82 FR 54342 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 221 (November 17, 2017)
Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 221 (November 17, 2017)
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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 221 (Friday, November 17, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 54342-54344] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-24915] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission (``FTC'' or ``Commission''). 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 proposed information requests sent pursuant to compulsory process to a combined ten or more of the largest domestic cigarette manufacturers and smokeless tobacco manufacturers. The information sought would include, among other things, data on annual sales and marketing expenditures. The current FTC clearance from the Office of Management and Budget (``OMB'') to conduct such information collection expires January 31, 2018. The Commission intends to ask OMB for renewed three-year clearance to collect this information. DATES: Comments on the proposed information requests must be received on or before December 18, 2017. 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: ``Tobacco Reports: Paperwork Comment, FTC File No. P054507'' on your comment, and file the comment online at https://ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/tobaccoreportspra 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 collection of information should be addressed to Michael Ostheimer, Division of Advertising Practices, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Mailstop CC-10603, Washington, DC 20580. Telephone: (202) 326- 2699. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: FTC Cigarette and Smokeless Tobacco Data Collection. OMB Control Number: 3084-0134. Type of Review: Extension of currently approved collection. On August 10, 2017, the Commission sought comment on the information collection requirements associated with the Cigarette and Smokeless Tobacco Data Collection. 82 FR 37440 (``August 10, 2017 Notice''). Pursuant to the OMB regulations, 5 CFR part 1320, that implement the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq., the FTC is providing a second opportunity for the public to comment while seeking OMB approval to renew the existing clearance for the information the FTC proposes to seek from the largest domestic cigarette manufacturers and smokeless tobacco manufacturers. In response to the August 10, 2017 Notice, the Commission received comments from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (``CTFK'') and Altria Client Services (``Altria''). The CTFK comment specifically noted the utility and importance of the Commission's Cigarette and Smokeless Tobacco Reports, and urged the agency to continue collecting and reporting industry sales and marketing expenditure data, which CTFK stated provide ``critical data to researchers, policymakers, advocates and the general public.'' CTFK additionally observed: The FTC is currently the primary source for data on cigarette and smokeless tobacco companies' marketing and promotional expenditures. No other agency collects and publishes such information directly from the companies, making the FTC reports the most accurate and reliable assessment of tobacco marketing and promotion expenditures available. CTFK at 1. CTFK, however, suggested certain modifications to the Commission's reports. Specifically, CTFK recommended that the Commission: (1) Report separately price discount expenditures for retailers and wholesalers; (2) clarify the definitions of certain expenditure categories-- specifically, in which category coupons that consumers obtain online are to be counted; (3) report data on a company- [[Page 54343]] specific or brand-specific basis, rather than on a fully-aggregated basis; (4) require manufacturers to report expenditures related to corporate sponsorships and advertisements; and (5) provide an option to download the published report data in spreadsheet format. Id. at 2. The Commission agrees that collecting and reporting separately price discount expenditures for retailers and wholesalers is useful. Beginning with its 6(b) Orders for 2014, the Commission has been separately collecting and reporting information about price discounts paid to retailers and price discounts paid to wholesalers. The Commission will clarify in future Orders that expenditures on coupons delivered online should be reported together with coupons delivered by other means. The full impact of couponing by the major cigarette and smokeless tobacco manufacturers can only be seen if expenditures for all coupons are reported together, regardless of how those coupons are delivered to consumers. Regarding CTFK's suggestion that data be reported on other than a fully-aggregated, nationwide basis, the cigarette and smokeless tobacco companies assert that those data are confidential and, as CTFK acknowledges, the Commission cannot publicly release trade secrets or certain commercial or financial information. Id. at 2 n.2. As for requiring manufacturers to report expenditures related to corporate sponsorships and advertisements, the Commission already requires the recipients of its 6(b) Orders to report certain expenditures made in the name of the company, rather than any of its brands.\1\ However, the Commission does not include those data in its Cigarette and Smokeless Tobacco Reports. The Commission will consider whether those expenditures should be reported in the future or whether to cease collecting this information. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ Both the cigarette and smokeless tobacco Orders require the recipients to report expenditures on ``public entertainment events (including, but not limited to, concerts and sporting events) bearing or otherwise displaying the name of the Company or any variation thereof but not bearing or otherwise displaying the name, logo, or an image of any portion of the package'' of any of its cigarettes or smokeless tobacco products, or otherwise referring to those products. