[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 89 (Tuesday, May 11, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25870-25871]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-09925]


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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 
Commission's rules and regulations under the Textile Fiber Products 
Identification Act (Textile Rules). That clearance expires on May 31, 
2021.

DATES: Comments must be received by June 10, 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.

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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 Textile Fiber Products 
Identification Act, 16 CFR part 303.
    OMB Control Number: 3084-0101.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Likely Respondents: Manufacturers, importers, processors and 
marketers of textile fiber products.
    Frequency of Response: Third party disclosure; recordkeeping 
requirement.
    Estimated annual hours burden: 37,234,317 hours (1,180,725 
recordkeeping hours + 36,053,592 disclosure hours).

Recordkeeping: 1,180,725 hours (approximately 18,165 textile firms 
incur average burden of 65 hours per firm)
Disclosure: 36,053,592 hours (621,725 hours to determine label content 
+ 765,200 hours to draft and order labels + 34,666,667 hours to attach 
labels)

    Estimated annual cost burden: $243,170,994 (solely relating to 
labor costs).\1\
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    \1\ Due to newly available information on hourly wage rates, the 
estimated annual labor costs were adjusted downward from 
$280,335,935 in the 60-Day FR Notice to $243,170,994 in the 30-Day 
FR Notice.
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    Abstract: The Textile Fiber Products Identification Act (Textile 
Act) \2\ prohibits the misbranding and false advertising of textile 
fiber products. The Textile Rules establish disclosure requirements 
that assist consumers in making informed purchasing decisions, and 
recordkeeping requirements that assist the Commission in enforcing the 
Rules. The Rules also contain a petition procedure for requesting the 
establishment of generic names for textile fibers.
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    \2\ 15 U.S.C. 70 et seq.
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Request for Comment

    On February 23, 2021, the FTC sought public comment on the 
information collection requirements associated with the Rule. 86 FR 
10967. The Commission received no germane comments. 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.
    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. 2021-09925 Filed 5-10-21; 8:45 am]
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