80 FR 65758 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 207 (October 27, 2015)
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 207 (October 27, 2015)
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| FR Document | 2015-27194 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 207 (Tuesday, October 27, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 65758-65761] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-27194] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission (``FTC'' or ``Commission''). ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The FTC seeks public comments on proposed information requests to marketers of electronic cigarettes. These comments will be considered before the Commission submits a request for Office of Management and Budget (``OMB'') review under the Paperwork Reduction Act (``PRA'') of compulsory process orders to those marketers. The information sought from those companies would include, among other things, data on annual sales and marketing expenditures. The Commission intends to ask OMB for a three-year clearance to collect this information. DATES: Comments on the proposed information requests must be received on or before December 28, 2015. ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a comment online or on paper, by following the instructions in the Request for Comment part of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. Write: ``Electronic Cigarettes: Paperwork Comment, FTC File No. P144504'' on your comment and file the comment online at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/electroniccigarettespra by following the instructions on the web-based form. If you prefer to file your comment on paper, mail your comment to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Suite CC-5610 (Annex J), Washington, DC 20580, or deliver your comment to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW., 5th Floor Suite 5610 (Annex J), Washington, DC 20024. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information should be addressed to Elizabeth Sanger or Shira Modell, Division of Advertising Practices, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission. Telephone: (202) 326-2757 (Sanger) or (202) 326-3116 (Modell). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background: For many years, the Commission has published reports on sales and marketing expenditures by the major cigarette and smokeless tobacco manufacturers. The data contained in [[Page 65759]] those reports are based on information submitted to the Commission, pursuant to compulsory process, by the largest domestic cigarette and smokeless tobacco manufacturers. In the past few years, sales of battery-powered devices generally referred to as electronic cigarettes or ``e-cigarettes'' have grown rapidly in the United States. Rather than burn tobacco, these devices heat liquid containing flavorings and chemicals (usually including nicotine) to produce an aerosol that is inhaled, and then exhaled, by the user. E-cigarettes, which are sold both online and in brick-and- mortar stores, are available in both disposable and refillable models, in a range of nicotine strengths (including nicotine-free), and in a multitude of flavors; \1\ some companies allow consumers to order individually-customized flavor and nicotine content combinations. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ Those flavors include tobacco and menthol, as well as fruits (e.g., green apple), beverages (e.g., coffee), desserts (e.g., turtle sundae), and others. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Given the increasing prevalence of e-cigarettes alongside conventional cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, the Commission believes it is necessary for the agency to begin collecting information from e- cigarette marketers about their sales and marketing activities. The Commission intends to publish a report with the data it obtains,\2\ and to issue annual information requests to the major marketers, in order to track trends over time. The information will be sought using compulsory process under Section 6(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. 46. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \2\ The report would not disclose any company-specific confidential data. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Commission plans to address its information requests to the ultimate U.S. parent of e-cigarette marketers (``industry members'') in order to ensure that no relevant data from affiliated or subsidiary companies go unreported. The Commission intends to issue information requests to approximately five large and ten small industry members. Even though this number does not represent the entire industry, the responses should provide valuable information about a reasonable percentage of the e-cigarette market, including its major players. Because the number of separately incorporated companies affected by the Commission's requests will exceed nine entities, the Commission intends to seek OMB clearance under the PRA before requesting any information from the industry members. Under the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501-3521, federal agencies must obtain approval from OMB for each ``collection of information'' they conduct or sponsor if posed to ten or more entities within any twelve-month period. 