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Commission agrees that it would be helpful to provide an option to download the published report data in spreadsheet format and will begin doing so with its next published reports. Altria stated that the Commission should no longer collect any information from cigarette and smokeless tobacco manufacturers ``in light of the Food and Drug Administration's . . . extensive, active regulatory authority over tobacco products under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act,'' calling such collections ``superfluous'' and ``unnecessary burdens.'' Altria at 1, 3. Altria contends that the FTC's most recent requests seek ``not only information that the companies already produce to FDA, but also information unrelated to the advertising and promotion of tobacco products.'' Id. at 3-4. It gives the following examples: (a) cigarette design data, including cigarette length, style, flavor, and filter type; (b) constituent data, including nicotine, carbon monoxide, and tar; (c) lists of cigarettes first sold or discontinued in 2016; and (d) lists of other product information, including brand varieties, pack size, and package type. Id. at 4 n.15. Altria also suggests that the FTC has recently expanded its requests to seek information on expenditures from parent companies that do not sell or advertise tobacco products. Id. at 3. The FTC staff and FDA staff have a long tradition of working together on the many areas where the two agencies share jurisdiction. The FDA is not collecting cigarette or smokeless tobacco sales and marketing expenditure data like that required by the Commission's 6(b) Orders, so there is no overlap or duplication with respect to such data. Moreover, to the extent there might be some overlap in the collection of information about whether brand styles of cigarettes are filtered or unfiltered, menthol or non-menthol, and their cigarette length, the Commission needs those data so it can combine them with sales information for each brand style in order to report the percentages of cigarettes sold by the leading manufacturers falling into each product type category (e.g., 26% of the cigarettes sold by these manufacturers in 2015 were menthol). FDA is not collecting cigarette sales information, so it cannot calculate sales percentages by product types. The Commission intends to continue collecting cigarette and smokeless tobacco sales and marketing expenditure data, together with cigarette length, flavor, and filter information. To the extent that in the future the FDA duplicates the FTC's data collection, the FTC can modify or cease its collection. Until 2000, the Commission collected cigarette tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide yields and published that information by brand style. Because of concerns that the yield information was misleading consumers, the Commission ceased publishing that information, but it has continued to collect tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide yields to the extent recipients of the 6(b) Orders possess it, and the Commission releases the data to researchers in response to Freedom of Information Act requests. In recent years, however, there have been very few requests for the data. Given that the Commission no longer publishes tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide reports and the limited interest in these data, the Commission intends to cease collecting tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide yield data. There are other information fields that the Commission no longer needs to collect, including information about cigarette package type, cigarette package size, cigarette styles, and whether a cigarette variety's tar yield and its nicotine yield are disclosed on its package. The Commission intends to continue to collect UPC-Codes in order to distinguish one variety from another, but does not need any other variety descriptors beyond cigarette length, flavor, and filter information. The Commission also no longer needs lists of cigarettes first sold or discontinued in a calendar year. Contrary to Altria's suggestion, the FTC did not recently expand its requests to seek information from parent companies. More than a decade ago, the Commission began directing its orders to the ultimate domestic parents of the cigarette and smokeless tobacco manufacturers because some parent companies owned more than one subsidiary selling those products and the Commission wanted to ensure that no relevant data from affiliated companies went unreported. Moreover, the 6(b) Orders ask several questions about whether the recipient engages in certain practices, such as paying for cigarette or smokeless tobacco product placement in movies, and the Commission wants to be sure that such practices by any related company are reported, even if that company does not itself sell cigarette or smokeless tobacco products. The Commission intends to continuing directing its 6(b) Orders to the parent companies of the leading cigarette and smokeless tobacco manufacturers. Burden Statement: \2\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \2\ The details and assumptions underlying these estimates were set forth in the August 10, 2017 Federal Register notice. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Estimated Annual Burden: 1,980 hours.\3\ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \3\ The Commission intends to use this PRA clearance renewal to collect information from the companies concerning their marketing and sales activities for the years 2017, 2018, and 2019. The Commission expects to issue compulsory process orders seeking this information annually, but it is possible that orders might not be issued in any given year and that orders seeking information for two years would be issued the next year. The figures set forth in this notice for the estimated hours and labor costs associated with this information collection represent average annual burden over the course of the prospective PRA clearance. