[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 245 (Wednesday, December 21, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79190-79192]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-32574]


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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 and request for comment.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, 
the FTC is seeking public comments on its request to OMB for a three-
year extension of the current PRA clearance for items (a)-(c) below 
setting out the information collection requirements pertaining to the 
Commission's administrative activities. (OMB Control Number 3084-0047). 
That clearance expires on December 31, 2011.

DATES: Comments must be filed by January 20, 2012.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may submit written comments by following 
the instructions in the Request for Comments part of the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section below. Comments in electronic form should be 
submitted by using this Web link: https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/adminactivitiespra2. Comments in paper form should be mailed or 
delivered to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of 
the Secretary, Room H-113 (Annex J), 600

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Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nicholas Mastrocinque (Nick M) and Ami 
Dziekan (Ami D), Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade 
Commission, H-228, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20580, 
Nick M: (202) 326-3188 and Ami D: (202) 326-2648.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Administrative Activities.
    OMB Control Number: 3084-0047.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Abstract: The currently approved information collection consists 
of: (a) Applications to the Commission, including applications and 
notices contained in the Commission's Rules of Practice (primarily 
Parts I, II, and IV); (b) the FTC's consumer complaint systems; (c) the 
FTC's program evaluation activities and (d) the FTC's Applicant 
Background Form. The Commission is not seeking clearance renewal 
relating to item (d), the Applicant Background Form.
    On September 12, 2011, the Commission sought comment on the 
information collection requirements in the R-value Rule. 76 FR 56196. 
No comments were received. As required by OMB regulations, 5 CFR part 
1320, the FTC is providing this second opportunity for public comment.
    Estimated Annual Hours Burden: 187,114 hours.

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                                                   Number
                  Activity                       respondents             Time/Activity             Total hours
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Applications to the Commission..............                75  2 hours.......................               150
Misc. and fraud-related consumer complaints            262,000  6.1min........................            26,724
 (phone).
Misc. and fraud-related consumer complaints            281,000  5 min.........................            23,323
 (online).
Do-Not-Call related consumer complaints                355,000  3.0 min.......................            17,750
 (phone).
Do-Not-Call related consumer complaints              1,937,000  2.5 min.......................            81,354
 (online).
Identity theft complaints (phone)...........           212,000  6.2 min.......................            21,836
Identity theft complaints (online)..........            57,000  15 min........................            14,250
Customer Satisfaction Questionnaire (phone).             6,000  4.3 min.......................               432
Customer Satisfaction Questionnaire (online)            27,000  2.7 min.......................             1,215
Program Evaluations, Review of Divestiture                  15  4 hours.......................                60
 Orders (Respondents).
Program Evaluations, Review of Divestiture                   2  2 hours.......................                 4
 Orders (Monitor Trustees).
Program Evaluations, Review of Competition                  20  0.75 hour.....................                15
 Advocacy Program.
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    Totals..................................         3,137,112  ..............................           187,114
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* Annual estimate for each of the three years.
** Number of consumer calls and online submissions are calculated by projecting over the 3-year clearance period
  sought 5% annual growth.

There is more information relating to likely respondents for each type 
of activity and for total estimated annual labor costs in the 60-Day FR 
Notice. One correction to annual cost burden for likely respondents for 
Applications to the Commission is that the annual cost burden is 
approximately $69,000 (as opposed to the $46,000 set out in the 60-Day 
FR Notice). This is because the projected annual hours for those likely 
respondents is 150 and not 100.

Request For Comment

    You can file a comment online or on paper. For the Commission to 
consider your comment, we must receive it on or before January 20, 
2012. Write ``Administrative Activities: FTC File No. P911409'' 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 doesn't 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 doesn't include any 
sensitive health information, like medical records or other 
individually identifiable health information. In addition, don't 
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). In 
particular, don't 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), 16 CFR 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, 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/adminactivitiespra2, by following the instructions on the web-based 
form. If this Notice appears at http://www.regulations.gov, you also 
may file a comment through that Web site.
    If you file your comment on paper, write ``Administrative 
Activities: FTC File No. P911409'' 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

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paper comment to the Commission by courier or overnight service.
    Visit the Commission Web site at http://www.ftc.gov to read this 
Notice and the news release describing it. 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 January 20, 2012. 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.shtm.
    Comments on the information collection requirements subject to 
review under the PRA should also be submitted to OMB. If sent by U.S. 
mail, address comments 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.

Willard K. Tom,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2011-32574 Filed 12-20-11; 8:45 am]
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