								1,385,491
	13,563		Norfolk Southern Corporation								704,055
			Total Road & Rail								2,089,546
			Semiconductors & Equipment – 2.5%
	11,500		Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., (1)								151,800
	26,500		Analog Devices, Inc.								958,240
	105,600		Applied Materials, Inc.								2,185,920
	45,300		Broadcom Corporation, Class A, (1)								1,650,732
	193,691		Intel Corporation								5,008,849
	10,600		Intersil Holding Corporation, Class A								354,358
	6,800		Lam Research Corporation, (1)								362,168
	39,700		Microchip Technology Incorporated								1,441,904
	24,800		National Semiconductor Corporation								672,576
	31,200		NVIDIA Corporation, (1)								1,130,688
	115,500		Texas Instruments Incorporated								4,226,145
			Total Semiconductors & Equipment								18,143,380
			Software – 3.5%
	43,822		Adobe Systems Incorporated, (1)								1,913,269
	4,580		Akamai Technologies, Inc., (1)								131,583
	11,610		Autodesk, Inc., (1)								580,152
	34,800		BEA Systems, Inc., (1)								482,676
	16,333		Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, Class A, (1)								1,302,883
	450,462		Microsoft Corporation								13,270,611
	16,433		NAVTEQ Corporation, (1)								1,281,281
	251,668		Oracle Corporation, (1)								5,448,612
	6,100		Red Hat, Inc., (1)								121,207
	10,500		Salesforce.com, Inc., (1)								538,860
	4,414		VeriSign, Inc., (1)								148,928
			Total Software								25,220,062
			Specialty Retail – 1.9%
	27,715		Abercrombie & Fitch Co., Class A								2,236,601
	47,700		American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.								1,254,987
	52,650		Best Buy Co., Inc.								2,422,953
	24,200		Chico’s FAS, Inc., (1)								340,010
	9,100		Christopher & Banks Corporation								110,292
	86,896		Home Depot, Inc.								2,818,906
	53,597		Limited Brands, Inc.								1,226,835
	55,300		Lowe’s Companies, Inc.								1,549,506
	5,212		RadioShack Corporation								107,680
	500		Sherwin-Williams Company								32,855
	5,000		Tiffany & Co.								261,750
	19,700		TJX Companies, Inc.								572,679
	83,469		Tuesday Morning Corporation								750,386
			Total Specialty Retail								13,685,440
			Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods – 0.3%
	27,238		VF Corporation								2,199,469
			Thrifts & Mortgage Finance – 0.2%
	60,800		New York Community Bancorp, Inc.								1,158,240
			Tobacco – 2.5%
	217,733		Altria Group, Inc.								15,138,975
	32,200		Reynolds American Inc.								2,047,598
	36,145		Vector Group Ltd.								810,014
			Total Tobacco								17,996,587
			Total Common Stocks (cost $516,056,421)								715,770,472
Principal
Amount (000)			Description		Coupon		Maturity			Value
			Short-Term Investments – 5.7%
$	41,161		Repurchase Agreement with Fixed Income Clearing Corporation, dated 9/28/07, repurchase price $41,174,198 collateralized by $33,290,000 U.S. Treasury Bonds, 7.250%, due 8/15/22, value $41,987,013		3.750%		10/01/07			$	41,161,335
			Total Short-Term Investments (cost $41,161,335)								41,161,335
				Notional			Expiration	Strike
Contracts			Type	Amount (2)			Date	Price		Value
			Put Options – 0.4%
	732		S&P 500 Index	$	98,820,000		10/20/07	$	1,350	$	80,520
	684		S&P 500 Index		94,050,000		10/20/07		1,375		108,072
	672		S&P 500 Index		89,040,000		11/17/07		1,325		265,440
	608		S&P 500 Index		82,080,000		11/17/07		1,350		316,160
	673		S&P 500 Index		92,537,500		11/17/07		1,375		457,640
	619		S&P 500 Index		83,565,000		12/22/07		1,350		668,520
	664		S&P 500 Index		91,300,000		12/22/07		1,375		879,800
	4,652		Total Put Options (cost $10,621,520)		631,392,500						2,776,152
			Total Investments (cost $567,839,276) – 105.4%								759,707,959
				Notional			Expiration	Strike
Contracts			Type	Amount (2)			Date	Price		Value
			Call Options – (3.7)% (3)
	(567	)	S&P 500 Index	$	(82,215,000	)	10/20/07	$	1,450	$	(4,856,355	)
	(896	)	S&P 500 Index		(132,160,000	)	10/20/07		1,475		(5,712,000	)
	(603	)	S&P 500 Index		(90,450,000	)	10/20/07		1,500		(2,626,065	)
	(564	)	S&P 500 Index		(86,010,000	)	10/20/07		1,525		(1,469,220	)
	(570	)	S&P 500 Index		(84,075,000	)	11/17/07		1,475		(4,426,050	)
	(872	)	S&P 500 Index		(130,800,000	)	11/17/07		1,500		(5,131,720	)
	(580	)	S&P 500 Index		(88,450,000	)	11/17/07		1,525		(2,433,100	)
	(4,652	)	Total Call Options Written (premiums received $23,439,517)		(694,160,000	)					(26,654,510	)
			Other Assets Less Liabilities – (1.7)%								(12,523,199	)
			Net Assets – 100%							$	720,530,250

(1)	Non-income producing.
(2)	For disclosure purposes, Notional Amount is calculated by multiplying the number of Contracts by the Strike Price by 100.
(3)	The Fund may designate up to 100% of its Common Stock investments to cover outstanding Call Options Written.
ADR	American Depositary Receipt.

Income Tax Information

The following information is presented on an income tax basis. Differences between amounts for financial statement and federal income tax purposes are primarily due to the recognition of unrealized gain or loss for tax (mark-to-market) on index option contracts, recognition of income on REIT investments and timing differences in recognizing certain gains and losses on investment transactions.

At September 30, 2007, the cost of investments was $567,839,305.

Gross unrealized appreciation and gross unrealized depreciation of investments at September 30, 2007, were as follows:

Gross unrealized:
Appreciation	$	207,176,285
Depreciation		(15,307,631	)
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) of investments	$	191,868,654

Item 2. Controls and Procedures.

a.

The registrant’s principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, have concluded that the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”) (17 CFR 270.30a-3(c))) are effective, as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report that includes the disclosure required by this paragraph, based on their evaluation of the controls and procedures required by Rule 30a-3(b) under the 1940 Act (17 CFR 270.30a-3(b)) and Rule 13a-15(b) or 15d-15(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR 240.13a-15(b) or 240.15d-15(b)).

b.

There were no changes in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the 1940 Act (17 CFR 270.30a-3(d)) that occurred during the registrant’s last fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

Item 3. Exhibits.

File as exhibits as part of this Form a separate certification for each principal executive officer and principal financial officer of the registrant as required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the 1940 Act (17 CFR 270.30a-2(a)), exactly as set forth below: EX-99 CERT Attached hereto.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

(Registrant)  Nuveen Equity Premium Income Fund    

By (Signature and Title)*	/s/ Kevin J. McCarthy
	Kevin J. McCarthy
	Vice President and Secretary

Date November 29, 2007

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

By (Signature and Title)*	/s/ Gifford R. Zimmerman
	Gifford R. Zimmerman
	Chief Administrative Officer (principal executive officer)

Date November 29, 2007

By (Signature and Title)*	/s/ Stephen D. Foy
	Stephen D. Foy
	Vice President and Controller (principal financial officer)

Date November 29, 2007

* Print the name and title of each signing officer under his or her signature.