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[Page 54344]] Estimated Number of Respondents: 15 maximum. These estimates include any time spent by separately incorporated subsidiaries and other entities affiliated with the ultimate parent companies that receive the information requests. Estimated Average Burden per Year per Respondent: 180 hours. (a) Information requests to the four largest cigarette companies and five largest smokeless tobacco companies, at a per company average each year of 180 hours = 1,620 hours, cumulatively, per year; and (b) Information requests to six additional respondents, of smaller size, at a per company average each year of 60 hours = 360 hours, cumulatively, per year. Estimated Annual Labor Cost: $198,000. Estimated Capital or Other Non-Labor Cost: De minimis. 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 18, 2017. Write ``Tobacco Reports: Paperwork Comment, FTC File No. P054507'' 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. 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/tobaccoreportspra, 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 ``Tobacco Reports: Paperwork Comment, FTC File No. P054507'' on your comment and on the envelope, and 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. If possible, submit your paper comment to the Commission by courier or overnight service. Because your comment will be placed on the publicly accessible FTC Web site at https://www.ftc.gov/, you are solely responsible for making sure that your comment does not include any sensitive or confidential information. In particular, your comment should not include any sensitive personal information, such as your or anyone else'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. Comments containing material for which confidential treatment is requested must be filed in paper form, must be clearly labeled ``Confidential,'' and must comply with FTC Rule 4.9(c). 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). Your comment will be kept confidential only if the General Counsel grants your request in accordance with the law and the public interest. Once your comment has been posted on the public FTC Web site--as legally required by FTC Rule 4.9(b)--we cannot redact or remove your comment from the FTC Web site, unless you submit a confidentiality request that meets the requirements for such treatment under FTC Rule 4.9(c), and the General Counsel grants that request. 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 18, 2017. For information on the Commission's privacy policy, including routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, see https://www.ftc.gov/site-information/privacy-policy. 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 are subject to delays due to heightened security precautions. Thus, comments instead can also be sent via email to [email protected]. David C. Shonka, Acting General Counsel. [FR Doc. 2017-24915 Filed 11-16-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6750-01-P
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‘‘. . . part of a single, common business www.fmc.gov/P2-17. Replies filed in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
enterprise . . .’’ though they will retain response to the Petition will also be Requests for additional information or
the brands as separate legal entities. The posted on the Commission’s Web site at copies of the proposed collection of
Petitioners speculate that ‘‘the this location. information should be addressed to
transaction will be completed . . . Michael Ostheimer, Division of
Rachel E. Dickon,
potentially as early as mid-December Advertising Practices, Bureau of
2017.’’ Petitioners state that ‘‘the Assistant Secretary. Consumer Protection, Federal Trade
exemption would apply to all [FR Doc. 2017–25007 Filed 11–16–17; 8:45 am] Commission, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue
agreements and activities between BILLING CODE 6731–AA–P NW., Mailstop CC–10603, Washington,
Cosco and OOCL that would otherwise DC 20580. Telephone: (202) 326–2699.
be subject to filing under the Act, so SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
long as the parties are commonly owned Title: FTC Cigarette and Smokeless
and controlled.’’ The Petitioners claim FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
Tobacco Data Collection.
that ‘‘the requested exemption will not Agency Information Collection OMB Control Number: 3084–0134.
result in a substantial reduction in Activities; Submission for OMB Type of Review: Extension of
competition and will not be detrimental Review; Comment Request currently approved collection.
to commerce.’’ On August 10, 2017, the Commission
In order for the Commission to make AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission sought comment on the information
a thorough evaluation of the exemption (‘‘FTC’’ or ‘‘Commission’’). collection requirements associated with
requested in the Petition, pursuant to 46 ACTION: Notice. the Cigarette and Smokeless Tobacco
CFR 502.92, interested parties are Data Collection. 82 FR 37440 (‘‘August
requested to submit views or arguments SUMMARY: The information collection 10, 2017 Notice’’). Pursuant to the OMB
in reply to the Petition no later than requirements described below will be regulations, 5 CFR part 1320, that
December 1, 2017. Replies shall be sent submitted to the Office of Management implement the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et
to the Secretary by email to Secretary@ and Budget (‘‘OMB’’) for review, as seq., the FTC is providing a second
fmc.gov or by mail to Federal Maritime required by the Paperwork Reduction opportunity for the public to comment
Commission, 800 North Capitol Street Act (‘‘PRA’’). The FTC seeks public while seeking OMB approval to renew
NW., Washington, DC 20573–0001, and comments on proposed information the existing clearance for the
replies shall be served on Petitioners’ requests sent pursuant to compulsory information the FTC proposes to seek
counsels, David F. Smith, Cozen O’ process to a combined ten or more of the from the largest domestic cigarette
Connor, 1200 Nineteenth Street NW., largest domestic cigarette manufacturers manufacturers and smokeless tobacco
Suite 300, Washington, DC 20036, and smokeless tobacco manufacturers. manufacturers.
