[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 102 (Wednesday, May 27, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31780-31781]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-11293]


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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION


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

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

ACTION: Notice and request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The FTC requests that the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) extend for three years the current Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) 
clearance for information collection requirements contained in the 
Informal Dispute Settlement Procedures Rule (the Dispute Settlement 
Rule or the Rule). The current clearance expires on May 31, 2020.

DATES: Comments must be received by June 26, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. The 
reginfo.gov web link is a United States Government website produced by 
OMB and the General Services Administration (GSA). Under PRA 
requirements, OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) 
reviews Federal information collections.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christine M. Todaro, Attorney, 
Division of Marketing Practices, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal 
Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580, 
(202) 326-3711.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Informal Dispute Settlement Procedures Rule (the Dispute 
Settlement Rule or the Rule), 16 CFR part 703.
    OMB Control Number: 3084-0113.

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    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Likely Respondents: Warrantors (Automobile Manufacturers) and 
Informal Dispute Settlement Mechanisms.
    Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 9,055 (derived from 6,121 
recordkeeping hours in addition to 2,040 reporting hours and 894 
disclosure hours).
    Estimated Annual Labor Costs: $209,595.
    Estimated Annual Capital or Other Non-labor Costs: $314,566.
    Abstract: On March 16, 2020, the FTC sought public comment on the 
information collection requirements associated with the Rule. 85 FR 
14939. No germane comments were 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.
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    \1\ The Commission received six non-germane comments.
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    The Dispute Settlement Rule is one of three rules that the FTC 
implemented pursuant to requirements of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, 
15 U.S.C. 2301 et seq. (Warranty Act or Act). The Rule specifies the 
minimum standards which must be met by any informal dispute settlement 
mechanism (IDSM) that is incorporated into a written consumer product 
warranty and which the consumer is required to use before pursuing 
legal remedies under the Act in court (known as the ``prior resort 
requirement'').
    The Dispute Settlement Rule standards for IDSMs include 
requirements concerning the mechanism's structure (e.g., funding, 
staffing, and neutrality), the qualifications of staff or decision 
makers, the mechanism's procedures for resolving disputes (e.g., 
notification, investigation, time limits for decisions, and follow-up), 
recordkeeping, and annual audits. The Rule requires that IDSMs 
establish written operating procedures and provide copies of those 
procedures upon request.

Request for Comment

    Your comment--including your name and your state--will be placed on 
the public record of this proceeding at the https://www.regulations.gov 
website. Because your comment will be made public, you are solely 
responsible for making sure that your comment does not include any 
sensitive personal information, such as 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, such as medical records or other 
individually identifiable health information. In addition, your comment 
should not include any ``trade secret or any commercial or financial 
information which . . . is privileged or confidential'' --as provided 
by 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)--including in particular competitively 
sensitive information such as costs, sales statistics, inventories, 
formulas, patterns, devices, manufacturing processes, or customer 
names.

Josephine Liu,
Assistant General Counsel for Legal Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2020-11293 Filed 5-26-20; 8:45 am]
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