81 FR 22088 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 72 (April 14, 2016)
Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 72 (April 14, 2016)
| Page Range | 22088-22089 | |
| FR Document | 2016-08657 |
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 72 (Thursday, April 14, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 22088-22089] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-08657] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission (``Commission'' or ``FTC''). ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The information collection requirements described below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (``OMB'') for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (``PRA''). The FTC seeks public comments on its proposal to extend for an additional three years the current PRA clearance for information collection requirements contained in its Alternative Fuels Rule. That clearance expires on June 30, 2016. DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before May 16, 2016. 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 ``Paperwork Comment: FTC File No. P134200'' on your comment, and file your comment online at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/altfuelspra2 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 or copies of the proposed information requirements for the Alternative Fuels Rule should be directed to Hampton Newsome, Attorney, (202) 326- 2889, Division of Enforcement, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20580. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: [[Page 22089]] Title: Alternative Fuels Rule, 16 CFR part 309. OMB Control Number: 3084-0094. Type of Review: Extension of currently approved collection. Abstract: The Rule, which implements the Energy Policy Act of 1992, Public Law 102-486, 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. It is common practice for alternative fuel industry members to determine and monitor fuel ratings in the normal course of their business activities. This is because industry members must determine the fuel ratings of their products in order to monitor quality and to decide how to market them. ``Burden'' for PRA purposes is defined to exclude effort that would be expended regardless of any regulatory requirement. 5 CFR 1320.2(b)(2). Moreover, as originally anticipated when the Rule was promulgated in 1995, many of the information collection requirements and the originally-estimated hours were associated with one-time start up tasks of implementing standard systems and processes. Other factors also limit the burden associated with the Rule. Certification may be a one-time event or require only infrequent revision. Disclosures on electric vehicle fuel dispensing systems may be useable for several years. Nonetheless, there is still some burden associated with posting labels. There also will be some minimal burden associated with new or revised certification of fuel ratings and recordkeeping. The burden on vehicle manufacturers is limited because only newly-manufactured vehicles will require label posting and manufacturers produce very few new models each year. On January 11, 2016, the Commission sought comment on the information collection requirements and staff's PRA burden estimates associated with the Rule (``January 11, 2016 Notice''). 81 FR 1187. No relevant comments were received. Estimated Annual Burden: \1\ \1\ The calculations underlying these estimates are detailed in the related January 11, 2016 Notice. See 81 FR at 1187-1188. However, labor cost totals are increased here given updated hourly wage averages for fuel system operators ($31.74 per hour) and service station employees ($11.27 per hour) resulting from Bureau of Labor Statistics data released March 30, 2016: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.nr0.htm (see Table 1, ``National employment and wage data from the Occupational Employment Statistics survey by occupation, May 2015''). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hours: Certification (550) + recordkeeping (1,300) + labeling (2,340) = 4,190 hours Labor Costs: Certification and labeling ($91,729) + recordkeeping ($19,093) = $110,822 Non-Labor Cost: $1,900 (estimated annual fuel labeling costs) 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 May 16, 2016. Write ``Paperwork Comment: FTC File No. P134200'' 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, like 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 doesn't include any sensitive health information, like medical records or other individually identifiable health information. In addition, don't include any ``[t]rade secret or any commercial or financial information which is . . . privileged or confidential'' as provided 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). 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 have to follow the procedure explained in FTC Rule 4.9(c)).\2\ Your comment will be kept confidential only if the FTC General Counsel grants your request in accordance with the law and the public interest. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \2\ In particular, the written request for confidential treatment that accompanies the comment must include the factual and legal basis for the request, and must identify the specific portions of the comment to be withheld from the public record. See FTC Rule 4.9(c), CFR 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/altfuelspra2, by following the instructions on the web-based form. When 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 ``Paperwork Comment: FTC File No. P134200'' 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 (Annex J), Washington, DC 20024. If possible, submit your paper comment to the Commission by courier or overnight service. Comments on the information collection requirements subject to review under the PRA should additionally be submitted to OMB. If sent by U.S. mail, they should be addressed to Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for the Federal Trade Commission, New Executive Office Building, Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503. Comments sent to OMB by U.S. postal mail, however, are subject to delays due to heightened security precautions. Thus, comments instead should be sent by facsimile to (202) 395-5806. 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 May 16, 2016. For information on the Commission's privacy policy, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, see http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.htm. David C. Shonka, Acting General Counsel. [FR Doc. 2016-08657 Filed 4-13-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6750-01-P
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Staff believes that the inbound other individually identifiable health including routine uses permitted by the
telemarketing entities choosing to information. In addition, do not include Privacy Act, see http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/
comply with the Rule by making written any ‘‘[t]rade secret or any commercial or privacy.htm.