dsmith@cozen.com, Robert B. The information sought would include, In response to the August 10, 2017
Yoshitomi, Nixon Peabody LLP, 300 among other things, data on annual Notice, the Commission received
South Grand Avenue, Suite 4100, Los sales and marketing expenditures. The comments from the Campaign for
Angeles, CA 90071–3151, ryoshitomi@ current FTC clearance from the Office of
nixonpeabody.com, and Eric C. Jeffrey, Tobacco-Free Kids (‘‘CTFK’’) and Altria
Management and Budget (‘‘OMB’’) to Client Services (‘‘Altria’’).
799 9th Street NW., Suite 500, conduct such information collection
Washington, DC 20001–5327, ejeffrey@ The CTFK comment specifically
expires January 31, 2018. The noted the utility and importance of the
nixonpeabody.com. Commission intends to ask OMB for
Non-confidential filings may be Commission’s Cigarette and Smokeless
renewed three-year clearance to collect Tobacco Reports, and urged the agency
submitted in hard copy to the Secretary this information.
at the above address or by email as a to continue collecting and reporting
DATES: Comments on the proposed industry sales and marketing
PDF attachment to Secretary@fmc.gov
and include in the subject line: P2–17 information requests must be received expenditure data, which CTFK stated
(Commenter/Company). Confidential on or before December 18, 2017. provide ‘‘critical data to researchers,
filings should not be filed by email. A ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file a policymakers, advocates and the general
confidential filing must be filed with the comment online or on paper, by public.’’ CTFK additionally observed:
Secretary in hard copy only, and be following the instructions in the The FTC is currently the primary source
accompanied by a transmittal letter that Request for Comment part of the for data on cigarette and smokeless tobacco
identifies the filing as ‘‘Confidential- SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section companies’ marketing and promotional
Restricted’’ and describes the nature and below. Write: ‘‘Tobacco Reports: expenditures. No other agency collects and
extent of the confidential treatment Paperwork Comment, FTC File No. publishes such information directly from the
P054507’’ on your comment, and file the companies, making the FTC reports the most
requested. The Commission will
comment online at https://ftcpublic. accurate and reliable assessment of tobacco
provide confidential treatment to the marketing and promotion expenditures
extent allowed by law for confidential commentworks.com/ftc/tobacco available.
submissions, or parts of submissions, for reportspra by following the instructions
which confidentiality has been on the web-based form. If you prefer to CTFK at 1.
requested. When a confidential filing is file your comment on paper, mail your CTFK, however, suggested certain
submitted, there must also be submitted comment to the following address: modifications to the Commission’s
a public version of the filing. Such Federal Trade Commission, Office of the reports. Specifically, CTFK
Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue recommended that the Commission: (1)
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public filing version shall exclude
confidential materials, and shall NW., Suite CC–5610 (Annex J), Report separately price discount
indicate on the cover page and on each Washington, DC 20580, or deliver your expenditures for retailers and
affected page ‘‘Confidential materials comment to the following address: wholesalers; (2) clarify the definitions of
excluded.’’ Public versions of Federal Trade Commission, Office of the certain expenditure categories—
confidential filings may be submitted by Secretary, Constitution Center, 400 7th specifically, in which category coupons
email. The Petition will be posted on Street SW., 5th Floor, Suite 5610 that consumers obtain online are to be
the Commission’s Web site at http:// (Annex J), Washington, DC 20024. counted; (3) report data on a company-
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Estimated Number of Respondents: 15 5610 (Annex J), Washington, DC 20580, collection of public comments to
maximum. or deliver your comment to the consider and use in this proceeding as
These estimates include any time following address: Federal Trade appropriate. The Commission will
spent by separately incorporated Commission, Office of the Secretary, consider all timely and responsive
subsidiaries and other entities affiliated Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW., public comments that it receives on or
with the ultimate parent companies that 5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex J), before December 18, 2017. For
receive the information requests. Washington, DC 20024. If possible, information on the Commission’s
Estimated Average Burden per Year submit your paper comment to the privacy policy, including routine uses
per Respondent: 180 hours. Commission by courier or overnight permitted by the Privacy Act, see
(a) Information requests to the four service. https://www.ftc.gov/site-information/
largest cigarette companies and five Because your comment will be placed privacy-policy.