44 U.S.C. 3502(3); 5 CFR 1320.3(c). ``Collection of information'' means agency requests or requirements that members of the public submit reports, keep records, or provide information to a third party. 44 U.S.C. 3502(3); 5 CFR 1320.3(c). As required by section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, the FTC is providing this opportunity for public comment before requesting that OMB authorize the proposed collection of information. The FTC invites comments on: (1) Whether participation in the study is necessary, including whether the information will be practically useful; (2) the accuracy of our burden estimates, including whether the methodology and assumptions used are valid; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information. The Commission anticipates that its requests will seek the following categories of information: (1) Sales and give-aways of e- cigarettes and related products (e.g., refill cartridges and e- liquids); (2) marketing expenditures, including the amounts being spent on various media; (3) product placements in television programming, motion pictures, magazines, and other publications; (4) efforts such as age-screening mechanisms to prevent youth from being exposed to advertising and promotion for e-cigarettes or from obtaining free product samples; (5) expenditures on advertising to deter youth under the age of 18 from purchasing or using e-cigarettes; and (6) data collection activities, including data collection in connection with digital and social media marketing, and efforts to avoid collection of data from those under age 18. The Commission requests comments on its intention to seek the above-listed categories of information. The Commission also invites comments on the following issues: 1. Should the FTC seek to collect data that are differentiated according to: (a) The various types of products sold and given away by industry members (e.g., collecting data on disposable devices separately from data on refillable devices and on refill supplies); (b) the various flavors and nicotine strengths of those sales and give- aways; (c) the various sizes and liquid capacities of disposable e- cigarettes, cartridges, and e-liquids sold and given away; and (d) whether the company sells directly to consumers (e.g., over the Internet) or to wholesalers and distributors for subsequent sale to consumers (e.g., at convenience stores)? Would less detailed information be sufficient, and, if so, what level of detail will suffice, and why? 2. Should the Commission collect data on product sales separately from data on product give-aways? 3. If an e-cigarette is sold with more than one cartridge (or container of e-liquid), should all of those cartridges be considered part of the initial sale, or should some of them be considered refills? If some of them should be considered refills, which ones? Does it matter whether those cartridges are part of the same Stock Keeping Unit (``SKU'') as the e-cigarette device? Whether they are packaged with it in the same blister pack? 4. Should the Commission seek data on state-by-state sales of e- cigarettes and related products? 5. Is there other information the Commission should seek from the companies about sales and give-aways of their products? 6. Assuming that the Commission's collection and reporting of highly detailed data is necessary for understanding the e-cigarette industry--e.g., which flavor and nicotine content combinations are sold the most in direct online transactions with consumers, and which are sold the most to wholesalers and retailers, and which products are most frequently given away--can industry members provide those data? In other words, can the companies provide data that distinguishes between: (a) Direct sales to consumers (e.g., online sales) and sales to retailers and distributors; (b) sales and give-aways of disposable e- cigarettes and sales and give-aways of refillable e-cigarettes; and (c) the various combinations of sizes, flavors, and nicotine contents of their e-cigarettes and refill cartridges and e-liquids? For example, can the companies report the volume and sales value of higher nicotine, menthol-flavored e-liquid sold to retailers and distributors separately from sales of lower nicotine, pizza-flavored e-liquid sold directly to consumers? Can they report the volume and sales value of higher nicotine, tobacco-flavored cartridges and e-liquids sold with an e- cigarette (i.e., in the same blister pack) separately from the volume and sales value of lower nicotine, dessert-flavored refill cartridges and e-liquids? Can the companies provide sales data on a state-by-state basis, and if so, can they do so for all sales or only for sales made directly to consumers? 