[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 79 (Friday, April 25, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17435-17436]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-07195]
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Extension
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
an additional three years the current Paperwork Reduction Act (``PRA'')
clearance for the information collection requirements in the
Alternative Fuels Rule (``Rule''). That clearance expires on April 30,
2025.
DATES: Comments must be received by May 27, 2025.
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 and its accompanying supporting statement 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: Hong Park, Attorney, Division of
Enforcement, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission,
(202) 326-2158, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title of Collection: Labeling Requirements for Alternative Fuels
and Alternative Fueled Vehicles (Alternative Fuels Rule), 16 CFR part
309.
OMB Control Number: 3084-0094.
Type of Review: Extension without change of currently approved
collection.
Affected Public: Private Sector: Businesses and other for-profit
entities.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 2,900 hours.
Estimated Annual Labor Costs: $106,752.\1\
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\1\ This estimate is updated from the prior estimate of $103,337
that was included in the 60-Day Federal Register notice and is based
on more current information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. See
Table 1. National employment and wage data from the Occupational
Employment Statistics survey by occupation, May 2024, at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.t01.htm, which was made publicly
available on April 2, 2025.
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Non-Labor Costs: $1,350.
Abstract
The Energy Policy Act of 1992 established federal programs to
encourage the development of alternative fuels and alternative fueled
vehicles (AFVs). Section 406(a) of the Act directed the Commission to
establish uniform labeling requirements for alternative fuels and AFVs.
42 U.S.C. 13232(a). Such labels must provide ``appropriate information
with respect to costs and benefits [of alternative fuels and AFVs], so
as to reasonably enable the consumer to make choices and comparisons.''
The required labels must be ``simple and, where appropriate,
consolidated with other labels providing information to the consumer.''
Pursuant to the Act, the Commission published the Alternative Fuels
Rule in 1995, and the Rule was later amended in 2013.\2\ The Rule
requires disclosure of specific information on labels posted on fuel
dispensers for non-liquid alternative fuels. To ensure the accuracy of
these disclosures, the Rule also requires that sellers maintain records
substantiating product-specific disclosures they include on these
labels. In addition, the Rule requires that distributors of non-liquid
alternative vehicle fuel provide certifications of the fuel rating in
each transfer to anyone who is not a consumer.
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\2\ 78 FR 23832 (April 23, 2013). The final amendments
consolidated the Commission's AFV labels with the then new fuel
economy labels required by the Environmental Protection Agency
thereby eliminating the FTC's separate labeling requirements for
used AFV labels.
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Request for Comment
On January 28, 2025, the FTC sought public comment on the
information collection requirements associated with the Rule. 90 FR
8296. The Commission received one germane comment from Imaging Inc.,
Cardiac, which encouraged the Commission to assess whether the
information collection requirements are still efficient and not overly
burdensome, particularly for small businesses. The Commission's
analysis and findings in this notice's accompanying Supporting
Statement address this concern. 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 Rules.
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. 2025-07195 Filed 4-24-25; 8:45 am]
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