[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 24 (Monday, February 6, 2023)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 7656-7657]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-02354]
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
16 CFR Part 260
RIN 3084-AB15
Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims
AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.
[[Page 7657]]
ACTION: Regulatory review; extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Trade Commission (``FTC'' or ``Commission'')
extends the comment period for its Regulatory Review Notice regarding
its Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims (``Green
Guides'' or ``Guides'').
DATES: The deadline for comments on the document published on December
20, 2022 (87 FR 77766) is extended from February 21, 2023, to April 24,
2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hampton Newsome (202-326-2889) or
Julia Solomon Ensor (202-326-2377), Division of Enforcement, Bureau of
Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20580.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 20, 2022 (87 FR 77766), the
Commission published a document initiating its review of the Green
Guides as part of the Commission's periodic review of all rules and
guides to: (1) examine their efficacy, costs, and benefits; and (2)
determine whether to retain, modify, or rescind them. The publication
set the comment deadline as February 21, 2023.
Several interested parties have now requested a 60-day extension of
the public comment period to conduct consumer survey research and
account for issues such as the extensive range of issues involved with
the review, significant market changes since the last review of the
Guides, the fact that the comment period spanned the holiday season,
and supply chain disruptions affecting commenting organizations.\1\
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\1\ See Docket ID FTC-FTC-2022-0077-0008 (Jan. 9, 2022)
(``Comment Submitted by FMI--The Food Industry Association''),
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FTC-2022-0077-0008; Docket ID
FTC-FTC-2022-0077-0010 (Jan. 11, 2022) (``Comment Submitted by
Household & Commercial Products Association''), https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FTC-2022-0077-0010 (``Comment Submitted
by Household & Commercial Products Association''); Docket ID FTC-
2022-0077-0011) (Jan. 10, 2023) (``Comment Submitted by Consumer
Brands Association on behalf of Coalition of Stakeholders''),
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FTC-2022-0077-0011; Docket ID
FTC-2022-0077-0022) (Jan. 18, 2023) (``Comment Submitted by American
Sustainable Business Network, Beyond Plastics, Just Zero, The Last
Beach Cleanup, Plastic Pollution Coalition''), https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FTC-2022-0077-0022.
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The Commission agrees that allowing additional time for filing
comments in response to the document would help facilitate the creation
of a more complete record. The Commission has therefore decided to
extend the comment period to April 24, 2023.
By direction of the Commission.
April J. Tabor,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2023-02354 Filed 2-3-23; 8:45 am]
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