7. Should the Commission collect data for each individual e- cigarette flavor sold by the companies, or should it identify various flavor categories (e.g., [[Page 65760]] tobacco, fruit, dessert) for purposes of the companies' reports? If the Commission should use flavor categories, how should those categories be defined? Similarly, should the Commission collect data for every level of nicotine content sold by the companies, or should it identify various ranges of nicotine content (e.g., nicotine-free, from 1.8% to 2.4%); if the Commission should use ranges, what should they be? Estimated hours burden: The FTC staff's estimate of the hours burden is based on the time that would be required to respond to the Commission's information request. The FTC currently anticipates sending information requests to as many as 15 e-cigarette companies each year. The Commission anticipates that these companies will vary in size, in the number of products they sell, and in the extent and variety of their advertising and promotion. Because of these variables, and the quick-changing nature of the industry at this point, FTC staff has not calculated separate burden estimates for large and small companies, as is otherwise traditionally the case for the Commission's cigarette and smokeless tobacco Orders. For example, an e-cigarette marketer with a large volume of sales but a relatively small product line could potentially require fewer resources to respond to the Commission's Order than a marketer with lower overall sales but a substantially larger product line that offers consumers a greater range of flavor and nicotine options. Rather than account for each potential permutation of factors, FTC staff has calculated a per company average at the upper limit of this potential range. Some companies will likely require less time to compile their responses. The Commission anticipates that even if it provides models for the Excel datafiles the companies will be required to submit, recipients of its Orders will need substantial time to prepare a response the first time. Once an e-cigarette marketer has prepared its first response to a Commission Order, however, it will need less time in subsequent years to prepare its reports because it will know what information it will be required to produce, and will already have a template for its submission. Accordingly, as an approximation, staff assumes a per company average of 200 hours for each recipient of the Commission's information requests the first year they have to comply with the Commission's Order. Staff anticipates that in subsequent years, the per company average will be 150 hours. Thus, the overall estimated burden for 15 recipients of the information requests is 3,000 hours for the first year and 2,250 for each of the two subsequent years, or a total of 7,500 hours. Thus, the average yearly burden, over the course of a prospective three-year clearance, per recipient (large and small), is 167 hours (rounded to the nearest whole number). These estimates include any time spent by separately incorporated subsidiaries and other entities affiliated with the ultimate parent company that has received the information request. Estimated cost burden: Commission staff cannot calculate with precision the labor costs associated with this data production, as they entail varying compensation levels of management and/or support staff among companies of different sizes. The staff assumes that computer analysts and other non-legal staff will perform most of the work involved in responding to the Orders, although in-house legal personnel will be involved in reviewing the actual submission to the Commission. The staff believes that the same $100/hour wage that it used in its recent request for reauthorization of information requests to the major cigarette and smokeless tobacco manufacturers is appropriate here also for the combined efforts of these individuals. Using this figure, staff's best estimate for the total labor costs for 15 information requests is $300,000 (3,000 hours x $100/hour) for the first year and $225,000 for each of the two subsequent years (2,250 hours x $100/ hour), for a total of $750,000 over the entire three-year period. Annualized, labor cost per respondent will average approximately $16,700. Staff believes that the capital or other non-labor costs associated with the information requests are minimal. Although the information requests may necessitate that industry members maintain the requested information provided to the Commission, they should already have in place the means to compile and maintain business records. Request for comment: You can file a comment online or on paper. For the Commission to consider your comment, we must receive it on or before December 28, 2015. Write ``Electronic Cigarettes: Paperwork Comment, FTC File No. P144504'' on your comment. Your comment-- including your name and your state--will be placed on the public record of this proceeding, including, to the extent practicable, on the public Commission Web site, at http://www.ftc.gov/os/publiccomments.shtm. As a matter of discretion, the Commission tries to remove individuals' home contact information from comments before placing them on the Commission Web site. Because your comment will be made public, you are solely responsible for making sure that your comment doesn't 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, do not include any ``[t]rade secret or any commercial or financial information which is . . . privileged or confidential,'' as discussed in 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). In particular, do not include competitively sensitive information, such as costs, sales statistics, inventories, formulas, patterns, devices, manufacturing processes, or customer names. If you want the Commission to give your comment confidential treatment, you must file it in paper form, with a request for confidential treatment, and you must follow the procedure explained in FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c). Your comment will be kept confidential only if the FTC General Counsel grants your request in accordance with the law and the public interest. Postal