disclosures incur no additional capital financial information which is . . .
David C. Shonka,
or operating expenses as a result of the privileged or confidential’’ as provided
Rule’s requirements because they are in section 6(f) of the FTC Act 15 U.S.C. Acting General Counsel.
likely to provide written information to 46(f), and FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR [FR Doc. 2016–08655 Filed 4–13–16; 8:45 am]
prospective customers in the ordinary 4.10(a)(2). In particular, do not include BILLING CODE 6750–01–P
course of business. Adding the competitively sensitive information
disclosures required by the direct mail such as costs, sales statistics,
exemption to that written information inventories, formulas, patterns devices, FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
likely requires no supplemental non- manufacturing processes, or customer
names. Agency Information Collection
labor expenditures.
Thus, cumulatively for both new and If you want the Commission to give Activities; Submission for OMB
existing telemarketing entities, your comment confidential treatment, Review; Comment Request
including prerecorded and debt relief you must file it in paper form, with a AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission
calls, total capital and/or other non- request for confidential treatment, and (‘‘Commission’’ or ‘‘FTC’’).
labor costs are $4,757,647 ($352,050 you have to follow the procedure
ACTION: Notice.
(office supplies) + $4,405,597 explained in FTC Rule 4.9(c).58 Your
(telephone charges)). comment will be kept confidential only SUMMARY: The information collection
Request for Comment: Pursuant to if the FTC General Counsel grants your requirements described below will be
section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, the request in accordance with the law and submitted to the Office of Management
FTC invites comments on: (1) Whether the public interest. and Budget (‘‘OMB’’) for review, as
the disclosure, recordkeeping, and Postal mail addressed to the
required by the Paperwork Reduction
reporting requirements are necessary, Commission is subject to delay due to
Act (‘‘PRA’’). The FTC seeks public
including whether the resulting heightened security screening. As a
information will be practically useful; result, we encourage you to submit your comments on its proposal to extend for
(2) the accuracy of our burden estimates, comments online. To make sure that the an additional three years the current
including whether the methodology and Commission considers your online PRA clearance for information
assumptions used are valid; (3) how to comment, you must file it at https:// collection requirements contained in its
improve the quality, utility, and clarity ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/ Alternative Fuels Rule. That clearance
of the disclosure requirements; and (4) tsrrulepra, by following the instructions expires on June 30, 2016.
how to minimize the burden of on the web-based form. When this DATES: Comments must be submitted on
providing the required information to Notice appears at http:// or before May 16, 2016.