largest smokeless tobacco companies, at on the publicly accessible FTC Web site Comments on the information
a per company average each year of 180 at https://www.ftc.gov/, you are solely collection requirements subject to
hours = 1,620 hours, cumulatively, per responsible for making sure that your review under the PRA should
year; and comment does not include any sensitive additionally be submitted to OMB. If
(b) Information requests to six or confidential information. In sent by U.S. mail, they should be
additional respondents, of smaller size, particular, your comment should not addressed to Office of Information and
at a per company average each year of include any sensitive personal Regulatory Affairs, Office of
60 hours = 360 hours, cumulatively, per information, such as your or anyone Management and Budget, Attention:
year. else’s Social Security number; date of Desk Officer for the Federal Trade
Estimated Annual Labor Cost: birth; driver’s license number or other Commission, New Executive Office
$198,000. state identification number, or foreign Building, Docket Library, Room 10102,
Estimated Capital or Other Non-Labor country equivalent; passport number; 725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC
Cost: De minimis. financial account number; or credit or 20503. Comments sent to OMB by U.S.
Request for Comment: You can file a debit card number. You are also solely postal mail are subject to delays due to
comment online or on paper. For the responsible for making sure that your heightened security precautions. Thus,
Commission to consider your comment, comment does not include any sensitive comments instead can also be sent via
we must receive it on or before health information, such as medical email to wliberante@omb.eop.gov.
December 18, 2017. Write ‘‘Tobacco records or other individually
Reports: Paperwork Comment, FTC File identifiable health information. In David C. Shonka,
No. P054507’’ on your comment. Your addition, your comment should not Acting General Counsel.
comment—including your name and include any ‘‘trade secret or any [FR Doc. 2017–24915 Filed 11–16–17; 8:45 am]
your state—will be placed on the public commercial or financial information BILLING CODE 6750–01–P
record of this proceeding, including, to which . . . is privileged or
the extent practicable, on the public confidential’’—as provided by Section
Commission Web site, at http:// 6(f) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
www.ftc.gov/os/publiccomments.shtm. FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR 4.10(a)(2)— HUMAN SERVICES
Postal mail addressed to the including in particular competitively
Commission is subject to delay due to sensitive information such as costs, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
heightened security screening. As a sales statistics, inventories, formulas, Services
result, we encourage you to submit your patterns, devices, manufacturing
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comments online, or to send them to the processes, or customer names.
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Commission by courier or overnight Comments containing material for
service. To make sure that the which confidential treatment is Agency Information Collection
Commission considers your online requested must be filed in paper form, Activities: Submission for OMB
comment, you must file it at https:// must be clearly labeled ‘‘Confidential,’’ Review; Comment Request
ftcpublic.commentworks.com/ftc/ and must comply with FTC Rule 4.9(c).
tobaccoreportspra, by following the In particular, the written request for AGENCY: Centers for Medicare &
instructions on the web-based form. confidential treatment that accompanies Medicaid Services, HHS.
When this Notice appears at http:// the comment must include the factual ACTION: Notice.
www.regulations.gov/#!home, you also and legal basis for the request, and must
identify the specific portions of the SUMMARY: The Centers for Medicare &
may file a comment through that Web
comment to be withheld from the public Medicaid Services (CMS) is announcing
site.
If you file your comment on paper, record. See FTC Rule 4.9(c). Your an opportunity for the public to
write ‘‘Tobacco Reports: Paperwork comment will be kept confidential only comment on CMS’ intention to collect
Comment, FTC File No. P054507’’ on if the General Counsel grants your information from the public. Under the
your comment and on the envelope, and request in accordance with the law and Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
mail your comment to the following the public interest. Once your comment (PRA), federal agencies are required to
address: Federal Trade Commission, has been posted on the public FTC Web publish notice in the Federal Register
Office of the Secretary, 600 site—as legally required by FTC Rule concerning each proposed collection of
Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Suite CC– 4.9(b)—we cannot redact or remove information, including each proposed
extension or reinstatement of an existing
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your comment from the FTC Web site,
possible that orders might not be issued in any unless you submit a confidentiality collection of information, and to allow
given year and that orders seeking information for request that meets the requirements for a second opportunity for public
two years would be issued the next year. The such treatment under FTC Rule 4.9(c), comment on the notice. Interested
figures set forth in this notice for the estimated and the General Counsel grants that persons are invited to send comments
hours and labor costs associated with this
information collection represent average annual request. regarding the burden estimate or any
burden over the course of the prospective PRA The FTC Act and other laws that the other aspect of this collection of
clearance. Commission administers permit the information, including the necessity and
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