[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 86 (Thursday, May 6, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 24402]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-09525]


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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION


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

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.

ACTION: Notice and request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) 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 Commission's rules and 
regulations under the Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939 (Wool Rules). 
That clearance expires on May 31, 2021.

DATES: Comments must be received by June 7, 2021.

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: Jock K. Chung, Attorney, Division of 
Enforcement, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission, 
Mail Code CC-9528, 600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20580, 
(202) 326-2984.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Rules and Regulations under the Wool Products Labeling Act 
of 1939, 16 CFR part 300.
    OMB Control Number: 3084-0100.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Likely Respondents: Manufacturers, importers, processors and 
marketers of wool products.
    Frequency of Response: Third party disclosure; recordkeeping 
requirement.
    Estimated annual hours burden: 1,880,000 hours (160,000 
recordkeeping hours + 1,720,000 disclosure hours).
    Recordkeeping: 160,000 hours [4,000 wool firms incur an average 40 
hours per firm].
    Disclosure: 1,720,000 hours [240,000 hours for determining label 
content + 480,000 hours to draft and order labels + 1,000,000 hours to 
attach labels].
    Estimated annual cost burden: $24,770,000 (solely relating to labor 
costs).\1\
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    \1\ Due to newly available information on hourly wage rates, the 
estimated annual labor cost was adjusted downward from $25,620,000 
in the 60-Day FR Notice to $24,770,000 in the 30-Day FR Notice.
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    Abstract: The Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939 (Wool Act) 
prohibits the misbranding of wool products. The Wool Rules establish 
disclosure requirements that assist consumers in making informed 
purchasing decisions and recordkeeping requirements that assist the 
Commission in enforcing the Rules.

Request for Comment

    On February 8, 2021, the FTC sought public comment on the 
information collection requirements associated with the Rules. 86 FR 
8640. The Commission received one germane comment from Agathon 
Associates that supported the Rules and the PRA collections the Rules 
require.\2\ However, this comment did not provide any evidence 
regarding the estimates for the annual hours of burden or the 
associated labor costs. 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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    \2\ See https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FTC-2021-0012-0003.
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    Your comment--including your name and your state--will be placed on 
the public record of this proceeding. 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. 2021-09525 Filed 5-5-21; 8:45 am]
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