consumers. All comments should be www.regulations.gov/#!home, you also ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a
filed as prescribed in the ADDRESSES may file a comment through that Web comment online or on paper, by
section above, and must be received on site. following the instructions in the
or before June 13, 2016. If you file your comment on paper, Request for Comment part of the
You can file a comment online or on write ‘‘TSR PRA Comment, FTC File No. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section
paper. For the Commission to consider P094400’’ on your comment and on the below. Write ‘‘Paperwork Comment:
your comment, we must receive it on or envelope, mail your comment to the FTC File No. P134200’’ on your
before June 13, 2016. Write ‘‘TSR PRA following address: Federal Trade comment, and file your comment online
Comment, FTC File No. P094400’’ on Commission, Office of the Secretary, at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/
your comment. Your comment— 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Suite ftc/altfuelspra2 by following the
including your name and your state— CC–5610 (Annex J), Washington, DC instructions on the web-based form. If
will be placed on the public record of 20580, or deliver your comment to the you prefer to file your comment on
this proceeding, including to the extent following address: Federal Trade paper, mail your comment to the
practicable, on the public Commission Commission, Office of the Secretary, following address: Federal Trade
Web site, at http://www.ftc.gov/os/ Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW., Commission, Office of the Secretary,
publiccomments.shtm. As a matter of 5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex J), 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Suite
discretion, the Commission tries to Washington, DC 20024. If possible, CC–5610 (Annex J), Washington, DC
remove individuals’ home contact submit your paper comment to the 20580, or deliver your comment to the
information from comments before Commission by courier or overnight following address: Federal Trade
placing them on the Commission Web service. Commission, Office of the Secretary,
site. The FTC Act and other laws that the Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW.,
Because your comment will be made Commission administers permit the 5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex J),
public, you are solely responsible for collection of public comments to Washington, DC 20024.
making sure that your comment does consider and use in this proceeding as
not include any sensitive personal appropriate. The Commission will FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
information, like anyone’s Social consider all timely and responsive Requests for additional information or
Security number, date of birth, driver’s public comments that it receives on or copies of the proposed information
requirements for the Alternative Fuels
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license number or other state before June 13, 2016. For information on
identification number or foreign country the Commission’s privacy policy, Rule should be directed to Hampton
equivalent, passport number, financial Newsome, Attorney, (202) 326–2889,
account number, or credit or debit card 58 In particular, the written request for Division of Enforcement, Bureau of
number. You are also solely responsible confidential treatment that accompanies the Consumer Protection, Federal Trade
comment must include the factual and legal basis Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue
for making sure that your comment does for the request, and must identify the specific
not include any sensitive health NW., Washington, DC 20580.
portions of the comment to be withheld from the
information, like medical records or public record. See FTC Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Title: Alternative Fuels Rule, 16 CFR Hours: Certification (550) + heightened security screening. As a
part 309. recordkeeping (1,300) + labeling result, we encourage you to submit your
OMB Control Number: 3084–0094. (2,340) = 4,190 hours comments online, or to send them to the
Type of Review: Extension of Labor Costs: Certification and labeling Commission by courier or overnight
currently approved collection. ($91,729) + recordkeeping ($19,093) = service. To make sure that the
Abstract: The Rule, which $110,822 Commission considers your online
implements the Energy Policy Act of Non-Labor Cost: $1,900 (estimated comment, you must file it at https://
1992, Public Law 102–486, requires annual fuel labeling costs) ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/
disclosure of specific information on Request for Comment: You can file a altfuelspra2, by following the
labels posted on fuel dispensers for non- comment online or on paper. For the instructions on the web-based form.
liquid alternative fuels. To ensure the Commission to consider your comment, When this Notice appears at http://
accuracy of these disclosures, the Rule we must receive it on or before May 16, www.regulations.gov/#!home, you also
also requires that sellers maintain 2016. Write ‘‘Paperwork Comment: FTC may file a comment through that Web
records substantiating product-specific File No. P134200’’ on your comment. site.
disclosures they include on these labels. Your comment—including your name
It is common practice for alternative and your state—will be placed on the If you file your comment on paper,
fuel industry members to determine and public record of this proceeding, write ‘‘Paperwork Comment: FTC File
monitor fuel ratings in the normal including, to the extent practicable, on No. P134200’’ on your comment and on
course of their business activities. This the public Commission Web site, at the envelope, and mail it to the
is because industry members must http://www.ftc.gov/os/public following address: Federal Trade
determine the fuel ratings of their comments.shtm. As a matter of Commission, Office of the Secretary,
products in order to monitor quality and discretion, the Commission tries to 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Suite
to decide how to market them. remove individuals’ home contact CC–5610 (Annex J), Washington, DC
‘‘Burden’’ for PRA purposes is defined information from comments before 20580, or deliver your comment to the
to exclude effort that would be placing them on the Commission Web following address: Federal Trade
expended regardless of any regulatory site. Commission, Office of the Secretary,
requirement. 5 CFR 1320.2(b)(2). Because your comment will be made Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW.,
Moreover, as originally anticipated public, you are solely responsible for 5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex J),
when the Rule was promulgated in making sure that your comment doesn’t Washington, DC 20024. If possible,
1995, many of the information include any sensitive personal submit your paper comment to the
collection requirements and the information, like anyone’s Social Commission by courier or overnight
originally-estimated hours were Security number, date of birth, driver’s service.