mail addressed to the Commission is subject to delay due to heightened security screening. As a result, we encourage you to submit your comments online, or to send them to the Commission by courier or overnight service. To make sure that the Commission considers your online comment, you must file it at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/electroniccigarettespra, by following the instructions on the web- based form. If this Notice appears at http://www.regulations.gov/#!home, you also may file a comment through that Web site. If you file your comment on paper, write ``Electronic Cigarettes: Paperwork Comment, FTC File No. P114504'' on your comment and on the envelope, and mail it to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Suite CC-5610 (Annex J), Washington, DC 20580, or deliver your comment to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW., 5th Floor, Suite 5610 [[Page 65761]] (Annex J), Washington, DC 20024. If possible, submit your paper comment to the Commission by courier or overnight service. Visit the Commission Web site at http://www.ftc.gov to read this Notice and the news release describing it. The FTC Act and other laws that the Commission administers permit the collection of public comments to consider and use in this proceeding as appropriate. The Commission will consider all timely and responsive public comments that it receives on or before December 28, 2015. You can find more information, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, in the Commission's privacy policy, at http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.htm. By direction of the Commission. Donald S. Clark, Secretary. [FR Doc. 2015-27194 Filed 10-26-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6750-01-P
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TIME AND DATE: 2:30 p.m. on Friday, requested may result in disapproval of FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
October 30, 2015. your request for access to the Board’s
PLACE: Marriner S. Eccles Federal premises. You may be subject to a fine Agency Information Collection
Reserve Board Building, 20th Street or imprisonment under 18 U.S.C. 1001 Activities; Proposed Collection;
entrance between Constitution Avenue for any false statements you make in Comment Request
and C Streets NW., Washington, DC your request to enter the Board’s AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission
20551. premises. (‘‘FTC’’ or ‘‘Commission’’).
STATUS: Open. ACTION: Notice.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Discussion
On the day of the meeting, you will
Agenda:
be able to view the meeting via webcast SUMMARY: The FTC seeks public
from a link available on the Board’s 1. Proposed Rule establishing Total comments on proposed information
public Web site. You do not need to Loss-Absorbing Capacity and Buffers, requests to marketers of electronic
register to view the webcast of the Long-term Debt, and Clean Holding cigarettes. These comments will be
meeting. A link to the meeting Company Requirements for U.S. Global considered before the Commission
documentation will also be available Systemically Important Banking submits a request for Office of
approximately 20 minutes before the Organizations and U.S. Intermediate Management and Budget (‘‘OMB’’)
start of the meeting. Both links may be Holding Companies of Foreign Global review under the Paperwork Reduction
accessed from the Board’s public Web Systemically Important Banking Act (‘‘PRA’’) of compulsory process
site at www.federalreserve.gov. Organizations. orders to those marketers. The
If you plan to attend the open meeting information sought from those
2. Final Rule regarding Margin and
in person, we ask that you notify us in companies would include, among other
advance and provide your name, date of Capital Requirements for Uncleared
things, data on annual sales and
birth, and social security number (SSN) Swaps.
marketing expenditures. The
or passport number. You may provide Notes: 1. The staff memo to the Board Commission intends to ask OMB for a
this information by calling 202–452– will be made available to the public on three-year clearance to collect this
2474 or you may register online. You the day of the meeting in paper and the information.
may pre-register until close of business background material will be made DATES: Comments on the proposed
on October 29, 2015. You also will be available on a compact disc (CD). If you information requests must be received
asked to provide identifying require a paper copy of the entire on or before December 28, 2015.
information, including a photo ID, document, please call Penelope Beattie
before being admitted to the Board ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a
on 202–452–3982. The documentation comment online or on paper, by
meeting. The Public Affairs Office must will not be available until about 20
approve the use of cameras; please call following the instructions in the
minutes before the start of the meeting. Request for Comment part of the
202–452–2955 for further information. If
you need an accommodation for a 2. This meeting will be recorded for SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section
disability, please contact Penelope the benefit of those unable to attend. below. Write: ‘‘Electronic Cigarettes:
Beattie on 202–452–3982. For the The webcast recording and a transcript Paperwork Comment, FTC File No.
