[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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