[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 122 (Tuesday, June 25, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38041-38042]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-15088]
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
review; Comment Request
AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission (``FTC'' or ``Commission'').
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The FTC seeks public comments on its proposal to the Office of
Management and Budget (``OMB'') to extend through August 31, 2016, the
current Paperwork Reduction Act (``PRA'') clearance for the FTC's
enforcement of the information collection requirements in its in its
Telemarketing Sales Rule (``TSR''). That clearance expires on August
31, 2013.
DATES: Comments must be filed by July 25, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a comment online or on paper, by
following the instructions in the Request for Comment part of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. Write ``TSR PRA Comment, FTC
File No. P094400'' on your comment and file your comment online at
https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/tsrrulepra2 by following the
instructions on the web-based form. If you prefer to file your comment
on paper, mail or deliver your comment to the following address:
Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, Room H-113 (Annex
J), 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20580.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Craig Tregillus, Attorney, Division of
Marketing Practices, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade
Commission, Room H-238, 600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC
20580, (202) 326-2970.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 1, 2013, the Commission sought
comment on the information collection requirements associated with the
Telemarketing Sales Rule. 78 FR 19483 (Apr. 1, 2013). No comments were
received. Pursuant to the OMB regulations, 5 CFR Part 1320, that
implement the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., the FTC is providing this
second opportunity for public comment while seeking OMB approval to
renew the pre-existing clearance for those information collection
requirements. For more details about the Rule requirements, the
background behind these information collection provisions, and the
basis for the calculations summarized below, see 78 FR 19483.
Title: Telemarketing Sales Rule, 16 CFR Part 310.
OMB Control Number: 3084-0097.
Type of Review: Extension of currently approved collection.
Estimated Annual Burden:
Hours: 1,320,119 hours.\1\
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\1\ This is a 135 hour increase from the 1,319,984 hours burden
estimate in the April 1, 2013 Federal Register Notice, attributable
to an inadvertent error previously in adding the Registry access
hours burden.
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Labor Costs: $16,338,449.\2\
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\2\ This is an increase from the labor cost estimate in the
April 1, 2013 Federal Register Notice, mainly attributable to an
intervening annual release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Within it, the mean hourly wage for ``Computer Support Specialist''
rose from the previously shown amount of $25 per hour to $25.59 (x
7,500 recordkeeping hours =$191,925); for ``Office Clerks, General,
from $14 to $14.07 (x 8,110 recordkeeping hours =$114,108); and for
``Telemarketers'' from $12 to $12.29 (x 1,304,374 disclosure hours =
$16,030,756), resulting in the new total of $16,336,789. See http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ocwage.pdf. ``Occupational Employment
and Wages-May 2012,'' Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of
Labor, released March 2013, Table 1 (``National employment and wage
data from the Occupational Employment Statistics survey by
occupation, May 2012'').
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Non-Labor Costs: $5,101,732.\3\
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\3\ This is an increase of $486 from the $5,101,246 non-labor
costs estimate in the April 1, 2013 Federal Register Notice
resulting from the 135 hour increase in the hours burden. See supra
note 1.
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Pursuant to the OMB regulations, 5 CFR Part 1320, that implement
the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., the FTC is providing a second
opportunity for the public to comment while seeking OMB approval to
renew the pre-existing clearance for the Rule.
You can file a comment online or on paper. For the Commission to
consider your comment, we must receive it on or before July 25, 2013.
Write ``TSR PRA Comment, FTC File No. P094400'' on your comment. Your
comment--including your name and your state--will be placed on the
public record of this proceeding, including to the extent practicable,
on the public Commission Web site, at http://www.ftc.gov/os/publiccomments.shtm. As a matter of discretion, the Commission tries to
remove individuals' home contact information from comments before
placing them on the Commission Web site.
Because your comment will be made public, you are solely
responsible for making sure that your comment does not include any
sensitive personal information, like anyone's Social Security number,
date of birth, driver's license number or other state identification
number or foreign country equivalent, passport number, financial
account number, or credit or debit card number. You are also solely
responsible for making sure that your comment does not include any
sensitive health information, like medical records or other
individually identifiable health information. In addition, do not
include any ``[t]rade secret or any commercial or financial information
which is . . . privileged or confidential'' as provided in Section 6(f)
of the FTC Act 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16CFR
4.10(a)(2). In particular, do not include competitively sensitive
information such as costs, sales statistics, inventories, formulas,
patterns devices, manufacturing processes, or customer names.
If you want the Commission to give your comment confidential
treatment, you must file it in paper form, with a request for
confidential treatment, and you have to follow the procedure explained
in FTC Rule 4.9(c). Your comment will be kept confidential only if the
FTC General Counsel, in his or her sole discretion, grants your request
in accordance with the law and the public interest.
Postal mail addressed to the Commission is subject to delay due to
heightened security screening. As a result, we encourage you to submit
your comments online. To make sure that the Commission considers your
online comment, you must file it at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/tsrrulepra2, by following the instructions on the web-based form.
If this Notice appears at http://www.regulations.gov/#!home, you also
may file a comment through that Web site.
If you file your comment on paper, write ``TSR PRA Comment, FTC
File No. P094400'' on your comment and on the envelope, and mail or
deliver it to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office
of the Secretary, Room H-113 (Annex J), 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20580. If possible, submit your paper comment to the
Commission by courier or overnight service.
Visit the Commission Web site at www.ftc.gov to read this Notice.
The FTC Act and other laws that the Commission administers permit the
collection of public comments to consider and use in this proceeding as
appropriate. The Commission will consider all timely and responsive
public comments that it receives on or before July 25, 2013. You can
find more information, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy
Act, in the Commission's privacy policy, at http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.htm.
Comments on the disclosure requirements subject to review under the
PRA should additionally be submitted to OMB. If sent by U.S. mail, they
should be addressed to Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for the
Federal Trade Commission, New Executive Office Building, Docket
Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503.
Comments sent to OMB by U.S. postal mail, however, are subject to
delays due to heightened security precautions. Thus, comments instead
should be sent by facsimile to (202) 395-5167.
John F. Daly,
Acting General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2013-15088 Filed 6-24-13; 8:45 am]
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