hearing impaired only, please use the of the meeting will be available after the P144504’’ on your comment and file the
Telecommunication Device for the Deaf meeting on the Board’s public Web site comment online at https://
(TDD) on 202–263–4869. http://www.federalreserve.gov/ ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/
Privacy Act Notice: The information aboutthefed/boardmeetings/ or if you electroniccigarettespra by following the
you provide will be used to assist us in prefer, a CD recording of the meeting instructions on the web-based form. If
prescreening you to ensure the security will be available for listening in the you prefer to file your comment on
of the Board’s premises and personnel. Board’s Freedom of Information Office, paper, mail your comment to the
In order to do this, we may disclose and copies can be ordered for $4 per following address: Federal Trade
your information consistent with the disc by calling 202–452–3684 or by Commission, Office of the Secretary,
routine uses listed in the Privacy Act 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Suite
writing to: Freedom of Information
Notice for BGFRS–32, including to CC–5610 (Annex J), Washington, DC
Office, Board of Governors of the
appropriate federal, state, local, or 20580, or deliver your comment to the
Federal Reserve System, Washington,
foreign agencies where disclosure is following address: Federal Trade
DC 20551. Commission, Office of the Secretary,
reasonably necessary to determine
whether you pose a security risk or For more information please contact: Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW.,
where the security or confidentiality of Michelle Smith, Director, or Dave 5th Floor Suite 5610 (Annex J),
your information has been Skidmore, Assistant to the Board, Office Washington, DC 20024.
compromised. We are authorized to of Board Members at 202–452–2955. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
collect your information by 12 U.S.C. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: You may Requests for additional information
243 and 248, and Executive Order 9397. access the Board’s public Web site at should be addressed to Elizabeth Sanger
In accordance with Executive Order www.federalreserve.gov for an electronic or Shira Modell, Division of Advertising
9397, we collect your SSN so that we Practices, Bureau of Consumer
announcement. (The Web site also
can keep accurate records, because other Protection, Federal Trade Commission.
includes procedural and other
people may have the same name and Telephone: (202) 326–2757 (Sanger) or
information about the open meeting.)
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birth date. In addition, we use your SSN (202) 326–3116 (Modell).
when we make requests for information Dated: October 23, 2015. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
about you from law enforcement and Margaret M. Shanks, Background: For many years, the
other regulatory agency databases. Deputy Secretary of the Board. Commission has published reports on
Furnishing the information requested is [FR Doc. 2015–27436 Filed 10–23–15; 4:15 pm] sales and marketing expenditures by the
voluntary; however, your failure to BILLING CODE 6210–01–P
major cigarette and smokeless tobacco
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tobacco, fruit, dessert) for purposes of 15 recipients of the information requests information from comments before
the companies’ reports? If the is 3,000 hours for the first year and placing them on the Commission Web
Commission should use flavor 2,250 for each of the two subsequent site.
categories, how should those categories years, or a total of 7,500 hours. Thus, Because your comment will be made
be defined? Similarly, should the the average yearly burden, over the public, you are solely responsible for
Commission collect data for every level course of a prospective three-year making sure that your comment doesn’t
of nicotine content sold by the clearance, per recipient (large and include any sensitive personal
companies, or should it identify various small), is 167 hours (rounded to the information, such as anyone’s Social
ranges of nicotine content (e.g., nearest whole number). These estimates Security number, date of birth, driver’s
nicotine-free, from 1.8% to 2.4%); if the include any time spent by separately license number or other state
Commission should use ranges, what incorporated subsidiaries and other identification number or foreign country
should they be? entities affiliated with the ultimate equivalent, passport number, financial
Estimated hours burden: The FTC parent company that has received the account number, or credit or debit card
staff’s estimate of the hours burden is information request. number. You are also solely responsible
based on the time that would be Estimated cost burden: Commission for making sure that your comment does
required to respond to the Commission’s staff cannot calculate with precision the not include any sensitive health
information request. The FTC currently labor costs associated with this data information, such as medical records or
anticipates sending information requests production, as they entail varying other individually identifiable health
to as many as 15 e-cigarette companies compensation levels of management information. In addition, do not include
each year. The Commission anticipates and/or support staff among companies any ‘‘[t]rade secret or any commercial or
that these companies will vary in size, of different sizes. The staff assumes that financial information which is . . .
in the number of products they sell, and computer analysts and other non-legal privileged or confidential,’’ as discussed
in the extent and variety of their staff will perform most of the work in Section 6(f) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C.