associated with one-time start up tasks license number or other state Comments on the information
of implementing standard systems and identification number or foreign country collection requirements subject to
processes. equivalent, passport number, financial review under the PRA should
Other factors also limit the burden account number, or credit or debit card additionally be submitted to OMB. If
associated with the Rule. Certification number. You are also solely responsible
sent by U.S. mail, they should be
may be a one-time event or require only for making sure that your comment
addressed to Office of Information and
infrequent revision. Disclosures on doesn’t include any sensitive health
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
electric vehicle fuel dispensing systems information, like medical records or
Management and Budget, Attention:
may be useable for several years. other individually identifiable health
Desk Officer for the Federal Trade
Nonetheless, there is still some burden information. In addition, don’t include
any ‘‘[t]rade secret or any commercial or Commission, New Executive Office
associated with posting labels. There
also will be some minimal burden financial information which is . . . Building, Docket Library, Room 10102,
associated with new or revised privileged or confidential’’ as provided 725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC
certification of fuel ratings and in Section 6(f) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 20503. Comments sent to OMB by U.S.
recordkeeping. The burden on vehicle 46(f), and FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR postal mail, however, are subject to
manufacturers is limited because only 4.10(a)(2). delays due to heightened security
newly-manufactured vehicles will If you want the Commission to give precautions. Thus, comments instead
require label posting and manufacturers your comment confidential treatment, should be sent by facsimile to (202)
produce very few new models each you must file it in paper form, with a 395–5806.
year. request for confidential treatment, and The FTC Act and other laws that the
On January 11, 2016, the Commission you have to follow the procedure Commission administers permit the
sought comment on the information explained in FTC Rule 4.9(c)).2 Your collection of public comments to
collection requirements and staff’s PRA comment will be kept confidential only consider and use in this proceeding as
burden estimates associated with the if the FTC General Counsel grants your appropriate. The Commission will
Rule (‘‘January 11, 2016 Notice’’). 81 FR request in accordance with the law and consider all timely and responsive
1187. No relevant comments were the public interest. public comments that it receives on or
received. Postal mail addressed to the before May 16, 2016. For information on
Estimated Annual Burden: 1 Commission is subject to delay due to the Commission’s privacy policy,
including routine uses permitted by the
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1 The calculations underlying these estimates are ‘‘National employment and wage data from the
Occupational Employment Statistics survey by
Privacy Act, see http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/
detailed in the related January 11, 2016 Notice. See
81 FR at 1187–1188. However, labor cost totals are occupation, May 2015’’). privacy.htm.
increased here given updated hourly wage averages 2 In particular, the written request for confidential
for fuel system operators ($31.74 per hour) and treatment that accompanies the comment must David C. Shonka,
service station employees ($11.27 per hour) include the factual and legal basis for the request, Acting General Counsel.
resulting from Bureau of Labor Statistics data and must identify the specific portions of the
[FR Doc. 2016–08657 Filed 4–13–16; 8:45 am]
released March 30, 2016: http://www.bls.gov/ comment to be withheld from the public record. See
news.release/ocwage.nr0.htm (see Table 1, FTC Rule 4.9(c), CFR 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c). BILLING CODE 6750–01–P
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| Contact | Requests for additional information or copies of the proposed information requirements for the Alternative Fuels Rule should be directed to Hampton Newsome, Attorney, (202) 326- 2889, Division of Enforcement, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20580. | |
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