[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 97 (Tuesday, May 20, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28924-28925]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-11626]


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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; Extension

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission (``Commission'' or ``FTC'').

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The information collection requirements in the FTC's Fuel 
Rating Rule will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget 
(``OMB'') for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act 
(``PRA''). The FTC intends to ask OMB to extend for an additional three 
years the current PRA clearance for these information collection 
requirements. That clearance otherwise expires on May 31, 2014.

DATES: Comments must be filed by June 19, 2014.

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ADDRESSES: Interested parties may submit written comments 
electronically or in paper form by following the instructions in the 
Request for Comment part of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 
below. Write ``Fuel Rating Rule PRA Comment, FTC File No. P144200'' on 
your comment and file your comment online at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/fuelratingpra2/ 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, 600 
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20580, in the manner detailed 
in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the proposed information requirements should be addressed to 
Miriam Lederer, Attorney, Division of Enforcement, Federal Trade 
Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., M-8102B, Washington, DC 20580, 
(202) 326-2975.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 12, 2014, the FTC sought public 
comment on the information collection requirements associated with the 
Fuel Rating Rule, 16 CFR Part 306 (OMB Control Number: 3084-0068). 79 
FR 14040 (``March 12, 2014 Notice''). One comment was received.\1\ 
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 the Rule. All comments should be filed as 
prescribed herein, and must be received on or before June 19, 2014.
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    \1\ The comment noted favorably that fuel-related rules are 
``imperative'' and that they ``need to be reviewed every two years 
to make sure entities, etc.[,] are in full compliance.'' Although 
the Rule's review is not necessarily subject to such frequency, the 
Commission reviews this Rule and all current FTC rules (and guides) 
periodically. These reviews seek information about the costs and 
benefits of the Commission's rules and guides as well as their 
regulatory and economic impact. The information obtained assists the 
Commission in identifying rules (and guides) that warrant 
modification. Moreover, the Commission may propose amendments to its 
rules outside of its periodic review of them. Thus, for example, 
recently the Commission published for public comment proposed 
ethanol-related amendments to the Fuel Ratings Rule. See 79 FR 18850 
(April 4, 2014).
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    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 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.
    Burden statement: As explained in the March 12, 2014 Notice, FTC 
staff estimates that Rule compliance entails a total of 33,700 total 
burden hours (consisting of 13,750 recordkeeping hours and 19,950 
disclosure hours), associated labor costs of $364,207, and non-labor/
capital costs of $39,899.
    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 June 19, 2014. Write ``Fuel Rating Rule PRA Comment, FTC File 
No. P144200'' 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). 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), 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. To make sure that the Commission considers your 
online comment, you must file it at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/fuelratingpra2/, 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 ``Fuel Rating Rule PRA 
Comment, FTC File No. P144200'' 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.
    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 June 19, 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.

David C. Shonka,
Principal Deputy General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2014-11626 Filed 5-19-14; 8:45 am]
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