advertising and promotion. Because of involved in responding to the Orders, 46(f), and FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR
these variables, and the quick-changing although in-house legal personnel will 4.10(a)(2). In particular, do not include
nature of the industry at this point, FTC be involved in reviewing the actual competitively sensitive information,
staff has not calculated separate burden submission to the Commission. The staff such as costs, sales statistics,
estimates for large and small companies, believes that the same $100/hour wage inventories, formulas, patterns, devices,
as is otherwise traditionally the case for that it used in its recent request for manufacturing processes, or customer
the Commission’s cigarette and reauthorization of information requests names. If you want the Commission to
smokeless tobacco Orders. For example, to the major cigarette and smokeless give your comment confidential
an e-cigarette marketer with a large tobacco manufacturers is appropriate treatment, you must file it in paper
volume of sales but a relatively small here also for the combined efforts of form, with a request for confidential
product line could potentially require these individuals. Using this figure, treatment, and you must follow the
fewer resources to respond to the staff’s best estimate for the total labor procedure explained in FTC Rule 4.9(c),
Commission’s Order than a marketer costs for 15 information requests is 16 CFR 4.9(c). Your comment will be
with lower overall sales but a $300,000 (3,000 hours × $100/hour) for kept confidential only if the FTC
substantially larger product line that the first year and $225,000 for each of General Counsel grants your request in
offers consumers a greater range of the two subsequent years (2,250 hours × accordance with the law and the public
flavor and nicotine options. Rather than $100/hour), for a total of $750,000 over interest.
account for each potential permutation the entire three-year period. Postal mail addressed to the
of factors, FTC staff has calculated a per Annualized, labor cost per respondent Commission is subject to delay due to
company average at the upper limit of will average approximately $16,700. heightened security screening. As a
this potential range. Some companies Staff believes that the capital or other result, we encourage you to submit your
will likely require less time to compile non-labor costs associated with the comments online, or to send them to the
their responses. information requests are minimal. Commission by courier or overnight
The Commission anticipates that even Although the information requests may service. To make sure that the
if it provides models for the Excel necessitate that industry members Commission considers your online
datafiles the companies will be required maintain the requested information comment, you must file it at https://
to submit, recipients of its Orders will provided to the Commission, they ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/
need substantial time to prepare a should already have in place the means electroniccigarettespra, by following the
response the first time. Once an e- to compile and maintain business instructions on the web-based form. If
cigarette marketer has prepared its first records. this Notice appears at http://
response to a Commission Order, Request for comment: You can file a www.regulations.gov/#!home, you also
however, it will need less time in comment online or on paper. For the may file a comment through that Web
subsequent years to prepare its reports Commission to consider your comment, site.
because it will know what information we must receive it on or before If you file your comment on paper,
it will be required to produce, and will December 28, 2015. Write ‘‘Electronic write ‘‘Electronic Cigarettes: Paperwork
already have a template for its Cigarettes: Paperwork Comment, FTC Comment, FTC File No. P114504’’ on
submission. File No. P144504’’ on your comment. your comment and on the envelope, and
Accordingly, as an approximation, Your comment—including your name mail it to the following address: Federal
staff assumes a per company average of and your state—will be placed on the Trade Commission, Office of the
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200 hours for each recipient of the public record of this proceeding, Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Commission’s information requests the including, to the extent practicable, on NW., Suite CC–5610 (Annex J),
first year they have to comply with the the public Commission Web site, at Washington, DC 20580, or deliver your
Commission’s Order. Staff anticipates http://www.ftc.gov/os/ comment to the following address:
that in subsequent years, the per publiccomments.shtm. As a matter of Federal Trade Commission, Office of the
company average will be 150 hours. discretion, the Commission tries to Secretary, Constitution Center, 400 7th
Thus, the overall estimated burden for remove individuals’ home contact Street SW., 5th Floor, Suite 5610
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(Annex J), Washington, DC 20024. If under the heading ‘‘Enter Keyword or offers [on the basis of shipment through
possible, submit your paper comment to ID’’ and selecting ‘‘Search’’. Select the the port resulting in the lowest cost to
the Commission by courier or overnight link ‘‘Submit a Comment’’ that the Government.
