[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 192 (Friday, October 3, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59771-59772]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-23601]
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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 information collection requirements described below will
be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (``OMB'') for
review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (``PRA''). The FTC
is seeking public comments on its proposal to extend for an additional
three years its OMB clearance for the information collection
requirements contained in its Trade Regulation Rule on Disclosure
Requirements and Prohibitions Concerning Franchising (``Franchise
Rule'' or ``Rule''). That clearance expires on December 31, 2014.
DATES: Comments must be submitted by November 3, 2014.
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 ``Franchise Rule, PRA
Comment, FTC File No. P094400'' on your comment. File your comment
online at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/franchiserulePRA2 by
following the instructions on the web-based form. If you prefer to file
your comment on paper, mail your comment to the following address:
Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania
Avenue NW., Suite CC-5610 (Annex J), Washington, DC 20580, or deliver
your comment to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office
of the Secretary, Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW., 5th Floor,
Suite 5610 (Annex J), Washington, DC 20024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information
should be addressed to Craig Tregillus, Attorney, Division of Marketing
Practices, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission, 600
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Mailstop CC-8528, Washington, DC 20580, (202)
326-2970.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Franchise Rule, 16 CFR Part 436.
OMB Control Number: 3084-0107.
Type of Review: Extension of currently approved collection.
Abstract: On July 15, 2014, the Commission sought comment on the
information collection requirements associated with the Franchise Rule.
79 FR 41284. 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 a second opportunity for the public to
comment while seeking OMB approval to renew the pre-existing clearance
for the Rule.
Estimated Annual Burden: 16,750 hours.
Estimated Number of Respondents, Estimated Average Burden per Year
per Respondent: (250 new franchisors x 30 hours of annual disclosure
burden) + (2,250 established franchisors x 3 hours of average annual
disclosure burden) + (2,500 franchisors x 1 hour of annual
recordkeeping burden).\1\
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\1\ The details and assumptions underlying these estimates and
for estimated annual labor and non-labor costs were set forth in the
July 15, 2014 Federal Register notice.
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Estimated Annual Labor Cost: $3,597,500.
Estimated Capital or Other Non-Labor Cost: $8,000,000.
Request for Comment: You can file a comment online or on paper. For
the FTC to consider your comment, we must receive it on or before
November 3, 2014. Write ``Franchise Rule, 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 obtained from any person and 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), 16 CFR 4.10(a)(2). 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), 16 CFR
4.9(c).\2\ Your comment will be kept confidential only if the FTC
General Counsel grants your request in accordance with the law and the
public interest.
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\2\ In particular, the written request for confidential
treatment that accompanies the comment must include the factual and
legal basis for the request, and must identify the specific portions
of the comment to be withheld from the public record. See FTC Rule
4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c).
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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, or to send them to the Commission by courier or
overnight service. To make sure that the Commission considers your
online comment, you must file it at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/franchiserulePRA2 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 ``Franchise Rule, PRA
Comment, FTC File No. P094400'' on your comment and on the envelope,
and mail it to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office
of the Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Suite CC-5610 (Annex J),
Washington, DC 20580, or deliver your comment to the following address:
Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, Constitution Center,
400 7th Street SW., 5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex J), Washington, DC
20024. If possible, submit your paper comment to the Commission by
courier or overnight service.
Visit the Commission Web site at http://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 November 3,
2014. 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 information collection 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
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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) 395-5806.
David C. Shonka,
Principal Deputy General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2014-23601 Filed 10-2-14; 8:45 am]
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