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and the news release describing it. The provided at the ‘‘Submit a Comment’’ Responses per Respondent: 4.
FTC Act and other laws that the screen. Please include your name, Annual Responses: 400.
Commission administers permit the company name (if any), and Hours per Response: 0.25
collection of public comments to ‘‘Information Collection 9000–0057, Total Burden Hours: 100.
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collection. Comments received generally
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techniques or other forms of information
any personal and/or business
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE technology.
confidential information provided. To Obtaining Copies of Proposals:
confirm receipt of your comment(s), Requesters may obtain a copy of the
GENERAL SERVICES please check www.regulations.gov,
ADMINISTRATION information collection documents from
approximately two to three days after the General Services Administration,
submission to verify posting (except Regulatory Secretariat Division (MVCB),
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND allow 30 days for posting of comments
SPACE ADMINISTRATION 1800 F Street NW., Washington, DC
submitted by mail). 20405, telephone 202–501–4755.
[OMB Control No. 9000–0057; Docket 2015– FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Please cite OMB Control Number
0055; Sequence 24] Curtis E. Glover, Sr., Procurement ‘‘9000–0057, Evaluation of Export
Analyst, Office of Governmentwide Offers’’ in all correspondence.
Information Collection; Evaluation of
Acquisition Policy, GSA, 202–501–4082
Export Offers Edward Loeb,
or via email at Curtis.glover@gsa.gov.
AGENCY: Department of Defense (DOD), SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Acting Director, Federal Acquisition Policy
General Services Administration (GSA), Division, Office of Governmentwide
A. Purpose Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition
and National Aeronautics and Space Policy, Office of Governmentwide Policy.
Administration (NASA). Offers submitted in response to
[FR Doc. 2015–27243 Filed 10–26–15; 8:45 am]
ACTION: Notice of request for public Government solicitations must be
BILLING CODE 6820–EP–P
comments regarding an extension to an evaluated and awards made on the basis
existing OMB clearance. of the lowest laid down cost to the
Government at the overseas port of
SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the discharge, via methods and ports DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
Paperwork Reduction Act, the compatible with required delivery dates HUMAN SERVICES
Regulatory Secretariat Division will be and conditions affecting transportation
submitting to the Office of Management Centers for Disease Control and
know at the time of evaluation. FAR
and Budget (OMB) a request to review Prevention
provision 52.247–51, ‘‘Evaluation of
and approve an extension of a Export Offers,’’ is required for insertion [60Day–16–16BM; Docket No. CDC–2015–
previously approved information in Government solicitations when 0091]
collection requirement concerning supplies are to be exported through
‘‘Information Collection 9000–0057, Contiguous United States (CONUS) Proposed Data Collection Submitted
Evaluation of Export Offers.’’ ports and offers are solicited on a free for Public Comment and
DATES: Submit comments on or before onboard (f.o.b.) origin or f.o.b. Recommendations
December 28, 2015. destination basis. The provision has AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and
ADDRESSES: Submit comments three alternates, to be used (1) when the Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
identified by Information Collection CONUS ports of export are DoD water and Human Services (HHS).
tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
9000–0057, Evaluation of Export Offers, terminals, (2) when offers are solicited ACTION: Notice with comment period.
by any of the following methods: on an f.o.b. origin only basis, and (3)
• Regulations.gov: http:// when offers are solicited on an f.o.b. SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease
www.regulations.gov. Submit comments destination only basis. The provision Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
via the Federal eRulemaking portal by collects information regarding the its continuing efforts to reduce public
inputting ‘‘Information Collection 9000– vendor’s preference for delivery ports. burden and maximize the utility of
0057, Evaluation of Export Offers’’ The information is used to evaluate government information, invites the
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| Collection | Federal Register | |
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| Section | Notices | |
| Action | Notice. | |
| Dates | Comments on the proposed information requests must be received on or before December 28, 2015. | |
| Contact | Requests for additional information | |
| FR Citation | 80 FR 65758 |
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